Example sentences of "[adv] when it [is] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 There is the special delight Britons have in gossip , especially when it is hinted that politics are spiced with sex .
2 The Council was clearly implying that ( as Newman saw ) Scripture itself works sacramentally , especially when it is made actual by effective reading and preaching in the liturgy .
3 ‘ That form of music definitely works best when it is kept simple , which does n't , of course , mean that it 's easy to do ; being inventive within a restricted format is one of the hardest things to do .
4 Footballers and all other competitive sports people stay out but cricketers scurry back inside just when it is getting interesting .
5 The voluntary bodies must be consulted in a rather more positive fashion than the very flimsy effort so far produced by the Scottish Development Department and the Government must now throw the baby out with the bath water and greatly weaken our statutory conservation agency just when it is needed most .
6 The short duration of the contracts on offer is considered unrealistic and Jim Halliday , chairman of the BWEA , believes Britain 's renewable energy programme could be halted " just when it is needed most " since the NFFO is threatened with termination in 1998 .
7 ‘ The need for proof is essential because many organisations fail to recognise bullying , even when it is causing serious disruption within their workforce .
8 What we mean by this is whether a syntactic analysis is carried out even when it is rendered unnecessary for sentence comprehension by the presence of semantic or pragmatic factors .
9 It looks as though it 's going too fast even when it 's standing still ! ’
10 But it too uses passive tests most frequently when it is studying female subjects .
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