Example sentences of "[be] [adj] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smaller , more discreet means of cleaning up are preferable when you are out for a walk . |
| 2 | It is possible to remove the zona mechanically but chemical methods are preferable when large numbers of embryos are involved . |
| 3 | The pile has a lot in common with most organisations which are stable when under pressure from one direction but can collapse when under pressure from another direction . |
| 4 | Her shriek awakened the house , and Coleridge , who had been asleep when his father returned , knew at once what it signified , saying to himself in the darkness , ‘ Papa is dead . ’ |
| 5 | She could n't have been asleep when I lifted the ledger from her lap and scanned its pages : she must have been watching me all the time . |
| 6 | Duncan had been asleep when the policeman burst into the room to give him the news that Leeming had been found . |
| 7 | He 'd been asleep when Carla returned . |
| 8 | Volkov had been asleep when she came home . |
| 9 | ‘ Honestly , Mil , ’ said Enid gently , ‘ I know it must have been awful when you were turned into a frog , what with the narrow squeak in the potion lab and everything , but do n't you think perhaps you 're getting a little obsessed with frogs and ponds ? |
| 10 | The previous year when she finished fifth she discovered she had been pregnant when taking part . |
| 11 | Most women had tried to become pregnant for two or three years , and most ( 412 , 82% ) had never been pregnant when they entered the study . |
| 12 | If Vitor believed her to have been three months pregnant in Adelaide , then he believed she had already been pregnant when they had made love ! |
| 13 | Since definitions are tidier when they only involve discrete alternatives , the languages used for these definitions almost always contain only functions f with finite ranges . |
| 14 | I am shy when faced with people I do not know |
| 15 | Work by Bagnold has shown that the pressures are greatest when the pocket of trapped air is thinnest and that when the dimension of the pocket at right angles to the cliff reaches half that of the depth of the pocket the pressure is negligible . |
| 16 | Byrkin would have been tall when he was in the Navy , but the camp had bent his back and plucked his hair from a smoothed scalp . |
| 17 | That 's not a way of fudging some other cost , the retained fire fighters are recompensed when we provide training for them , because they normally have to lose work or whatever . |
| 18 | Since in this paper I am concerned to explore the intergroup relations ‘ in the mind ’ between workers and managers , I propose to follow Miller 's usage of the term which is : ‘ … relations between two systems are political when one system is consciously or unconsciously attempting , or is perceived as attempting , to impose its goals and values on another ’ ( Miller , 1980 ) . |
| 19 | The blood had stopped , had been dry when she woke up . |
| 20 | It should be stressed that the pay and allowances provided at Westminster are low when compared with those at other legislatures of similar status . |
| 21 | The inability to operate with high levels of trust itself implies the use of more complex formal organisational arrangements as a replacement for the more informal co-ordination mechanisms which are possible when there is a higher level of good will . |
| 22 | A Management Committee consisting of ERA , GDC , our contract architects , and TSA was established to run the project and this part of the project highlighted that ‘ genuine partnerships ’ are possible when the determination to succeed is there . |
| 23 | The Victorian historian Macaulay may well have been right when he stated that the Cornish , ‘ … a fierce , bold and athletic race , among whom there was a stronger provincial feeling than in any other part of the realm ’ , were not so much concerned with the matter of religious principle on which Bishop Trelawney had made his stand ; Trelawney was ‘ … reverenced less as a ruler of the Church than as the head of an honourable house and the heir , through twenty descents , of ancestors who had been of great note before the Normans had set foot on English ground ’ . |
| 24 | This he was entitled to do , but the fact that he did it aroused Congress to the realization that Gandhi had been right when he announced upon his retirement that India was still a prison , but now the superintendent was allowing the prisoners to elect the officials who ran the jail . |
| 25 | He was full of inconsequential but amusing chatter and Louise had been right when she said that he knew everybody . |
| 26 | Bigwig had been right when he said the line was fresh . |
| 27 | He 'd been right when he told Alison that he was n't overlooked , because he could only see a narrow slice of his lounge from here ; but when he got down on his hands and knees and peered through the wrought ironwork the angle improved and he could see almost half of the room . |
| 28 | Now I began to wonder if my friends had not been right when they said I would never see him again . |
| 29 | If anything , she was relieved at the outcome –f that particular incident — Josie had been right when she 'd said that after going so far Lucy was now marking time and getting no further . |
| 30 | Could she have been right when she had thought , almost a week ago , that Roman was about to tell her he had asked Dana to marry him ? |