Example sentences of "is when [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This , supposedly , is when students are most committed to independent study and this is when students ' weaknesses in study skills techniques are most readily exposed . |
| 32 | This , supposedly , is when students are most committed to independent study and this is when students ' weaknesses in study skills techniques are most readily exposed . |
| 33 | This is when pomposity and pedantry seem to get off the leash . |
| 34 | There are some things you just keep your mouth shut about and one of those is when sex is n't much good . |
| 35 | Corporate funding , which rose to around £30m last year , has its part to play , irritating though it is when executives parade as great patrons while giving away their shareholders ' money . |
| 36 | In summary , it is when capital expenditure is financed from borrowing that we see the most fundamental difference between local government accounting and commercial accounting . |
| 37 | We have got good medical facilities , but as you just heard Samantha just saying , they 're destroying that as well , the only people who wanted water meters , is when houses were on ratable value and they were paying two hundred thousand pound for a house at large rates and the water rates was the same house . |
| 38 | Easter is when Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is shown on television and when schoolchildren get a holiday — except when the educational authorities do not have their Easter holidays at Easter . |
| 39 | The interesting thing about it is when Bill 's talking he 's describing a sort of village atmosphere and , of course , it 's a re-creation of a village sort of atmosphere , but it 's a village of choice , a community of the mind rather than one you were born into . |
| 40 | As previously explained , this is when keyboard input is expected . |
| 41 | A very common reaction is when parents felt emotionally deprived as a child and try to over-compensate for this by providing material possessions for their children as proof of their love and care . |
| 42 | That is when music , the voices of children , the kind tones of those who love us , must be very important . |
| 43 | Worse still is when Weller attempts to remotivate the sound of Saturday Nite , make it bear the burden of his meaning well . |
| 44 | It is when positions become polarized between non-disabled feminists and disabled activists that it is seemingly lost . |
| 45 | This is when misunderstandings arise . |
| 46 | The only time one animal pushes out the other is when fish is the only food , and then it 's the mink that loses . |
| 47 | I mean all I can do is when Dave gives me money write it in here that 's all I |
| 48 | The conclusion on predators is therefore that they have minimal effects on small mammal populations when numbers are high , that they have no braking effect when numbers are increasing , that they may have some effect when numbers are declining , but their major effect is when numbers are low , when they may also delay the recovery phase of the population cycle ( Southern , 1979 ) . |
| 49 | Many of the more worrying disciplinary problems of childhood and adolescence involve moral rules , and it is when children break these rules that parents become most perturbed . |
| 50 | One of the most beautiful uses of pas de bourrée courus is when Ashton places his danseuse in her partner 's arms as she floats over the surface of the floor as if in a dream like ecstasy . |
| 51 | A far more serious problem is when DCs have been activated on a package and some new versions of modules have been re-entered before deciding that they are useless and that the whole modification programme should be abandoned . |
| 52 | As is the case with almost all fish diseases , it is when situations of poor water quality , inefficient filtration/aeration and overcrowding exist that conditions serve to weaken the immune defence of the host fish , allowing rapid multiplication of the parasite . |
| 53 | Where we often have great difficulty with Community proposals is when co-operation is replaced not by agreement but by majority voting on issues of concern to us . |
| 54 | It is when understanding , compromise and trust in sexual matters are lacking in a marriage that the sexual problems which are at times inevitable assume their largest proportions . |
| 55 | Uzès was and is a town out of another time , a yellow town on a gently conical hill , geometrical roof on roof , a town that must have been as it now is when Shakespeare wrote Antony and Cleopatra . |
| 56 | L3 increase markedly from mid-summer onwards and this is when disease appears . |
| 57 | This is when disbelief actually suspended later . |
| 58 | The most hilarious scene in the movie is when Sharon Stone , who plays the bestseller-writing , bisexual , blonde number-one murder suspect , is taken down to the cop shop to be interrogated . |
| 59 | Nor do we yet know what the normal range of ratios is when morphine is given to naive subjects . |
| 60 | N now then , the other thing is when Dennis Healey went to the monetary system to ask for a couple of million pounds , he was shout down shouted down , but |