Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [verb] [that] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One symptomatic phenomenon was revealed in my own research in Leicester for an Open University television programme , when I found that many teachers of English were unwilling to come to terms with the interest and creative potential of Asian students in English language , literature and drama . |
| 2 | The second impression is less tangible — the curious feeling you get when you realize that those books on the shelves are Manzoni 's books , the ones he read or consulted . |
| 3 | When you consider that these days we are running well over a second faster , your can see by how much British sprinting has advanced . |
| 4 | This was surprising when you consider that these days Death was the genial Doctor 's constant drinking-companion . |
| 5 | And when you consider that those prices include a £5 donation to The Spastics Society , the music works out at a fiver per CD or cassette ! |
| 6 | And then the sudden lurching shift of perspective , the falling through the bottom of things , when you discover that these constants have been or could be altered after all . |
| 7 | And then the sudden lurching shift of perspective , the falling through the bottom of things , when you discover that these constants have been or could be altered after all . |
| 8 | Kadhafi said in an interview for the Egyptian political weekly Al-Musawar in October 1989 that in the past Libya had funded some groups without examining their aims and role in detail , but that " when we discovered that these groups were causing more harm than benefit to the Arab cause , we halted our aid to them completely and withdrew our support " . |
| 9 | Although this second method is the more complicated to administer and requires that we have at least a rough idea of the size of the primary sampling units , it has some advantages that become obvious when we recall that several primaries are generally sampled : |
| 10 | Similarly , when we say that all biologists nowadays believe in Darwin 's theory , we do not mean that every biologist has , graven in his brain , an identical copy of the exact words of Charles Darwin himself . |
| 11 | on the one hand the transport federation and the confederation support the demands of the railway sector at the negotiating table , and on the other hand , let us say , they also call for prudence and moderation when they realise that these demands may not be achievable , and rather than lead people over the precipice and into more strikes that will not have positive outcomes , they recommend the adoption of an approach based on increased dialogue and the moderation of demands . |
| 12 | He was educated in Paris , and when he heard that some Americans had been present at today 's ceremonies he expressed a wish to meet you . " |
| 13 | Tycho Brahé opted out of the Copernican research programme and initiated another when he proposed that all planets other than the earth orbit the sun , while the sun itself orbits a stationary earth . |