Example sentences of "[noun pl] when [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Franco never took major steps when in doubt . |
| 2 | Apparently eight million Americans pluck their eyebrows , eyelashes and heads when under pressure . |
| 3 | It was reported on Jan. 20 , 1990 , that the Supreme Court had ordered the arrest of the right-wing former President ( in 1984-88 ) , León Febres Cordero Rivadeneira , who was accused of embezzling US$150,000 of public funds when in office . |
| 4 | It is wholly inappropriate to begin to teach adults to learn how to read by using children 's story books when in reality they will be able to relate more to being able to read those by-laws of the state which prevent them from voting . |
| 5 | The puzzle here is how the animal employs these obviously defensive spikes when in trouble . |
| 6 | Unfortunately most of the group were unable to exercise this right due to factors such as the hostile physical environment outside the centres , lack of resources — either money or essential mobility aids , such as electric wheelchairs — or parental overprotectiveness : some of the group were not allowed to go out alone or with disabled peers when at home . |
| 7 | Philip Urbach fell on his feet when by chance he met a teacher from a school which was being evacuated to Wales . |
| 8 | Other shortcomings of the public inquiry system include a presumption , by lawyers , of knowledge in highly specialist areas when in fact they often miss the very point which their technical advisers are putting to them . |
| 9 | Tempted to buy marine souvenirs when on holiday ? |
| 10 | We dash abroad at least twice a year ( we dashed over to California last November ) and we dash down South to my daughter 's in Hampshire umpteen times a year and we dash seemingly everywhere in the wake of our grandchildren when on school holidays or visiting but I ( if not so much Bett ) also spend a heck of a lot of time just watching ( I prefer to call it scientifically observing ) the world around me and contemplating . |
| 11 | ladies and gentlemen I would like to move a very small amendment to do a the second a membership on on item four on where it says up to three represent the area etcetera erm now the which I am currently a member of includes three libraries erm which are and and there are in fact five County Councils involved in the area of those three libraries when in fact Bushey has its own Bushey and there was a but I would like to see |
| 12 | This creates the dilemma illustrated in the project discussed above , of appearing to meet local needs when in fact such actions do little about the real causes of social problems and may indeed aggravate them by uprooting local leaders . |
| 13 | I agree they SEEMED to be lacking in ideas when in posession sometimes , especially when the 2 centre backs had the ball , or Batty was bringing it out . |
| 14 | Subjects who were asked the questions when under hypnosis made significantly more errors in their subsequent descriptions of events . |
| 15 | I was presented with a choice between just two positions when in fact there are many more possible ones . |
| 16 | In addition , last year 's investment in glass manufacturing in Poland and Italy were sound and would produce profits when on stream in two years time . |
| 17 | What is the point of bathing together in the beaches when in fact we can not sit together to make the laws of our country ? |
| 18 | Ralph Howell was the first politician to draw attention to the narrowness of the gap between the income of many low-wage earners when in work , and their benefit entitlement when they were without a job . |
| 19 | Midland Montagu , the bank 's investment-banking arm , has mismatched its books , betting on a fall in British interest rates when in fact they rose . |
| 20 | It is thus possible that most of the tissue damage is caused by neutrophils generating free oxygen radicals and releasing lysosomal enzymes when in contact with a chemoattractant within the lumina propria . |
| 21 | Above stairs were two modest bedrooms and a bathroom with Victorian fittings and a geyser which made threatening rumbles , wheezes and minor explosions when in use . |
| 22 | But I think there 's a very strong argument Chinese revolution And , to a certain extent you can understand that people have to identify with something and the easiest thing to identify with is a king and a queen erm Chinese communist leaders of various sorts , Stalin even Karl Marx , you know , you can convince yourself that he had all the answers when of course , really , you must see these things as developing . |
| 23 | Catnip is an example ; Nepeta cataria is the true herb and is the catnip that has a hard life if a cat is part of the household , but Nepeta x faassenii , also sometimes called catnip , is the usual species grown in gardens , with little if any attraction for cats , though it is always alive with bees when in flower . |
| 24 | Certainly he waved his arms about more than most men when in action . |
| 25 | So down at squadron level we had this very much in our minds when in time the orders came down through Group , through station , right to the people who had to do the carting and the bombing , I feel I should explain right at the outset that I can only view at the later stages of the war the state of morale as I saw it in the entire Pathfinder Force . |
| 26 | Are kettle flexes , irons and saucepan handles kept out of reach of children when in use ? |
| 27 | The male is a little larger than the female and has very bright orange ventral fins when in breeding colouration . |
| 28 | Normally noisy monkeys are unusually quiet during childbirth , perhaps because they are particularly vulnerable to predators when in labour . |
| 29 | I find that too many people are hung up in retaining the bureaucracy of organisations under the premiss that they are purchasing services when in fact they are funding activities that already exist — a referral , for example . |
| 30 | In connection with the location of the energy barrier separating the two states , it is interesting to remark that some crystallographic results have been interpreted as containing B II phosphates when in fact these conformations correspond to ε-ζ values of roughly +30° ( see , for example , 10 ) which in the light of our findings should be considered B I . |