Example sentences of "in [adj] circumstances [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it was precisely what in normal circumstances Lisa would have done . |
| 2 | He was an excellent storyteller and in normal circumstances Loretta would have enjoyed his acerbic comments on his colleagues ' conduct at the meeting . |
| 3 | Unemployment can also lead to homelessness as in some circumstances building societies may foreclose on a mortgage if the repayments are not kept up . |
| 4 | In some circumstances returns will be maximised by keeping prices stable or by reducing them . |
| 5 | A further difficulty is that , within a particular culture or sub-culture , religion will have a socially defined image , so that in some circumstances respondents might feel they ought to say that they are more ‘ religious ’ than they really are , or , in other circumstances , that they are less so . |
| 6 | He must argue not merely that surprise is inefficient and undesirable but that in some circumstances surprise must nevertheless be accepted because of some other , then more important , principle or policy . |
| 7 | It implies that in some circumstances psychology should be associated closely with , for example , political history ; but it does not underplay the significance of subjectivity , or ‘ experience ’ . |
| 8 | Drivers may normally have no memory at all for actions performed at the operational level , moreover , there is a suggestion that in some circumstances memory for actions and information at the tactical level may also be almost entirely absent . |
| 9 | In some circumstances interaction may prompt enforcement activity substantially independent of the definitions of the seriousness of the problem to be remedied . |
| 10 | In some circumstances adversity was even thought to be a desirable proof of God 's favour , as in the cases of the Old Testament heroes , Job and Jeremiah . |
| 11 | Kilner , certain dicta would support the view that in some circumstances directors owe fiduciary duties to shareholders . |
| 12 | From the fact that in some circumstances consent is valid , it does not follow that consent to the government 's authority is valid . |
| 13 | First of all , the case made it clear that in some circumstances statements of protest alone , however well argued and legitimate , were not sufficient to stop library censorship , particularly if it was widespread and co-ordinated . |
| 14 | As will be discussed in the following chapter there is evidence that in some circumstances arousal may in fact impair or systematically bias memory . |
| 15 | She doubted that in ordinary circumstances Herbert Fraser and Polly Beard got on well together . |
| 16 | In such circumstances agents do not have to concern themselves with whether an unexpectedly high price in period t is due to a relative or aggregate demand shock . |
| 17 | In such circumstances England 's goal difference could give them an advantage over , say , Denmark in Group One or The Netherlands in Group Four , both of whom complete their fixtures next month . |
| 18 | In such circumstances councillors and officials can be sanctioned and made personally liable for misappropriated funds . |
| 19 | In such circumstances education becomes much more than the dead-end routine it so often seems in the industrialized world . |
| 20 | In such circumstances decision-making may become more difficult , or simply more prolonged , and forward planning may be inhibited ( Haywood 1977 ; Wendt 1983 ) . |
| 21 | In advanced breast cancer , chemotherapy has been shown to improve both quality of life and conventional endpoints , and in such circumstances treatment can readily be advised . |
| 22 | In such circumstances LCH may take certain steps that appear to be best calculated to discharge the member 's rights and liabilities under registered contracts and , upon such discharge , to certify two net sums : one the amount of the member 's net resulting liability or entitlement in respect of client account contracts ; and the other the amount of his net resulting liability or entitlement in respect of other registered contracts . |
| 23 | in such circumstances temperature itself poses no problem , but in both summer and winter actively decomposing material can not only reduce oxygen supply but also produce not only carbon dioxide but toxic gases such as hydrogen sulphide ( ‘ rotten eggs ’ ) . |
| 24 | In such circumstances LIFESPAN RDBI will make a number of attempts to write to the error log . |
| 25 | In such circumstances wives produce children for their brothers , and the essential family unit consists of a brother , sister , and sister 's children . |
| 26 | Usually , self-motivated professionals require little supervision and so in such circumstances spans of control can be large . |
| 27 | The first is that the effect of such an undertaking would be to impose an obligation on the council to indemnify Wickes against damage suffered by it , in the event of section 47 being held to be invalid as inconsistent with article 30 , irrespective of whether in such circumstances Wickes has a right to damages — i.e. , irrespective of whether the Bourgoin case is wrongly decided . |
| 28 | Can it be that governments have in such circumstances authority to pass immoral and unjust laws ? |
| 29 | In such circumstances Wakefield , like others well-placed , could direct royal patronage in the Church towards himself without doing much in return : the treasurership of St Paul 's Cathedral ( 1369–75 ) , the archdeaconry of Northampton ( 1371–2 ) , the prestigious archdeaconry of Canterbury ( 1374–5 ) , and much else . |
| 30 | In such circumstances details should be obtained as soon as possible after the announcement has been made and the Panel consulted . |