Example sentences of "[adj] circumstances [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They could both tell that in normal social circumstances they would have disliked each other . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Under different circumstances he would have preferred to cover things over , the illegitimacy for one . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In some circumstances we may wish to solve unbalanced problems ( ) . |
| 6 | Suffice it to say that in some circumstances they authorise treatment despite the objections of the patient , whether minor or adult . |
| 7 | As we shall see in Section 6.5 , some weathering products show a remarkable resilience to changing environmental conditions to the extent that in some circumstances they can persist in the landscape essentially unaltered for tens of millions of years . |
| 8 | In some circumstances it may be the best thing to do . |
| 9 | In some circumstances it may , however , be desirable to afford an ethnic minority group greater access to specialist facilities such as language support , because of the group 's special needs . |
| 10 | Gardner points out that some street remarks , like endearment terms , are ambiguous : in some circumstances it is acceptable and even kind to greet or compliment another . |
| 11 | Although in some circumstances it would appear that steroid use was very sophisticated , in many instances knowledge about drugs and injection technique was very poor ’ . |
| 12 | In some circumstances it would not be reasonable that a disposition of property made by an individual before his bankruptcy , or by a company before being wound up , should be allowed to stand . |
| 13 | In some circumstances it is desirable to refine the boundary description down to give a more detailed geometric description in terms of wireframe modelling ( in this case circles and boundary lines ) or surface and solid modelling ( to give cylindrical surfaces or rotational solids ) . |
| 14 | In some circumstances it is possible to arrange for training for someone from your own institution . |
| 15 | In addition to giving guidelines for individual viewing , in some circumstances it might be worth producing worksheets for some of the programmes in the library stock . |
| 16 | In arguing that the instrumental response is quite proper in some circumstances I do not mean to imply that it always can operate . |
| 17 | In some circumstances I would have welcomed such a discussion . |
| 18 | ‘ Due to a series of fortuitous circumstances it embodies unique aesthetic , technical and even sentimental values . |
| 19 | Wycliffe felt sure that in normal circumstances she was a cheerful woman , more ready to laugh than cry . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ I ask you to believe that in normal circumstances he would not behave like that , but he is still not quite himself … the death of his friend , you know … ’ |
| 22 | He 'd said something to this lady and under normal circumstances he would not a she would n't have said anything |
| 23 | This will be painful for her to endure , and for you to witness , but under normal circumstances it will pass . |
| 24 | In normal circumstances it is difficult to know the limits of one 's own capability , let alone those of the organization . |
| 25 | The old man explained his views on the matter afterwards to a Christian friend , ‘ For an ordinary man in normal circumstances it is enough that he believe faithfully in God . |
| 26 | In normal circumstances I would have written this information off as being about the small Green Swords which come from the Rio Sarabia , but in this case I could not , as the fish concerned had been supplied from Dr Kallman 's laboratory and were correctly named . |
| 27 | Under normal circumstances you will be carrying an unnecessarily heavy and bulky camera . |
| 28 | In normal circumstances you would know this or be able to find it out , but this is still only a short case study and we have n't included it . |
| 29 | You y if you set out on a train under normal circumstances you 're confident that you 're going to arrive in London at |
| 30 | 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 ) . |