ideal circumstance
collocation in Englishmeaningsofidealandcircumstance
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ideal
adjective
uk/aɪˈdɪəl/us/aɪˈdiː.əl/
perfect, or the ...
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circumstance
noun
uk/ˈsɜː.kəm.stɑːns/us/ˈsɝː.kəm.stæns/
a fact or event that makes a situation the way ...
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(Definition ofidealandcircumstancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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I think we should overstate the case if we suggested that this was necessarily anidealcircumstance.
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That is not theidealcircumstancein which to be discussing such a matter.
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Thisidealcircumstancegives predicive text software the reduction in the number of key strokes a user is required to enter a word.
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It is also more likely that homes will be caring for residents whom, under ideal circumstances, the proprietors would not have admitted.
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In ideal circumstances, meals are social occasions with a table acting as a focus for sitting and chatting while eating.
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In ideal circumstances, these two were integrated, and therefore, it did not matter who advocated the agreement in question.
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Under ideal circumstances, one would compare the reconstruction side by side with the original system.
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However, clinical trials typically report data from selected patient populations, who are experiencing close monitoring in close to ideal circumstances.
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A further factor is that many elderly patients with fractures live in less than ideal circumstances.
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The probability of benefit to individuals in a defined population from a medical technology applied for a given medical problem under ideal circumstances of use.
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There is evidence, however, that officials drafted numerous sovereignty claims, yet withheld them all in hope of ideal circumstances that never came to pass.
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Under ideal circumstances, one would want both data sets, the manually labelled data and the automatically labelled data, to come from similar corpora or even the same corpus.
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Efficacy studies aim to test whether an intervention can give benefit under ideal circumstances.
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Chomsky has argued that under ideal circumstances, the syntactic component transfers its contents to the phonological and interpretive components of the language system one "phase" at a time.
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Or does it simply mean that the standard of the school is not quite what that director of education would wish in ideal circumstances?
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These are not ideal circumstances for an actor, but at least there is no danger to anything except one's own reputation.
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There are other industries which apparently have ideal circumstances in which to live and yet seem unable to make a success of high productivity.
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