Example sentences of "[adj] when in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All too often advice is taken as being definitive when in truth it is cased only on one person 's experience , or a particular way of working . |
| 2 | The accused was charged with obtaining three girocheques by deception , the deception being that he was unemployed when in fact he was working . |
| 3 | For example , if I assume a man is honest when in fact he is a rogue , he may cheat me when I trust him . |
| 4 | None of the holders of an estate , except the tenant in fee simple when in possession , was fully owner , but each as he came into possession was a ‘ limited ’ owner . |
| 5 | It will restart easily and rev fine when in neutral . |
| 6 | In simple terms , making the angle of the kite shallower when in flight . |
| 7 | Perhaps we believe that others perceive us as weak and ineffectual when in reality we choose to make a stand only about those things which really matter , knowing that it often takes more strength to remain calm and in control than to meet aggression with more aggression . |
| 8 | Anorexia , where self-image and reality can be so at odds that a girl can look in the mirror and see someone hugely fat when in fact she is skeletal , is growing amongst teenage girls , and beginning to affect more Black and Asian girls living in Britain . |
| 9 | The result is that often illnesses are considered to be purely physical when in fact they have an emotional trigger , as in the case of the lady who developed rheumatoid arthritis after her visit to Flanders , or a mental or possibly even spiritual precipitating factor . |
| 10 | The chips are expected to cost about the same when in volume production . |
| 11 | The chips are expected to cost about the same when in volume production . |
| 12 | Construction is not difficult when in conjunction with a pool , but its development should be envisaged when the pool and its immediate surroundings are planned . |
| 13 | Lacan shows how the recognition of ourselves in the image of the face is based on a misrecognition , since we perceive the face as our own when in fact it is produced in the image outside ourselves . |
| 14 | The frame connection is usually on the rear cross-spar , and the endcap on the sail will be in-line but , depending on the shape of the sail , the stand-off will be either rigid and straight or flexible and curved when in position . |
| 15 | The wrong selection can have far reaching consequences ; the initial choice of an elastomer for the seals in the landing gear of the DC-8 aircraft resulted in serious jamming because the seals become swollen when in contact with the hydraulic fluid . |
| 16 | One frequent error is to assume the polls are predictive when in fact they 're snapshots of a situation at one particular moment . ’ |
| 17 | Oh that every member of the new church would be filled with boldness : that when in collision with opposition they would respond — not by hitting each other — but by clearly telling their neighbours and community about Jesus ! |
| 18 | That expression ‘ embitter and spoil ’ was in reality ‘ a Jesuitism of Pa 's , ’ he pointed out , and so typical of their father , who said things like that when in fact he had no answer to the charge . |
| 19 | Many of his lower-deck characters were comic figures — Chucks the boatswain in Peter Simple , for example , whose passionate desire to be a gentleman is satisfied when in return for his help with the newly constituted Danish Navy he is awarded the title of Count Schucksen , or Muddle the carpenter in the same book , who believes the world works in a repeating cycle of 27,672 years . |