Example sentences of "case for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ENVIRONMENTALISTS opposed to Darlington 's planned cross town route are celebrating a Department of Transport announcement which they argue will weaken the case for the road . |
| 2 | One Kenya Masai official , believing that there was ‘ a case for the preservation of this people in a fairly pure state as a set off against more politically minded peoples ’ , asked for a doctor to be stationed at Kajiado for this purpose . |
| 3 | Where there is economic advantage in reusing information there will be an easy business case for the preservation of records . |
| 4 | Committal proceedings are supposed to test the soundness of the prosecution 's case but , on the whole , nothing of the kind is achieved because defence lawyers prefer to reserve their probing of the police case for the trial , where they may deploy the tactics of surprise to greatest effect . |
| 5 | John Alderson made a case for the reintroduction of community policing in 1982 ( Alderson 1982 , also see 1979 ) , but its advantages were recognized much earlier when the House of Commons Select Committee on Race Relations examined relations between the police and ethnic minorities in 1972 , and in 1976 a report from the National Police College placed a central emphasis upon it ( Pope 1976 ) . |
| 6 | It is expected that the group will argue its case for the protection of Thailand 's western forests at the global convention on biodiversity to be held at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development next June . |
| 7 | He was making out a case for the purchase of a .308 rifle as an extra weapon for deer hunting on the nearby estates . |
| 8 | On mornings when there was no case for the court I used to enjoy sitting in Chief Fyvie 's office and hearing him talk of the ‘ good old days ’ of the enforcement of law and order in Scotland and in Montreal . |
| 9 | There could well be , she continued , a case for the Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg . |
| 10 | which the House of Lords would have exercised if it had been asked to do so but had not in fact been so asked , Berry ( No. 2 ) would have been a very easy case for the Court of Appeal to deal with , but there is no indication that it found Berry ( No. 2 ) to be so simple . |
| 11 | Subject to one argument to which I shall come , concerning the proper application of the relevant insolvency rule , Hambros Jersey does not challenge the judge 's view that , if the court has jurisdiction to grant leave to serve these section 238 proceedings on Hambros Jersey out of the jurisdiction , this was a proper case for the court to exercise its discretion in favour of granting leave . |
| 12 | Teachers had begun to realise there was a strong case for the teaching of knowledge about language in ways very different from those that had been fashionable thirty years earlier . |
| 13 | There was an overwhelming case for the State providing a basic pension but less of one for the State providing an additional pension as well . |
| 14 | When Mister presented a case for the Trust , the main point of the proposal seemed to be that the application is only being made to prevent being swallowed by the or Trust . |
| 15 | Over the past ten years , academic writers have , with a striking degree of unanimity , argued the case for the abolition of the marital rape exemption . |
| 16 | If ever there was an example which helped the case for the abolition of the House of Lords , then he is it , but that 's another resolution for another day . |
| 17 | Football : Robson has a case for the defence |
| 18 | Heaney puts a separate case for the defence . |
| 19 | The Case for the Defence |
| 20 | THE CASE FOR THE DEFENCE |
| 21 | In the absence of a convincing case for the defence , we would undoubtedly require that the Indonesian authorities be seen to have cleaned up their act and that the New Tribes Mission be put out of business in South America and perhaps worldwide . |
| 22 | The prosecution and its supporting witnesses made such a poor showing that , at the end of their evidence , Sir Patrick Hastings submitted there was no case for the defence to answer . |
| 23 | The defendant accepted as a fact that he was holding the revolver when the fatal shot was discharged , but the case for the defence was that the revolver went off accidentally in the course of a struggle during which the defendant forcibly placed Paulette in the driver 's seat . |
| 24 | I was in the Biology Department yesterday and Bradley said the report was n't ready ; he was working on a case for the defence . |
| 25 | Her case for the defence is notably restrained , unlike her treatment of the same subject in Dickon , a play published posthumously in 1953 . |
| 26 | Mr Robinson said : ‘ The Brigade and the Fire Authority accept that there is a special case for the payment of an extra statutory amount equivalent to redundancy pay to Castlereagh personnel . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ We presented a case for the whole of the HIE area that was fully supported by John Major , ’ said the agency 's spokesman . |
| 28 | Mr Eggar , Michael Heseltine 's secretary , said it was up to the local management to press the case for the pit to stay open to the independent consultants reviewing the pit closures . |
| 29 | Following a meeting with Energy Minister Tim Eggar , Clwyd North West MP Rod Richards said he was convinced it was now up to the colliery management to present a strong enough case for the pit to be taken off the Government hit-list . |
| 30 | If ever there was a case for the timetabling of Bills , it is the shenanigans over this Bill . |