Example sentences of "case a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This juxtaposition of the myth of Athena growing a beard with the strategies Mira employs to bolster Willy 's ego points to the fact that in each case a female voice transforms itself into a voice men will trust .
2 It gives a pre-order ( in our case a partial order ) on the syntax of a language .
3 He summed up the disseminated structure of his novels ( often in his case a necessary result of serial publication , but also probably a matter of personal preference ) , in the same work , when he compared the chapters of a novel to a convoy of vessels and himself , the inventor , as a man-of-war turning attention now to one ship , now to another , in order to bring them all safely to port .
4 In the formal case the record will be in the minutes ; in the informal case a dated note should be inserted in the minute file giving the time , place and people present when the decision was taken and a brief statement of the decision .
5 It also supports the principle that a party 's right to treaty performance means that a voluntarily incurred treaty restriction ( in this case a procedural restriction ) upon subsequent treaty-making power will be upheld , even to the detriment of a subsequent third party , ( the United States ) .
6 If this is the case a two-day fast on fruit juice and water will break the cycle .
7 He must have forgotten there was a wind change , in any case a great mass of sand was blown in the direction of the little Base Camp and smothered the tea swindle but , worse still , it also smothered the various Instructors who were resting whilst the pupils were carrying out a detail in the air .
8 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 .
9 In this case a general superposition of solutions is possible , as illustrated in ( 10.16 ) together with ( 10.20 ) .
10 But it was only as a last resort in 1120 that the community committed itself to , and based its case upon , the expedient of introducing into existing documents the necessary phrases , which — if they had been there in the days of Lanfranc or Anselm — would have given their case a firm basis in papal documents .
11 In such a case a complete reconsideration of the case , including the taking of evidence and the finding of facts , would be a waste of time and money ; so the court can remit the case and direct the authority to reconsider the facts in the light of the law as it has been held to be .
12 The ontological idealist , given his general metaphysical premisses , can at least argue that what we regard as " physical bodies " are really no extra-spiritual entities , for all entities are either spiritual or are explicable in terms of attributes of such entities , and although his position gives rise to all kinds of difficulties , he can , on the whole , present his case a good deal more consistently than a dualist can .
13 In this case a sequential search would be of O(n/2) , on average only half of the array would be searched , for both successful and unsuccessful searches .
14 The flick switch here is a practical touch , working in a similar fashion to , say , Trace Elliot 's ‘ pre-shape ’ facility on their amps in providing instant access to a specified sound , in this case a cut-mid sort of slappy sound .
15 Development on the Glasgow and Gateshead sites has been slower , partly due to the effects of the recession , but in each case a mixed economy of houses and offices is planned .
16 In every case a noticeable increase in measurement occurred between the first and second measurement of each pot .
17 Where action did occur , in the USA and Italy , in each case a central government initiative drove the process of local reform .
18 Several states maintain Soviet military advisers on their soil , in Syria 's case a substantial number .
19 One can observe the expression of a person 's face , in this case a faint smile , but not the effort he makes to produce it , the summoning up .
20 Sometimes an oil exploration company is unable to provide sufficient collateral to support the necessary borrowing of funds to develop a new oil discovery , in which case a separate company is established to obtain the necessary finance .
21 Previously , where planning permission was required for work to a listed building , the application was treated as being simultaneously an application for listed building consent , unless the works involved demolition of part or the whole , in which case a separate application was needed .
22 J 2 is in any case a weak constraint on density models and when it is this poorly known it is useless .
23 In that case a married woman , Mrs. Duval , gave security over her property , limited to £1,000 , to secure her husband 's business debts to Turnbull & Co .
24 Today , when councils like that in Tewkesbury restore old Meeting Houses — in Tewkesbury 's case a Baptist chapel down a narrow lane opposite the great Abbey Church — Baptist visitors are as surprised as everyone else at the austerity of the past .
25 In this case a trenchant critique of Aristotelian orthodoxy was both motivated and ( to our eyes ) deflected by religious concerns .
26 In the later case a three-member panel had considered the applicants ' appeal and had adjourned to hear the remaining appeals .
27 Shift work could also make attendance at ATB courses difficult though in one case a part-time farmer had given his local organiser a copy of his shift programme for the next six months !
28 ‘ Be aware ’ in morals is a warning , not only against sheer insensibility — to be aware and responsive in some degree from other viewpoints is in any case a practical necessity of living in society — but against the distortions and disproportions of awareness , including those demanded by one 's society .
29 It also brought into the case a famous Bow Street Runner , Jack Clarke .
30 In this case a new SPR should be generated , based on the old one but with further details added ; the old SPR may be ‘ closed ’ via an SSR .
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