Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb -s] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pike is perhaps in a similar difficulty as a human who is trying to hit a moving tennis ball when someone throws a second ball across his visual field ; it makes it more difficult to hit the ball . |
| 2 | It is often noticed that when someone has a close relative die , it seems to be not unusual that the family pet dies shortly afterwards . |
| 3 | In our situation we had an incident — trivial by comparison with Peter 's — which illustrates well what may happen when someone has a teachable spirit . |
| 4 | I do admire it when somebody gets a good score . |
| 5 | A short circuit is when somebody takes a short cut . |
| 6 | Simply observing vervets rush into trees when somebody gives a tonal call does not guarantee that it was the call that did it . |
| 7 | That is unfair , and it is also slightly sinister to say that , when somebody reaches a certain age , he can no longer receive care under the NHS . |
| 8 | Neither are the risks merely physical when she encourages a direct association between looking at her art and consuming food and drink , but the vast array of psychological dynamics which can motivate purchases as humble as a cup of coffee guarantees that the decision to choose one bar over another is often less casual than browsing through galleries . |
| 9 | Marie gets all excited when she gets a good idea — suddenly she 's all full of energy and she ca n't sit still . |
| 10 | The time might come when she arranges a small dinner party , produces an ‘ impossible ’ soufflé or a perfect pavlova and surprises herself even more than she surprises her friends . |
| 11 | Her ‘ tubular ’ voice production has the merit of keeping the voice steady , and it sometimes rivets attention , especially when she takes a high note with an especially clean attack as she does in the love music of Act 1 . |
| 12 | The Nordic ski touring community in Scotland is a friendly one , and Angela gives notice of this in her book , when she acknowledges a healthy exchange of information between skiers from all over the country . |
| 13 | When she requires a new cooker , she begs for a small loan from the Department of Social Security . |
| 14 | A naive bee carried to the feeder from the hive and placed on the food source will circle repeatedly after taking on a load of sugar water as if ‘ studying ’ the source , and yet when she returns a few minutes later she will be unable to choose the correct feeder colour . |
| 15 | Cheryl smiles when she notices a different shade of wool on one sleeve of a cardigan . |
| 16 | GLAMOROUS grannie Barbara Flanagan never has to shop around when she fancies a new outfit she simply reaches into her stocks of material and rustles something up . |
| 17 | Glamorous grandmother Barbara Flanagan never has to shop around when she fancies a new outfit — she simply reaches in her stocks of material and rustles something up . |
| 18 | If you want your child to be kind , let him know how pleased you are when he shares sweets or acknowledge her deed when she comforts a younger child who is crying . |
| 19 | When one reads a Paracelsian recipe for an amulet to ward off the plague , when one learns that the prime ingredient is a paste requiring eighteen dried toads , one could be forgiven for rejecting continuity between magic and science . |
| 20 | When one takes a longer-run view of the monopoly situation , one sees that it was won by competition , and that it represents , as such ( and as far as it goes ) a step forward in the entrepreneurial process of the market . |
| 21 | When one finds a sympathetic platform from which to display an idea , many more ideas are stimulated which , although having no sympathetic platform , may be strong enough to create their own . |
| 22 | Apart from the obvious disadvantage of not being able to view your slide without a projector or viewer , the problem arises when one wants an extra set of slides or prints , say of a spawning sequence . |
| 23 | When it detects a significant change in one of the parameters , it faxes a message to the nearest NRA regional control room . |
| 24 | The DTI often receives criticism of these , yet little by way of praise when it nips a fraudulent trading operation firmly in the bud . |
| 25 | The Japanese retail conglomerate Takashimiya Co Ltd may be in for a bitter disappointment when it opens a commercial art gallery in its new North American flagship design-speciality store on 23 April . |
| 26 | When it receives an acoustic signal transmitted from a range of up to 40 km , the weapon jettisons its ballast and rises to just below the sea surface . |
| 27 | Nowhere is the siren song of conservation more difficult to resist than when it combines a sentimental appeal to make a restoration project out of every down-at-heel relic , with the coded suggestion that it might even be a retail money-spinner in its own right if properly marketed by a curator and a press officer with a gift shop and a T-shirt designer on hand . |
| 28 | This would require that , in certain cases , a merger should be allowed even when it gives a combined share of more than 25 per cent of the European market . |
| 29 | It manifests an explicit intent to do so when it places a privative clause in a statute empowering a tribunal . |
| 30 | Ideally , the file designer will aim to reduce the time taken to reference this index ; however , when it exceeds a certain threshold value described earlier , a master index , which has one entry for each track of the cylinder index , can be created to reduce the total search time as described above . |