Example sentences of "[noun] when [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They exist in a mirror world where they are suspended in a liquid like molten glass , and these images when seen from the mundane are brilliant but they are only mirror images of reality . |
| 2 | Its stretchability should be low to assist hook penetration when striking over the great distance , but a certain amount of stretch is needed as a safety margin to assist the cushioning effect of the rod . |
| 3 | In contrast with the lack of effect of nutrients , infusion of deoxycholic acid produced a rapid and marked dose responsive increase in plasma PYY concentrations when introduced into the sigmoid colon . |
| 4 | The second distalmost papillae is the largest and partly overlies the distalmost papillae when viewed from the ventral side . |
| 5 | In her effort to record the delight she derives from such details , evidently travelling as far afield as the US and Turkey , her outdoor work recalls both the practice of Marjorie Content 's work of 1928 in picking out the pattern of urban activity and its settings , and Lee Friedlander when focusing on the witty suggestibility of statues and lamp-posts , while her interiors remind me of the work of Margaret Watkins of 1919 . |
| 6 | While such concerns are admirable in their no-nonsense practicality , they represent a significant decline in ambition when compared with the other criminologies that have appeared during the two hundred years that have passed since Beccaria wrote . |
| 7 | In contrast , the α-truncated polymerases produce a differential footprint for the open complex when compared to the wild-type enzyme . |
| 8 | Glare can also be caused by very light coloured ceramic floor tiles and it is worth keeping this in mind when choosing from the wide range of floor coverings available . |
| 9 | Planted up with sun-loving , drought-tolerant plants such as sedum and houseleek , here it has been used to effect when laid on the gravelly shore of a small pond . |
| 10 | However , these irritations perhaps paled into insignificance when compared to the British position . |
| 11 | The amounts of money involved , however , pale into insignificance when compared with the vast sums spent each year on older areas such as ‘ big physics ’ . |
| 12 | These radical discussions during gang labour on the roads , and smuggling paled into insignificance when compared with the worst of all seen by the investigators , the widespread encouragement of idleness and vice by regular poor relief in cash . |
| 13 | Very sensitive patients who quickly become over stimulated by or prove the remedy when given in the standard dose can reduce it , next time , by diluting a teaspoonful from the first glass in a second glass of water thus reducing the dose by a factor of about 20 for each glass used . |
| 14 | His own dismissal of deconstruction as a merely textual practice means that he is himself at a loss when faced with the complex conceptual dialectics of the same and the other . |
| 15 | Second , both policies represented a welfare loss when compared with the optimal tariff and equivalent quota policies , with the relative welfare loss from the UK quota policy being greater than that from the EC policy ( -5.98% as opposed to -2.18% ) . |
| 16 | Thus large companies and boards of nationalised industries were provided with enormous financial assistance enabling ( or rather persuading ) them to base their reorganisation on designated development areas which in many cases they would not otherwise have chosen , for reasons of both private and public benefit when judged over the longer run [ Knight , 1974 ; Moore and Rhodes , 1973 ] . |
| 17 | Here we plotted how we might keep the peace when venturing beyond the wrought-iron gates . |
| 18 | Table 8 shows the result of a t-test ( related , 1-tailed ) which shows the difference in error when pointing with the non-preferred hand before and after adaptation . |
| 19 | The funny thing is that , although all these changes are for the better , many of them will seem like gimmicks when compared to the personal service a handful of cosmetic companies have always offered . |
| 20 | It was discovered as recently as 1983 by Alain le Brun when excavating at the Neolithic settlement of Khirokitia in southern Cyprus and has been found to date from 6000 B.C. The important point about its location is that Cyprus has no wild cats and this means that the animal must have been brought over to the island by the early human settlers . |
| 21 | Hugh , who never went to church , adopted a tone of peculiar reverence when faced with the old man whose cassock showed traces of tomato sauce . |
| 22 | Since women had for centuries been instructed to use the masculine possessive pronoun when referring to the whole human race , why should n't there be some belated corrective action , even if it did stick in a few ( masculine ) throats ? |
| 23 | Qualities of persistence and determination when confronted by the evasive or blatantly unco-operative now assume considerable significance . |
| 24 | The British champion jockey was found guilty of two offences when riding at the Vaal last Thursday . |
| 25 | Foinavon had been trained by Tom Dreaper in Ireland for Arkle 's owner Anne , Duchess of Westminster , but while in Dreaper 's charge had been notable mainly for his extraordinarily laid-back demeanour : in a chase at Baldoyle he was in the lead when falling at the third fence , throwing Pat Taaffe well clear , but Foinavon did not bother to scramble to his feet , preferring to remain on the ground and pick quietly at the grass beside him . |
| 26 | The M. eugenii library , consisting of 1.2x10 6 PFU , yielded three positive clones when screened with the human SRY probe . |
| 27 | The standard reaction when faced with the latest prediction from Peters , one of the main catalysts behind the 80s obsession with quality and service , is simply to dismiss him — generously . |
| 28 | Tom had caught the kite-bug when working in the Far East . |
| 29 | The apoR2 reflections had isomorphous differences of 13% when compared to the native data set ( calculated on F -values ) . |
| 30 | In the same way , shipwrights were expected to show initiative when building in the traditional way in wood ; but with the coming of iron and then steel as materials , leading to bigger ships as steam replaced sail , calculations led to exact drawings , which became the vehicle of centralized control and stronger industrial discipline . |