Example sentences of "when it be [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The incidents came at a time when Sellafield was already facing prosecution for allegedly not taking proper safety precautions at its high-level waste processing plant ( see above ) and when it is seeking new authorisations for discharges into the air . |
| 2 | But it too uses passive tests most frequently when it is studying female subjects . |
| 3 | Dr Bob Woodward and his brother John became interested in the pavement when it was uncovered some years ago . |
| 4 | The discovery that oriented bars and edges were the trigger features for neurons in the visual cortex was enormously exciting when it was made thirty years ago , but Levick followed up their discovery and found that there are orientation selective neurons in rabbit retina as well as the directionally selective ones shown in Figure 4 . |
| 5 | INVESTORS who piled into North West Water when it was floated three years ago are on the crest of a wave . |
| 6 | Of the 16 funds that made up our Global Strategy umbrella fund when it was launched five years ago , no less than four have come first in their respective sectors over this period , according to Finstat . |
| 7 | Die Hard 's action sequences won rave reviews when it was released four years ago . |
| 8 | . And nine times out of ten when I ask the congregation whether your church is bigger now than it was when it was founded nine times out of ten the congregation say , it is smaller now than when it was founded . |
| 9 | Retailers say Pentland Crown , the Scottish-bred variety which increased farmers ' yields by up to 20 per cent when it was introduced 30 years ago , bruises too easily and goes black . |
| 10 | If that is the case , when Brent council was at its most extreme , when it was spending enormous sums of ratepayers ' money and destroying services , why , at every turn , did the hon. Gentleman 's party support the Labour party through thick and thin ? |