Example sentences of "[adv] been a case [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Since then it 's mostly been a case of building up our database . |
| 2 | Afterwards , the actor was swept from the courtroom and along the corridors , closely pursued by screaming fans and on to the court steps , where he said in a prepared statement : ‘ This has not been a case about homosexuality and I resent any suggestion that it was . |
| 3 | Thanks to DDT there has not been a case of locally-transmitted malaria in Sicily since the early 1960s . |
| 4 | And when it 's come it 's usually been a case of you can smell something horrible like erm you know when they 're emptying the slurries out in the pig farms . |
| 5 | In the history of Western culture , it has not simply been a case of nature swallowing supernature . |
| 6 | But getting the internal cost structure right for the 1990s has not simply been a case of manning level reductions . |
| 7 | Mother Catherine , the mother superior , a spritely 85-year-old American , said there had never been a case of food poisoning associated with eggs from the monastery , which had kept flocks for 20 years . |
| 8 | The Mother Superior , Mother Catherine , 82 , said there had never been a case of food poisoning associated with eggs from the monastery . |
| 9 | But surely there has never been a case of any Hollywood actor admitting himself for therapy because he was so badly addicted to women . |