1.   Yet, in real life, circumstances do sometimes conspire to bring about coincidences which anyone but a nineteenth century novelist would find incredible.

2.   Circumstances were really conspiring against her!

3.   Any horse is susceptible to defeat when circumstances conspire against him.

4.   Circumstances conspired to take me away from cherished places.

5.   Circumstances can conspire.

6.   Circumstances conspire to have Lhermitte bring the kid back home to Paris.

7.   Circumstances conspire to alter this fleeting harmony.

8.   During the rest of the picture, circumstances conspire to throw them together and then tear them apart.

9.   Sometimes circumstances conspire to bring a major gift to a small museum.