Example sentences of "[adj] when [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The disk is pentagonal , disk diameter up to 10 mm ; the skin covering has numerous rounded thin scales embedded in it , usually most conspicuous when the specimen is slightly dried . |
| 2 | THE voters of Langbaurgh are likely to be campaign-weary when the time comes to place their cross . |
| 3 | When a candidate is preparing to be interviewed ‘ on air ’ , there is usually a period of five to 10 minutes before the interview proper when a live satellite link will be sent back to network headquarters . |
| 4 | They 'd just set foot back in the ship proper when the burst of machine gun fire rooted them to the spot . |
| 5 | It 's different when a respected UK dealer makes substantiated claims for something that will affect his reputation for better or worse . |
| 6 | Things are somewhat different when the institution or profession is itself new . |
| 7 | Underachievement , however , means something rather different when the focus of educational concern is black pupils . |
| 8 | The position is rather different when the goods came into the defendant 's hands by reason of a genuine , voluntary bailment for then the bailee has a statutory power of sale of the goods if the bailor fails to collect them . |
| 9 | However , for practices with skewed age-sex demography the deviation from family health services authority averages was different when the Newcastle prescribing index was used instead of the prescribing unit . |
| 10 | A hoax is a hoax , of course , but it seems different when the phoney says he is Balenciaga 's grandson . |
| 11 | So I think there is something qualitatively different when the subject , or perhaps more appropriately the object of sexual harassment are women . |
| 12 | Issues relating to the counsellor 's own personal and family life will need to have been processed thoroughly because counselling other people has to be impartial ( rather than be affected by issues in the counsellor 's own personal life ) and because the counsellor himself or herself may become unsettled when an issued being discussed with a sufferer may be too close for comfort to the counsellor 's personal experience . |
| 13 | ‘ It was OK when the river was dredged . |
| 14 | Evenings are just as lively when the entertainments team create a fantastic atmosphere , with live music and cabaret to join in or sit back and watch . |
| 15 | If it blows towards yours or your neighbour 's house , you may not be too popular when the greasy smoke starts billowing around ! |
| 16 | Bartlett 's ideas on schemata became popular when the development of computers meant that theories of this type could be programmed ( e.g. Minsky , 1975 ; Rumelhart , 1975 ; Schank , 1976 ) . |
| 17 | If the records popular when the University first opened are recognisable to us , it 's only because they have recently enjoyed their third or fourth revival in the charts . |
| 18 | It is just as the nights are getting lighter when the sights of spring are just beginning to show . |
| 19 | Peasants may have been keen to enlist because they were genuinely patriotic , but their mood was invariably febrile when the throne changed hands . |
| 20 | Can one only get it fresh when the ferry comes over ? ’ |
| 21 | It is exciting when a brand-new public sector museum opens . |
| 22 | It 's even more exciting when the book in question is about Willy , the marvellous character he created in Willy The Wimp . |
| 23 | He beleive the newer , longer version of the Hercules may become unstable when the back doors are opened to make a drop . |
| 24 | CONTRARY to popular belief , a £1m damages award is not over generous when a young person suffers severe brain damage in a road accident . |
| 25 | The boys of 602 were on their second cup of tea and the ‘ Spits ’ half-refuelled when a full-scale bombing raid , the first attack on Britain of the war , began out in the Forth . |
| 26 | If it were clear when a party has formed an intention to incur legal obligation , if a person did commonly define the obligation he desired to assume in terms which left little doubt as to its nature , it would be unnecessary , and indeed merely foolish , to require an additional test of that intention . |
| 27 | Cases of underlexicalisation are clear when a non-specific noun ( such as log ) is used to refer to something for which a specific word exists in English . |
| 28 | Certainly his resignation ensures that he will be in the clear when the economic roof falls in — an event which many people now regard as virtually inevitable . |
| 29 | The etymological connection between ‘ pure ’ , ‘ purge ’ and ‘ purgatory ’ becomes clear when the word is understood in this context . |
| 30 | Waldheim 's ‘ virtues ’ had become particularly clear when the Austrian President had been confronted by a ‘ world of defamation and absolutely unfathomable persecution ’ , said Schedl . |