Example sentences of "when [vb pp] with the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here he found Frank a great help as he had a fair knowledge of native North American trees and shrubs which , when checked with the big books , sounded as though they 'd do well in the peaty soil of Eire . |
| 2 | Gold in its natural form glows deep amber yellow , but when mixed with the various alloys it takes on a variety of hues . |
| 3 | Pozzolana when mixed with the excellent lime from the local limestones formed an extremely hard concrete , to which base was also added brick and travertine fragments to provide a solid core for walling and vaulting . |
| 4 | A continuous moulding machine for making wheel hubs will yield a more consistent product with less time spent idle when cleaned with the frozen pellets . |
| 5 | When equipped with the scientific instruments of warfare , Saddam 's inherent irrationality can only become explosive ; with modern technologies he is a monstrous and psychotic force . |
| 6 | When used with the bare infinitive , it denotes a direct experiencing of , and so contemporaneity in time with , an occurrence and can often be replaced by see — although it denotes perception in a more abstract way than the latter — or by have in its experiential sense : ( 93 ) Rather surprised to find them break fence at this season . |
| 7 | The size of the former timetables , when compared with the present volumes , is ample evidence of this extraordinary curtailment of British Railways . |
| 8 | Second , both policies represented a welfare loss when compared with the optimal tariff and equivalent quota policies , with the relative welfare loss from the UK quota policy being greater than that from the EC policy ( -5.98% as opposed to -2.18% ) . |
| 9 | The text of the 1905 Convention is much fuller when compared with the terse formulation of its predecessor , and it contains a number of changes of principle . |
| 10 | However using the lexicon car , cars , cat , cats , do , dog , dogs , done , ear , ears , eat , eats ( after Appel and Jacobson ) , the features of the dawg can be clearly demonstrated , especially when compared with the equivalent trie . |
| 11 | The teaching role of the staff nurse or equivalent clinical practitioner may have been seen as something of a Cinderella when compared with the traditional tasks of care giving and developing managerial expertise . |
| 12 | By the 1980s many asylums had contracted to a size which was dwarf-life when compared with the vast acreages and Palladian pretensions of their heyday . |
| 13 | The amounts of money involved , however , pale into insignificance when compared with the vast sums spent each year on older areas such as ‘ big physics ’ . |
| 14 | Even when compared with the 1983 landslide victory , the Conservative share of the vote increased in the South East ( including Greater London ) , East Anglia , West Midlands and East Midlands , and registered only a marginal decline in the South West ( albeit with a share of the vote still in excess of 50 per cent ) . |
| 15 | While such concerns are admirable in their no-nonsense practicality , they represent a significant decline in ambition when compared with the other criminologies that have appeared during the two hundred years that have passed since Beccaria wrote . |
| 16 | Several of the major accounts appeared to be excessively overdue when compared with the total ledger aged debt statistics . |
| 17 | The cost of hardware is often small when compared with the real cost of software which includes not only the purchase cost but also the staff time of the organisation in which it is to be installed . |
| 18 | Latterly they looked increasingly obsolete when compared with the modern cars operated by Blackpool , and indeed most of them dated from the early years of the Century . |
| 19 | When compared with the standard reference values accordinly to the patients ' age group , the individual serum total cholesterol values for men and women were seen to have a propensity to fall within or below the lower end of the normal range . |
| 20 | The stomach now appears more distended when compared with the fasted sequence and powerful pyloric contraction can be seen ( arrowed ) . |
| 21 | In the patients , in addition to an increased frequency of bowel actions ( p<0.001 ) , there was reduced bile acid absorption , ( p<0.001 ) a higher prevalence of lactos malabsorption ( p<0.05 ) associated with a reduced dietary intake of dairy products ( p<0.02 ) , and faster small intestinal ( p<0.001 ) and whole gut transit ( p<0.05 ) when compared with the normal subjects . |
| 22 | The progeny of such individuals , when compared with the parental populations , will have probably shown advance in both features listed by Huxley . |
| 23 | Such views are held by economists who consider the beneficial effects of the threat of a takeover to be minimal when compared with the damaging effects of short termism . |
| 24 | The sporadic model was definitely ruled out when compared with the multifactorial model ( χ 2 =17.05 ) . |
| 25 | However , these problems of task allocation were all minor when compared with the driving force behind the system : getting the tasks completed as quickly and with as few staff as possible . |
| 26 | Although the combination of cisapride and ranitidine significantly increased amplitude , duration , and propagation velocity of oesophageal contractions , the changes in oesophageal motility seem small when compared with the considerable reduction in acid reflux . |
| 27 | Harsh criticism was also levelled at Contributions Agency staff , especially when compared with the Inland Revenue . |
| 28 | The manager must be able to act decisively by , for example , bringing in more lower paid staff to assist in mundane areas thus increasing productivity when compared with the same work being done at more senior level . |
| 29 | Consequently , many retailers in the run-up to Christmas were looking at poor weekly sales figures when compared with the same week in 1991 . |
| 30 | A spokesman at IBM Corp 's East European headquarters in Vienna claimed that the company exceeded the internal sales targets set for the first quarter of 1993 , and succeeded in increasing its turnover in the region by around 30% when compared with the same period last year . |