Example sentences of "happens when the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This suggests an answer to a question which has troubled international political economists since the early 1970s : what happens when the hegemon needed for hegemonic stability begins to decline ?
2 But I think conductors would not be the answer because what happens when the driver is smoking as has happened to me three times in three weeks .
3 The other thing about holidays and elasticity is the question of what happens when the price of a holiday goes up .
4 The results for zone widths of 5 and 10 ( & oa ) illustrate what happens when the zone width is too small for the number to be printed properly .
5 What happens when the man who for decades faithfully served the absolute regime while at the same time understanding the need to revolt against it , becomes the head of it ?
6 What happens when the work starts ?
7 WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE PLAYGROUND MOVES
8 What happens when the mass of the black hole eventually becomes extremely small is not quite clear , but the most reasonable guess is that it would disappear completely in a tremendous final burst of emission , equivalent to the explosion of millions of H-bombs .
9 But what happens when the champagne has lost its sparkle ?
10 It happens when the southeast trade winds that blow for thousands of kilometres across the equatorial Pacific unaccountably lose their force or , as happened last summer , give out altogether .
11 Erm , the first one is called a lapse erm , and that happens when the person who 's speaking , has n't selected the next speaker , or nobody who 's self-selected .
12 Once the teaching unit has reached the stage of a draft computer program which does what the designer intends , together with associated notes which describe what the program offers and its possible uses in the classroom , we need to consider in more detail how to collect essential information as to what actually happens when the unit is used .
13 What happens when the editor changes ?
14 It is what happens when the boss is not breathing down their necks . ’
15 It may turn out that the distinctive features of a causal story associated with semantic content are precisely those that require the language of belief , desire and intention , in order for their isolation to have any point within the overall causal explanation of what happens when the speaker communicates with another .
16 Let us see now what happens when the wires are made to move with uniform velocity .
17 This usually happens when the pecking order in the pack is upset , or a new arrival causes confusion to the status quo .
18 This is what happens when the bedrock of decency , the liberal sensibilities and assumptions which we all share , are all that 's left to be scandalized .
19 That will depend on what happens when the incumbent 's term expires — as the hon. Gentleman knows full well .
20 Well , wh you know , wh what happens when the cylinder goes ?
21 A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh . ’
22 For someone whose life has been lived in search of the word , who perceived that ‘ a scar is what happens when the word is made flesh , ’ who owned that his education began on hearing of the Holocaust , it is not a convincing comment .
23 What matters is what happens when the individual , who incorporates his past , incorporates and transforms the divisions which are part of that past .
24 What happens when the water freezes ?
25 This happens when the uranium dioxide fuel is dissolved in the molten zircorium cladding round the fuel rods .
26 We are witnessing in Yugoslavia what happens when the cap of communism is lifted to reveal the suppressed anger that is contained .
27 In order to understand why certain pruning practices are adopted by various vine-training systems , it helps to know what happens when the shoots are cut .
28 This happens when the murderer has maintained pressure until death ; the vessels have been emptied of blood and the heart stops beating before the hands are removed .
29 Now we need to talk a little bit about what happens when the veins or the arteries or the capillaries for that matter , the veins , the arteries or the capillaries have a leak in them , they become broken , now you already know that the circulatory system is a closed system and that the blood can only do its job if it 's being transported within that system , once the blood comes outside of that system then it 's lost the circulation and it can not perform its proper function any more , in other words the body 's losing its blood , okay , what condition do we call it when the circulatory system stops working properly ?
30 A good one to start with is what happens when the time is equal to zero ?
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