Example sentences of "[adv] when [pron] [vb base] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heat pumps are economical only when they exploit a low temperature energy source costing little or nothing . |
| 2 | Will the Minister of State confirm that young people will be placed in secure accommodation only when they represent a real danger to the public ? |
| 3 | Multiple residential schemes work well only when they involve a total plan for the grounds and setting of a house , and provide for their continued upkeep . |
| 4 | Whereas Polybius ' fortunes can easily be followed , Posidonius ' place in modern thought will be established only when we have a proper study of early ethnography . |
| 5 | But , as with any archaeological object , such interpretations can be made only when we have a secure idea of when and where a coin was made , and the methods of dating coins and attributing them to mints is therefore discussed first in Chapter 2 , where it will also be seen that the same techniques for dating and attributing coins can sometimes be turned round , using coins to date other objects or to identify places . |
| 6 | I suppose that it 's only when you have the financial means that you get the treatment everyone deserves . |
| 7 | Use complex words only when you need a precise meaning and a simple word will not serve the purpose . |
| 8 | For some people this is very difficult , especially when they have no internal model from their early experience of family life to assist them . |
| 9 | All sensible people want the maximum co-operation in Europe , especially when we remember the horrific wars our continent endured . |
| 10 | But to Western critics of newly- confident Japan it sounds distinctly over-the-top , especially when you add the extra ingredient of Picasso 's Les Noces de Pierrette . |
| 11 | White bedroom furniture , designed on clean , sharp lines and mirrored to create an illusion of space — perhaps a fairly predictable choice for a modern home , especially when you see the impressive use of every inch of storage space . |
| 12 | So when they see an apparent egg that is really a stone , the fact of its being a stone ( not that they have found a stone on the beach , say , which happens to look just like an egg ) swamps their judgement ; similarly when they see a white card changing colour — the blueness is salient not the fact that it started white . |
| 13 | ‘ Aquarius , Taurus , Leo and Scorpio figure very strongly in the Royal Family 's charts and very strongly in Diana 's , so when you get a powerful connection like that with marriage partners it can either be the most sensationally passionate ‘ I ca n't leave you alone for a minute ’ or it 's ice . |
| 14 | So when you remove a young child 's hand from an electric plug you tap the back of it and accompany this action with a firm NO . |
| 15 | It is a common experience in reading that you read something , then try to write about it ; writing about it gives you new ideas , and so when you read the original again you find new things in it because of the new ideas you have brought to it . |
| 16 | But I 'll make , I 've got to make the other half of it , so when I make the other half of it he can probably have , er have a couple of jam ones |
| 17 | Please do n't tell me to buy children 's shoes as I already do so when I need a flat pair , but I like high heels and am finding it increasingly difficult to buy them . |
| 18 | " Not in the ground : and the soil 's so light that we shall be able to scratch some shelter easily when we find the right place . " |
| 19 | It 's so hard to express how being jilted by a lover or something makes you feel without sounding … you write best when you have a certain objectivity … when your writing is both the passenger and the driver . ’ |
| 20 | Well the parade was er a er er in Walsall erm in front of the town hall where they normally when they have a military parade or a parade of that sort , you know , is at the front of the town hall . |
| 21 | Hopefully when I get a new tank set up , I will have more success in numbers by going by the book . |
| 22 | We shall need to consider this matter later when we examine the new religious movements , but decree no. 13 forbade the foundation of further new congregations . |
| 23 | So when they see an apparent egg that is really a stone , the fact of its being a stone ( not that they have found a stone on the beach , say , which happens to look just like an egg ) swamps their judgement ; similarly when they see a white card changing colour — the blueness is salient not the fact that it started white . |
| 24 | Some appear automatically when you begin a certain task ( the Chart toolbar appears when you start work on a graph ) and others live under the Options toolbar in the menu . |
| 25 | Now when I say a black eye I mean one that actually looks blue-black and is quite swollen . |
| 26 | We should all be exercising , even when we do it badly , even when we cut a ridiculous figure as we job along , puffing and panting . |
| 27 | Even when they make the right choice , they do n't let the choice go through . |
| 28 | Now they say that even when they get a new manager , they could not return to the traditional pattern of advice workers advising and the manager doing the rest . |
| 29 | Parents need to listen as well as to talk and to let it be seen that they recognize the teenager 's viewpoint , even when they take an opposite view . |
| 30 | Brown and Birley ( 1968 ) argued that people who have a history of schizophrenia have a high sensitivity to their social environment even when they have no apparent symptoms . |