Example sentences of "when we [vb base] [conj] the [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 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 As George Graham put it : ‘ The day has come when we see that the country has gone to the dogs .
8 But when we realize that the eye is most probably Bleistein 's , we realize that it represents a degeneration from the expected human eye .
9 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 .
10 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 ) .
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