Example sentences of "when [verb] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even when cornering on a slippery surface . |
| 2 | To answer the question , whether this fragment is also able to enhance transcriptional activity when ligated to a heterologous promoter , we cloned the 117 bp AvaII fragment ( nucleotides -529 to -412 ) comprising footprint I and region III ( see Fig. 1 ) in sense or antisense orientation into plasmid pBLcat2 , which contains the HSV-tk promoter ( 16 ) . |
| 3 | They looked for abstract relationships between the different structures , but they had little incentive to ask what kind of circumstance might lead a species to change when exposed to a new environment . |
| 4 | By the time he returned home , he had already passed beyond the position of Lyell and Forbes and had begun to investigate the possibility that species might actually be modified when exposed to a new environment . |
| 5 | But unknown to most of his colleagues he was busily collecting information that might bear on the question of how a species might change when exposed to a new environment . |
| 6 | So it 's not surprising that toddlers act so explosively when placed in a strange situation . |
| 7 | Although individually each song worked , when placed in a collective package the effect was a clouding of the impact . |
| 8 | Little effort was made to investigate how a species might actually respond when placed in a new environment , and the Lamarckians paid little attention to biogeography . |
| 9 | Indeed , Thomas Bradwardine , philosopher and later archbishop , when preaching to a mixed audience after the victories of Crecy and Neville 's Cross , used them to underline his view of the omnipotence of God and the impotence of man : victory in battle was conferred by God on the righteous , as St Paul had declared in II Corinthians 2:14 . |
| 10 | When pressed for a favourable reply the pontiff put forward a set of propositions which would have to be accepted by Napoleon before the ceremony could take place . |
| 11 | When treated with a prophylactic colectomy the colon cancer risj is eliminated and the rectal cancer risk is minimised by regulkar surveillance and fulguration of rectal polyps . |
| 12 | Cole and Scribner point out that the specific skill developed for this purpose can be transferred to other tasks : they tested literates and illiterates in the Vai script for their ability to distinguish and reproduce units of meaning when heard as a continuous flow , and discovered that the literates were better at this task ( 1981 ) . |
| 13 | It would seem reasonable to call a drug an analgesic for a rat if it delays the time when the rat licks its feet when parked on a hot plate . |
| 14 | More and more it came to be used in relations between states which were not themselves French-speaking : in 1664 the new imperial ambassador to England addressed Charles II in it at his first audience and in 1677 the king of Denmark , when addressed by a Polish ambassador in Latin , replied to him in French . |
| 15 | As each servo may consume up to 1A when driving to a new position it is important that the supply has a very low output impedance and NiCad batteries are usually recommended for multi-servo systems . |
| 16 | The population of these three conurbations was over 8 million which when added to a similar population in London meant that approximately one-third of the population of England would have been within areas covered by a two-tier structure of local government . |
| 17 | Eventually , the term came to denote any number which , when added to a figurate number , generates the next higher number of the same shape ( triangular numbers , square numbers , pentagonal numbers , and so on ) . |
| 18 | If the inventor of a novel mousetrap then decided that he would offer it for sale only when installed in a purpose-built house for which extra would be charged , most patents courts would probably be prepared to grant compulsory licences to those willing to sell the mousetrap without the house . |
| 19 | Males may spar and even fight when confined in a small aquarium without sufficient territory being available to the individuals , but they rarely cause trouble with other species . |
| 20 | In all these solutions , the singularity that occurs when corresponds to a Cauchy horizon . |
| 21 | When approached by a possible killer they hide their real heads and raise up the tips of their tails . |
| 22 | To assess whether the failure of Myc or Max alone to transactivate was due to an inability to bind DNA , we tested their function when fused to a heterologous transactivation domain ( VP16 ; Fig. 2 b ) . |
| 23 | However , because the transcriptional properties of ATF1 and CREB are fundamentally different when fused to a heterologous DNA-binding-domain ( 30 ) it is apparent that changes in the relative proportions of ATF1 and CREB will have important consequences . |
| 24 | Furthermore , any dwelling below these " control limits " would become decontrolled when let to a new tenant . |
| 25 | During the day , take your pick of anything from a pizza to a sizzling steak served at the poolside barbecue grill — and afternoon coffee takes on a flavour all of its own when enjoyed with a fresh pastry cooked before your eyes . |
| 26 | However , when interviewed at a 4-month follow-up , more of the experimental group showed overall improvement in their social problems ( 70 per cent ) than the control group ( 53 per cent ) . |
| 27 | When weaving on a pre-select machine , the number of needles in a row which are woven can be varied . |
| 28 | When weaving with a thick yarn , you will probably find that it wo n't feed through the yarn mast . |
| 29 | When designed in a holistic way by the disabled person , the package of assistance which enables them to do so is no more expensive than the service-based alternative . |
| 30 | As a result the vector is seen to rotate through an angle φ which is the separation in longitude between A and B. In general the rotation of a local vector when carried round a closed path on any two-dimensional surface is given by the expression which is easily checked for the route discussed . |