Example sentences of "occur when " in BNC.
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| 1 | The process of demystifying the monarchy , necessary if it was to survive the second half of the twentieth century , turned it instead into a grand soap-opera , in which some minor members of the family seemed only too happy to play a demeaning part , one of the more absurd examples occurring when several of the Queen 's children took part in the television party-game show It 's A Knockout ! |
| 2 | A loud juddering sound occurring when a tap is turned off or a ball-valve shuts is known as water hammer . |
| 3 | There are occasions , usually occurring when the weather conditions are near perfect for bream fishing , when you will go through a period of having bite after bite , all looking perfectly hittable in the classic bream style — slow and determined — and when you will become extremely frustrated because you miss every one . |
| 4 | This condition is called Exocrine Pancreatic Insufficiency , occurring when the pancreas is put out of action by the body 's own immune system which is supposed to protect it — a possible autoimmune disorder ( see Dogs Today October issue ) . |
| 5 | Yet the reality has been so , so different , with the latest low occurring when he damaged medial knee ligaments while playing in a reserve match last Thursday . |
| 6 | He had talked with two colleagues about the possibility of fusion occurring when water is drawn down into the Earth 's mantle at boundaries between tectonic plates . |
| 7 | Developments in antislavery — both the spread of local associations and the splitting off of the Agency campaign — were portrayed as only occurring when they were functionally necessary and productive of minimal conflict . |
| 8 | In this case , the supply of arbitrage services is a step function , with a large increase in arbitrage supply occurring when the mispricing is just large enough to cover the transactions costs of a new group of arbitrageurs . |
| 9 | The window of opportunity for survival from sudden cardiac arrest is narrow , the best chance occurring when the emergency medical services are activated first so that a defibrillator can be brought in good time . |
| 10 | The position of the bend influences the electrophoretic mobility of the protein-DNA complex with maximal retardation occurring when the bend is located at the middle of the fragment and a gradual reduction in retardation is seen for bends positioned at incremental positions towards the ends of the fragment ( 44,62 ) . |
| 11 | So , for example , in the case of the passive both animacy and prior access of a particular word ( occurring when a noun is thematic ) are factors which have been shown to influence single word identification . |
| 12 | It is clear that the complex pattern of symptoms could not be a consequence of just one or two loci of damage within the normal reading system , and Morton and Patterson ( 1980 ) have offered an interpretation in which the disorder is explained as occurring when a number of different loci in the normal reading system are all damaged . |
| 13 | The increase of modulus on drawing , on the crystalline bridge model , is then attributable to the increase in the number of crystalline bridges occurring when the material draws . |
| 14 | The fact that a convection pattern , occurring when Ra is a little above its critical value , commonly contains defects has very important consequences for the ways in which the convection may evolve as Ra is further increased . |
| 15 | Because none of us wants to have er , the problems that are occurring when you do n't put any sheep dip on . |
| 16 | Weaver shows , for example , that a certain peculiar kind of process is occurring when public enterprise objectives are being determined . |
| 17 | A striking example of the area 's isolation occurred when Yakovlev and his thirteen men arrived at the end of their horse-ride in the village of Nikol'sk . |
| 18 | AFAILURE of the signalling system — which occurred when a signal box wire that should have been removed was not , thus preventing the signal from turning to red — caused the Clapham rail disaster in which 35 people died last December 12 , according to the report of the inquiry chaired by Sir Anthony Hidden , QC . |
| 19 | The effect of that test would be to pick out those reckless killings which occurred when D had already manifested substantial moral and legal culpability , and to classify them as murder . |
| 20 | The last occasion on which the monarch was required to make a real choice occurred when the Queen was obliged to dance attendance on a sick Harold Macmillan in October 1963 . |
| 21 | A more serious incident occurred when the churchwarden was in the process of removing a crucifix in the churchyard following a directive from parliament for the removal of images from church property . |
| 22 | Bean 's ( 1980 ) typology of doctor — patient interaction showed that , under the 1959 Act , voluntary admission occurred when there was agreement between doctor and patient on the patient 's sick role or where , although agreement did not exist , the patient acquiesced and accepted this role . |
| 23 | In looking , therefore , for a possible performance element within the dramatic playing mode we discovered that a certain heightened form of dramatic playing , which we labelled presentation , occurred when a significant contribution by a participant was communicated by words and gestures achieving a shared public meaning . |
| 24 | The Uprising destroyed this normality , and one must ask why it occurred , and why it occurred when it did , twenty years after the territories fell under Israeli rule . |
| 25 | In the event the Loyal Citizens failed to appear and the only incident occurred when a small group began to sing ‘ God Save the Queen ’ as the demonstrators struck up with ‘ We shall overcome ’ . |
| 26 | The first problem occurred when they left the road and moved off into the open desert . |
| 27 | One particular incident occurred when an air diver jumped into the sea , and illustrates the need for these safety measures . |
| 28 | The crucial stage in the evolution of writing occurred when ideographs became phonograms , that is representations of things that are heard . |
| 29 | It was noted that the rising of the Nile occurred when the last star to appear on the horizon , before dawn obscures all stars , was the dog star Sothis , or Sirius as it is known to us . |
| 30 | People were refused regular blood pressure testing because they were 65 , they could not obtain a mobility allowance following an accident which occurred when they were 65 , they were not welcomed by voluntary agencies who — one would imagine — are crying out for workers . |