Example sentences of "[vb infin] when a " in BNC.
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| 1 | an intuitive understanding of how the system/component will behave when a certain sub-system(s) failed ; |
| 2 | I I ca n't comment on on comments that you are referencing , however I will say that in Maryland er we displaced an incumbent vendor who had been there a long time , er that vendor was a bit upset as you might imagine with being displaced as a vendor , and in Maryland we had a situation that kind of evolved into the same kind of political row you would expect when a company loses a long time business . |
| 3 | It would be foolish to suggest that a river should never be tapped for energy or for agriculture , but the world 's politicians have not yet chosen to realize what enormous consequences such action has , or how long those consequences take to unfold , or — an essential consideration — that it is literally impossible to predict all that will ensue when a river is tapped . |
| 4 | One oath could be overlain by another ; obligations could conflict when a man had acquired successive lords — as so many had between 837 and 841 . |
| 5 | But perhaps we have grown over-concerned about the conscious levels of rationality and suppressed for too long the reservoirs of subconscious feeling which the Spirit seems to touch and use when a man prays in tongues , with the result that he is built up , even though he can not understand what he is saying ( I Cor. 14:4 ) . |
| 6 | A merger may occur when a firm is operating inefficiently and new management will be installed with the aim of increasing efficiency and profitability . |
| 7 | Another form of inauthenticity may occur when a person lives largely at the level of practical consciousness , in which routines defend against the anxieties which life itself engenders , and fresh desires are seldom asserted . |
| 8 | Problems will occur when a block becomes full . |
| 9 | For example , expansion can occur when a gas is evolved during a chemical reaction ( see figure 5.3 ) . |
| 10 | Thirdly , observer ( signal detection ) bias , which may occur when a particular sign or symptom signals the observer to look more intensely for another sign or symptom . |
| 11 | Further problems with self-investment can occur when a pension fund invests heavily in its parent company 's shares in order to fend off a takeover bid , particularly if those shares are bought at a premium during the bid , and have to be off-loaded at a loss afterwards . |
| 12 | SMALL wonder many couples prefer to live together and not marry when a divorce could cost thousands of pounds in lawyers ' fees . |
| 13 | Some were constructed so that they would only move when a passing person activated a treadle of some sort so that the toy would suddenly spring into ‘ life ’ . |
| 14 | So the guy who 'd been fired took one of the cars from the agency and he got on the wrong road ; they 'd forgotten about curfew , probably they were too drunk and they did n't stop when a South Vietnamese barrage challenged them . |
| 15 | The process will stop when a balance has been restored in people 's portfolios . |
| 16 | The most unhelpful position that a board of directors can take when a business is performing badly is to respond by saying that such a performance is unacceptable . |
| 17 | For example , one cell would only respond when a hand was moved in front of the animal 's eyes . |
| 18 | These may even prevail when a parent or guardian , learning of the patient 's request , has instructed the doctor to continue . |
| 19 | This is what must happen when a ballet ends happily . |
| 20 | This can also happen when a doctor experiences discomfort in the face of death , or an inability to come to terms with his own helplessness . |
| 21 | It does n't have to be followed slavishly , which can happen when a man wants to impose a schedule and organise it as formally as he has organised his work . |
| 22 | This may happen when a government department settles a case out-of-court or decides to make an ex gratia payment . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've seen what can happen when a person loses their heart — and their freedom — to someone else . ’ |
| 24 | C can you spot when a speaker is nervous ? |
| 25 | The Air Force , again for reasons of cost , wants them based at existing missile sites in Wyoming , whence they would flee when a crisis loomed . |
| 26 | It is worth mentioning , all the same , that a time will come when a frequent absentee can be fairly dismissed and that a failure to consult him at the time of dismissal will not necessarily mean that the company will be powerless to resist an unfair dismissal claim . |
| 27 | ‘ Court proceedings could be long and drawn out , and how do you prove when a player went in for a tackle he did it with intent to harm his opponent ? |
| 28 | To this end each transput device has an associated one-bit register , which is cleared as an operation starts and is set to one when it terminates ; an instruction is provided to read this register , and thus the programmer can establish when a transput operation is complete . |
| 29 | It is a small step to suppose that such effects might also operate when a stimulus is presented in compound not with another that is physically present but with the associatively activated representation of such an event . |
| 30 | Every hospital should have a policy giving a guidance as to what immediate action is to be taken by staff and who to inform and involve when a patient is absent without leave ( Mental Health Act Code of Practice , at paras . |