Example sentences of "when it [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hailed as the weird and wonderful show that dared to be different , the media could n't lavish enough praise on David Lynch 's Twin Peaks when it debuted on American television in April . |
| 2 | But I feel that we are less aware of this same process when it occurs in British schools . |
| 3 | Steven Spielberg 's much hyped dinosaur movie dubbed ’ Jaws with Claws ’ is expected to be a huge box office hit when it goes on general release this week . |
| 4 | Er and when it progressed to automatic tools , all these tools were kept in a store at night , and you collected them in the morning when you went back onto the job . |
| 5 | The research ship Solo was seized when it crossed into territorial waters . |
| 6 | But the fact was that when it came to practical jokes , he regarded anybody as fair game , from the most fleeting acquaintance to the dearest friend . |
| 7 | She was n't so sure about her safety when it came to other things . |
| 8 | When it came to other people , particularly men , she preferred to be in control . |
| 9 | When it came to new furnishings , people usually they found it difficult to say why apart from ‘ I got it because I liked it ’ , or ‘ I got it because it was cheap ’ . |
| 10 | The flamboyant impulsive talkative Celts of Ireland 's Iron Age may , in their enthusiasm , have put just a little too much emphasis on quantity rather than quality when it came to liquid refreshments . |
| 11 | In addition , many schools were failing ‘ to venture beyond undemanding popular authors or books associated with favourite television characters ’ when it came to encouraging children to read novels . |
| 12 | The Frizzell sons-in-law might wear halos , but when it came to financial success they were nowhere . |
| 13 | Men had n't a bit of sense when it came to personal relationships . |
| 14 | For Whitehall he was a ‘ handy City man ’ when it came to international finance , especially prior to 1914 when Britain practised imperialism in competition with other great powers . |
| 15 | Not only had I had that run in with him over the rehearsals but he was also the fussiest teacher in the school when it came to long hair . |
| 16 | I was , I explained , a bit of a big girl 's blouse when it came to crumbling ledges , sheer drops , being underwater for unreasonable lengths of time and squeezing into jam jar sized spaces . |
| 17 | Marin Ceauşescu 's position at the Romanian Foreign Trade Mission in Vienna made him the provider of the family 's needs when it came to everyday items from razor blades to video films . |
| 18 | When it came to subordinate males , however , there was a strong relationship between how nice males had been to infants and how likely they were to be attacked by the female : nicer males fared better . |
| 19 | But he had a dark side , too , as I 'm sure everybody knows , and Seve Ballesteros could n't lace Weiskopf 's boots when it came to bad temper on the course . ’ |
| 20 | H. C. Wyld , for example , was a very great expert on the grossly divergent regional dialects of Middle English , but when it came to post-sixteenth-century English , he was quite insistent that the only object worthy of our study was Received Standard English . |
| 21 | He got his PhD through animal experimentation , but he was n't qualified when it came to recombinant DNA technique . |
| 22 | Even the rain when it fell , fell silently : and the wind , when it came in occasional gusts , blew noiselessly over the treeless plateau . |
| 23 | Last year Ramar Textiles at Crooks axed more than 500 jobs when it went into administrative receivership and similar jobs losses were announced in Darlington and Aycliffe . |
| 24 | The draft union treaty was clearly superseded by these developments , and as the Kazakh president , Nursultan Nazarbaev , told the USSR Supreme Soviet when it reconvened in early September , only a much looser confederation would satisfy the aspirations of the republics that still wished to establish some kind of association . |
| 25 | In Lobophytum species , the process is not particularly dramatic ; the polyps withdraw , the body of the animal will deflate , looking as though it has collapsed , and then when it takes in fresh water to stiffen up again , a thin , transparent layer of mucus can be seen detaching itself from the surface of the coral , to be swept away by water currents , the whole process usually taking a few hours . |
| 26 | The MMC report also criticised SMMB plans to retain its commercial business , Scottish Pride , when it changes from statutory monopoly to voluntary co-op for dairy farmers from next April . |
| 27 | When it comes to technical charts it has a combination of graph types and options that make it suitable for analysing scientific as well as business or financial data . |
| 28 | When it comes to actual mishap the London Stock Exchange seems to have been particularly prone recently . |
| 29 | New Yorkers , it seems , are a bit soft when it comes to roof-down motoring . |
| 30 | Away from the Chamber he will be a considerable influence in the corridors of power … particularly when it comes to private legislation , that is laws promoted by councils or bodies like British Rail or the Channel Tunnel company . |