Example sentences of "in [adj] cases it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , the postclassical position recognises that variability in human criminal motivations plays a part in accounting for the prevalence of crimes : it would not be too damaging to the overall position to allow that in some cases it plays the major part ( provided that the exceptions only constitute a tiny proportion of total crime — which would certainly be the case with sexual abuse of children ) . |
| 2 | ‘ In some cases it does , ’ said Mervyn and then went out of the room . |
| 3 | In some cases it helps to imagine the place where the picture will be hung , although this information is not always available , particularly if the picture is intended as a present . |
| 4 | It is true that in some cases it happens that the recipient does not find the punishment painful , or even welcomes it — for example , some offenders might find prison a refuge against the intolerable pressures of the outside world . |
| 5 | Someone who gives this answer clearly takes it that in some cases it works , and we must not beg the question against him . |
| 6 | In some cases it has not been clear from the notes to the accounts whether the directors consider that they have departed from a specific statutory rule and that the true and fair view override is being invoked . |
| 7 | In some cases it has been found in the exemption from liability of the released party to be sued by his co-contractors , as where the released party is already bankrupt . |
| 8 | In some cases it has led to violent confrontations requiring police intervention . |
| 9 | As the stepping rate is increased the pull-out torque gradually reduces , until in some cases it reaches zero at a finite speed , the value M shown in Fig. 5.8 . |
| 10 | But in some cases it seems more probable that they are deliberately engineered by the virus to help it to travel from one host to another . |
| 11 | We normally suppose that our experience is a reliable guide to the nature of those parts of the world which we are not observing , and that in favourable cases it gives us knowledge . |
| 12 | David Speedy 's goal for Leicester in the first half and with the wind behind Nottingham Forest now ironically is often happens in these cases it seems to have just calmed a little . |
| 13 | In all cases it seeks to pronounce value judgements , an exercise shunned by art history . ’ |
| 14 | In all cases it gives the teenagers taking part a chance to see if engineering and the motor industry are for them . |
| 15 | The graveyard is an important landscape feature , since in many cases it represents the burial place of most of the local population over a millennium or more , and is the logical successor to prehistoric barrow groups and Roman cemeteries . |
| 16 | ‘ In many cases it reduces the need for conventional surgery , and produces less scarring . ’ |
| 17 | We should not have to rely on the private sector to assist in providing facilities especially as , currently in many cases it does not provide such facilities . |
| 18 | .. [ which ] in the case of people who are not constitutionally sound becomes so dangerous that in many cases it develops into a ‘ consumption ’ … and the wisest course for such people to adopt is to leave England and cross the sea . |
| 19 | In many cases it satisfies the complainants — and , where it is accompanied by payment of costs , it will satisfy their lawyers as well . |
| 20 | The lay subsidy rolls of the fourteenth century yield much information on the subject of bynames and surnames for all categories of persons , and in many cases it seems true to say that such names were not necessarily applied to whole families nor ( given that they appear in different forms in successive rolls ) can they be judged to have stabilized . |
| 21 | In many cases it costs less . |
| 22 | Indeed , in many cases it appears that the ellipsis is interpreted with reference to a content-based representation . |
| 23 | If they are , in many cases it means certain death for them . |
| 24 | Facts are events which are both authentic and significant ; in most cases we trust judges and juries , or less formal bodies , to determine them , but in complex cases it requires judgement and is by no means obvious . |
| 25 | Harvest usually takes place in mid-October , although in extreme cases it has commenced as early as August and as late as November . |
| 26 | In severe cases it gives rise to the condition known as spina bifida . |
| 27 | The appeals committee rarely disagrees with decisions of the control and disciplinary committee and in several cases it has actually increased the punishment . |
| 28 | In particular , since in several cases it seems to involve a conflict of time reference , we must note that what is involved is not the same as a superficially rather similar phenomenon which was the subject of a useful discussion by Bach ( 1968 ) — all the more so because some of his examples are ambiguous and could also be covered by this case . |
| 29 | In other cases it seems that some assessment was made , at a high level , of the general condition of a school , so that it was considered inappropriate for project status . |
| 30 | In other cases it means the period during which an appeal can be lodged . |