Example sentences of "[noun] but [prep] [det] case " in BNC.

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1 These may seem obvious steps but in many cases aspects of the detailed planning for quarry development have been missing and delaying progress .
2 ‘ I 'm not saying Eddie 's incapable of violence but in this case I think you 're on the wrong track .
3 Is not it about time that the Government stopped this practice of recruiting and exploiting young people who are deemed not old enough to cast a vote but in some cases are being forced to continue in the Army and can be put into armed combat , as they were during the Gulf war ?
4 ‘ Attempts were made to conciliate between Diameter and their clients but in many cases the bureau suffered the same frustrations experienced by the complainant , ’ he said .
5 A savings plan is also an annuity but in this case the cash that you pay in builds up to a sum that you receive at the end of the plan 's term .
6 The relevant statute empowered the minister to set up such a committee but in this case he refused to do so on the ground that the complaint was unsuitable for investigation because it raised wide issues ; that if the committee upheld the complaint he would be expected to make an order to give effect to the committee 's recommendations ; and that the complaint should be dealt with by the Board rather than by the committee of investigation .
7 Normally I 'd also put out road blocks but in this case it 's already too late . ’
8 Some people have notions of using the technology as an ambitious static analysis machine but in most cases it simply presents more data than anybody needs and will have to be restrained .
9 So back they switch , to shorter repayment periods — which mean not merely higher monthly instalments but in this case very much higher APRs as well .
10 Judge David told them , their lives had been devoted to the relief of pain and suffering but in this case they chose to inflict considerable pain on a young woman in their care , isolated by their way of life .
11 What is required in such a scenario is an insurrectionary appropriation so radical as to be also necessarily perverse : Fanon uses Hegel , Freud , and Sartre but in each case simultaneously contests and perverts fundamental principles of their thought .
12 North sea operators are given dispensations , not only when there are equivalent or higher alternative arrangements in place but in some cases when it is well known to the authorities that the platforms are operating at a level that would not be allowed if they were completely new platforms .
13 The people of Lewis do not always present a sympathetic profile but in this case they had my sympathy and for two reasons .
14 Again it is generally definable only through social custom but in this case it has more significance since the breaking of social taboo may have adverse effect on the child .
15 It is undoubtedly the case that many AJRs raise matters of urgency for applicants but in such cases the applicant , who is usually the party with the interest in obtaining information , can choose not to seek discovery etc .
16 Not all Universities , and no other Institutions of Higher Education , have an incorporated graduate body but in such cases membership is open to duly recognised graduate societies or associations .
17 The two partners tendered for several workplace nursery projects but in each case found themselves losing out to competitors who were already running nurseries .
18 Public and press interest in restoration is certainly at a high point at present but in many cases a little knowledge seems to be a dangerous thing .
19 Words can be split either according to a set of pre-defined rules or from a table of correct hyphenations but in both cases ensure that English English is being used rather than American .
20 Barbarism , similarly , is divided into three substages but in this case the stages are not seen as universal , since according to Engels , they differed in the old and the new world .
21 Other boards are making their own arrangements but in each case the courses will lead to a recordable qualification .
22 If you were to use a DOS word processor as well as a DOS spreadsheet in the Windows environment then you can use the same method but in this case you would have to use the Edit , Paste command in the Windows Control menu box .
23 Usually , where subsidiaries have shares in issue which are not held by another company in the group they are reported in the consolidated financial statements within minority interests but in some cases they are required by the [ draft ] FRS to be reported within liabilities , that is , as debt .
24 Scattered all over his territories were 738,000 Japanese ; in theory a defeated army but in most cases still armed and either potentially dangerous or the only organized force capable of keeping chaos at bay .
25 This means that EEC law must be examined not only when the UK legislation has been passed to implement an EEC obligation but in all cases in which the EEC has legislated in the field under consideration .
26 However , Ancient Society also differed from earlier work because of the high quality of the scholarly work on which it was based , because of the sympathy of the writer for primitives , and because it not only defined stages but in many cases suggested mechanisms which explained why one stage should change to another .
27 During the first few tens of Ma Jupiter would cool so quickly that it hardly matters what the initial temperatures were provided that they were at least a few times 10 000 K. After a few hundred Ma , the exact time depending on the initial temperatures but in any case a small fraction of Jupiter 's lifetime , the rate of cooling would be far less .
28 It can also be made from coal but in this case the syn-gas must be carefully purified to remove sulphur compounds which poison the catalyst .
29 It can also be made from coal but in this case the syn-gas must be carefully purified to remove sulphur compounds which poison the catalyst .
30 Another is pain after stroke that does not respond to narcotics but in some cases is reduced by the opioid antagonist naloxone .
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