Example sentences of "when we [vb base] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the busiest of us can be persuaded to give of our time and our expertise when we know that the task we are undertaking will take a pre-specified and limited time . |
| 2 | We may scrape and spit and dab and rub , until the point when we declare that the truth stands plain before us , thanks to xylene and propanol and acetone . |
| 3 | Even more dangerous is it when we insist that a man of two thousand years ago meant what we mean in so contentiously abstract a sphere as religious faith . |
| 4 | Integrity becomes a political ideal when we make the same demand of the state or community taken to be a moral agent , when we insist that the state act on a single , coherent set of principles even when its citizens are divided about what the right principles of justice and fairness really are . |
| 5 | The next problem comes when we recognize that the work done so far has produced a piece of research which could easily keep a dozen people occupied for the rest of their lives . |
| 6 | When we find that the experience of unemployment makes people more likely to contemplate breaking an unjust law , we assume that the reasons for this are general ; we suppose that the increased likelihood would operate for anyone who happened to undergo the experience of unemployment . |
| 7 | Or rather , the distinctions between the repressed and the excluded , the subjective and the social , break down , especially when we recall that the other is often constructed via , or in terms of , the proximate . |
| 8 | As George Graham put it : ‘ The day has come when we see that the country has gone to the dogs . |
| 9 | But when we realize that the eye is most probably Bleistein 's , we realize that it represents a degeneration from the expected human eye . |
| 10 | When we say that a child enjoys the security of a familiar story structure , what tools have we for analysing that structure ? |
| 11 | When we say that a flag at half-mast means that someone has died , we refer to a social convention that death shall be marked in this way . |
| 12 | When we say that a ring round the moon means rain , we refer to a connection in nature . |
| 13 | When we say that the response of the Community so far has been ineffectual , that is not a comment on the team spirit and competence of that monitoring force . |
| 14 | We do it when we decide that the sibling rule — that a child can attend the same school as a brother or sister — does not apply ( the assumption here must surely be that siblings can belong to different species ) . |