Example sentences of "[noun pl] be in [det] case [adv] " in BNC.

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1 One reason for this was , of course , that since he had been dead for three months his eyes were in any case not in the best of condition .
2 Noble affinities were in any case constantly evolving as their members came of age , married and died , but Gloucester 's lordship brought other changes .
3 Noble affinities were in any case constantly evolving as their members came of age , married and died , but Gloucester 's lordship brought other changes .
4 Because the popular classes are in most cases effectively excluded , on account of relatively undifferentiated cultural capital , from even the large-scale social field of artistic production , the interests which pertain here are those of the two main fractions of the dominant class : the bourgeoisie and the intellectuals .
5 Only very rarely will a particular experience have such massive effects that it overrides all else , producing identical consequences for any child — at least , very rarely in human development , for it is likely that the effects of early experience seen in animal experiments are in most cases largely due to the enormous scale of the experiences involved .
6 A few large landowners were stirred by their consciences to build , for reasons of philanthropy rather than economy , new ‘ model ’ cottages and villages , but these were usually on their own estates where conditions were in any case generally better than elsewhere .
7 Hygienist theories were in any case too stress-provoking to the mother to have lasted very many years ; the only group who did seem to derive satisfaction from them were some who , standing in an advisory role to the parents , found in such an authoritarian regime a source of power .
8 For instance , instead of sending work to the paint shop to be painted , the painters were in many cases permanently located at points where work was sufficiently finished .
9 For he denies the importance of local factors in accounting for local ( or urban ) politics , by arguing that local authorities are insulated from any electoral or public opinion influences ; that local councillors are in any case only involved in decision-making in the most fragmented way ; and that local policymaking is constituted by stereotyped responses with little distinctly local reference ( 1980b , p. 135 ) .
10 The Association argues that the DOE standards are in any case not strict enough .
11 The CNAA 's Charter required the degrees it approved to be ‘ comparable ’ with those of universities , and the General Committee — and Council itself — thought that two-year degrees would stretch the interpretation too far : students would be under too much strain , and British degree courses were in any case already shorter than in most other countries .
12 The network of ditches was in many cases originally designed to take advantage of the winter flooding of the rivers and enabled these areas to be managed as water meadows , a particular form of management which produced good quality hay crops , but is no longer practised or possible with the improvement of drainage and flood prevention .
13 The effect on the demography of the inner cities could be dramatic , as migration into and out of inner cities is in any case already high .
14 With a few exceptions , sixteenth-century towns were in any case little more than glorified military and administrative headquarters , supplied by a small population of artisans and petty traders .
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