Example sentences of "when [pron] [verb] that [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One symptomatic phenomenon was revealed in my own research in Leicester for an Open University television programme , when I found that many teachers of English were unwilling to come to terms with the interest and creative potential of Asian students in English language , literature and drama . |
| 2 | When I read that junior Ministers are interfering with the curriculum , I get worried , because I do not think that they know very much about it . |
| 3 | The second impression is less tangible — the curious feeling you get when you realize that those books on the shelves are Manzoni 's books , the ones he read or consulted . |
| 4 | When you consider that these days we are running well over a second faster , your can see by how much British sprinting has advanced . |
| 5 | This was surprising when you consider that these days Death was the genial Doctor 's constant drinking-companion . |
| 6 | And when you consider that those prices include a £5 donation to The Spastics Society , the music works out at a fiver per CD or cassette ! |
| 7 | ‘ When you consider that Austrian lifts handled 480 million passengers last year and that 2.5 million native Austrians are skiers — excluding tourists — the accident figures are very small . |
| 8 | And then the sudden lurching shift of perspective , the falling through the bottom of things , when you discover that these constants have been or could be altered after all . |
| 9 | And then the sudden lurching shift of perspective , the falling through the bottom of things , when you discover that these constants have been or could be altered after all . |
| 10 | Queen Victoria achieved a big improvement when she insisted that prime ministers should not choose whomsoever they liked without consulting the Archbishop of Canterbury ; and in later stages she was able to insist that if the archbishop objected , the prime minister 's nomination should not go forward . |
| 11 | Kadhafi said in an interview for the Egyptian political weekly Al-Musawar in October 1989 that in the past Libya had funded some groups without examining their aims and role in detail , but that " when we discovered that these groups were causing more harm than benefit to the Arab cause , we halted our aid to them completely and withdrew our support " . |
| 12 | When we judge that additional resources are needed , they are made available . |
| 13 | Although this second method is the more complicated to administer and requires that we have at least a rough idea of the size of the primary sampling units , it has some advantages that become obvious when we recall that several primaries are generally sampled : |
| 14 | Similarly , when we say that all biologists nowadays believe in Darwin 's theory , we do not mean that every biologist has , graven in his brain , an identical copy of the exact words of Charles Darwin himself . |
| 15 | Indeed these figures made even sorrier reading for the Conservatives when one realised that demographic shifts were working in the Government 's favour . |
| 16 | This firm statement of principle looks even more impressive when one considers that white women entering Britain are not subjected to these examinations . |
| 17 | This is perhaps less surprising when one considers that these definitions are derived by examining and grouping the actual collocations found for any particular word , and then working backwards to a definition from the separate contextual groupings [ Mackin , 1978 ] . |
| 18 | The union achievement in establishing and applying standards for design and safe use of VDUs is more striking when one considers that these policies had already been formulated before the Government Health and Safety Executive had to issue information and advice on the subject . |
| 19 | Foster parents can often claim fostering allowances of 2–3 times the Supplementary Benefit that the natural parent would have received for looking after the same child … which is peculiarly ironic when one considers that some children might not be in foster-care at all if their parents had adequate incomes in the first place ( Fairbairns , 1976 ) . |
| 20 | The Department of Education and Science remains unwilling to declare its criteria for the recognition of overseas qualifications ; one suspects that the decisions are not based on any defined criteria , when one considers that British degrees are recognised irrespective of the class and subject in which they were taken , whilst a first degree in a community language from an overseas university will not generally be recognised . |
| 21 | So the apparently boundless diversity of plant life disappears when one recalls that all plants are composed of carbon , hydrogen , oxygen , nitrogen and a few less important elements , and that chemically there is little difference between a daisy and an oak tree . |
| 22 | The extent to which individual disciplines make use of libraries in their researches may be expected to vary , but when one sees that some universities spend 50% to 100% per capita more than others , it does suggest that the value placed by university managers on their libraries varies in some highly individualistic ways . |
| 23 | Moreover , the failure of national forces to intercept the enemy is especially remarkable when one remembers that local ones often had no problem . |
| 24 | Pluralist accounts of the Japanese state for example underestimate the ambiguity of the division between public and private when they imply that individual rights in a liberal democracy confine the scope of the state to exclusively public spheres . |
| 25 | Yet the programmers and the educational technologists are undoubtedly right when they insist that current trends and changes in education require more systematic thinking , whether or not we always adopt on every occasion their particular model for it . |
| 26 | This strategy is not the whole solution ; for example , external reviewers may be reluctant to identify under-resourcing as a serious quality problem , when they know that additional resources are not available , just as juries would not convict for lamb-stealing in eighteenth-century England when they knew conviction would lead to death . |
| 27 | Newham council says that its residents are in favour of the scheme , but will they still support it when they learn that 1,000 homes in Stratford will be at risk from settlement when the railway line goes into a shallow tunnel because of the geological conditions in the area ? |
| 28 | Certainly the rhetorical approach does not dispute the general theoretical aims of the social representation theorists , especially when they emphasize that social beliefs are rooted in the life of groups and that dialogue is crucial for their creation and maintenance ( Moscovici , 1983 ) . |
| 29 | on the one hand the transport federation and the confederation support the demands of the railway sector at the negotiating table , and on the other hand , let us say , they also call for prudence and moderation when they realise that these demands may not be achievable , and rather than lead people over the precipice and into more strikes that will not have positive outcomes , they recommend the adoption of an approach based on increased dialogue and the moderation of demands . |
| 30 | The problem is often the more awkward because owners of country houses are hesitant to protest when they realize that other options may bring the new road much closer to the houses of neighbours . |