Example sentences of "there [was/were] a case " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bearing in mind the commercial raison d'etre of the court , there was a case for paying its judges more than those in other divisions . |
| 2 | The League 's board of directors decided in Leeds last night that there was a case to answer . |
| 3 | Moreover , there was a case for suggesting that the change of ministry in August required the endorsement of the electorate . |
| 4 | For example , there was a case of an elderly lady , Mrs X , who was living with her son and daughter-in-law . |
| 5 | Yet with eight sendings-off in all that day there was a case for ending the old year by taking a stand on players ' behaviour in time for the new . |
| 6 | There was a case now for adding short-range nuclear weapons to the agenda , he said . |
| 7 | So there was a case for revising them . |
| 8 | There was a case some time ago where a vet accidentally injected himself with some . |
| 9 | This may be ; but at the time there was a case to be made for the new policy satisfying the demands both of expediency and humanity . |
| 10 | The letter even speaks of their ‘ rights in the matter ’ , and it is perhaps surprising that the question was not asked whether there was a case for complaint to the European Court of Justice . |
| 11 | If ever there was a case for the old adage ‘ horses for courses ’ , ‘ Strip Search ’ was it ! |
| 12 | There was a case where a householder escaped a claim for civil damages after he had stabbed an intruder with a bayonet ! |
| 13 | The hearing was held at Horseferry Road Magistrates Court where it was eventually decided that there was a case to answer , and Bogdanov was committed for trial . |
| 14 | There was a case conference on 15 May 1991 . |
| 15 | Held , granting the application , that the coroner had wrongly precluded himself from considering whether the cause of death had been aggravated by lack of care ; that where the medical cause of death was accompanied by concurrent events which themselves might be a cause of death , there was a case for considering the death ‘ unnatural ’ within the meaning of section 8(1) ( a ) of the Coroners Act 1988 , and an inquest should be held ; that the statutory duty imposed by section 11(5) of the Act of 1988 to investigate how death occurred prevailed in any conflict with the provision in rule 42 of the Coroners Rules 1984 that verdicts should not be framed so as to appear to decide any issue of civil liability ; that it was in the public interest to investigate by means of an inquest whether the deceased 's death might have been avoided had an ambulance been available earlier ; and that , accordingly , the coroner 's decision not to hold an inquest would be quashed and an order of mandamus granted for an inquest to be held ( post , pp. 491E , H , 493C–D , E–F ) . |
| 16 | He took the view that what mattered was whether at the stage when the prosecution wanted to discontinue , the judge thought there was a case fit for the jury to consider . |
| 17 | If ever there was a case for respecting the discretionary decision of the judge who had heard the witnesses , including W. , this was it . |
| 18 | There was a case in Lothian last year where the health board objected to the conversion of somewhere into a 75 bed registered nursing home and they lost it on appeal . |
| 19 | The Plowden Committee Report ( DES , 1967 ) contains an interesting discussion on whether there was a case for introducing charges for nursery education . |
| 20 | There was a case recently in Anglia er Anglia Water Cambridge Water Company sued a leather works for solvent over the years , to pollute the aquifer . |
| 21 | There was a case for the introduction of much more systematic and thorough random checks : these might detect or deter wrongdoers , although the vast majority of solicitors would be unlikely to risk their livelihoods for trifling amounts ; ‘ more importantly they would … allay public concern and official suspicion about improper use of the green form scheme . ’ |
| 22 | Because the reason that er stile was blocked off in the first instance was there was a case where a child ran across that road . |
| 23 | Even if there was a case for Dysart to answer , it was not relevant to Heather 's disappearance . |
| 24 | They might declare there was a case to answer , but what proof ? |
| 25 | A jury might not accept that he had proved his case , but they would agree there was a case to answer . |
| 26 | See there was a case a little while ago were n't there , about farmer ploughed up a p footpath you used to get on a stile to walk across the field . |
| 27 | Does the Chancellor of the Exchequer recall that , in its report on the Budget , the Treasury and Civil Service Select Committee stressed that it was important that the so-called automatic stabilisers should be allowed to operate fully and that there was a case for supplementing them with discretionary increases in public expenditure ? |
| 28 | If ever there was a case for the timetabling of Bills , it is the shenanigans over this Bill . |
| 29 | In Committee he conceded that there was a case for a funding council ’ as a buffer ’ . |
| 30 | Hans Modrow , then the leader of the Dresden regional SED organization ( and later East German Prime Minister ) , refused to give evidence in the trial , on the grounds that there was a case pending against him relating to those elections . |