Example sentences of "do [prep] the case " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wonder if anything similar is ever done in the case of articles such as those complained of above ? |
| 2 | It had been intended to number the main service 109B and 109W , for Blackfriars and Westminster respectively , as had been done in the case of the Wimbledon services , but there was a change in heart at the last minute and the buses were delivered with blinds numbered 109 only . |
| 3 | The position would , of course , have been plainer if Parliament had provided an expanded express definition of ‘ company ’ for the purposes of the group of sections which relate to administrative receivers , such as was done in the case of section 388(4) of the Act of 1986 , and was also done , for example , in section 22(2) ( b ) of the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 , where company is defined as including ‘ any company which may be wound up under Part V of the Insolvency Act . ’ |
| 4 | This has been done in the case of a number of last ( Ipswichian ) interglacial deposits in Britain to give a clearer idea of sea level at that period and the amount of East Anglian downwarping since ( Sparks and West , 1971 ) . |
| 5 | Nothing more could be done on the case that evening and they had cause to hope it was nearing its end . |
| 6 | The government says it had nothing to do with the case . |
| 7 | Parents may jump to the conclusion that the fact of being adopted is the root of the trouble when that has nothing to do with the case . |
| 8 | Hilary , who is single , said yesterday : ‘ My leaving British Gas has nothing to do with the case . |
| 9 | ‘ As to whether the payment was voluntary , that has in truth nothing to do with the case . |
| 10 | ‘ As to whether the payment was voluntary , that has in truth nothing to do with the case . |
| 11 | They probably have n't anything at all to do with the case . |
| 12 | What did this man Tunney — I knew Tunney was a man — have to do with the case ? |
| 13 | There was the unexplained presence of a nineteenth-century journal in Matthew 's safe : nothing to do with the case . |
| 14 | He had nothing to do with the case , and in the cold light of day she was rather ashamed of her unexpected fascination with him . |
| 15 | Pietro had finally agreed to Zen 's presence , on condition that there was no contact until the pay-off actually began , so during the intervening forty-eight hours he had had nothing to do with the case beyond having the ransom money photographed to record the serial numbers and finalizing the arrangements for collecting Ruggiero when he was released . |
| 16 | A simple decision rule can be used to decide what to do in the case of source units which cross the target unit boundaries . |
| 17 | what to do in the case of a sudden death |
| 18 | ‘ By the Crown Proceedings Act 1947 , the defendants are placed in the same position as the ordinary subjects of the Crown ( see section 21 of the Crown Proceedings Act 1947 ) and I see no reason why they should not in appropriate cases refuse to refund money paid to them voluntarily under a mistake of law , as the revenue authorities were held to be entitled to do in the case of William Whiteley Ltd. v. The King and National Pari-Mutuel Association Ltd. v. The King . |
| 19 | We also reported that a pound of tea was 1/4d , a boy 's suit was ten bob , decorators were paid 8d an hour , the King of Greece had been assassinated and the MCC was discussing what to do in the case of rain affected matches . |
| 20 | In the main , most hotels seem happy to let their concierges work the system to their advantage , providing their more entrepreneurial traits do not get the better of them , as they did in the case of those at the Heathrow Penta . |
| 21 | More commonly , though still infrequently , the House of Lords will reject a Government Bill as it did in the case of the Parliament Bill 1947 . |
| 22 | In addition , the fear of imprisonment may instil the fear of rape into young , smooth , neat , corporate executives — as it did in the case of certain Watergate conspirators — and lead to a dramatic and welcome improvement in their behaviour . |
| 23 | The process of development of a new nation may itself intensify nationalist sentiment — as it did in the case of older nation states — and give rise to major international rivalries and conflicts . |
| 24 | Is that what democracy has come to in this country , with the democratically elected Government refusing to listen to the democratically elected Opposition — who will be unable to reveal the flaws in the council tax as we did in the case of the poll tax , and which were soon clear for all to see ? |
| 25 | Second , governments play a more active role in influencing the volume of new housing as well as the quality and quantity of housing than they do in the case of other consumer goods . |
| 26 | In our day many women are being called by the Holy Spirit to this hard vocation of priesthood — but at present the Church of England does not allow their vocations to be tested , as it does in the case of men . |
| 27 | In addressing them he utters no words of condemnation as he does in the case of the scribes and Pharisees , yet he nevertheless looks for an unconditional and wholehearted response from them . |
| 28 | As to their possible limitations , one 's view of these depends , as it does in the case of most literary theories , on one 's own theoretical position . |
| 29 | For males sex may be very important , but for females reproduction may be , may be more significant if it involves as it does in the case of all mammals and certainly human beings , considerable parental investment on the part of the mother . |
| 30 | Fundamental to the idea of finely divided ‘ niches ’ , however , is the notion that there are finite or limiting resources , whereas in trees in the tropics with abundant light , water , CO2 and a conservative nutrient-cycling system , this seems as inappropriate as it does in the case of tropical corals making up species-rich reefs , where food is not readily seen as limiting when compared with space to occupy . |