Example sentences of "in other circumstances [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gourmet , presented with a difficult choice between two dishes , ponders which will please him more as in other circumstances he might weigh conflicting moral demands , decides which one tempts his palate , chooses to order it without even being conscious of making a second decision , let alone one which requires a logically different kind of support , and afterwards perhaps is disappointed by the dish and regrets having chosen wrongly . |
| 2 | He stood for a moment longer , looking at her , unable to speak , seeing that she was so beautiful it was hurtful to him , thinking that in other circumstances he would be unmanned by such beauty , except that he was not unmanned , that was the very last thing … |
| 3 | In other circumstances she would have been more than willing to engage in this conversation herself , for it was one she had frequently enjoyed ; she liked Otto , she had always mildly fancied that he liked her , she was amused by the offhand continental gallantries with which he interspersed , absent-mindedly , the rigour of his argument ; but tonight she was tired , her eyes were closing , she had had four hours of party already , had not enjoyed the Hargreaves drama , had not enjoyed her talks with Ivan Warner and Teddy Lazenby , had been polite enough for long enough , and wanted to go home ; so stood at Brian 's elbow , dully , a reproachful wife , slightly annoyed that neither of them took much notice of her , as Otto invoked the name of Max Weber , a name which meant nothing to her at all , a name which excluded her , exhausted her , and provoked her into prodding , yet again , but this time successfully , Brian 's arm , and murmuring of baby-sitter Sharon , who was only sixteen . |
| 4 | He was a good head taller than she was , and in other circumstances she would have judged him the heart-throb type , with his dramatic dark looks , reckless mouth , strong jaw and a piratical scar across one cheek giving his faultless right profile the touch of humanity it needed . |
| 5 | On the other hand , when one is obsessively searching for the solution to a problem , it may be consciously recognised when it occurs as a fluctuation in the random activity of the subconscious whereas in other circumstances it might not emerge at the conscious level at all . |
| 6 | In that case Lord Denning argued that the Court of Appeal should issue guidelines similar to those of the House of Lords in the 1966 Practice Statement , thereby enabling the Court of Appeal to depart from its own previous decision where the decision was wrong ; in other circumstances it would hold itself bound by Young v. Bristol Aeroplane Co . |
| 7 | In other circumstances it would have been comic . |
| 8 | In other circumstances it may be a very vital part of the whole , sometimes subservient , sometimes stepping forward into complete prominence . |
| 9 | Without exploring drivers ’ memories for driving in other circumstances it is impossible to know what normal memory performance in driving would be expected to be . |
| 10 | If the subject does not know the junction and is attempting to decide how risky it is likely to be in other circumstances it would make sense to extrapolate from the information in the film to decide for example how busy the junction generally is , or to simply generalize from their current feelings of risk . |