Example sentences of "be when a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The kind of occasion when this injunction might apply would be when a prisoner deliberately fasts to bring about a change in his status , or else to cause the maximum amount of embarrassment to the authorities . |
| 2 | Think how much worse things can be when a thoughtless ( or , even worse , a malicious ) adult comes into contact with a vulnerable child . |
| 3 | I 'd been muttering unhappily to a couple of friends about how hopelessly disorganized a particular campaign I 'd got involved with seemed to be when a strange man next to us started a similar but louder tirade about how useless Switchboard was , how everyone knew they were ripping off money from their fund raising and what a lousy job they did in his ( extremely small and third-hand ) experience . |
| 4 | The next sign of progress in the development of South African cricket will be when a fair number of the team have Xhosa and Zulu as their first language of fluency ! |
| 5 | Used to be when a carpenter put up a door he put up a door . |
| 6 | An example would be when an extra record is added for each project in a company every day . |