Example sentences of "case could [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a background in ICI 's pharmaceutical and paints operations , he told The Economist a year ago that a case could be made for hanging onto the jewels and getting rid of the tarnished tinsel . |
| 2 | When , in 1968 , a new Theatres Act swept away the censorship of plays by the Lord Chamberlain , it was replaced with the 1959 test of obscenity , but added a qualifying provision that no case could be brought without the consent of the Attorney General . |
| 3 | It is sobering to reflect that a case could be made out for the judgment that the last extensive exercise of the English poetic sensibility was Wordsworth 's Prelude . ’ |
| 4 | Some seem to have thought that if a case could be traced to a feud , it was false . |
| 5 | The director and his former leading lady took action after a court ruled the case could be televised . |
| 6 | At the House of Lords hearing , the QC appearing for the Attorney General made it clear the law lords ' ruling meant no case could be brought against the hospital or medical staff involved . |
| 7 | He says a case could be made for Manchester 's fullback , but in no sport are players picked from outside the national leagues — and anyway we can all spend hours picking players unlucky not to tour . |
| 8 | Mr Dubois went on to say , however , that ‘ … the case could be reconsidered and consequently the file re-opened if the factual or legal situation changes in respect of an essential aspect of the agreement which affects its evaluation or in the case of a complaint ’ |
| 9 | On the basis of these small but important findings , a case could be made to close down the whole of the provision in this sector . |
| 10 | By the mid-1950s , moreover , with technical progress and economies of scale expected to reduce the capital cost of future generating plant below typical early 1950s levels ( see pp. 111–22 , below ) , a respectable case could be made that eventually historic average costs would come into line with replacement costs . |
| 11 | A strong case could be made for the boundary of the new province to have been based on a line from the Humber to the Bristol Channel , probably following the lower Severn , the Warwickshire Avon and the Trent . |
| 12 | A case could be made for such a ritual being enshrined in the legend of Lady Godiva of Coventry , riding through the city on a white horse ( fig. 13.1 ) , though this idea has been dismissed by Hilda Ellis Davison in her otherwise full and admirable account of the legend . |
| 13 | A case could be made for a deep psychic need in people the world over for the manifestations of monsters in varying horrific forms . |
| 14 | Your case could be strengthened by a specialist 's report . |
| 15 | ‘ He thought that as good a case could be made for our efforts in Korea — and probably a better one — as almost anything we had done in the foreign field . ’ |
| 16 | The paragraph of section 82(1) under which the latter case could be brought was not identified . |
| 17 | On the true construction of section 82(1) there is not , in my opinion , any paragraph under which the latter case could be brought . |
| 18 | The majority held that the case could be decided upon the narrow ground that the action for enticement should be extended beyond the strict relation of master and servant to embrace other contracts for personal services , but support was also given in varying degrees to a broader proposition that a plaintiff might sue for the knowing violation of the security of any type of contractual right . |
| 19 | However , it is necessary to consider this in a little more detail , for it might be argued that a rather better case could be made out for the materialist theory than the dismissive remarks of the preceding section seem to suggest , provided certain additional facts are taken into consideration . |
| 20 | Certainly , a case could be made for granting entry to all full-time teachers in further education , who if they do not possess formal qualifications at least almost invariably have considerable industrial or business experience . |
| 21 | He had no doubt that the case could be wound up on the strength of it . |
| 22 | He decided to telephone her over the weekend , by which time the case could be finished and he would be able to invite her to dinner with reasonable hope that they would be uninterrupted . |
| 23 | I could not get away at once because of all the clearing up there was to do , but at last the files on that unhappy case could be put away , and I was planning a fortnight 's cruise in my ancient Yorkshire coble Joanna , now moored on the Crouch . |
| 24 | The use of a facility such as ‘ Office Power ’ and its electronic mail capabilities would ensure that all aspects of a case could be considered timeously without fear of hard copy correspondence being lost between different sections inadvertently or otherwise not actioned . |
| 25 | There are also messages corresponding to visible material in the subject area or the absence of material in the reference area ( which in either case could be an out-of-position reference card ) . |
| 26 | Two is the obvious number , but in certain circumstances a case could be made for one prisoner or three prisoners . |
| 27 | It would not be easy to see how a case could be made that factory employment was an especially health-destroying occupation for adult males . |
| 28 | This case could be regarded as an example of the first presumption applying and neither of the exceptions being relevant . |
| 29 | The issues relating to legal admissibility require careful thought about how a major case could be co-ordinated . |
| 30 | Perhaps , for instance , a case could be made for discouraging risks that might lead to a person 's loss of employment , if their chances of gaining another job were remote . |