Example sentences of "be [adj] [noun] when [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Harsh legislation and a streamlined judicial process are normal responses when a government is confronted by terrorists .
2 There are few days when the weather is so unpleasant that it is impossible to walk ; and even on a rainy day there are often periods when the rain stops .
3 It also shows a clear relationship with sunspot activity ; by and large there are fewer sunspots when the Sun is bigger .
4 Indeed , there have been many occasions when the pcak has been a virtual life-saver in providing component parts for logotypes and so on .
5 The tranquiliser and the bottle are poor comforters when the time comes to part for ever from those we love .
6 There are many times when the Bible gives us a special insight into the hearts and minds of some of the people whose lives are described in the Old and New Testaments .
7 Although this may seem an obvious statement , there are many instances when the searcher is not fully aware of what can or might be retrieved .
8 There are many situations when the order is of no great consequence , for example a safety audit of a new machine , and in this latter case some logical structure is needed .
9 There are many occasions when a particle bait will outfish any other .
10 There are many occasions when no drink at all should be the rule , particularly when driving , operating machinery or taking certain medicines .
11 Certainly , within time , group equilibrium or balance will return , but there are many occasions when the cost of the group 's disequilibrium is greater than the cost of not removing that member .
12 Of course , there are many occasions when the product is similar or identical with the competition .
13 The people chosen will be acknowledged generally as the senior members of the party and there will be few surprises when the Cabinet is announced .
14 There will be further consultations when the draft legislation is published .
15 The facts of political geography are alone sufficient to suggest that there might be many occasions when the Duke of Aquitaine found himself at odds with the Taillefers and the Lusignans .
16 Of course , there will be many occasions when the request is a direct result of your own work and you will not need to be quite so suspicious .
17 Meanwhile , Scotland today stole a march over Australia who will be sectional rivals when the World Cup sevens are held in Edinburgh from April 16-18 .
18 There have been five occasions when the Man of the Match award went to a player on the losing side : David Houghton of Zimbabwe has been the unfortunate soul to be on the losing team twice .
19 They did more than justice to the varying moods of Prokofiev 's Romeo and Juliet Suite No 2 , although there were odd moments when the orchestra were not precisely together , notably at the start of The Young Juliet section .
20 And in 1990 there were 92 victims when an Air India flight dropped at Bangalore .
21 Tens of thousands took to the streets in Baku alone , up to sixty people ( mostly Armenians ) lost their lives in pogroms , and there were further fatalities when a state of emergency was declared by the USSR Presidium and troops were used to restore order on 19–20 January .
22 A further result of the identification of women with unskilled workers was that they were ideal recruits when the de-skilling of a trade was already happening because of technological change .
23 These were heady days when the wine was new .
24 There were certain weeks when a driver went every night , others when they could get by with three deliveries a week .
25 They were both periods when the presidency was in the hands of the Democrats and the programmes necessitating large growth in the bureaucracy were social-welfare policies of the type embraced by liberals .
26 Please give my apologies and excuses to the lady , but it 's important to meet where you all were last night when the tocsin was sounded . ’
27 Of course , there are other situations when the toughness that accompanies the Rambo self-image is useful in disarming trouble-makers and preventing further crime , as happened more than once during field-work .
28 The minimum length of notice an employer must give an employee under Section 49 of the Employment Protection Act 1978 is one week when the employee has been employed between one month and two years .
29 I can be more leisurely now — my next real deadline is 2000 hours When the OC 's ‘ O Group ’ is held .
30 It is 1900 hours when the peace of the evening is broken by the cough of the Challenger engine being fired into life by its starter motors , soon followed by the roar of the twenty-six-litre engine and the scream of the twin turbos .
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