Example sentences of "[adj] when [art] " in BNC.
Previous page Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | This became most strikingly clear when the encyclicals Lamentabili and Pascendi in 1907 condemned the ‘ modernists ’ . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | All became clear when the jeep was unloaded at the other end . |
| 38 | Things are made clear when the discussion turns to the progress of the Access Group . |
| 39 | It is not at all clear when the money stented for the repair of the bridges and the enclosing of the churchyards was paid and the work completed . |
| 40 | The role of the probation service became clear when the Home Office published , in 1988c , Tackling Offending — An Action Plan ' , a document setting out how these proposals could be put into practice . |
| 41 | However , the effect of paternal age is clear when the age of mother is controlled . |
| 42 | To leap clear when the hill-top |
| 43 | Although it was not clear when the equipment would arrive at North Tees , managers hoped it would be installed in good time for Christmas . |
| 44 | Note that the package module APCK3 and all its modules were OFFLINE when the procedure was called . |
| 45 | I felt quite bereft when the grave old man in his Orkney chair and the King in his Counting-house were bought in the closing minutes of the sale . |
| 46 | There was also the precedent established by the British when the ARB refused to validate the US certificate of airworthiness of the Boeing 707 in its original form and the manufacturers had to design and fit an additional dorsal fin to improve its ‘ Dutch roll ’ characteristics before Dai Davis , the ARB chief test pilot , was satisfied that the aircraft was up to UK certification standards . |
| 47 | Shopkeepers there were staggered when a particular brand of noodles sold out within days — until they discovered its high score in the barcode points stakes . |
| 48 | They would be staggered when the engagement was broken off , and suddenly Alyssia found herself not caring overmuch for their reaction . |
| 49 | The simmering dispute erupted in public when the B'nai B'rith International board of governors adopted a motion to expel the 120,000-member B'nai B'rith Women unless the affiliate relinquishes its autonomous status . |
| 50 | The simmering dispute erupted in public when the B'nai B'rith International board of governors adopted a motion to expel the 120,000-member B'nai B'rith Women unless the affiliate relinquishes its autonomous status . |
| 51 | But a High Court judge said the plans were already public when the bought the house . |
| 52 | The thing that alwaysd impressed me was his ability to stay calm when the going got tough |
| 53 | It always seems funny when a Rottweiler guards for the first time , barking loudly , usually backing off , not quite sure if he is doing the right thing . |
| 54 | However , standing at the top of a ladder with a hot air gun is not funny when the weather is freezing cold , and a better answer is the hot towel treatment , especially with plastic waste pipes , which may melt if heated too much . |
| 55 | Many things can go wrong when a nine-man teams speeds along together , constantly changing position at the front . |
| 56 | It appears a smuggling plan went wrong when a lorry driver went on holiday . |
| 57 | But things begin to go wrong when a dinosaur expert , played by Irish-born New Zealand actor Sam Neill , and his girlfriend , played by Laura Dern , arrive on the scene . |
| 58 | Financial decisions — how much to borrow , how much to lend , at what price — made under one set of rules and incentives go wrong when the rules change . |
| 59 | Although the Critique had been intended to rescue Marxism from the sclerosis of Stalinism , Sartre found that his theory of history , far from explaining what had gone wrong when the most radical political theory turned out in practice to be one of the most oppressive , had rather shown why it had necessarily happened that way . |
| 60 | They first knew there was something wrong when the tallest Grand Fir tree in England , shooting 150 feet above the Westonbirt Arboretum near Tetbury in Gloucestershire , began to go bald . |