Example sentences of "in [adj] circumstance [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In normal circumstances I would have written this information off as being about the small Green Swords which come from the Rio Sarabia , but in this case I could not , as the fish concerned had been supplied from Dr Kallman 's laboratory and were correctly named . |
| 2 | In normal circumstances it is difficult to know the limits of one 's own capability , let alone those of the organization . |
| 3 | The old man explained his views on the matter afterwards to a Christian friend , ‘ For an ordinary man in normal circumstances it is enough that he believe faithfully in God . |
| 4 | In normal circumstances you would know this or be able to find it out , but this is still only a short case study and we have n't included it . |
| 5 | Wycliffe felt sure that in normal circumstances she was a cheerful woman , more ready to laugh than cry . |
| 6 | The irony was that in normal circumstances she would have insisted on seeing a working installation of a new product if only to satisfy herself that whatever she wrote would n't infringe the Trades Descriptions Act . |
| 7 | ‘ I ask you to believe that in normal circumstances he would not behave like that , but he is still not quite himself … the death of his friend , you know … ’ |
| 8 | Obviously no expense was being spared to make the night a success , and in different circumstances she would have been looking forward to it , but now , as silence settled over the car , she could feel herself growing tense . |
| 9 | In this circumstance we feel more tired as the evening and the night wear on . |
| 10 | Under gentle pressure he conceded that Riddle had mentioned the possibility of marriage and said that in this circumstance he would want to make a fresh will . ’ |
| 11 | In some circumstances we may wish to solve unbalanced problems ( ) . |
| 12 | Suffice it to say that in some circumstances they authorise treatment despite the objections of the patient , whether minor or adult . |
| 13 | As we shall see in Section 6.5 , some weathering products show a remarkable resilience to changing environmental conditions to the extent that in some circumstances they can persist in the landscape essentially unaltered for tens of millions of years . |
| 14 | In some circumstances it may be the best thing to do . |
| 15 | In some circumstances it may , however , be desirable to afford an ethnic minority group greater access to specialist facilities such as language support , because of the group 's special needs . |
| 16 | Gardner points out that some street remarks , like endearment terms , are ambiguous : in some circumstances it is acceptable and even kind to greet or compliment another . |
| 17 | Although in some circumstances it would appear that steroid use was very sophisticated , in many instances knowledge about drugs and injection technique was very poor ’ . |
| 18 | In some circumstances it would not be reasonable that a disposition of property made by an individual before his bankruptcy , or by a company before being wound up , should be allowed to stand . |
| 19 | In some circumstances it is desirable to refine the boundary description down to give a more detailed geometric description in terms of wireframe modelling ( in this case circles and boundary lines ) or surface and solid modelling ( to give cylindrical surfaces or rotational solids ) . |
| 20 | In some circumstances it is possible to arrange for training for someone from your own institution . |
| 21 | In addition to giving guidelines for individual viewing , in some circumstances it might be worth producing worksheets for some of the programmes in the library stock . |
| 22 | In arguing that the instrumental response is quite proper in some circumstances I do not mean to imply that it always can operate . |
| 23 | In some circumstances I would have welcomed such a discussion . |
| 24 | But Mr Heath was savagely criticised by the press and the public , and friends of Mr Major believe that in similar circumstances he would be unlikely to hang on . |
| 25 | In similar circumstances you are , therefore , more likely to come forward with ideas again . |
| 26 | Unlike the others who appear and disappear as fashion and progress dictate , children occupy a permanent place in the list partly because of their continuing presence as a potential sub-class , partly because they have never protested and mainly because it is assumed that in favourable circumstances they will become men and therefore require attention . |
| 27 | Thus the gist of Spinoza 's argument , for example , is that whereas in ordinary circumstances we may indeed find it useful and necessary to distinguish between essential and accidental properties , metaphysically such a distinction can not be upheld . |
| 28 | This defamiliarized perception of words which in ordinary circumstances we fail to notice is the result of the formal basis of poetry . |
| 29 | But in such circumstances they are all we have . |
| 30 | In such circumstances they may find it comparatively easy to become , or to be seen as , innovators . |