Example sentences of "in [det] [adj] circumstances [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had , but in these new circumstances it might be unwise to admit it . |
| 2 | Of course , in these difficult circumstances you seek to keep order , but I ask you to reflect on one problem and to see what you can do about it . |
| 3 | ‘ In all these circumstances I think that it is a proper inference that , in the case of each journey in question , the plaintiffs paid the money unwillingly and only because they apprehended on reasonable grounds that without the permit which could not otherwise be obtained officers acting under the authority of the State of New South Wales would or might stop the motor vehicle and refuse to allow it to proceed upon the journey . |
| 4 | In those dispiriting circumstances it comes as no surprise to find politicians trying to offer a means of escaping from the encircling gloom . |
| 5 | But , of course , Dorothy knows in those particular circumstances it was not a risk — the mental parameters fixed by the first half of the lesson controlled the freedom of the second half — and any individual child who could not cope could turn it into a ‘ reporting to the boss at the manhole ’ game . |
| 6 | In any other circumstances I would n't have minded going shopping with Oliver . |
| 7 | Roman 's interruption held a note of such ferocious anger that in any other circumstances it would have stopped her in her tracks . |
| 8 | He was a compelling man , overwhelmingly masculine , and in any other circumstances she would have been attracted — no , more than just attracted to him . |
| 9 | In any other circumstances she might have found Niall Grant attractive . |
| 10 | In any other circumstances he would have warmed to her ; he had found her especially disturbing . |