Example sentences of "the case that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is probably true , its probably the case that every single person in the room is better placed to write this procedure then Jenny . |
| 2 | It is certainly the case that a student with , say , a moderately good pass in A-level French may have little capacity for the responsive reading of French poetry . |
| 3 | The Bible has long been recognized as a composite work spanning many centuries , not some kind of monolithic whole , and whilst opinions differ widely as to the precise dating ( and methods of dating ) of its constituent parts , it remains the case that a book , or indeed a chapter , may lie in the received text next to a verse or chapter some several centuries removed in compositional/redactional terms from its neighbour . |
| 4 | It may well be the case that a social system organized by women would be wonderful , that there would be no war because we would n't have our children killed , that there would be communes and free child care and no VAT on sanitary protection … but how would we ever know ? |
| 5 | Yet often it can not have been the case that a recalcitrant trustee remained in possession of the property entrusted to him . |
| 6 | Most peers are disqualified from sitting in the House of Commons ( see below , pp.76–80 ) and it was thus at one time the case that a promising political career could be cut short by the involuntary inheritance of a title . |
| 7 | Finally , it may be the case that a number of word candidates are produced , but they appear to be incorrect . |
| 8 | It is never the case that a writer creates a hypocrite without giving us some clue , however subtle , to his dissimulation ; and it is seldom the case that he is not exposed within the bounds of the artwork . |
| 9 | Furthermore , apart from the fact that it is often unclear , as a matter of law , whether a decision is illegal or not ( and so it would be unsafe just to ignore it ) , it is not the case that a void decision is for ever void . |
| 10 | Thus investment spending by firms may be greater or less than the volume of saving , government spending may be greater or less than tax receipts , and exports may be greater or less than imports , but it must be the case that a deficit or surplus in one sector is exactly offset in one or more of the other sectors . |
| 11 | But the expectations involved in roles are not simply one-directional ; it is not merely the case that a person is expected to play a role in certain typical ways . |
| 12 | It is often the case that a letter is for the eyes of a particular person and nobody else . |
| 13 | It is often the case that a member of an organisation wishes to put views or ideas on record . |
| 14 | That is to say , is it not the case that a religion in which the Godhead is represented as male , or central to which is a male human being , necessarily acts as an ideology which is biased against half of humanity ? |
| 15 | It is clearly the case that a great deal of everyday human interaction is characterised by the primarily interpersonal rather than the primarily transactional use of language . |
| 16 | It should be the case that a linguist who is primarily interested in the analysis of discourse is , in some sense , also a sentence-grammarian . |
| 17 | It is quite often the case that a speaker will treat what he was talking about in his last contribution as the most salient elements and what the other speaker talked about , though more recent , as less salient . |
| 18 | Even if translucency and opacity can be satisfactorily distinguished , it is not necessarily the case that a particular expression can be unambiguously characterised as one or the other . |
| 19 | Even with sentences not of the form A is f(X) it is often the case that a sentence containing a hyponym unilaterally entails a parallel sentence which is identical in all respects except that it contains a superordinate in place of the hyponym : |
| 20 | It is not always the case that a partial equilibrium welfare analysis will show unequivocally that more ‘ competition ’ in this form is better . |
| 21 | It was still the case that a white-collar woman employee within the public sector ( including , now , the nationalised industries ) had reasonably good pension prospects provided that she completed a lengthy period of full-time service . |
| 22 | This does not negate the point being made by Fuller and MacDonald : it may still be the case that a different decisional form is more appropriate in a particular area . |
| 23 | It used to be the case that a successful president would choose some of his Cabinet members from his party 's ranks in Congress ; this still happens , but relatively infrequently . |
| 24 | We have already argued that the concept of a syndrome is not of use as far as theoretical analysis of language disorders is concerned , because it is not the case that a small number of syndromes ( defined as sets of symptoms which always co-occur ) actually exist . |
| 25 | It is often the case that a stumbling-block for those needing advice is how to identify the ‘ correct ’ agency to approach . |
| 26 | Research has shown that it is often the case that a plaintiff 's solicitor either does not have the resources to undertake investigations or is loath to seek out all available reports . |
| 27 | To what extent can it be the case that a decision-making process that is dominated by white , male , middle-aged and middle class civil servants is likely to be appropriate for all areas of social and economic policy ? |
| 28 | Indeed it is often the case that a powerful person is not necessarily somebody who is physically strong but will depend upon the extent to which that person can get others to do as he or she wishes . |
| 29 | It is further the case that a father who gets his 14-year-old daughter to perform an act of fellatio on him or to masturbate him is not criminally liable . |
| 30 | This adherence to the decision in Morgan has extended to a reiteration and confirmation of Lord Hailsham 's statement in the case that a defendant who has intercourse ‘ nolens volens , that is recklessly and not caring whether the victim be a consenting party or not , ’ will be liable for rape . |