Example sentences of "[adj] when [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On a recent visit to a day centre , which served both younger disabled and old people , I was told that old people were envious and resentful when computer learning was introduced for the younger disabled people . |
| 2 | The text of Lumen Gentium had been more or less left alone , but it was now prefixed by an ‘ Explanatory Note ’ ( Nota praevia ) which , it was clear when Archbishop Felici communicated it formally to the Council two days later , had come from Pope Paul himself . |
| 3 | Any lack of precision or clarity may provide an excuse for a dispute or even litigation : for example , if it is not clear when payment is due , the client 's customer may rely on the uncertainty in the terms to withhold payment until the latest possible date . |
| 4 | But the severe limitations of this technique become clear when account is taken of the conditions which would have to hold in order to render the results accurate . |
| 5 | There are many things that can go wrong when training parents , or anybody else for that matter . |
| 6 | But there are snags : the buds and leaves of hazel and thorn are tasty when grass is scarce , particularly to inquisitive cattle . |
| 7 | The war was eleven days old when School opened again , " as usual " , on Thursday , 14th September , the only concession to the new circumstances being a change in the hours : the morning sessions now ran from 8.50 am to 12.15 pm , the afternoon from 1.30 to 3.30 . |
| 8 | I was not very old when Dad told me that if you stood under it for very long , it would attract the coins out of your pocket . |
| 9 | All a far cry from the practices of old when panel pressing was labour intensive and slow . |
| 10 | Unlike the days of old when typography and design were learned over generations , desktop publishing has provided a fast track where we can take ideas and try them out to see if they work . |
| 11 | Recall that the IS curve will be steep when investment is very interest-inelastic . |
| 12 | This proved almost impossible when camping , even eating all your meals in restaurants . |
| 13 | This latter effect is the more strikingly consistent when age effects are taken out . |
| 14 | All fees are payable when invoice is issued . |
| 15 | It was quite dark when Breeze let herself into the house , and for a second she was dazzled by the electric light , and failed to see the suitcases in the hall . |
| 16 | It had made the day perfect when Gran paid for her and Adam to have a ride ; she could still remember the glorious whoosh to and fro , the sense of riding in the air like the wheeling gulls , the bitter disappointment when the woman in charge came to catch their swing boat and tell them their time was up . |
| 17 | There is no longer any need for the defendant 's solicitor to apply to have the payment in invested when time for acceptance has expired , but it will now earn less on deposit than on short-term investment account . |
| 18 | Endill was secretly relieved when Mould pulled the hook from out the water . |
| 19 | Neath , rocked by centre Colin Laity 's decision to leave in midweek , were relieved when giant No 8 Paul Jones got the all-clear after being kicked in the head . |
| 20 | It was almost a treasonable thought , and Denis was relieved when Boxer , observing that the tractor was a ‘ queer-looking contraption ’ , drew him back to the present . |
| 21 | In the second of the Superbike races , which was cut short , winner Fogarty was more than delighted when clerk of the course Billy Nutt announced that the full prize money would be paid out . |
| 22 | The audience ca n't help being delighted when business whizz Katherine goes skiing and breaks her leg . |
| 23 | The example of the recent ending of the Lebanese civil war showed , he said , that " miracles are easy when destiny is at stake " . |
| 24 | It 's due to air being too warm when pollination occurs . |
| 25 | The rewriting mentioned in 5 becomes most real when writing is seen as first draft , that is , when the writer intends to rework it later . |
| 26 | It is mysteriously sad when death severs a very happy marriage — you have to experience it before you can realize it … |
| 27 | It is sad when boredom is the reason for married couples losing interest in sex . |
| 28 | There is considerable difficulty in getting shortlisted when job sharing , and consequently we have found that job applications need meticulous planning . |
| 29 | Many of the victims were in poor health and , in some cases , had been incarcerated by the police on the assumption that they were drunk when in fact they were suffering from diseases which were life-threatening when treatment was withheld . |
| 30 | They were dismayed when news came that he was as close as Manz , less than a hundred miles from Addis Ababa , harrying the district with a vast army . |