Example sentences of "but in [adj] case " in BNC.
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1 | In the county courts discovery in personal injury cases remains mutual but in running-down cases or cases where liability is admitted , discovery is limited to documents relating to the amount of damages , and so in practice the defendant , unless the employer , is unlikely to have any documents to disclose . |
2 | Facts are events which are both authentic and significant ; in most cases we trust judges and juries , or less formal bodies , to determine them , but in complex cases it requires judgement and is by no means obvious . |
3 | But in that case , let us do it for him . |
4 | But in that case Mrs Fanshawe would hardly deny the girl 's presence . |
5 | But in that case why had he been invited here in the first place ? |
6 | Interestingly , the word ‘ Riserva ’ ( spelt thus ) is also applied to Italian Chianti — but in that case it means the wines are three years old before being bottled . |
7 | But in that case one wonders ( a ) why what we would call ‘ brainwashed ’ creatures should breed true , and ( b ) why we never come upon female orcs . |
8 | ‘ I 've seen one other case — where a woman fell on her face — but in that case she had other facial injuries which Lewis did n't have . |
9 | During the summer we have fourteen , but in that case , on the four best and most reliable courts , why do adults get priority over juniors ? |
10 | But in that case it can not be ‘ a sensation of the lines on the paper ’ . |
11 | But in that case the very idea of the postman 's work occurring in isolation is incoherent since , as a matter of logic , it can not be separated off from a whole range of activities beyond itself . |
12 | But in that case , why could they not have called in the authorities and have the other fellows cleared out ? — only this would have made but a tame end to the story . |
13 | This is the most likely , in so far as the threatened deposition of Edward V would provide the strongest reason for Hastings to switch sides , but in that case any conspiracy becomes the result , and not the cause , of Gloucester 's decision to take the throne . |
14 | But in that case the expression " I was alone " would have been banal : it is only after we have felt the isolation of the speaker in all its particularity , and have seen the last vestige of human life disappear over the horizon , that we can understand the force of the simple statement . |
15 | But in that case premultiplication by A gives 0 = AXp = Xp so that p provides a relation different from p between the columns of X , which is impossible . |
16 | This is similar to the way in which the causal theory worked , but in that case the relation required was specifically a causal relation . |
17 | But in that case his words lose their meaning and become empty . |
18 | But in that case I must warn you that I have no heart . |
19 | But in that case what is the status of the sociobiologist himself ? |
20 | But in that case why study " others " at all ? |
21 | But in that case , I would have the consolation of winning my bet , which would bring me four years of the magazine Private Eye . |
22 | But in that case , all we have to do is wait , and when he chooses , he 'll reappear . |
23 | But in that case , why not sign his name ? |
24 | There is , first , the relationship between rich and poor nations , which may be conceived in terms of neo-imperialism and dependency ( but in that case imperialism has to be seen in a wider perspective than that which treats it exclusively as a stage in the development of capitalism , important though this latter process is ) , or in terms of the current preoccupation with a ‘ North-South dialogue ’ , which is today more a confrontation than a dialogue . |
25 | ‘ But in that case somebody ought to go and see him , ’ said Ianthe , remembering her own recent illness and how forlorn she had felt . |
26 | A similar contract was involved in Re Blyth Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. ( 1926 C.A ) , but in that case the vessel was already in course of construction when the first instalment was paid . |
27 | Yet the address was correct ; maybe there was a relative — a sister-in-law or another daughter perhaps — living there … but in that case the phone should still be working and there would be no need to arrange for someone else to come in to pick up the post . |
28 | So you can test it more thoroughly but in that case , A you put the costs up and B it takes longer before it gets actually , before patients get the benefits of it . |
29 | This is the most likely , in so far as the threatened deposition of Edward V would provide the strongest reason for Hastings to switch sides , but in that case any conspiracy becomes the result , and not the cause , of Gloucester 's decision to take the throne . |
30 | Surely , one could argue , it can only be recognized by knowledge of some convention that U means z ; but in that case we can do away with talk of complex intentions and construct an account of communication based directly on the notion of conventional signal . |