Example sentences of "[adj] of cases " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than one year 's delay in reporting the symptom to the family doctor has been recorded in over half of cases , the main reasons for this being the hope that it will go away and embarrassment in talking to the doctor about it . |
| 2 | In studies that have considered all ages at presentation , anaemia affects about half of cases , although exact comparisons are difficult because of the different criteria that have been used to define anaemia . |
| 3 | And there , as they say , the matter rested , for there was now nothing further we could do ; and Meehan might have had to serve many more years in prison had not a further and quite unexpected twist come to this most tangled of cases . |
| 4 | Provided the springboard doctrine is sensibly applied and injunctions granted only in the clearest of cases so that the recipient of the information is not effectively placed in a worse position than if he had not received it , the interests of both the supplier of the information and the recipient can be satisfied . |
| 5 | Establishing the causes of mental handicap has always proved difficult , and even today , two-thirds of cases are due to unknown factors . |
| 6 | There are hundreds of cases of men who took the most drastic and precarious actions to rid themselves of , what is after all , a minor irritant . |
| 7 | The practice was one ‘ to be discouraged ’ , though the Court sympathized with the magistrates ’ ‘ uphill task of dealing with literally hundreds of cases over and above their normal list ’ . |
| 8 | These are just two out of many hundreds of cases in which the police have used hypnosis to refresh the memories of witnesses and victims of crime . |
| 9 | Today 's protest is designed to draw attention to hundreds of cases of supposed miscarriages of justice . |
| 10 | Following the death of 10 people and hundreds of cases of illness after the arrival of cholera in the country , Menem declared a state of emergency on Feb. 6 , with four northern provinces , Salta , Jujuy , Formosa and Chaco under " red alert " . |
| 11 | Volunteers handle hundreds of cases every year helping Darlington people to come to terms with being victims of crime . |
| 12 | But concern about academic matters figured in two thirds of cases . |
| 13 | Technical difficulties aside , it has been argued that these provisions will not make any appreciable difference to the welfare of victims for , except in the most notorious of cases , most authors receive very small amounts indeed from publication . |
| 14 | By contrast the House of Lords , though not short of cases , has a small workload of key cases . |
| 15 | In all but the mildest of cases the pool should be emptied , any accumulated sediment on the bottom removed , and then refilled with fresh water . |
| 16 | While not pretending to be a comprehensive guide to all the aspects of central heating , this section should enable you to save considerable sums by installing your own central heating in all but the most complicated of cases . |
| 17 | In just over one-quarter of cases ( 14 ) a Place of Safety Order was sought , while in another 10 per cent ( 5 ) the child was already in care and under supervision . |
| 18 | In one-third of cases there was either suspicion or definite knowledge that a sibling had also been abused ( cf. |
| 19 | It is known that around one-third of cases of severe mental handicap are caused by chromosomal disorders , which include Down 's Syndrome babies . |
| 20 | From the age of 5 years between a half and one-third of cases of bedwetting were primary enuresis while the rest were secondary onset . |
| 21 | More than 1,750,000 crimes were reported to the Interior Ministry during January-September 1989 ( with 58 per cent committed by 14-29-year-olds ) — an increase of one-third on the same period in 1988 [ see p. 36855 ] ; by the year-end the figure was 2,500,000 , with one-third of cases unsolved . |
| 22 | However , no large population-based serosurveys of HEV have been reported , and in Turkey , one-third of cases of acute hepatitis were classified as non-A , non-B . |
| 23 | The study , based on thousands of cases in Britain and the US , was carried out by the Aids-prevention charity , Lifeshield Foundation . |
| 24 | Although Grant gave evidence in thousands of cases in which his wide experience was invaluable , he will be particularly remembered for the prominent part he played in the exposure of the forged Mussolini and Hitler diaries . |
| 25 | There must be thousands of cases of rape or child-abuse — apart from what the security forces are up to — but again they never get talked about . |
| 26 | Its detailed arrangements varied , in the many thousands of cases , but what is generally true about its form of social relations is that the artist was typically retained or commissioned as an individual professional worker . |
| 27 | Such an effect has been estimated to cause an increase in the incidence of basal cell and squamous cell ( non-melanoma ) skin cancer by tens or even hundreds of thousands of cases a year in the United States . |
| 28 | That is the only case of the thousands of cases that I have raised with him to which he has said yes . |
| 29 | Mr Deputy Speaker that 's exactly what the authorities are asked to make sure about and of course they must have sensible plans so that there are always beds and facilities for those who need them , but in a way it 's a success of care in the community that that more elderly people are being looked after in their own homes and so we 've arrested the very rapid growth in permanent residential places which was occurring before the policy was introduced er , as we now see , despite some gloomy forewarning , local authorities have in general managed well in the first year of their responsibilities , they 've examined thousands of cases and many people have been helped to make decisions about their own futures . |
| 30 | The Gujerati community is fully aware of cases like that of Mrs X. Scandals such as hers are everybody 's business , but while in India or East Africa such situations would not have been tolerated , and sons would be forced to take their mothers back , in Britain the community looks on in fascinated horror but does nothing . |