Example sentences of "[noun pl] when a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alain lifted his head and looked down at her and she was still staring mesmerised into his dark eyes when a voice she knew already spoke almost in her ear . |
| 2 | DIPLOMATS were stranded in lifts when a snake coiled itself round power cables and blew the fuses at a conference in Tanzania . |
| 3 | Relief can be granted for limited periods when a property first becomes unoccupied and unfurnished , generally for a period of 6 months . |
| 4 | The technique of guidance is often used by parents when a child refuses to comply with a request or instruction . |
| 5 | He saved twelve lives when a pleasure boat capsized in heavy surf at Corona del Mar in California in June 1925 . |
| 6 | BRITISH holidaymakers told yesterday how they fled for their lives when a killer flood surged through their campsite . |
| 7 | In any case , typical vibration frequencies of less than 0·5 eV ( ∼ 4000 cm -1 ) can not normally be resolved , except under special circumstances when a monochromator is used to reduce the source linewidth from ∼ 1·2 to ∼ 0·2 eV . |
| 8 | In extreme circumstances when a situation escalates to a position where the client(s) can not be controlled by physical restraint , staff members should be prepared to vacate the room , even if there is a possibility that extensive damage may result . |
| 9 | Er , Birmingham region , Brian , who will count G M B Scotland Lancashire region , John who will count Southern Liverpool region , Alan who will count South Western London , Bill who will count Yorkshire Midland , Colin who will count Birmingham Northern , Derek who will count Lancashire G M B Scotland , Mary , who will count Liverpool Southern , Jack who will count London South Western , John , the other John , who will count Midland Yorkshire , Ray who will count Northern er , and now the pep talk it should be emphasized that tellers must remain in the congress hall while congress is in session and of course that delegates must be in their allotted seats when a vote is taken . |
| 10 | The only small quibbles I have are the shape of the zip pullers , which sometimes dig into hips when a rucksack 's carried , the lack of a horizontal chest pocket to take a map ( very useful when navigating in poor weather ) and a wired hood , which would stop it falling over the eyes at inconvenient moments . |
| 11 | In the main , " open-ended " questions are best used , conventional wisdom argues , in exploratory surveys when a researcher needs to elicit the respondent 's frame of reference without undue constraint by the format of the question . |
| 12 | He suggested that extinct crocodiles found in the fossil record could have been transformed into their modern relatives when a modification of the environment triggered off the transition to a new growth pattern . |
| 13 | It seems from this evidence that living with relatives when a marriage ends is considered in a rather similar way to living with relatives in other circumstances . |
| 14 | But most families in Britain are familiar with using hospitals and demand in-patient care for their relatives when a crisis arises . |
| 15 | The statute referred to relatives having a claim for damages when a person died from injuries sustained because of a negligent act . |
| 16 | In middle age , at a time when those in other industries were looking for a period of consolidation , the farmer could be faced with problems when a son or daughter ‘ came home ’ . |
| 17 | At " low " speeds ( less than 100 steps per second in the example of Fig. 4.1 ) the current is quickly established in the windings when a phase is turned on and stays near its rated value for a substantial part of the time for which the phase is excited . |
| 18 | Press the ‘ up ’ arrow key to skip the presentation sequence where the players run on and off the pitch , or back to their positions when a goal is scored . |
| 19 | EC Environment Commissioner Carlo Ripa di Meana rejected demands for further changes to EC legislation on dangerous substances when a draft directive was tabled for second reading in the European Parliament . |
| 20 | Many say they have had to turn down surgery , for instance , because they could not find alternative care for their dependants when a bed became available . |
| 21 | Females tended to initiate courtship , and there were often fights between females when a hen approached a courting pair . |
| 22 | His whole system was to be tested to its limits when a war with France began in 1793 which lasted , with only brief intermission , for more than twenty years . |
| 23 | On that day some 5,000 students and others , led by monks , began a peaceful protest which turned into a violent confrontation with police when a student raised the " fighting peacock " , symbolizing defiance of the SLORC . |
| 24 | Maginnis had been listening to almost two hours of complaints about the police when a woman announced that she would clap her hands if she heard of an RUC constable 's death . |
| 25 | Optical isomerism results when a structure and it 's mirror image are non-superimposable . |
| 26 | The next day all this was swept from their minds when a letter arrived from Eileen , saying that she was to be married by special licence . |
| 27 | Research should focus on what happens to children when a parent infected with HIV dies and on the role of fostering and adoption services . |
| 28 | The correlation between the two sets of risk ratings is of comparable magnitude to the correlations when a subset of the data from Studies 2 and 3 was compared with data from a similar rating scales study ( Groeger & Chapman 1992 , in preparation a ) , r(22)=0.66 for risk ratings , r(22)=0.71 for accident estimates and r(22)=0.83 for speed ratings ( though risk and accident estimates are on a 20 point scale in one case and a 7 point scale in the other ) . |
| 29 | ‘ Maybe not , but I know there was a lot of opposition from the guys when a woman was put in the hot seat . ’ |
| 30 | Both shaman and the Savage Orc Boyz have a save of 5 or 6 from their protective tattoos when a shaman is with the unit . |