Example sentences of "given the right circumstances " in BNC.

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1 It is certainly true that , given the right circumstances , computers can ‘ reduce the drudgery , freeing the brain in front of the screen to do more productive things ’ .
2 With hindsight I can see that I was already predisposed , given the right circumstances , to become anorexic .
3 Given the right circumstances , unattended emotional debris dating from our past can prove quite a stumbling-block .
4 On this view , criminals are still ‘ differentiated ’ — but only in terms of values , motives and skills favourable to the commission of crime , and these could be acquired by anyone given the right circumstances .
5 This property is , he argues , intrinsic to literacy and the reason for many of the grand consequences which , given the right circumstances , arise from the spread of literacy .
6 If we can articulate those goals and their underlying values and beliefs , then we have some picture of what , given the right circumstances , may lead to arousal and potential activity .
7 If this argument is correct , it is possible to conceive that the European Court might , given the right circumstances , hold the English rule that damages are only available in English law to protect private law rights to be in conflict with European law .
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