Example sentences of "case the " in BNC.

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1 Room must be left on the upwind side in case there is a cable break or premature release , and on the down wind side in case the wing touches and causes a swing that way .
2 If the latter is the case the speed should be checked by the ASI and , provided that it is adequate , the airbrakes can be used for a normal approach and landing .
3 In this case the necessary yawing movement is caused by the high drag of the badly stalled wing .
4 In this case the spin itself was quite normal , and after a few turns the pilot initiated the recovery by applying the full opposite rudder and then moving the stick forwards .
5 In this case the pilot had possibly pulled about 5 g for 4 or 5 seconds .
6 In this case the instructor brings the aircraft to a stall and applies full rudder as if he is going to spin .
7 Obviously , if the infant were deaf , blind , without tactile sensations , and totally immobile then the prospects for cognisance would not be very rosy ; but in this case the input systems would fail to function as well , so both constructivists and nativists ( those who believe in innate mental structures ) would predict failure .
8 Not , the constructivist argues , by the enrichment of perceptual input ( in any case the evidence tells us that this is already rich ) : only through action itself .
9 Just in case the specification might considered inferior at this price , it includes as standard an eight day , three train movement with triple chimes , ( St Michael , Westminster and Whittington ) all on a peal of perfectly-tuned bells .
10 The fee for burial does not include charges for grave-digging , which may be carried out by a parochial officer ( in which case the vicar sets the charge ) , or by a grave-digger hired by the funeral director .
11 In the rest of the country it is likely to be the Environmental Health Officer , unless someone dies in a council residential home , in which case the County Social Services Department will organise the funeral .
12 In this case the council argued that the property was set within a block in which all but one of the tenants were over pensionable age .
13 If this is the case the end of the U-wire is broad enough to sit comfortably in the palm of the hand .
14 In each case the accuracy rate concerning events of which I had first-hand knowledge was about 50% ; half the information correct , half wrong .
15 In a notebook , beneath the underlined word ‘ tone ’ and ‘ NB ’ penned three times , Dostoevsky has written among other jottings ‘ summer , dust , mortar ’ ; and in this case the man and the artist are at one .
16 A more usual setup would probably be to fix the core in a horizontal position , aligned so that one pickup coil responds to the maximum horizontal component of the earth 's field , in which case the other would respond to the variations in declination or angular change in direction .
17 ln that case the last clause — ‘ in that land were we born ’ — is no patriotic bugle-note , but rather a flat acknowledgement of what can not be helped .
18 In virtually every case the aim of causing upheaval is explicitly declared , because Labour 's aim would be to upset the bureaucratic order it inherits .
19 On the amount of damages , Mr Lightman said the Court of Appeal had a special responsibility to bear in mind the ‘ dangerous precedent ’ which could be set by such awards , and added that in this case the award was out of all proportion to the alleged libel .
20 In this case the cynics might be right to say that pigs will fly .
21 Three halls have been hired , just in case the split which nearly everyone expects occurs .
22 But in her case the technique employed is a great deal less attractive — it is to blame everyone but herself when things are going wrong and to make scapegoats out of able colleagues .
23 The husband agreed that the wife should have the maisonette , but appealed against the judge 's award of a lump sum of £1m on the grounds ( 1 ) that the judge was wrong in principle to make an award to enable the wife to buy a hotel ; and ( 2 ) that in any case the amount was excessive .
24 What is more important than gender is the personality and skill of the fieldworker in overcoming the feelings of suspicion the police have of all outsiders , especially in the more enclosed and threatened world of the RUC , and in our case the field-worker 's gender seemed no bar to her obtaining access to the masculine ‘ canteen culture ’ of the men or to participating in conversations on the topics which are popular in that culture , which van Maanen describes as ‘ sports , cars and sex ’ ( 1981 : 476 ) .
25 In the latter case the policewoman has to write a report on the child for the superintendent to determine whether or not prosecution should follow .
26 We had a good field of fire all round in case the enemy came out of the sunken road or over the hedge .
27 The example of the United States may be cited in order to refute such a fatalistic approach , but the American colonies were the progeny of the most sophisticated democratic country in the world , and in any case the American republic expanded from a near tabula rasa , politically and geographically speaking .
28 Either the commission intuitively knows how supply and demand will change — in which case the commission is miraculous but unnecessary — or else the commission is applying some other unspecified standards and judgements of its own — in which case the commission will be a tyrant if it can impose its decisions and a laughing stock if it can not .
29 Either the commission intuitively knows how supply and demand will change — in which case the commission is miraculous but unnecessary — or else the commission is applying some other unspecified standards and judgements of its own — in which case the commission will be a tyrant if it can impose its decisions and a laughing stock if it can not .
30 One was , in the year before an election , to say : ‘ Well , in that case the programme has to be scaled down ; otherwise you will have higher taxation or inflation . ’
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