Example sentences of "in the [adj] circumstances [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the above circumstances I believe you are being paid correctly . |
| 2 | Localised knowledge is put to better use and in the right circumstances it may be less costly to establish area factories/offices than to control everything through Head Office ( eg. costs of transportation and travelling may be less ) . |
| 3 | ‘ In the present circumstances I felt it … safer … to have the balance of the Council know of my plans . |
| 4 | ‘ In the present circumstances it is enough that we help each other , neh ? ’ |
| 5 | Is there anything in the surrounding circumstances which would rebut the prima facie meaning of the agreement ? |
| 6 | Thereafter we carried on with the hearing of the argument on whether Thorpe J. was or was not right to make the order which he did in the different circumstances which then existed and as to the more general issues raised by this appeal . |
| 7 | He received his certificate in July 1947 but the British coal industry had been nationalised in January of that year and his new bosses told him that in the changed circumstances they would not be able to carry out the undertaking he had been given . |
| 8 | Then return refreshed with added zest and sparkle to participate in the particular circumstances which you have prepared for and chosen . |
| 9 | In the particular circumstances which I have outlined above , there was clearly a commercial advantage to both sides from a pragmatic point of view in reaching the agreement of April 9 . |
| 10 | I had to turn the hearing capacity up to maximum before I stumbled on it — not a practice I would normally follow or recommend — in the wrong circumstances you can get your eardrums blasted off . |
| 11 | The regulatory role of the Department of Trade and Industry in respect of Barlow Clowes had been sharply criticized in reports both of an independent inquiry ( published on Oct. 20 , 1988 ) , and of the Ombudsman ( published on Dec. 19 , 1989 ) ; on the latter date the government had announced that in the exceptional circumstances it would make ex gratia payments ( totalling some #150,000,000 ) to all investors who had suffered loss , while stressing that it had no legal liability to pay compensation . |
| 12 | I have been in the same circumstances myself , and it is no fun . |