Example sentences of "make a good case " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had I known that the previous year , I could have made a good case to contest the abolition of my old job . |
| 2 | Bowsher and his colleagues have made a good case for paradoxical pain being the result of a genetic inability to metabolise morphine to the potent morphine-6-glucuronide , leaving large quantities of morphine-3-glucuronide ( a putative morphine antagonist or a non-specific cerebral stimulant , or both ) unopposed . |
| 3 | Having apparently made a good case ( to wit , the UK now spends nearly two per cent less per head on education than in 1980 ) it starts talking about education . |
| 4 | With specialist information , facts , statistics , case histories and examples that others are unaware of , you can make a good case . |
| 5 | bases on which he arrives at a decision that he may sometimes find considerable difficulty in making a good case on paper for some action he may have taken , even though he feels , and subsequent events may prove , that action to have been perfectly correct . |
| 6 | Making a good case … |
| 7 | His brother Dmitrii had been making a good case for emancipation at the War Ministry , but his own importance , in the long run , was to be greater . |
| 8 | And yet Penzias makes a good case for the new golden age , and his urbane discourse is both enlivening and instructive . |
| 9 | Commissions and Collaborations makes a good case for the BBC 's role as a patron of the arts — not only for respectable institutions like the Proms , but works that may be difficult , controversial , fey , or just not very successful . |
| 10 | Johnson ( loc. cit. ) indeed , makes a good case for the mosaic as a product of a group of mosaicists based at Ilchester — an argument which , even if not accepted in detail ( section 4.8 ) , reminds us of the important affinities between this mosaic and others to the south . |