Example sentences of "[v-ing] when a " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , problems arise as soon as you start to think about what is actually happening when a tippe-top flips over . |
| 2 | To know what is happening when a small bit of wood is shifted , one must grasp the rules of chess and so grasp what move has been made . |
| 3 | Similarly , Charlie 's incarnation as a Norse explorer among the Skroelings , ending when a man who seems to be Erik the Red took his crew and ‘ steered them for three days among floating ice , each floe crowded with strange beasts that ‘ tried to sail with us , ’ said Charlie , ‘ and we beat them back with the handles of the oars ’ surely relates to the long sea voyage , an account of which originally formed the bulk of the ‘ Death by Water ’ section . |
| 4 | A loud juddering sound occurring when a tap is turned off or a ball-valve shuts is known as water hammer . |
| 5 | So , for example , in the case of the passive both animacy and prior access of a particular word ( occurring when a noun is thematic ) are factors which have been shown to influence single word identification . |
| 6 | It is clear that the complex pattern of symptoms could not be a consequence of just one or two loci of damage within the normal reading system , and Morton and Patterson ( 1980 ) have offered an interpretation in which the disorder is explained as occurring when a number of different loci in the normal reading system are all damaged . |
| 7 | These are the sort of boots I would prefer to use for autumn and winter walking when a tough and study boot is required . |
| 8 | The program must have some way of establishing when a transput operation is complete , so that a further operation can be initiated or ( in the input case ) so that the input character can be processed . |
| 9 | Establishing when a rug was made |
| 10 | ‘ Jock ’ Hilton Barber was not flying on this date , and saw what happened from the ground : ‘ I was swimming when a battle started overhead . |
| 11 | He says that he was operating when a bullet wizzed in through the window and hit the surgeon next to him . |
| 12 | Investors do not usually grasp the minutiae of the trading experiences of the businesses in which they invest , but it is unsettling when a company such as Pentos , which has been proclaiming its readiness to do battle with the big boys over the Net Book Agreement , has a financial setback . |
| 13 | Things were just getting going when a neighbour appeared . |
| 14 | Katz suspected that an earlier Italian work lurked under its heavy black patination and his suspicions were justified during cleaning when a richer , brown surface was revealed . |
| 15 | But since field staff can sample in a day only a minuscule proportion of the discharges and watercourses in their districts , the coincidence of sampling when a serious ‘ one-off ’ pollution is occurring is very unlikely . |
| 16 | The same people who backed Mr Rafsanjani 's economic reforms were soon complaining when a strand of hair appeared under a woman 's scarf . |
| 17 | Similarly when children have been ill , parental expectations of their behaviour changes , and sometimes it is difficult to re-establish previous patterns of sleep and feeding when a parent is unsure whether the child is fully recovered . |
| 18 | A useful method of impromptu drilling when a phrase or sentence is causing difficulty , for example in long conditional sentences . |
| 19 | David Clews , of Pintail , says that about the only request for spares was due to a shaft breaking when a burr caught in clothing . |
| 20 | They had given up all hope of ever moving when a two-bedroom house with a garden was found for them in Forthlin Road , Allerton last week . |
| 21 | They had given up all hope of ever moving when a two-bedroom house with a garden was found for them in Forthlin Road , Allerton last week . |
| 22 | A trip chain is a sequence of trips beginning when a resident leaves home , and ending when they next return home . |
| 23 | The time is fast approaching when a more accurate division of mankind will be between those who are patients , knowing despair as well as they know the lines grooved into their own hands , and those who are psychiatrists , so helplessly and irrecoverably sick that they believe that , serenity can be achieved by swallowing a few polychromatic biochemicals ! |
| 24 | The teacher has given no instructions about what to do , apart from nodding when a few children asked if it was ‘ writing workshop ’ . |
| 25 | ( Recall Fodor 's example of blinking when a good friend goes to poke us in the eye . ) |
| 26 | Secondly , the section is concerned with the beneficial interests existing when a payment falls to be made . |
| 27 | The section defined secondary action in relation to a trade dispute as arising when a person induces another to break a contract of employment if the employer under the contract of employment is not a party to the trade dispute . |
| 28 | Chapter 9 considers some of the issues arising when a contract for such a project is placed with an outside organization . |
| 29 | HOLLYWOOD superstar Harrison Ford was left gasping when a spectacular film stunt went wrong during the making of his latest hit movie . |
| 30 | One fight reported from Newton Heath in 1890 involved a pitched battle in Holland Street of between 500 and 600 youths , and shopkeepers were obliged to barricade themselves behind shutters to prevent damage and looting when a ‘ Scuttle ’ was announced . |