Example sentences of "[adj] when [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason becomes clear when we consider these devices ' search spaces for learning . |
| 2 | He looked very doubtful when I asked certain questions and laughed me to scorn when I gave my verdict . |
| 3 | Be careful that the words sound the way they do normally , because it 's very easy when you pronounce individual words to make them sound odd . |
| 4 | The inroads made into the male strongholds are small , but the progress is remarkable when one sets sixty years now against preceding millennia in which western world women only existed in a family and under male domination . |
| 5 | She was sick when she ate certain foods , notably fish . |
| 6 | In some respects this is good when it means such topics as non-aqueous solvents are covered , but bad when the reader searches this chapter in vain for information about new solvents . |
| 7 | But while most of us are fiercely protective when we shepherd young children across the road , we ignore many of the risks in the home . |
| 8 | It 's hurtful when you see good actors out of work and the way in which their confidence is corroded by the system . |
| 9 | We are the artists , and if our life is a dark , jagged abstract when we prefer Impressionist pastels which dance with light , we should ask ourselves why we painted it that way . |
| 10 | It is least successful when it makes stereotypical assumptions about women : that they behave in certain ways because they are mothers , or because they do n't work outside the home , for example . |
| 11 | Mia was stunned when she found nude photos of 21-year-old Soon-Yi taken in Woody 's apartment . |
| 12 | Huntington is shrewd when he reveals many implications in Wells 's prose , and ends by making useful distinctions between utopia and dystopia , which he reviews as related , and anti-utopia , which he views as opposed to the other two . |
| 13 | It 's the same when you see black guys at a dance or a disco ; they have this natural fluidity in their bodies . |
| 14 | While Corinne had to steel herself to be ruthless when she axed key characters , she was also having to cope with a sense of loss . |
| 15 | There is a tendency to get annoyed when you meet over-noisy kids in the countryside but hopefully after reading your letter people will think twice before condemning their behaviour . |
| 16 | The rows may be triggered by a seemingly trivial incident , but it is not felt as trivial when it symbolizes past conflicts and needs . |
| 17 | They can be especially powerful when used in conjunction with genetic manipulation , and the two techniques are at their most convincing when they yield similar results . |
| 18 | Books , as ever in Paris , fared well : Eric Buffetaud auctioned off the eleventh part of the library of Colonel Daniel Sickles , an American who lived in France , collected nineteenth- and twentieth-century books and left 8,000 works valued at FFr200 million when he died four years ago . |
| 19 | He said got very nasty when they scored two goals within two minutes around |
| 20 | The House was , as I recollect it , in a rather more highly charged mood than is usual when it discusses European matters . |
| 21 | He is untrustworthy , pretending to be something pleasant when he has harmful designs . |
| 22 | If we 're just talking about the niceties of the way these things are laid out , previous set of procedures say things like page one-o-two , page one-o-three etc , and I think that is probably good practice if you can look at a page number and so you know exactly how many pages to expect so , we can probably do that when we re-issue these procedures as well . |
| 23 | You could use a chronic adulter to actually write it a bit easier but er I did n't know about that when I wrote these slides many many years ago and it 's carried on since . |
| 24 | That when you expose great portions of the roof , unsupported , then you increase the possibilities of a roof fall which comes back on through to the supported area of the roof and then injures or kills someone . |
| 25 | Do you do that when you do scrambled eggs then ? |
| 26 | The owner of industrial tools worth thousands of pounds went bankrupt when he lost these tools of his trade . |
| 27 | It 's perfect because it 's very sweet when you play individual strings but the minute you strum it you get the noise , the power . |