Example sentences of "have been the case " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Eurotunnel 's attitude to Trans Manche Link , the contractors ' consortium , was more conciliatory yesterday than has been the case , there are still important differences to be settled . |
| 2 | On the whole , therefore , researching the RUC has been more difficult than has been the case in most other studies in the sociology of policing ( for an exception see Punch 1989 ) , precisely because of the sensitivity of the topic in its social context . |
| 3 | In relation to churches serving other denominations , it has been the case until recently that Roman Catholic churches have rarely fallen out of use , although the general decline in religious observance is beginning to affect some of these buildings too . |
| 4 | In an increasing number of cases , no margin at all , as has been the case in the past and is so today in parts of Africa . |
| 5 | This has been the case with three out of the past four successful Labour by-election candidates : a slow but novel way for Mr Kinnock to stamp out dissent in his parliamentary party . |
| 6 | That has been the case most clearly in America in the past dozen turbulent years . |
| 7 | It is clearly , on this basis , wholly insufficient to sample the equivalent of three/four voters per constituency , as has been the case . |
| 8 | This indeed has been the case ever since self-replicating molecular assemblages evolved to exploit finite resources . |
| 9 | The fear is that the current trend of mergers and joint ventures within the Community , far from promoting competition , may in fact stifle it , as has been the case with Bull in France , for example . |
| 10 | This is just one more sign that the courts may be balancing the scales of justice a little more fairly than has been the case over the past decade or so . |
| 11 | As we shall see in subsequent chapters , the approach they have taken to fundamental freedoms has on a number of important occasions been radically different and altogether more liberal than has been the case here . |
| 12 | As has been the case since 1973 it is heavy fuel oil which will bear the brunt of the fall in oil demand . |
| 13 | Until very recently no women have been ordained as priests , but we need to ask ourselves why this has been the case . |
| 14 | This has been the case in libraries , where the Association of Assistant Librarians themselves came forward with policies they wanted to see implemented because they knew better than most how the arrangement of shelving , as well as the provision of good lighting , seating and magnifies influences the amount libraries are used . |
| 15 | And as we saw in our review of the history of delinquency , this has been the case throughout this century . |
| 16 | No one seriously believed that the Institution , having spawned the policy , would make itself responsible for its implementation , but all hoped that a watching brief would be maintained ; this has been the case , but with a complication : no financial provision . |
| 17 | Are inner cities only found as pockets of deprivation within an area of relative prosperity , as has been the case in London , Birmingham and New York , where the East End , Handsworth , and select sections of Manhattan and Long Island are traditionally contrasted with the rest of the city ? |
| 18 | This has been the case even though the new church has been conceived and brought into being by the hypocrites themselves ! |
| 19 | A House of Commons , faced with a crisis , could easily seek to make a more extended use of its power than has been the case during the era of self-restraint . |
| 20 | The frets are Jim Dunlop 6230 medium size and have been finished quite nicely , with no sharp edges protruding over the fingerboard , as has been the case on some Ibanez guitars in the past . |
| 21 | This has been the case both in the British-occupied north and in the south , though the projects in both states have shown differences related to the local economic situation and ideologies . |
| 22 | Once successfully test flown , Don intends to sell the aircraft , as has been the case with previous replicas he has built — the Bristol M.1C and Sopwith Tabloid on display at the RAF Museum , Hendon . |
| 23 | Nurses are no longer expected to sublimate their feelings behind starchy officiousness as has been the case in the not so distant past . |
| 24 | The books being published now are more attractive and relevant ; they are usually written by experienced and practising nurses rather than doctors , and as a result are more appealing to the reader and are reviewed more enthusiastically than has been the case in the past . |
| 25 | This happy coincidence — happy , that is , for all those visionaries and seers who speak in sonorous phrases about the ‘ New Pacific Century ’ and the ‘ Grand Pacific Age ’ , and find such a discovery a perfect symbol of what they 're talking about — has been the case ever since 22 October 1884 , when a group of scientists and politicians met in a hotel in Washington DC and set down the rules by which the planet was henceforth to organize the keeping of its time . |
| 26 | Korpi concludes that workplace bargaining is not more under the control of the central union organs in Swedish manufacturing industry than has been the case with its British counterpart . |
| 27 | Therefore it would also seem possible to learn a functional sign language without a positive desire to become deaf on the part of the hearing learner ; nevertheless , it has been the case in the past that those who have learned sign language have often been cast in the integrative mould and have had their views devalued by the hearing community because of it . |
| 28 | This has been the case with many traditional British companies and it is only now that they are really being exposed to greater change . |
| 29 | The Toshiba America Information Systems Inc unit of Toshiba Corp will begin to market its portable computers in Brazil through local distributor Intercorp Ltda : the company says it is beginning a long-term relationship with Brazil where it will offer its full portable computer product line — and the machines will be bang up to date — ‘ We will not sell discontinued products in Brazil as has been the case with other computer companies , ’ the company added sniffily . |
| 30 | In popular discussions of private education , grandparents emerge as people very likely to pay school fees ( Guardian 27 May 1986 ) and it certainly has been the case for some time that it is advantageous in taxation terms for them to do so , since grandparents can take out a deed of covenant to cover this payment whereas parents can not . |