Example sentences of "when it be [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drama is a piece of literature that only works when it 's given threedimensional form . |
| 2 | Seems obvious when it 's put that way . |
| 3 | There is the special delight Britons have in gossip , especially when it is hinted that politics are spiced with sex . |
| 4 | These facts are indeed significant , but they are susceptible of a rather different Interpretation when it is accepted that importance and success amongst the ulema in the earlier period did not depend upon one 's position in the hierarchy or concomitant matters like salary or membership of the divan — to anything like the same degree that they did in later times . |
| 5 | The disclosures come at a time when there are three known bids by senior civil servants to buy out part of the Crown Suppliers when it is privatised next year . |
| 6 | Business leaders believe that the new £8.5 billion national business rate will create political and inflationary problems for the Government when it is introduced next April . |
| 7 | When it was transferred last year with it went pilot line supremo on a three-year secondment . |
| 8 | Dr Bob Woodward and his brother John became interested in the pavement when it was uncovered some years ago . |
| 9 | China denounced the plan when it was announced last October , and threatened dire consequences if Mr Patten refused to back down . |
| 10 | The jobs of men were threatened when it was announced last year that the Ladas Drive facility would be replaced by a £250 , fire station at Carryduff . |
| 11 | Problems have arisen despite this year 's cash for the NHS appearing , when it was announced last November , to allow for real growth for the first time in years , even after taking into account inevitable pressures such as the rising number of elderly people . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | INVESTORS who piled into North West Water when it was floated three years ago are on the crest of a wave . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The Criminal Justice Act was hailed as a far-reaching piece of legislature when it was launched last October . |
| 16 | Die Hard 's action sequences won rave reviews when it was released four years ago . |
| 17 | Ileana Cotrubas is not of that ilk , and many of her devotees must have been shocked when it was disclosed last weekend that her Covent Garden recital with Geoffrey Parsons on Thursday evening was to be her farewell British appearance . |
| 18 | . 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 . |
| 19 | I have lived in Grey Street for over 30 years and we have never had a bus service in all that time , so when it was introduced last year everyone was delighted . |
| 20 | 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 . |