Example sentences of "when it [verb] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It just shows , I think , how vigilant Councillors need to be when you get all these documents , and you do get many of them if you 're a District County Councillor , and how necessary it is for you to read them and study them and to remember because these things are very very important when they 're put in when it goes to higher authority at that time . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Soon , however , a new controversy arose when it seemed to some zoologists and paleontologists that even the large dinosaurs could very well have had a high running speed , at least as high as an equivalent sized modern mammal . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She was n't so sure about her safety when it came to other things . |
| 6 | When it came to other people , particularly men , she preferred to be in control . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Frizzell sons-in-law might wear halos , but when it came to financial success they were nowhere . |
| 11 | Men had n't a bit of sense when it came to personal relationships . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And when it came to those Trumpers I could only agree with my father 's judgment . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | True , he was a vital part of the 2nd Div side but then so were a lot of players who really were n't up to it when it came to Div I. It was , as Wilko realised a totally different ball-game . |
| 21 | He got his PhD through animal experimentation , but he was n't qualified when it came to recombinant DNA technique . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | When it comes to actual mishap the London Stock Exchange seems to have been particularly prone recently . |
| 24 | New Yorkers , it seems , are a bit soft when it comes to roof-down motoring . |
| 25 | It is to say that one person 's view is as good as another 's , which we patently do not accept when it comes to many aspects of our daily lives . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | This equation is , of course , a fallacy , but the complicated mental arithmetic implemented at all levels when it comes to personal taxation is truly baffling . |
| 29 | As a light , easily applied , low cost and water permeable crop cover there is nothing to touch it when it comes to overall versatility throughout the growing year . |
| 30 | The views of Ideal Home readers are important to manufacturers like Aqualisa , which sponsored this questionnaire , when it comes to future product development . |