Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [adv] the case that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's frequently the case that where this happens the company never regains its market position and can ultimately go out of business . ’ |
| 2 | Now it 's rarely the case that the replacement is actually a better player than the so-called old fellow . |
| 3 | It 's also the case that erm these , do n't forget , are self-reports so what people were actually suffering um may be rather different possibly . |
| 4 | It 's also the case that , as I was saying earlier , people may be erm may be may be attributing . |
| 5 | Erm it 's also the case that , particularly when abuse is of this sort of y'know like I was just describing y'know stroking , caressing , all that kind of things um it a lot of erm in some cases very confused feelings on the part of the people who 've been abused . |
| 6 | Um it 's also the case that um particularly round about that time there was an an idea that children were not competent enough to know what had happened to them , not competent enough to know their own minds . |
| 7 | It 's even the case that the iron plough , apparently , was comparatively rare in peasant China at this time . |
| 8 | Yes , I 'm sure what you say is true and , knowing as many people as we are privileged and glad to know , I agree with you that there is a wide spectrum , but it 's always the case that the vociferous ones are the ones that set the tone , and often in wrong light . |
| 9 | In order to cover any er any rights which are lost and secondly er it 's inevitably the case that we are particularly disappointed er that the proposals are not retrospective . |
| 10 | very often men abusing women and yet , you know , when you 're looking at erm attitudes to gay and lesbian people it 's often the case that they 're , you know , somehow thought of as , as suspect . |
| 11 | Erm , it 's quite frankly about abusing women and it 's often the case that in the eighteenth century one 's sexuality was considered to begin much earlier than we do now . |
| 12 | Um I think um where I 've seen things that er discussed under the heading of child sex abuse erm er it 's often the case that um y'know maybe in some families you find the situation where there 's a daughter who 's being abused by the father and then when the brother gets old enough to take an interest in sexuality , he joins in as well sort of thing and it 's er y'know it 's like there 's two blokes abusing the girl . |
| 13 | It 's certainly the case that I appear to be hitched up with Tod like this , but he 's not to know I 'm here . |
| 14 | It 's certainly the case that we need more publicity for the sectional structure and you have a broadsheet which is being circulated , which starts the process of publicizing the structure of the union , how the regional and industrial structure works together . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , it 's still the case that you have to dress down to be taken seriously . |
| 16 | It is simply the case that the party should be there while it intends to govern Northern Ireland and it should be exerting itself to offer the voters a real alternative to sectarian politics . |
| 17 | It is simply the case that the heroin use of the male partner places her in a situation in which the drug is not only readily available , but its use is also seen as socially acceptable . |
| 18 | Perhaps it is simply the case that this is very difficult to get at by methods which are feasible . |
| 19 | It is rarely the case that the correct word is always amongst the alternatives suggested by the lower recognition levels . |
| 20 | The theory is that the seller will be able to evaluate the prices offered in the light of the different contractual terms required , but in practice it is rarely the case that there is no further negotiation . |
| 21 | However , it is sadly the case that it is still true that there are er a number of landlords around who tend to control a lot of property , who er are charging er absurdly and unreasonably high rents in return for an appalling service . |
| 22 | However , it is generally the case that violence against women provokes no strong emotion in policemen . |
| 23 | Furthermore , it is generally the case that what the Catholics were actually doing is far less important in understanding the actions of the Protestants than Protestant beliefs about what Catholics were doing . |
| 24 | In fact it is generally the case that the achievement of more than one independent policy objective requires the adoption of a combination of policy tools . |
| 25 | However , it is generally the case that women do more housework than men . |
| 26 | It is generally the case that the voter has to choose between two to four candidates , each of whom is the representative of a specific political party . |
| 27 | It would not detract anything from Chaucer 's achievement if the whole plot were derived from some external source : it is generally the case that Chaucer 's skill lies in the handling and shaping of extant material rather than in original composition . |
| 28 | It is generally the case that a discount exists for a variety of reasons . |
| 29 | It should also be recognised that while this chapter has stressed the view of language as a process , it is nevertheless the case that , at some point , children do reach a level of mastery where it makes sense to describe them as having acquired knowledge of an abstract set of rules which can be used to express meanings . |
| 30 | Although this is true in relation to the intellectual background from which both Sutherland and Cressey were writing , it is nevertheless the case that Cressey , in particular , was sufficiently part of the positivist tradition to be interested in a precise , quantifiable theory which did not automatically rule out such mechanistic approaches . |