Example sentences of "to be the case " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think that is going to be the case with the ethylene chlorohydrin , sir . ’ |
| 2 | It used to be the case that contestants who were struck lightly in the face could exaggerate injury in order to have the opponent 's score disallowed . |
| 3 | I found this to be the case when trying to replace a ballcock valve washer in a hot water tank in a very narrow airing cupboard . |
| 4 | In so doing he also gave his blessing to — what in effect proved to be the case — declaring the Transkei , or at least Bumbane , the first ANC liberated zone , however fleetingly , yesterday afternoon . |
| 5 | This seemed to be the case . |
| 6 | Where , as appears to be the case at Uppark , it is physically possible to make an accurate restoration of a great building , it should be made — and not jeered at as the creation of a theme park of misnamed pastiche . |
| 7 | ( Research has suggested that this seems to be the case in many US and UK companies ) . |
| 8 | This proved to be the case by the end of NEP . |
| 9 | As was to be the case with far more important orders to the peasantry from the very highest level at the start of collectivization after NEP , bureaucratic delays and excessive central demands soon resulted in comparable excess of zeal at local levels . |
| 10 | As in the recent past , and as was to be the case with much greater frequency after the start of the Five-Year Plans , planners in Moscow drew up neat and rather abstract formulations that did not match up closely with local realities and timings . |
| 11 | That may turn out to be the case as the likes of Ferrari , Williams-Renault and Benetton-Ford get into their stride later in the season , but on the streets of Phoenix , Senna had no trouble in scoring his 27th win . |
| 12 | • It is not clear how the duration of sleep could be controlled as regularly as is observed to be the case . |
| 13 | This ought not to be the case . |
| 14 | I would not do it again ; it is too dangerous as things are today ; but the night on which I decided this to be the case was the night on which I leaned enough at my classes to decide me about Bertrand Russell , so it was well worth going . |
| 15 | This ceased to be the case as the middle-class , finding vaults overcrowded , erected miniature fortresses in the new necropolises and encased their dead in double , and even triple , coffins against the depredations of body-snatchers . |
| 16 | In practice , this did not prove to be the case . |
| 17 | That would seem to be the case here , where we must remember that the storyteller had as his raw material a tale about a demon far , far removed from the mainstream of Israel 's talk about her God . |
| 18 | It seems to be the case that we interweave desire and pleasure with pain and punishment ; that for women , the chasing of elusive sexual goals remains familiar , and our pleasure is indeed obscured behind a barbed wire fence of masochistic images . |
| 19 | However , this has not necessarily proved to be the case when the time has come to commit the words to celluloid . |
| 20 | This certainly seems to be the case with some kinds of gambling . |
| 21 | However , this does appear to be the case . |
| 22 | However , this proved not to be the case . |
| 23 | For , even if they knew in general that it was unlikely to be the case , they could not afford to take chances . |
| 24 | These fixed connections in the brain might suggest that learning is impossible , but this turns out not to be the case . |
| 25 | ‘ I have never found it to be the case . ’ |
| 26 | If that were to be the case , Professor Lettario Villeri , a noted vulcanologist , said , ‘ the town of Zafferana would run a very real and serious risk of being overrun ’ . |
| 27 | As regards malicious referrals , what seemed to be the case in a very few instances was that at least some of the allegations had substance to them and were worthy of investigation , but in discussion with the parents it seemed possible that the referrer might be using the allegation to progress some dispute with them . |
| 28 | This continues to be the case in the countries studied . |
| 29 | This continues to be the case in all the countries we studied , although their potential is rarely fully developed and utilized . |
| 30 | This is the kind of frame from which Dorothy Heathcote often ( increasingly ) wants children to work , and this is why it often seems to be the case in her work that the pupils are not in role at all — they are merely required to look at something from a particular scientific perspective . |