Example sentences of "[modal v] have [be] the case [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This might have been the case in France or West Germany ; but , as the administration rapidly found out , it was not the case in the United States . |
| 2 | The child is in some respects freer than his predecessors while , at the same time , less able than might have been the case in the past to participate in adult culture . |
| 3 | As could have been the case of no male figure , the Christa for many people represented a distortion of Christianity . |
| 4 | All this not because these are inherently interesting and broadly educative studies ( though they are ) but because they are in the mid-eighties , whatever may have been the case at an earlier period , indispensable . |
| 5 | Further , it seems likely that although it may have been the case in the earlier nineteenth century that the proportion of the English population living in the higher-waged North increased both as a result of a higher natural rate of increase and from in-migration , in 1801 53 per cent of the population still lived south of the Severn/Wash line , while north of it counties like Herefordshire and Worcestershire were not high-waged . |
| 6 | If one accepts the needs for a general state of preparedness for the whole province , as would have been the case with Albinus before he removed the greater part of the army to Gaul , then clearly the most important centres would have been included . |
| 7 | For example , ejecta that can be associated with a specific primary impact lie much closer to the primary than would have been the case on the Moon . |
| 8 | However , many clients were supported by the scheme , and it is only through comparison with the control sample that one can determine whether or not the project was successful in sustaining them at home for a longer period of time than would have been the case without it . |
| 9 | Third , there are the instances in which the array of subjects and modules across the Course , combined with external pressures and challenges , have facilitated the invention of new fields , and their development at significantly less cost than would have been the case without the modular scheme . |
| 10 | This being the case , people will feel able to hold smaller money balances in relation to their planned spending than would have been the case without such substitutes . |
| 11 | Possibly more nowadays than , for example , from reading as would have been the case in the past . |
| 12 | Studies of the impact of the government budget necessarily presuppose what would have been the case in the absence of such a budget . |