Example sentences of "is when [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is when scalp skin sheds excessively , leaving tiny flakes showing on hair and shoulders . |
| 2 | That , paradoxically , is when Prince is truly God . |
| 3 | The key time for watering is when flowering has started and pods are forming . |
| 4 | It is when ageist attitudes become part of the rules of institutions , govern the conduct of social life , and blend imperceptibly into everyday values and attitudes that they have a drastic effect on the way older people lead their lives . |
| 5 | It is when morale is very low that we find it difficult to cope with the problems and difficulties of life , and when counselling can become vitally important . |
| 6 | It is when guilt lingers into adulthood that the damage is done . |
| 7 | This is when pomposity and pedantry seem to get off the leash . |
| 8 | There are some things you just keep your mouth shut about and one of those is when sex is n't much good . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | As previously explained , this is when keyboard input is expected . |
| 11 | That is when music , the voices of children , the kind tones of those who love us , must be very important . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | L3 increase markedly from mid-summer onwards and this is when disease appears . |
| 15 | This is when disbelief actually suspended later . |
| 16 | Nor do we yet know what the normal range of ratios is when morphine is given to naive subjects . |
| 17 | Even in Lancashire , where in Blackburn , Preston and Burnley as many as one-third of women continued to work after marriage , the Cotton Factory Times could print a piece of verse which to all intents and purposes ignored married women 's double role : ‘ How Sweet it is when toil is o'er/To sit upon the hearth once more/To whistle , sing and sweet converse/With the sweetest queen in universe/In homely way ’ . |
| 18 | On stage each of the Highwaymen does his greatest hits , but it is when Cash is growling Ring of Fire , Folsom Prison Blues , Ragged Old Flag and Boy Named Sue that the show really brings the house down . |
| 19 | This is when time drops into bottom gear . |
| 20 | Oh I 'm alright do n't worry about me I 'm , they , the person at home , their family must be told as well as you making a note in your accident book that there has been somebody with a knock on the head however mi minor it is , it 's got to be reported , because that knock could have repercussions , it could have broken a small vessel in the brain , it could still be bleeding and that is when compression takes over . |
| 21 | Continuous time means that observation is unceasing , such as a continuous record of river discharge ; quantized time is when imaginary sections are used to subdivide time , as when precipitation amounts are measured daily or weekly ; discrete time is when interest focuses upon time duration and frequency of events per unit of time ; and sampled time is when observations can only be made at particular periods , such as weekly measurements of plant growth . |
| 22 | Another faithful sign that winter is truly upon us , is when wildlife comes in from the cold . |
| 23 | This is when Beta Testing starts . |
| 24 | It is when family duties , responsibilities , roles and expectations are confused , uncertain or even mutually incompatible that problems within families arise . |
| 25 | The more difficult case is when theory suggests that a relationship should exist that seems to the researcher to be present in the data , but on a statistical level the relationship is not confirmed . |
| 26 | An unlikely scenario : I 've never been to a desert and the nearest I 've ever got to authentic military action is when Action Man introduced eagle eyes and gripping hands . |