Example sentences of "[noun sg] when [pron] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We could find no evidence that these risks had been explicitly recognised by the department when they decided in 1988 to proceed with the system . |
| 2 | I shall also ensure that , in future when I land on unlicensed fields , I land as short and slow as possible . |
| 3 | Halfway round the ring when he asked for little more collection she offered no resistance and they moved as one into an easy working trot rising . |
| 4 | Christopher Horn , 45 , of Hurworth Moor , near Darlington , sparked a police search when he vanished for several days in August . |
| 5 | Atari recently sent a shiver through the industry when it laid off 1700 employees . |
| 6 | Some adjectives — notably superlatives , comparatives , and ordinals — appear to give a grammatically acceptable result when they occur in predicative position accompanied by an article : ( 16 ) Larry 's answer was the rudest Waddington Junior was a third [ e.g. boy caught cheating ] the rat was the other [ e.g. animal which solved the maze ] Analogous sentences with most adjectives would be quite ungrammatical , even though it would sometimes be easy to see what the sentence " ought " to mean , as in the first case of ( 17 ) for instance : ( 17 ) Larry 's answer was the rude [ e.g. out of those we received ] a red coathanger was the noticeable The reason for these facts is , ultimately , that the superlatives , comparatives and ordinals are unlike other adjectives in being inherently restrictive , and always presupposing what we may call an extraction set , within which the restriction is exercised . |
| 7 | We have already tried to capture something of this dilemma when we wrote of unskilled workers as follows : |
| 8 | I had already negotiated my free transfer as part of the deal when I came from Celtic . ’ |
| 9 | For small cichlids it is possible , for example , to use nylon net curtains as gravel tidies , but these would be no good when it comes to large cichlids as they tend to get hold of the soft material and pull it out of place . |
| 10 | Having suffered a rare whitewash when they met in last season 's Asian Open qualifiers , the world champion was relieved to clinch a 1-0 lead in their Humo European Open quarter-final . |
| 11 | They 're back in the off-licence when it re-opens at seven o'clock , running up another £16.76 on credit , including the cost of a bottle of Old England Cream Sherry . |
| 12 | My searches even led me to the absurdity of being directed to the deep freeze in one newsagent when I asked for Spare Rib . |
| 13 | Adam remembered the BMW that had pulled out of the complex when he walked past earlier . |
| 14 | Certainly , this is not the sort of behaviour that modern judges have in mind when they refer to young thugs as behaving ‘ like animals ’ . |
| 15 | This intimate connection between the metaphysics of death and the politics of life is precisely what Nizan has in mind when he refers to revolutionary literature as " the modern form of tragedy " . |
| 16 | But in view of passages in Revelation like 7:3 which speak of ‘ sealing the servants of God in their fore-heads ’ , and Romans 4:11 which speaks of circumcision as ‘ the sign and seal of being in the right with God through faith ’ , it is not impossible that baptism may have been in the apostle 's mind when he spoke of this sealing with the Spirit . |
| 17 | It 's trendy 'n' neat and comes complete with the bestest games that you 'll ever meet ; A stylish cassette box is what it is , and it 's yours for nuffin when you subscribe to this ! |
| 18 | That means more home helps , more meals on wheels and more money available for home improvement grants for the disabled.The future of the threatened homes will be discussed by the social services committee when it meets in two weeks . |
| 19 | ‘ Langstrath in Borrowdale is a particular favourite and I have painted that one lots of times , ’ he says Mr Healey , aged 57 , who lives in Kirkleatham Avenue , Redcar , left his job and enrolled on a teaching degree course at Teesside College of Education , to combine his love of painting with his desire to share the skill When he qualified in 1974 , he started teaching art at St. Thomas ' School , Middlesbrough , before moving to St. Peter 's Roman Catholic School , South Bank , where he has taught for 13 years . |
| 20 | None of the translations really does full justice to verse 20 , and we 'll do a little detective work when we look at that verse in a few minutes . |
| 21 | The introduction of the Asiatic mode of production in Formen shows well that Marx remained flexible throughout his work when he came across new information . |
| 22 | On the other hand , despite the tone of much of the political debate in the United Kingdom , it should be said at the outset that questions such as the transfer of powers ( or sovereignty ) to the Community , the direct application and direct effect of Community law , and the correlative theory of the primacy of such provisions of Community law when they conflict with provisions of national law , were all established aspects of Community law when we joined in 1973 , and are not new problems relating to Maastricht . |
| 23 | The pensioner had a handbag containing £400 ripped from her grasp when he struck in Old Roan . |
| 24 | ‘ Sandra Kettering is an Iron Lady when it comes to issuing commands . ’ |
| 25 | And finally there was laughter when he spoke about economic prospects and job creation . |
| 26 | I never had such a thing before , and I am like a child when it comes to running water . |
| 27 | below , ‘ I 'm like a child when it comes to running water ’ |
| 28 | The interesting question when it comes to human behaviour is how much to attribute to inheritance , both in the form of instincts and in predispositions to behave in certain ways , and how much to learning . |
| 29 | Just on a point of er clarification , the villages or settlements I should say , that I 've indicated on the er plan which is included within my statement , er is actually derived from the Selby rural areas local plan , which defines settlements and I believe the County Council have used a similar erm listing of erm settlements within that those two sectors for their own exercise when they looked at this particular subject er criteria . |
| 30 | But no desert when it comes to wild life , for this is the Flow Country where David Bellamy brought to popular attention how deep he could sink as he cavorted from tuft to tuft of floating bog . |