Example sentences of "it [be] the case " in BNC.
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| 1 | Might n't it be the case that those other bodies with which we seem to have personal relations of friendship , dislike etc. , actually have no mental states at all ; that there is no internal life , but only the external behaviour ? |
| 2 | of CalMac employees who remain in the public sector , why can not it be the case with the rest who will be transferred to the private sector ? |
| 3 | To what extent can it be the case that a decision-making process that is dominated by white , male , middle-aged and middle class civil servants is likely to be appropriate for all areas of social and economic policy ? |
| 4 | If it were the case that some of the remaining words were radically different from the approximate values for shape and length they could be removed from the list of candidates . |
| 5 | This argument might hold if it were the case that affectivity were obscure and incomprehensible . |
| 6 | where the box-arrow is used to symbolise the subjunctive conditional construction in English ‘ If it were the case that … , it would be the case that … |
| 7 | But even if it were the case , the formal separation of the term furnished tenancy from the contents of the bracket would still be unwarranted . |
| 8 | I think probably the County Council are in a better position than me er to advise you as to whether that thirty one thousand commitment figure is true of not , but if it were the case , then I think , Yes I would agree that erm the train would stop very quickly , and in view of the situation that we 're now in , there would have to be a degree of future flexibility to allow for phased reduction in development over future years . |
| 9 | ( That is to say , even if it were the case that e.g. broad-class syllables were easy to find , it would be pointless to use them for lexical access if the number of words described by a string of such units was huge . ) |
| 10 | Right , it 's clear i n't it under four rule twenty eight , four , it 's not essential for the disallowance of any cost or interest that er the taxing officer should be satisfied that erm the other party has been prejudiced , in fact that is not a condition precedent to the exercise of his part and disallow interest in this here item , er any prejudice there maybe is merely one factor to be taken into account in other matters and it does seem to me that the fact the court can , can properly and should properly take into account , is , is that erm , it is desirable that to litigation should erm comply with there obligations , either expressly , express or explicit under the rules of the court to comply with matter such as it should have orders part drawn up and served as appropriate , as I say it seems to me that er the plaintiffs 's can be criticized in not erm having perfected the order of Mr Justice er before they did so but er , I have , it seems to me to look at all the relevant pictures in the case , er if it were the case that the plaintiff suffered any prejudice as the result of that claim , clearly that would be a matter which I would have to take into account , but I 'm bound to say it does n't seem to me that the fender of the plaintiffs to perfect the order did in fact cause any prejudice to the plaintiff and indeed if they , the plaintiffs had perfected the order , it seems to me exactly the same course of events as in fact transpired in this case , would actually have occurred and would n't make any difference at all , so unless it 's a matter of simply of er seeking to punish the plaintiff as a matter of discipline , it seems to me there is a , not really anything in the point that the order was not perfected er when it seems to me it should of been , and I , there stood to see the other er circumstances , now it 's quite clear to me having been referred to correspondence , passing between the solicitors that erm although really from a very early stage er the plaintiffs solicitors referring to Mr a letter of early nineteen ninety one indicating that erm the view was being taken that the likelihood was that erm the plaintiffs would have to get their costs out of the defendants share and interest in the premises and er that would be a matter which could only be dealt with when the enquiries director by Mr Justice had been dealt with . |
| 11 | I mean if it were the case that we got on the way to establishing an appropriate atmosphere in the colleges , one where women felt comfortable and where they felt they could get the most from their educational experience , I think that would have profound impact on people 's later lives . |
| 12 | But really , I think , it 's the case that , in this job , you do n't have time to develop obsessions , what with the insane turnover , and all the incentives to pluralism . |
| 13 | And perhaps it 's the case that police series are uniquely able to take over those questions because of the traditional link with crime . |
| 14 | Ironically , now we 're probably moving into a new era where sunshine is actually seen as something harmful giving things like skin cancer , er certainly in the Australia market it 's the case at the moment . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's the case with most things , is n't it ? ’ said Constance . |
| 16 | Well , it 's the case of |
| 17 | Certainly it 's the case that there 's a a down side if you like with providing the new roads through what is mostly open countryside . |
| 18 | it 's it 's the case |
| 19 | that means you can always have baked beans on toast at lunch time , it 's the case of first week finding out . |
| 20 | It depends , if you need them they 're involvement then you may have to do it a slightly different way or maybe it 's the case that they have to accept this or that you 're gon na turn them over too . |
| 21 | And generally it is the case that the personal security of the part-time reserve police is most at risk of all the members of the RUC , because of the difficulties of maintaining three identities ( police officer , member of family and neighbourhood network , and employee ) , with their associated and sometimes conflicting modes of discourse and thinking . |
| 22 | Rather , it is the case that people with a fairly strong religious tradition may react to crises by turning back to the traditional patterns of belief which not only made sense of their individual predicaments but which also created a strong sense of communal solidarity . |
| 23 | One can not establish that this is the case in one case without establishing that it is the case in all like cases . |
| 24 | Now if that happens , the farmer would probably be prosecuted , and yet it is the case that many chickens die in that way every day . |
| 25 | It does mean , however , that the process of drawing inferences is more tentative than in experiments , based on if-then reasoning : if it is the case that the true causal story about the variables is as we imagine ( playing God in the way that we did just now with absenteeism ) , then we would expect to find a statistical effect of X on Y . |
| 26 | If , then , it is the case that the Parliament of the United Kingdom is legislatively omnicompetent , it is not so by reason of logical necessity but by reason of authority and we must next examine sources of such authority . |
| 27 | If it is the case that we are motivated by nothing more than the need to reproduce , then it makes sense that women are programmed to be broody and men to satisfy that broodiness . |
| 28 | But if it is the case that language learning is activated by the socio-cultural purpose of schematic extension , that we learn language in order to get a better grasp of the world so that we can turn it to our advantage , then it would seem to follow that a central problem in the teaching of a foreign language lies in the provision of some comparable activating purpose . |
| 29 | Now I believe it is the case that some Christians do project their own failings on to the Devil . |
| 30 | This must be checked for — if it is the case , a new head string with one fewer letter is used instead . |