Example sentences of "[adj] circumstances [prep] which it [vb mod] " in BNC.

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1 The legality of the threat of use of a weapon therefore depends on an evaluation both of the characteristics of the weapon and of the possible circumstances in which it might be used .
2 The Faculty will normally only register for the LL.M. degree those candidates who possess a prior degree in law although there are exceptional circumstances in which it will vary this requirement .
3 The only circumstances under which it would be possible to remove the National Government were those which actually arose in May 1940 : " A new situation might arise of course , if any considerable number of Members of Parliament now supporting the Government .
4 I could not have conceived of any circumstances in which it would have been sensible for any particular political group to murder Gaitskell , and the likelihood that it was murder — in such an immensely complicated fashion — seemed to me at first blush fanciful and absurd .
5 Can one imagine any circumstances in which it might be possible to launch the Continent-wide equivalent of a Buy British campaign ?
6 In our consultation paper , and now in the Bill , we have recognised further that there will be certain circumstances in which it would be inappropriate for members of a household to add to that household 's bill .
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