Example sentences of "[be] the case that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To speak differently , if e had not occurred , then even if there had also occurred any change x logically consistent with the absences of e and of cc , and consistent with the absences of links between cc and e , it would also have been the case that cc did not occur . |
| 2 | It may also have been the case that magistrates were less willing to overturn the appeals of disappointed claimants , since they were well enough aware that the increasing burden of relief was being thrown on to a decreasing number of shoulders as the proportion of the village populations either needing assistance or at least no longer able to pay poor rates increased . |
| 3 | It has generally been the case that people who leave the DUP see their political careers terminated . |
| 4 | Suppose , for the sake of argument , it happened to be the case that marriage weakened the power of a priest to influence his flock , say because it occupied a large proportion of his time and attention . |
| 5 | However , even where a less rigid gender division of labour prevails , it seems to be the case that women commonly act as the ‘ kin keepers ’ , that is to say , the people who keep up regular contacts with members of the wider kin group . |
| 6 | Positive action rather than positive discrimination is the approach , and that , these are targets not erm , contracts , and if after four to eight years , it may well be the case that women have been taken on and have left and at the end of the time , that there there is no woman chartered engineer . |
| 7 | It used to be the case that games written for an 8086 processor were unplayable on a 286 machine , so developers included special code in their programs which would slow the game down to make sure that , as far as possible , the game played at the same speed on every class of machine . |
| 8 | It may be the case that household goods have to be shipped several weeks in advance of the family 's relocation . |
| 9 | It used to be the case that contestants who were struck lightly in the face could exaggerate injury in order to have the opponent 's score disallowed . |
| 10 | However , this example serves to emphasize how misleading it can be to assume that the breeding sex ratio necessarily reflects the extent to which male reproductive success varies for , even among closely related species , it is likely to be the case that males have substantially longer breeding lifespans in monogamous species than in polygynous ones ( see Wiley , 1974 ; Clutton-Brock et al . , |
| 11 | It will always be the case that sets of standard terms and conditions contain a number of miscellaneous conditions , falling either within the popular designation of " boilerplate " , or else specifically tailored to the type of transaction that the standard set of terms is designed to cover . |
| 12 | Of course , it may be the case that monitoring of costs compared to an ideal is in practice very much more difficult than monitoring prices relating to costs . |
| 13 | It does seem to be the case that Fuchs was very poorly served by his finance director Cees List . |
| 14 | In such markets , direct selling or control of agents or distributors might be impractical , or it may be the case that import duties or other non-tariff barriers might present obstacles to exporters . |
| 15 | It might , of course , be the case that people stopped throwing good-luck coins into the water for some reason , but , in fact , the coin evidence coincides with archaeological evidence for a cessation of the maintenance of the buildings in the precinct in about AD350 , and we can conclude that the religious use of the site tailed off from about that date . |
| 16 | Indeed , it now seemed to be the case that men did not marry women unless they had had sexual relations with them beforehand . |
| 17 | It may well be the case that Freud lost some of his earlier desire to see psychoanalysis help to achieve sexual reform . |
| 18 | It could be the case that version A was perceived as a radically sceptical play and that the B version later came to dominate because the authorities were unhappy with the other version which more manifestly challenged orthodoxies . |
| 19 | However , it also seems to be the case that science is presented in schools as a body of uniform fact with no disagreement . |
| 20 | Conversely , it may be the case that dissolution of the language/network relationship with respect to a group of speakers is a necessary condition for that group to fulfil the role of linguistic innovators . |
| 21 | It may also prove to be the case that failure to recognize this obsolescence sufficiently early also prevented the development potential of records of achievement being recognized . |
| 22 | It may simply be the case that Boswell , seeing that Johnson chose not to mention Culloden , took the same course of action . |
| 23 | The eastern Saxons are almost certain to have remained at this time within the orbit of Oswiu and it may also be the case that Aethelwald , the brother of Aethelhere ( HE 111 , 22 ) ( see Appendix , Fig. 5 ) , received Oswiu 's support as the new king of the eastern Angles ; it is certainly not at all impossible that he ruled at first in a dependent relationship . |
| 24 | This argument might hold if it were the case that affectivity were obscure and incomprehensible . |
| 25 | Firstly , merit pay ; if it is the case that money is not the most important motivator then linking pay to performance , as with merit pay , is not likely to improve performance . |
| 26 | This is not merely prejudice since it is the case that women 's position in the family is rarely irrelevant to their position in the public world . |
| 27 | He said : ‘ It is the case that landings of fish have been good recently and that has depressed the price of fish at the market . |
| 28 | If it is the case that Hizir Bey did indeed hold a muftilik that , in effect , Fahreddin Acemi was Mufti in Edirne while Hizir Bey was mufti in Istanbul the situation might constitute a parallel to the earlier one of the possibly overlapping tenures of Molla Yegan in Bursa and Fahreddin Acemi in Edirne . |
| 29 | What is perhaps surprising , if it is the case that Beccaria was moved by humane sentiments towards the individual offender , is that he did not use this argument more often . |
| 30 | Rather , it is the case that people with a fairly strong religious tradition may react to crises by turning back to the traditional patterns of belief which not only made sense of their individual predicaments but which also created a strong sense of communal solidarity . |