Example sentences of "[adj] when the " 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 | They 'd just set foot back in the ship proper when the burst of machine gun fire rooted them to the spot . |
| 4 | Things are somewhat different when the institution or profession is itself new . |
| 5 | Underachievement , however , means something rather different when the focus of educational concern is black pupils . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A hoax is a hoax , of course , but it seems different when the phoney says he is Balenciaga 's grandson . |
| 9 | So I think there is something qualitatively different when the subject , or perhaps more appropriately the object of sexual harassment are women . |
| 10 | ‘ It was OK when the river was dredged . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If it blows towards yours or your neighbour 's house , you may not be too popular when the greasy smoke starts billowing around ! |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Peasants may have been keen to enlist because they were genuinely patriotic , but their mood was invariably febrile when the throne changed hands . |
| 16 | Can one only get it fresh when the ferry comes over ? ’ |
| 17 | It 's even more exciting when the book in question is about Willy , the marvellous character he created in Willy The Wimp . |
| 18 | He beleive the newer , longer version of the Hercules may become unstable when the back doors are opened to make a drop . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The etymological connection between ‘ pure ’ , ‘ purge ’ and ‘ purgatory ’ becomes clear when the word is understood in this context . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The reason for this will become clear when the fossil faunas are examined , for post-depositional breakage of the upper and lower jaws often removes any evidence of the jaws themselves so that only the teeth are left to provide an indication of the former numbers of jaws , and this index attempts to take this into account . |
| 23 | popular anger against inequalities in the distribution of food could be swiftly transferred into a grim determination to defeat the Hun , as became clear when the military stalemate broke in March 1918 . |
| 24 | However , the failure to influence policy decisions to the advantage of older people became painfully clear when the Beveridge Committee on Social Insurance and Allied Services examined the question of old age . |
| 25 | This became most strikingly clear when the encyclicals Lamentabili and Pascendi in 1907 condemned the ‘ modernists ’ . |
| 26 | Sun Microsystems has a deal going with another Russian concern , this one operating under the improbable name Elvis+ : seems they 've cut some kind of technology licence and co-development pact for wireless network communications technology to be used in Sun 's nomadic computing strategy ; Elvis is apparently a privately held company run by one Alexander Galitsky , who by repute was involved in the Soviet space programme , but all should be clear when the pair go public March 16 . |
| 27 | The system provides several different types of room racks with innovations and signals that can provide information for the receptionists ; for example , pockets can have a centre window with two-colour sliding signals which can be moved to show red when the room has been assigned , yellow when the room is ‘ on change ’ and clear when the room is ready for letting . |
| 28 | It is not clear when the right actually arises , nor whether its basis is the sovereign will of the treaty parties or the assent of the third party . |
| 29 | All became clear when the jeep was unloaded at the other end . |
| 30 | Things are made clear when the discussion turns to the progress of the Access Group . |