Example sentences of "[be] when [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deep down my wife thinks that I 'm a pessimist , bad-tempered all the time — which I am when work is n't going well . |
| 2 | Deep down my wife thinks that I 'm a pessimist , bad-tempered all the time — which I am when work is n't going well . |
| 3 | And there 's , er , I mean it was showing somebody round the other day and we were talking about it and , and erm they 're saying , yeah I mean , you 've got seven urinals there , so let's say you have a busy night , you 're full , I mean that 's when damage gets done when people |
| 4 | A good six foot six , with broad coathanger shoulders and a massive hand that completely covered D'Arcy 's when lie shook it . |
| 5 | But that 's when share prices are going through the roof and insurance companies are coining it in . |
| 6 | While a study such as Festinger , Rieken , and Schachter 's When Prophecy Fails ( see p. 73 ) is clearly not a community study , and one like Frankenberg 's Village on the Border clearly is , others , such as Whyte 's Street Corner Society , fall somewhere between the two . |
| 7 | That 's when reality sets in . ’ |
| 8 | Tomorrow it 's the cross country … that 's when World Champion Blyth Tait from New Zealand and Scotland 's Mary Thompson renew their battle for the number one spot in the world . |
| 9 | That 's when courage counts — and nerve . ’ |
| 10 | This is when scalp skin sheds excessively , leaving tiny flakes showing on hair and shoulders . |
| 11 | That , paradoxically , is when Prince is truly God . |
| 12 | The key time for watering is when flowering has started and pods are forming . |
| 13 | It is when ageist attitudes become part of the rules of institutions , govern the conduct of social life , and blend imperceptibly into everyday values and attitudes that they have a drastic effect on the way older people lead their lives . |
| 14 | It is when morale is very low that we find it difficult to cope with the problems and difficulties of life , and when counselling can become vitally important . |
| 15 | It is when guilt lingers into adulthood that the damage is done . |
| 16 | This is when pomposity and pedantry seem to get off the leash . |
| 17 | There are some things you just keep your mouth shut about and one of those is when sex is n't much good . |
| 18 | In summary , it is when capital expenditure is financed from borrowing that we see the most fundamental difference between local government accounting and commercial accounting . |
| 19 | As previously explained , this is when keyboard input is expected . |
| 20 | That is when music , the voices of children , the kind tones of those who love us , must be very important . |
| 21 | Where we often have great difficulty with Community proposals is when co-operation is replaced not by agreement but by majority voting on issues of concern to us . |
| 22 | It is when understanding , compromise and trust in sexual matters are lacking in a marriage that the sexual problems which are at times inevitable assume their largest proportions . |
| 23 | L3 increase markedly from mid-summer onwards and this is when disease appears . |
| 24 | This is when disbelief actually suspended later . |
| 25 | Nor do we yet know what the normal range of ratios is when morphine is given to naive subjects . |
| 26 | Even in Lancashire , where in Blackburn , Preston and Burnley as many as one-third of women continued to work after marriage , the Cotton Factory Times could print a piece of verse which to all intents and purposes ignored married women 's double role : ‘ How Sweet it is when toil is o'er/To sit upon the hearth once more/To whistle , sing and sweet converse/With the sweetest queen in universe/In homely way ’ . |
| 27 | On stage each of the Highwaymen does his greatest hits , but it is when Cash is growling Ring of Fire , Folsom Prison Blues , Ragged Old Flag and Boy Named Sue that the show really brings the house down . |
| 28 | This is when time drops into bottom gear . |
| 29 | Oh I 'm alright do n't worry about me I 'm , they , the person at home , their family must be told as well as you making a note in your accident book that there has been somebody with a knock on the head however mi minor it is , it 's got to be reported , because that knock could have repercussions , it could have broken a small vessel in the brain , it could still be bleeding and that is when compression takes over . |
| 30 | Continuous time means that observation is unceasing , such as a continuous record of river discharge ; quantized time is when imaginary sections are used to subdivide time , as when precipitation amounts are measured daily or weekly ; discrete time is when interest focuses upon time duration and frequency of events per unit of time ; and sampled time is when observations can only be made at particular periods , such as weekly measurements of plant growth . |