Example sentences of "[adj] when [art] " 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 | When a candidate is preparing to be interviewed ‘ on air ’ , there is usually a period of five to 10 minutes before the interview proper when a live satellite link will be sent back to network headquarters . |
| 4 | They 'd just set foot back in the ship proper when the burst of machine gun fire rooted them to the spot . |
| 5 | It 's different when a respected UK dealer makes substantiated claims for something that will affect his reputation for better or worse . |
| 6 | Things are somewhat different when the institution or profession is itself new . |
| 7 | Underachievement , however , means something rather different when the focus of educational concern is black pupils . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A hoax is a hoax , of course , but it seems different when the phoney says he is Balenciaga 's grandson . |
| 11 | So I think there is something qualitatively different when the subject , or perhaps more appropriately the object of sexual harassment are women . |
| 12 | Issues relating to the counsellor 's own personal and family life will need to have been processed thoroughly because counselling other people has to be impartial ( rather than be affected by issues in the counsellor 's own personal life ) and because the counsellor himself or herself may become unsettled when an issued being discussed with a sufferer may be too close for comfort to the counsellor 's personal experience . |
| 13 | ‘ It was OK when the river was dredged . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | If it blows towards yours or your neighbour 's house , you may not be too popular when the greasy smoke starts billowing around ! |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Peasants may have been keen to enlist because they were genuinely patriotic , but their mood was invariably febrile when the throne changed hands . |
| 19 | Can one only get it fresh when the ferry comes over ? ’ |
| 20 | It is exciting when a brand-new public sector museum opens . |
| 21 | It 's even more exciting when the book in question is about Willy , the marvellous character he created in Willy The Wimp . |
| 22 | He beleive the newer , longer version of the Hercules may become unstable when the back doors are opened to make a drop . |
| 23 | CONTRARY to popular belief , a £1m damages award is not over generous when a young person suffers severe brain damage in a road accident . |
| 24 | The boys of 602 were on their second cup of tea and the ‘ Spits ’ half-refuelled when a full-scale bombing raid , the first attack on Britain of the war , began out in the Forth . |
| 25 | If it were clear when a party has formed an intention to incur legal obligation , if a person did commonly define the obligation he desired to assume in terms which left little doubt as to its nature , it would be unnecessary , and indeed merely foolish , to require an additional test of that intention . |
| 26 | Cases of underlexicalisation are clear when a non-specific noun ( such as log ) is used to refer to something for which a specific word exists in English . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The etymological connection between ‘ pure ’ , ‘ purge ’ and ‘ purgatory ’ becomes clear when the word is understood in this context . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |