certain circumstance
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcertainandcircumstance
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certain
adjective
uk/ˈsɜː.tən/us/ˈsɝː.tən/
having no doubt or knowing exactly that something is true, or known to be true, correct, exact, ...
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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 ofcertainandcircumstancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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First, there is the problem of specifying what the appropriate response is for a properly functioning person in acertaincircumstance.
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It is conceivable that in acertaincircumstancethere could be more than one appropriate response (it does partly depend on how broadly one construes the relevant circumstance).
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We could owe our lives to fishermen incertaincircumstance; we knew that, and we maintained good relations with them.
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Clause 11 places a duty on rating authorities to recover rates from the owner rather than the tenant of a property incertaincircumstance.
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It may be that they would reach the conclusion that there was no case for protecting a theatre in acertaincircumstanceand that planning permission should not be withheld.
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In certain patients under certain circumstances, these drugs may actively hasten death although no specific instance of this in any donor has been reported.
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These have shown that, under certain circumstances, one or more elements stimulated bacterial regrowth or had growth-inhibiting effects.
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However, this strategy is important and very powerful in certain circumstances.
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The distinctive clothing imposed upon them advertised their profession and in certain circumstances might not have been unwelcome.
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In certain circumstances, however, elders adopted more liberal views of elopement.
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First, children as young as three years can create metaphoric compounds, at least in certain circumstances.
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There are good reasons for dealing with algebraic languages, rather than languages with binders, under certain circumstances; particularly in connection with equational reasoning.
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We will see in what follows that glides can bear this feature under certain circumstances.
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Even pain-rejecting modern society will demand impassivity under certain circumstances.
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It just means that in certain circumstances, or populations, a virtuous person may choose to be vicious as a means of exhibiting some other virtue.
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First, sceptics about the possibilities for rapid state transformation are wrong, at least under certain circumstances.
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Indeed, as has been argued elsewhere,96 a carefully designed credibilityenhancing rules-based regime can, under certain circumstances, expand room to manoeuvre.
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