Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [subord] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | One in Devon has 70 members and is carried on much as when it was founded in 1799 . |
| 2 | And she was all right because when I got back here , she drove up and asked me over for coffee . |
| 3 | Have you ever seen things so clearly as when you were first in love ? |
| 4 | Seventy-five per cent of respondents said that sex was the same or better now than when younger . |
| 5 | In fact , Lance Percival came to a conclusion as long ago as when the One Over The Eight show was still running that Ken would n't have minded if his comedy days had been over , too . |
| 6 | The nature of a painter 's technique is never scrutinised so closely as when a work has just been cleaned , and at the heart of the exhibition will be eight of the fourteen Titians in the Louvre 's own collection that have just been freed of their treacly , dark varnishes and retouchings . |
| 7 | When the vowel is long , it is usually front-raised much farther than when it is short and may be as high as [ e : ] . |
| 8 | Since aspects of each can be understood better in the light of their absence , each may be noticed more when it is not there than when it is . |
| 9 | Now , about to cross , she saw that it was swirling much more swiftly than when she had crossed before and fallen in . |
| 10 | Othello is larger-than-life and never more so than when determined to die , as White demonstrates in a nobly paced resumption of dignity in the difficult final scene . |
| 11 | Matchmaking is a precise art and never more so than when practised by Terry Lawless and Mickey Duff whose most notable achievement so far was to manoeuvre Frank Bruno into a hugely profitable contest against Tyson for the world heavyweight championship . |
| 12 | They can also be extremely awkward , never more so than when loaded with the needle-tips of a yucca or the sharks teeth of an agave . |
| 13 | His character was , however , memorably impassive — never more so than when the chokingly tearful Miss Bergman purrs , ‘ Oh , Victor , please do n't go to the underground meeting tonight . ’ |
| 14 | BRITISH painting has always had a tendency to look in upon itself , but never more so than when the Napoleonic wars rendered travel on the Continent impossible . |
| 15 | Subject matter can often be fleeting — never more so than when on holiday . |
| 16 | But the story is made more vivid by judicious descent into detail , never more so than when identifying individual residents of Broad Street , Ludlow , in a painting of 1765 . |
| 17 | Water holds a fascination for everyone , but never more so than when it is moving . |
| 18 | Maybe never more so than when she accompanied a group of cadets training for officership on a ten-day campaign in remote rural areas . |
| 19 | But work is a firm bonder , and never more so than when a task is both fascinating and absurdly difficult . |
| 20 | He 'd always admired his superior and never more so than when a victim of his contempt . |
| 21 | One has some sympathy for the loyal , compliant Mr Prince in these days before the Goulds ' departure for Australia ; even more so than when prince was left behind with all the doubts and pressures of having to act on his master 's behalf . |
| 22 | Crawled until I could see the arrow only because it was pale against the bark , and knew I was already further away than when I 'd taken the last bearing . |
| 23 | Jane Camp is an enthusiast for the medium because it allows her to control wet-into-wet washes and paint out mistakes more easily than when working with watercolours |
| 24 | At least that 's the way it is with me , if I can see something in operation I can understand it far more quickly than when someone tries to describe it ’ |
| 25 | One of the most fascinating scientific experiments of recent years showed that when people ate meals at a rapid rate they became hungry again more quickly than when they ate precisely the same size of meal at a slower rate . |
| 26 | Like yesterday cos when there 's two of them and one of me , says they put it out and look at |
| 27 | Families were linked by marriage alliances , and the determination of fathers to make these locally is nowhere shown more clearly than when the son of one gentleman of the shire was betrothed to the daughter of another , but the particular daughter 's name was left blank in the bond of betrothal . |
| 28 | Sir , on that after you 've had food does more fre more often than when you 've had nothing to eat ? |
| 29 | and she says she 's still as bad off now as when she went in to get the house , you know the five thousand odd , she 's would , she 's , she 's , I had a bit last , I , I wished you had it all , I said do n't lie , I said do n't tell me you have n't had it I says cos you have , she says yeah , I says what you done with it ? |
| 30 | But in a way she dominates me more now than when I was young . |