The phrase "a past situation" is correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used to refer to a specific event or circumstance that occurred in the past. Example: A past situation that still haunts me is the time I forgot to turn off the stove and ended up burning dinner.
Odour memory is long, and specific smells can vividly revive a past situation and emotion.
"It was the case that I couldn't fire my handgun" refers to a past situation in which discharge is deemed impossible because (let's say) my gun was broken.
Union went on to recall a past situation where she was reluctant to let the boys walk to a neighbor's basketball court after dark, before learning Wade permitted the visit.
The basic concept is, when asked about how a candidate would tackle a particular on-the-job challenge, to describe a past situation, explain the task or objective, then lay out the actions taken and the results achieved.
You cannot remain rooted in the current or a past situation.
When we apply what we know to a present situation by reference to a similar past situation by merely applying our mind's template without adjusting for the context, we're overriding common sense.
This judgment can be accounted for by assuming that utterances of the second sentence in (43) are about a particular past situation that exemplifies the first sentence.
On the other hand, the proposition expressed by 36(b) seems to be exemplified by all past situations that contain airplane flying by Josephine and nothing else, and this set of situations is homogeneous.
Over-thinking is a time suck -- you're so busy in a negative future state or negative past situation (which you can't change) that you completely forget about right here right now.
Hence, by starting from that news, which is consequence of a past crisis situation, we were able to track its origin and subsequent events.
Changing behaviour Reflecting on the past situation, Binti notes, "There is a big change.
