Example sentences of "circumstance [prep] which it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever the technique — be it radiocarbon , TL , or one of the many others — there are optimal circumstances under which it works best . |
| 2 | We have already considered the varying aims for schooling , and the circumstances under which it is carried out . |
| 3 | Neither could have foreseen the circumstances under which it would take place . |
| 4 | In such contexts , the main clues showing that the speaker feels someone 's having dared to perform a certain action to be hard to imagine is the nature of the act itself or the circumstances under which it was performed . |
| 5 | Knowing the circumstances under which it was written , it is hard not to be moved by the urgency , intricacy , skill and spacious breadth of this extraordinary work . |
| 6 | Suppose we identify the semantic content of a sentence with its truth conditions , then the semantic content of ( 4 ) Letizia de Ramolino was the mother of Napoleon will amount to a specification of the circumstances under which it would be true , namely that the individual known as Letizia de Ramolino was in fact identical to the individual who was the mother of Napoleon . |
| 7 | The only circumstances under which it would be possible to remove the National Government were those which actually arose in May 1940 : " A new situation might arise of course , if any considerable number of Members of Parliament now supporting the Government . |
| 8 | In order to diffuse itself through the Romanised world , Christianity transmuted itself — and , in the process , rewrote the historical circumstances from which it arose . |
| 9 | It has art 's power to translate , to abstract from the circumstances in which it originates . |
| 10 | By showing in what circumstances a firm 's value would not be affected , Messrs Modigliani and Miller provided clues for the circumstances in which it might be . |
| 11 | The British Defence White Paper of 1958 laid down with surprising confidence the circumstances in which it would unleash nuclear weapons : ‘ It must be well understood that if Russia were to launch a major attack , even with conventional weapons only , the West would have to hit back with strategic nuclear weapons . ’ |
| 12 | All that Montefiore 's example shows is that there are circumstances in which it is unfair to act neutrally , where there are not even prima facie reasons to be neutral . |
| 13 | The aims of the project , which are discussed in more detail in Chapter Two , were to provide flexible ‘ packages ’ of supplementary home support to dementia sufferers , in addition to the statutory health and social services and the non-statutory services normally available , and to test whether , given this service , it is possible cost-effectively to sustain such people at home for longer than is usually possible with support only from existing forms of health and social service ; to explore the circumstances in which the dementia sufferers could cost-effectively be sustained at home , and to examine the circumstances in which it was not possible to sustain them ; that is , to identify the limits to care . |
| 14 | You need to find out what sets the stage for an act of defiance — what happens before the disobedience , and what are the circumstances in which it occurs . |
| 15 | States that ‘ the process of environmental assessment should not be imposed where it is not required by the Directive ’ and gives guidance on the circumstances in which it should be used . |
| 16 | Daily contact with infants in the crèche ( next to the sixth-form coffee bar ) , the elderly , the frail , the physically and mentally disabled , employed people who come to us for literacy support or computing courses , active retired people attending daytime A-level classes , members of the community using our library , students on the threshold of professional careers in music playing with non-too-gifted amateurs engaged in recreation , academically-gifted students about to enter university engaged in social work with our special-needs students , has perhaps given us an unusually clear insight into the different ways people need and want education and the different circumstances in which it enriches their lives . |
| 17 | Only now are we beginning to collect our legacy together , to study it , classify it , and record the circumstances in which it was born . |
| 18 | Although ED 65 does not give detailed guidance on the circumstances in which it is considered that the measure of comprehensive income is incomplete , the discussion paper on ED 65 acknowledges that , under the modified historical cost system , the proposed SCFW may not give a complete reflection of the real change in financial wealth . |
| 19 | However , where it is discovered that the tax law does not have the effect that the Government and taxpayers generally thought it had , there are circumstances in which it is right to introduce legislation to restore the position retrospectively to what it was thought to be . |
| 20 | Other points covered in the elements chapter include the complementary nature of assets and liabilities , how in some cases identifying a liability leads to identification of an asset , as well as the question of offsetting — the circumstances in which it is correct to aggregate debit and credit items to form a single net asset or liability . |
| 21 | It 's been made even more humiliating by the circumstances in which it 's been done like public rape . |
| 22 | The legality of the threat of use of a weapon therefore depends on an evaluation both of the characteristics of the weapon and of the possible circumstances in which it might be used . |
| 23 | Company lawyers are not keen on this very good scheme because where damage or loss is suffered by a third party , as for instance where a brake failure results in damage to an airport building , the dissemination of details of the circumstances in which it happened outside the company could prejudice the defence they are going to put up for their airline when the airport puts in a claim for damages . |
| 24 | Has there , for example , been a restriction in the circumstances in which it applies , or in the range of kin to whom it applies ? |
| 25 | Concern about death and the circumstances in which it will occur increases the shift of focus to security goals . |
| 26 | In the GCHQ case the House of Lords held that there was no general rule that prerogative powers were not subject to judicial review on grounds of reasonableness and fairness : whether any particular exercise of a prerogative power was subject to such review depended on the nature of the power in question and the circumstances in which it was exercised . |
| 27 | Can one imagine any circumstances in which it might be possible to launch the Continent-wide equivalent of a Buy British campaign ? |
| 28 | The second is that there may be slightly different circumstances in which it remains true , but a no longer believes it . |
| 29 | The latter argued , as seen above , that a given ‘ cause ’ may resuIt in a variety of outcomes , depending on the circumstances in which it is operating . |
| 30 | I can myself envisage no circumstances in which it would be right directly or indirectly to require a doctor to treat a patient in a way that was contrary to the doctor 's professional judgment and duty to the patient . |