Example sentences of "be [prep] any case " in BNC.

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1 Later my father again applied for leave of absence , which Your Grace refused to grant , though you permitted me , who am in any case only a half-time servant , to travel alone .
2 I am in any case no judge of beauty .
3 I am in any case rather intrigued by the project !
4 ‘ It is nothing whatever to do with the cameras which are in any case not allowed to pan along the benches . ’
5 It is easier for this to happen if there are in any case two copies of most genes present most of the time , as in diploids .
6 Features that are intrinsically valuable in our national citizenship could be undermined if we are so uncertain about what they are in any case .
7 Under political pressure , and in part because the banks are in any case controlled by their customers , the banks usually comply .
8 For he denies the importance of local factors in accounting for local ( or urban ) politics , by arguing that local authorities are insulated from any electoral or public opinion influences ; that local councillors are in any case only involved in decision-making in the most fragmented way ; and that local policymaking is constituted by stereotyped responses with little distinctly local reference ( 1980b , p. 135 ) .
9 However , the rise of unemployment creates a particular problem for the next generation of ‘ very old ’ , whose numbers are in any case increasing .
10 NT and IBM 's OS/2 2.0 are in any case only ‘ Unix redone , ’ argues House , and in NT , Microsoft ‘ has n't realised the value of a consistent user interface , both spatially and syntactically . ’
11 Unless restorers are completely incompetent or unscrupulous , they are in any case unlikely to remove actual stone from a sculpture in sound structural condition while cleaning it .
12 These spacious moments are in any case thrown away by being taken rather fast .
13 Obviously its qualities varied considerably and are in any case difficult to assess .
14 There are possible offsetting arguments concerning internal structure , but these are in any case not unambiguous in their directional effect .
15 ‘ By the time the weary reader has plodded that far , it will be clear even to the uninitiated that writing this book was a labour of hate — for reasons reviewers can not be expected to discern and which are in any case of small interest .
16 In many institutions complex and varying combinations of the two have been put into practice , and there are in any case many differences and contradictions within the two movements ( see , for example , Bonnett , 1990 ) .
17 Sites D thirty nine and D forty are in any case not located within the built-up area of the settlement in terms of Greenbelt Plan Policy Four .
18 Even aspirin and paracetamol although non addictive should be avoided if possible because they may perpetuate a pill-taking mentality and there are in any case other non-medical methods of relieving pain .
19 For the sake of clarity the ascending-node longitudes have all been set equal to each other , though within each group they are in any case much the same .
20 It would appear , however , that some tumours contain more active product than others ; thus autocrine growth promoting effects that might be attributable to gastrin are in any case only likely to be a property of a subset of tumours .
21 Some pieces of work , on the other hand , require a lot of reading and study time during composition ; and for these you are likely to produce better work if you choose questions that genuinely interest you , or connect with problems you are in any case interested in outside your literary work , rather than if you feel your work is being done out of obligation or under duress .
22 But managers do not respond to competition in simplistic ways and price signals , which are in any case weak , are usually ignored in favour of other factors which purchasers deem to be more important , for example GP referral patterns .
23 The Association argues that the DOE standards are in any case not strict enough .
24 The RIE does escape the financial resources requirements which would apply to an ordinary authorised firm , but for futures exchanges , capital matters are in any case delegated to the London Clearing House .
25 If judicial divisions and controversial judgments are in any case inevitable , the pragmatist asks , why should the controversy not be about what really matters , about which decision will produce the least inefficient practice or the fewest occasions of injustice in the future ?
26 Why do you always want outside , it should be in any case .
27 The crowds who gathered on Alexanderplatz and then moved off on a winding trail through East Berlin were in any case convinced he was their man .
28 In the north , the question of naturalization was not so black-tinted : Egyptian , Tunisian and Moroccan immigrant workers were a higher proportion of the labour force ; and Libyans did not fear many American or European employees would apply for Libyan nationality — petroleum and foreign companies were in any case outside the scope of legislation .
29 These collectors , plus Barbara Johnston , were in any case in the market for the stellar pieces .
30 For it became increasingly obvious that it did not , as had been intended , miraculously detect native intelligence in children however uneducated , but , on the contrary , was strongly biased in favour of middle-class children who had larger vocabularies than their working-class contemporaries , and who were in any case accustomed to tests and examinations .
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