Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [vb -s] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Another novelty is the secure access feature , which prompts you for a password when it auto-answers an incoming data .
3 It should soon develop a habit of relieving itself in this way when it finds an appropriate spot at the start of its walk .
4 A behavioural response is strengthened when it has an increased probability of occurring ( frequency ) or when it is likely to be performed for a longer period of time ( duration ) .
5 It moves the word you are typing to a new line when it enters an invisible margin running down the right-hand side of the screen .
6 The signal detected by the stylus when it makes an electrical connection between the two sheets provides a measure of its position .
7 The signal detected by the stylus when it makes an electrical connection between the two sheets provides a sure of its position .
8 Does Bonanza suggest how anybody is supposed to get the death cleared up when he takes an important witness thirty miles away ?
9 A look across the Irish Sea finds Stephen Dedalus defining a particular sort of foreignness in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man when he meets an English priest and reflects that :
10 When he sees an arrestable offence being committed , or an offence that carries a conditional power of arrest , he would be in dereliction of his duty if he did not intervene to prevent the misconduct .
11 There will be an opportunity to see this when he holds an Open Day in aid of charity in the Spring .
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