Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [adj] situation " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the British were doing this , they learnt enough about the political situation in Bengal to realize that in a few months of confused and contradictory policy ( of which his aggressive and then conciliatory treatment of the East India Company was only one example ) Siraj-ud-Daula had lost the confidence of the Hindu merchants and bankers who ran the financial system and of some of the Muslims who ran the Bengal army . |
| 2 | We also told him that , as a matter of policy , regardless of the legal situation , we certainly would n't be prepared to offer the painting for sale unless it had first been offered to the museum to see whether it would be possible for them to re-acquire it . |
| 3 | And , after all , would you have done so in the same situation ? |
| 4 | Moreover , all the circuit properties of a line are distributed along its length , uniformly so in the ideal situation of a uniformly constructed line . |
| 5 | Thus the thickest potential net pay can be expected to be developed only in the latter situation ( see Figs. 25 and 26 ) . |
| 6 | The charm of this village lies not only in the pleasing situation , but in being quite unspoilt by modern buildings , and in still retaining a genuine ‘ olde worlde ’ atmosphere . |
| 7 | There has also in many of these cases been an increasing awareness , not just of the local situation , but of the regional and National set-up , and a clearer vision of the more overtly political values , such as what sort of society communities would really like to live in . |
| 8 | If one broadens that range and spreads it more evenly , one gets away from the present situation in which those at the bottom end of the range are paying more than they need to pay because of the way the system has been constructed . |
| 9 | No doubt we will feel better without the pain and discomfort and often a spell away from the stressful situation will alleviate some of the effects . |
| 10 | The leap in the argument here reveals an underlying interest akin to that expressed more explicitly by Hildyard and Olson : namely , in justifying the large and expensive western education systems that teach children away from the real-life situation . |
| 11 | The wife who guarantees her husband 's debts , or the widower who leaves all his property to his housekeeper , are not in the same situation as a patient faced with the need for medical treatment . |
| 12 | Thus in the former situation the stimulus is received and the response initiated by the same hemisphere ( direct or uncrossed reaction ) . |
| 13 | The second reaction is the likelihood , indeed near certainty , of what will happen if urban discontent , crime and violence increase : this will be attributed not to the social situation but to the inferior , even criminal , disposition of the people involved . |
| 14 | Hypnosis is rather like the former situation ; you are aware of all that is happening but , because it feels so right and so pleasant , you allow it to happen . |
| 15 | The professional respects the parents and acknowledges their competence and expertise in knowing more about the total situation than anyone else . |
| 16 | We can return to a particular image at various points in a lesson , noting the way our understanding of a given image changes as we understand more about the broader situation . |
| 17 | But we are not simply judges or police officials , we are also human beings , and as human beings we sympathize deeply and sincerely with the terrible situation in which the Miletti family find themselves , and wish to do everything possible to bring it to a swift and satisfactory conclusion . |
| 18 | not , not even like in the right situation , she 's like just aggressive all the time and nobody particularly gets on with her or likes her because of this . |
| 19 | All its problems arise directly from the political situation from which it springs , from the urgent need felt by the Government to distance themselves from the poll tax and the equal need to placate those internal supporters of the poll tax who will choke over any support for a property tax . |
| 20 | Recognising that they had no power and little influence with which to contain Castro 's radicalisation ( as Moscow wished ) , the skilled and experienced politicians of the PSP responded quickly to the changed situation and began asserting the advanced character of the revolution as one of their ploys for enlisting Soviet assistance . |
| 21 | Sir Mark summed up the mood of SERC when he commented that ‘ despite a difficult climate , SERC had been able to respond imaginatively to the financial situation . ’ |
| 22 | By dealing with the crisis in prisons by a Bill of this sort rather than dealing first and fundamentally with the overcrowding situation , the Home Secretary is attacking the symptoms , not the causes . |
| 23 | She was thankful for that , because it gave her time to think carefully about the extraordinary situation which had so unexpectedly arisen . |
| 24 | He was fed up with the whole situation , and all Francesca 's family . |
| 25 | I was just fed up with the whole situation . |
| 26 | The conclusions drawn on the sensitivity of the enzymes towards different structural changes in the tRNA is presumably valid also in the homologous situation and opens the possibility for more specific tests in yeast , for which no complete system yet is available . |
| 27 | The other likely source for the differences in ratings is that subjects interpreted the normality task differently in the two situations . |
| 28 | In the hard sell of this linguistic and cultural economy , claims are made for English , not unlike those formerly made for Latin or for certain styles of French , that it is better suited to particular intellectual and scientific purposes , notably in the current situation , those for which consumers want to buy languages . |
| 29 | Firstly , they found from eight of the better designed studies that ‘ mothers of schizophrenics are more concerned , protective , and possibly more intrusive than control mothers both in the current situation and in their attitudes to the children before they showed signs of schizophrenia ’ . |
| 30 | The Report also recommends that the head teacher be asked to supply a report both in the above situation and where the governing body has directed that a permanently excluded pupil be reinstated against the head teacher 's wishes . |