The phrase "have circumstances" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use this phrase when you want to indicate that existing conditions have an impact on a situation. Example: We would love to accept your invitation, but unfortunately we have circumstances that prevent us from attending.
Unlike Conrad or Nabokov, I didn't have circumstances which would have coerced me out of my native tongue altogether.
Customers cycle in and out of jobs that require heavy travel, he said, or may have circumstances like the birth of a baby or a family illness that dictate the amount of time they can spend away from home.
"It got me thinking that we all have circumstances in our lives that are mitigating, so I don't know how you make that judgment," Elizabeth Stone told me over lunch earlier this year.
"The concern is that you will institutionalize a process in which you will have circumstances in which neither a Democrat or Republican is on the ballot," said Kurt Bardella, a spokesman for Representative Darrell Issa, a Republican from Southern California.
"If you can obtain conditions of peace," he said, "if you can get violence and conflict behind you, then you can have circumstances under which you can grow democracy, you can grow a free enterprise system, you can attract investments, you can attract development money".
"You have circumstances where people are traveling and they have to come to the utility and there are long queues".
It referred to different forms of democracy, noting that each case has circumstances making it unique.
— Had circumstances been different, Dustin Brown could have spent the first round of the playoffs with the Vancouver Canucks.
How different life could have been for all concerned had chances been taken, had circumstances been different.
Had circumstances been different the title race would have been much more interesting.
Had circumstances been a little bit different at the time, I think that I probably wouldn't have left.
