Example sentences of "when [pron] has [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why ? ’ is a useful question when someone has made an error but you want them to diagnose it . |
| 2 | Even when she has selected a place and a time , the female cuckoo has still got the problem of introducing her egg into the host 's nest in such a way that it wo n't be rejected . |
| 3 | Among the ‘ lower caste ’ people , the woman 's role had always been rather different from her role in the farming castes ; now ‘ lower caste ’ women worked increasingly in the fields alongside the men and this led , according to Mamdani , to ‘ a radical change … in the attitude towards girl children … low caste families do not look upon the birth of a girl with the disfavour they used to ’ — though ‘ to a certain extent the disfavour persists because the girl will marry and emigrate precisely when she has reached the age of greatest productivity ’ . |
| 4 | The daughter at home has her moment of decision to face too : when she has to make the choice between committing herself , or taking flight , which in these more liberated times is almost always possible . |
| 5 | In a new age of philistinism , when everything has to wear a price tag , the beauty and wonder of the world of nature have low value in the market place . |
| 6 | It seems unlikely that , all other things being equal , two students will find an item equally difficult when one has studied the topic that the item tests and the other has not . |
| 7 | It is perhaps asking too much to exact sympathy when one has killed a king and bedded his queen but he deserved all the accolades he received . |
| 8 | Many would also say that real life is only possible when one has accepted the finiteness of life on earth as something that God uses to draw people into a closer union with himself . |
| 9 | When one has told a friend about a stage performance or some media utterance that one feels he should go to see , one has performed that work to the friend and partly negated his need to see the work for himself . |
| 10 | Raytheon says it will meet the unions when it has checked the business over . |
| 11 | His red beard has grown very long , right through the stone table ; when it has encircled the table three times it will be the time of awakening . |
| 12 | Generally speaking it only pays to change a system when it has reached the end of its economic life — usually 20 years . |
| 13 | The purchaser is unlikely to want to accept liability for the vendor 's actions when it has had no control . |
| 14 | If the trouble has started and does not look like stopping , the best solution is to provide an immaculately clean tray of fresh litter , place it in a quiet corner , and then shut the animal up in that particular room , releasing it only when it has used the tray in the approved manner . |
| 15 | On the other hand , when it has passed the source of the waves and is travelling away the other side , the frequency with which it bobs up and down will obviously go down . |
| 16 | And it is certainly true that , on previous form , the centre party has failed to extract any long-term benefit from recent occasions when it has held the balance of power . |
| 17 | The guru or the spiritual director will have to tell the novice when he has reached the limits of his ability . |
| 18 | ( 2 ) The question of whether a medical report obtained pursuant to section 3(6A) should be disclosed to the Crown was essentially one within the discretion of the trial judge when he has seen the report , or exceptionally , within the discretion of such other judge who has had to conduct any pre-trial review . |
| 19 | For his part , the patron gains the personal support of the client and , when he has accumulated a number of these clients , he becomes a prestigious person in the area due to the cumulative honour from them . |
| 20 | ‘ We can slip out when he has turned the corner . |
| 21 | No person should be permitted to remain senior partner beyond the point when he has lost the confidence of his co-partners . |
| 22 | John Thaw himself hates beer , so it 's a real performance when he has to take a pint . |
| 23 | There is even an echo of the testing time of his twelfth year in the fourth book in the sequence , The Betrayer , when he has to find a way of helping one of the Confederates , involved in a misguided conspiracy against the young Emperor , without being disloyal to his ruler . |
| 24 | Their normally strong relationship is threatened when he has to reveal a family secret . |
| 25 | Granted the potential meaning of to postulated above , these two general categories provide a clear illustration of Guillaume 's principle ( 1984 : 134 – 5 ) that actualizing a potential meaning is an operation of thought which takes place while the speaker is mentally constructing a sentence and which he intercepts when he has found the representation which he feels as adequate for what he wants to express . |
| 26 | Williams , Textbook of Criminal Law , 2nd edn , Stevens & Sons , 1983 , 764 , criticised Pitham : if a butler invites the maid to join him in stealing the Duke 's silver when he has found the key to the safe , surely he has not at that time appropriated the silver . |
| 27 | It 's where he goes when he has to write a speech … ’ |
| 28 | Jasper 's sometimes funny when he has had a disappointment . " |
| 29 | ‘ I think he will win , but it has only been when he has had the sun on his back in the last couple of days that he has really come on . ’ |
| 30 | When he has attracted a female , she becomes the boss at the nest and may throw out the decorations to assert her occupancy . |