Example sentences of "in [det] [noun pl] [noun] [modal v] " in BNC.

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1 In some circumstances returns will be maximised by keeping prices stable or by reducing them .
2 A further difficulty is that , within a particular culture or sub-culture , religion will have a socially defined image , so that in some circumstances respondents might feel they ought to say that they are more ‘ religious ’ than they really are , or , in other circumstances , that they are less so .
3 He must argue not merely that surprise is inefficient and undesirable but that in some circumstances surprise must nevertheless be accepted because of some other , then more important , principle or policy .
4 It implies that in some circumstances psychology should be associated closely with , for example , political history ; but it does not underplay the significance of subjectivity , or ‘ experience ’ .
5 In some circumstances interaction may prompt enforcement activity substantially independent of the definitions of the seriousness of the problem to be remedied .
6 As will be discussed in the following chapter there is evidence that in some circumstances arousal may in fact impair or systematically bias memory .
7 In some instances members may wish to offer employment , perhaps for a month or two , at an agreed wage .
8 In some instances constraints would be imposed indirectly through the imposition of a duty to provide reasons ; in other cases the courts hinted at the limits they would set , such as if the decision was perverse or made in bad faith .
9 This view was qualified by other officers of the company who said in some instances Informix could provide backing for startup firms , such as those which may have developed important technology but were unable to productise it due to lack of funds .
10 Even if we agree with his general hypothesis , we have to accept that in some instances people will eat the dead bodies of other people — if only in order to stay alive .
11 In some cases evidence may be admitted to show that a word is used in a technical or local meaning .
12 In some cases duplicates may not be bibliographically exactly the same .
13 In some cases customers would demand more Champagne than woollens which led the sharpest businessmen to quickly diversify into this lucrative new commerce .
14 Ownership does not give the owner absolute rights over the property in question , since in some cases others may also have rights over the property ; e.g. Lord Bogside may be the freeholder of Wychwood Manor , including five acres of parkland , yet the owner of the neighbouring property , Wormwood Cottage , may have a right of way to cross over Lord Bogside 's land .
15 I do not want to hold out false general hope , but in some cases assistance might be available .
16 In some cases gold might even serve as an alloy itself .
17 In some cases doctors will not only have to consider the capacity of the patient to refuse treatment , but also whether the refusal has been vitiated because it resulted not from the patient 's will , but from the will of others .
18 In these and other models , households save for future consumption ( by accumulating money balances ) and in some cases firms can accumulate inventories for future sales .
19 In some cases participation can degenerate into pseudo-participation and manipulation .
20 In some cases surgery can help , as it has for Joanna .
21 In some cases appeals may proceed directly from the High Court ( not from county courts or tribunals of first instance ) to the House of Lords .
22 In some cases aggression can be traced back to incidents which happened in the puppy 's past .
23 In some cases rescission may not be an adequate remedy for lost expectations .
24 In some cases items may be specified on the policy as a pair or a set e.g. a pair of earrings .
25 In some cases trustees may relieve themselves by transferring it into the control of the court .
26 In some cases costs will be significantly higher than the bands above .
27 In some cases methods will be employed to reduce the number of animals used in a programme .
28 In both studies the patients were retested within a week of ending treatment , however , so that in some cases infection may have persisted .
29 In some cases dividends may be passed at the option of the issuer and in any event will not be paid if there are insufficient distributable profits .
30 Although in some cases gonorrhoea may be suspected from the symptoms or signs of the disease , in the final analysis the diagnosis hangs on the identification of the gonococcus , either directly in a sample of mucus or other material from an infected site by microscopic examination , or by its growth in the laboratory after inoculation of such material on appropriate culture media .
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