Example sentences of "when it [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it saw the three figures it stopped , then , perhaps with memories of puppy-walkers , still with a broken leather couple round its neck , it approached the man whimpering softly , its tail waving . |
| 2 | Blood dripped from his sword , smoking when it touched the scorched earth . |
| 3 | The New Religious Right in North America eschew humanism when it threatens the fundamental truths of God 's revelation of himself in the sacred scriptures ( at least as they understand them ) . |
| 4 | There can be no sense in the DTI 's refusal to publish the House of Fraser report on the grounds that it might prejudice a Serious Fraud Office inquiry when it took the opposite course over Blue Arrow . |
| 5 | A typewritten statement in Arabic delivered to a Western news agency in west Beirut said that the ‘ soldiers of justice ’ — a name previously used by Abu Nidal 's organisation when it kidnapped the Belgian doctor , Jan Cools , in southern Lebanon last year — had ‘ executed the death sentence ’ against Dr Wybran , adding that this was done to encourage the Palestinian intifada uprising against Israeli rule in the West Bank and Gaza strip . |
| 6 | About three tonnes of gold deposited in Sweden had been handed over to the Soviet Union when it recognised the Soviet annexation of the Baltic states in 1941 . |
| 7 | It is wider of the mark , however , when it uses the possible closure of the SERC 's Nuclear Structure Facility to suggest that the government 's science funding machinery is in disarray . |
| 8 | The aircraft quivered when it penetrated the thin layers of cloud in its path . |
| 9 | Yet Minton 's sociability was only one side of the coin : when it landed the other way up his loneliness was all too apparent . |
| 10 | Other linguists imply even more clearly that there is no difference in meaning between the two versions of the infinitive by claiming that to is meaningless when it precedes the bare infinitive form . |
| 11 | Soviet leaders were willing to support such a conception of non-alignment when it hindered the Western states . |
| 12 | His time at Newcastle gave him the unique opportunity to take the building society into Europe when it became the first UK society to offer a full range of services on the mainland of Europe on opening a branch in Gibraltar in 1990 . |
| 13 | When it became the Combined Studies ( Creative and Performing Arts ) Board it set up its own panels , including , in November 1975 , a Movement and Dance Panel under the chairmanship of Peter Brinson . |
| 14 | This is called benevolence , more especially so when it takes the broad form of a wish for the happiness of others in general . |
| 15 | Betjeman 's poem ‘ Original Sin on me Sussex Coast ’ makes a point unwillingly learnt from his old tutor when it depicts the sheer wickedness of children bullying one another , unseen by the sentimental eyes of the mother whose mind has been washed by modern advertising techniques and the vacuous optimism of the age : |
| 16 | IBM Corp last week took its first step towards saving the AS/400 from going the way of the mainframe when it accompanied the new F models with a string of software offerings and initiatives designed to make the machine sit more comfortably as a database server in an open systems environment . |
| 17 | British Rail remains convinced that , when it puts the detailed investment proposition to us , once planning permission is obtained , it will pass the appraisal test . |
| 18 | Peter Laslett , who had succeeded his fellow-historian Edward Miller as District treasurer three years before , made a further point to the District Executive when it considered the financial position early in September : the local education authorities had recently received a circular from the Ministry asking that students ' fees for courses be raised to 10s. 0d. per term . |
| 19 | The question is not just whether it criticizes the Conservative Party but when it criticizes the Conservative Party . |
| 20 | The Habitat-Mothercare group reduced the risk of offending against local custom when it entered the Japanese market by operating a franchise through an established Japanese retail group called Siebu . |
| 21 | One of the objectives that the County Council has actually set when it declared the when it approved the outer route was to instruct the County Surveyor to seek ways and means of trying to increase the relief to Harrogate and Knaresborough er with an outer northern relief road . |
| 22 | The hard copy formatter opens one or more volumes in the hard copy directory for each charge code specified in the configuration file , when it finds the first module which is associated with the given charge code and which has not been hard copied . |
| 23 | She did n't even know at what point friendship had turned into love , and if she had realised it when it happened the new bud of feeling might have blossomed crazily into hopeless longing and tongue-tied need … or perhaps it would have frosted away and died . |
| 24 | I did n't enjoy it when it happened the first time . |
| 25 | Output only declined during part of the period , but when it did the geographical pattern was the same as for employment . |
| 26 | When it seems the right time . ’ |
| 27 | If you liken the body to a computer for a moment , the computer can only function when it has the correct date and commands fed to it ; otherwise it refuses to work or breaks down altogether . |
| 28 | Having resigned the post of president and been created vice-chairman , Jack Kuehler does n't see much future at the company and is retiring effective August 31 : Kuehler joined IBM 35 years ago as an engineer in its San Francisco research laboratory and was president of its systems products division when it introduced the 4300 family in 1979 . |
| 29 | The air is so thin that when it reaches the highest point medical staff in white coats appear in the carriages to administer oxygen to passengers struck down by the altitude . |
| 30 | Expect prices in the £8,000 to £11,000 bracket when it reaches the British market in June . |