Example sentences of "[adj] when [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a family history that becomes much more interesting when set against the wider background of the local history of an important industry . |
| 2 | Must remember this when tempted into the local hen shop. ) 9 pm Ben Frow arrives to try on costumes for Re:Joyce . |
| 3 | Without the safety net of a staff job , she had to be even more than usually careful when dealing with the fragile egos of those who appeared before the cameras — one adverse comment and she could find herself facing nothing but closed doors . |
| 4 | Several of the major accounts appeared to be excessively overdue when compared with the total ledger aged debt statistics . |
| 5 | I was somewhat less impressed by Demidenko in the smaller-scale pieces : his Rejoice beloved Christians sounds slow and bland when compared to the super-human wizardry of Frederic Chiu on his stunning début recital of transcriptions for Harmonia Mundi , ( — a ‘ must ’ for all Busonians ) whilst the slower chorales on the Hyperion disc are given the visionary touch on MK by Tatiana Nikolayeva . |
| 6 | Moreover , the principle of linguistic self-consciousness or reflexivity seems to be made even more explicit when transposed to the narrative model . |
| 7 | Turning the dogmas of the Sandys Reformation into practicable military policies had not been easy when faced with the real world beyond the confines of Whitehall and Westminster . |
| 8 | Also , because of his terrible sense of direction , he would get lost when hunting for the wrong things and Endill had to spend much of his time searching for him , almost getting lost himself . |
| 9 | Such views are held by economists who consider the beneficial effects of the threat of a takeover to be minimal when compared with the damaging effects of short termism . |
| 10 | By the 1980s many asylums had contracted to a size which was dwarf-life when compared with the vast acreages and Palladian pretensions of their heyday . |
| 11 | But maybe this sounds glib when set against the specific and extreme misery of imprisonment . |
| 12 | However , if you are just beginning your pressed flower work , you may become extremely confused when working on the two pictures simultaneously , so I would recommend that you work on one design at a time . |
| 13 | Although the angle on the blade is quite large when compared with the normal , nevertheless it must be kept well sharpened . |
| 14 | A now famed example of the former ( and we understand that it is now denied by Rolls Royce ) is that the Rolls Royce Silver Shadow was nearly called the Silver Mist which would have been most unfortunate when selling to the German market . |
| 15 | Ten of the 16 transgenic plants remained completely healthy when infected with the red stripe virus in this way , while the other six showed much milder symptoms than those afflicting the control plants . |
| 16 | But on second thoughts , that comparison also seemed obscenely trite when set against the greater contrasts in values affecting millions of fellow-inhabitants of this planet . |
| 17 | The ability to lock the rope quickly is also very useful when searching for the next stance , or else in performing diagonal manoeuvres . |
| 18 | It would , for example , be no defence for the seller to say that his farm fertiliser was perfectly safe and effective when applied in the right concentration ( at the right time of the year ) if the instructions supplied with the fertiliser stated in error the wrong concentration , whether too weak to be effective or so strong as to kill the crops . |
| 19 | On the record this was played using fingerstyle acoustic guitar , but it is equally effective when played in the same manner on an electric guitar . |
| 20 | By means of technical methods known as single , double , and triple tonguing extremely rapid but clear staccato production is obtainable , which is most sure and effective when used for the rapid reiteration of a single note , e.g. : |
| 21 | However , they are just as effective when worked in the same yarn as is usual for Aran garments . |
| 22 | Tomato jam is particularly good when eaten in the French way , as a sweet , with fresh cream cheese or plain pouring cream . |
| 23 | With two King George VI Chases at Kempton to his name and nearly £105,000 in the bank , this seven-year-old , owned by Marquesa de Moratalla , a 63-year-old who was born in Spain but now lives in Switzerland , and trained by Francois Doumen in a leafy suburb of Paris , seems vulnerable when faced with the infamous Cheltenham hill . |
| 24 | The urine sample taken from the colt after he had trailed in 10th , 23 lengths behind stable-mate Commander In Chief , proved negative when analysed by the Horseracing Forensic Laboratory . |
| 25 | This will be particularly important when recruiting for the new and necessary organisational structures which will be required to address the changed requirements now established by the Education Reform Act 1988 . |
| 26 | However , good and indispensable as personal libraries are , they are of necessity puny when compared with the whole store of human knowledge . |
| 27 | The 375 years since it was unearthed seems to be short when compared to the 900 years or more it had lain buried . |
| 28 | Smaller generators are reasonably unobtrusive when mounted on the aft pulpit . |
| 29 | The style was too extravagant , too romantic when compared with the simple , even tailored clothes she normally chose . |
| 30 | The cost of hardware is often small when compared with the real cost of software which includes not only the purchase cost but also the staff time of the organisation in which it is to be installed . |