Example sentences of "[conj] in [adj] circumstances she " in BNC.

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1 Wycliffe felt sure that in normal circumstances she was a cheerful woman , more ready to laugh than cry .
2 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 .
3 Yet she felt little had been done to address this problem in school and if in these circumstances she now accepted residential school she would be giving up on Tom .
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 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 .
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