conceivable circumstance
collocation in Englishmeaningsofconceivableandcircumstance
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conceivable
adjective
uk/kənˈsiː.və.bəl/us/kənˈsiː.və.bəl/
possible to imagine or ...
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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 ofconceivableandcircumstancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The writer evidently intended to offer to his people a kind of text-book to which men and women might have recourse for guidance in almost everyconceivablecircumstanceof life.
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One does not need to legislate for everyconceivablecircumstance.
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That is objectionable in virtually everyconceivablecircumstance.
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But one thing perfectly certain is that in noconceivablecircumstancecan the number proposed be the right number.
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But the fact is that if you have got to make regulations, you must make them fair for anyconceivablecircumstance—and that will he difficult.
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This amendment covers everyconceivablecircumstancein which one would reasonably wish the court to make an order.
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The figures, therefore, had to be large enough to meet anyconceivablecircumstance.
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Some people may think that it is gross exaggeration to say that everyconceivablecircumstanceis taken into consideration by those committees.
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My answer to that is that we have always recognised that it would not be possible to regulate for everyconceivablecircumstance.
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When an absolute duty is imposed, the person on whom it is imposed has to cover everyconceivablecircumstance—such as earthquake or some form of nuclear attack.
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It must be obvious that no level of coal stocks could guarantee full supplies to every part of the country in everyconceivablecircumstanceof bad weather.
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I say almost everyconceivablecircumstanceadvisedly.
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A balance must be struck between making the system reasonably simple and understandable—by limiting the number of criteria—and including ever more criteria to take account of everyconceivablecircumstance.
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That is aconceivablecircumstance.
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Well-drafted contracts usually attempt to spell out in explicit detail what each counterparty's rights and obligations are in everyconceivablecircumstance, though there are of course limits.
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It is a characterisation of what language users do when faced with any of a huge variety of conceivable circumstances, not of some abstract notion of communication in idealised circumstances.
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But if her husband is insured, it is possible, under conceivable circumstances, she may be deprived of the maternity benefit.
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No, he gets £25, and under no conceivable circumstances can he ever get any more.
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The new terms were less favourable to the railway companies in almost any conceivable circumstances which could be imagined either then or since.
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In no conceivable circumstances will these men come out for six months.
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