Example sentences of "when a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The case received wide publicity when a habeas corpus petition was upheld by two lower courts . |
| 2 | This is the occasion when a reader can visit the same show and make a personal assessment of how helpful the art critic has been . |
| 3 | ‘ Most people addicted to romancing are their own heroes ’ : when a second person enters the solitude in question , Louisa Stuart 's maxim becomes harder to apply . |
| 4 | In Take a girl like you a great sentence falls like the dew from heaven during one of the scenes in Amis when a terminally drunk man endures a sexual turmoil and fiasco , is stunned by a stunning but not very nice girl . |
| 5 | What he has to come out with is not initially clear , but it becomes clearer when a taste of gay night-life turns him off , and he trails back to his dull wife . |
| 6 | The theatre is ‘ larger than life ’ , not in terms of physical scale , but because movements and speech are comparatively emphatic and intense , even when a play simulates everyday natural surroundings . |
| 7 | But what I want to know is this — how come a Pakistani hot off the banana boat can get a mortgage when a decent cop with 25 years service in the force can not ? |
| 8 | It is the moment , he wrote , when a man suddenly realizes that there is no tomorrow , no second chance , only today , this chance , now . |
| 9 | As when a bloodied sword , by Vulcan 's skill |
| 10 | Their lives take a startling turn when a friend is murdered in the local park . |
| 11 | When a taxi driver is robbed by two wealthy women , he seeks revenge , outraged by the unjust crime and the refusal of the police to believe his story . |
| 12 | So we were surprised when a local entomologist advised us to put sacking around our fruit trees or straw round their bases to encourage the insect . |
| 13 | Most accidents happen when a cable break occurs close to the ground . |
| 14 | When a glider is being moved around the airfield , one person should take charge of the whole operation and be responsible for the safety of the aircraft . |
| 15 | When a blow-over does occur , you will always hear the people concerned state , quite truthfully : ‘ Up to that time the wind had been quite acceptable and then there was this bad gust … |
| 16 | When a glider is on the ground it does not pivot around its c.g. as it does in flight . |
| 17 | When a glider recovers so easily , a rapid movement forward on the stick often results in a very steep recovery and a high speed dive . |
| 18 | Aims to predict ovulation — when a woman is most fertile . |
| 19 | When a pregnant woman drinks , the alcohol that enters her bloodstream passes into her baby 's bloodstream as well . |
| 20 | A chief constable is perfectly entitled to insist on being informed when a member of his force writes to the press on matters appertaining to his force . |
| 21 | And at this point when a range of established values were under scrutiny , the body was made to carry a new symbolic load which reflected the change from the social conformity of the previous decades . |
| 22 | And the exhibition would be important , she told herself , when a flow of desire swept her away at the thought of being with Lucy , time allotted to their togetherness . |
| 23 | She was skirting the moving foam , a foot away , and jumped sideways when a wave overreached . |
| 24 | A less obvious example of this failure to take protective measures occurs when a contestant believes that a scoring technique has been delivered , and so disengages and dances around the area waving a fist in the air . |
| 25 | March when a laird 's son gives an order ? |
| 26 | When a larger group came tramping in behind a piper , Cameron and Menzies recognized some stalwarts from Foss on Tummel . |
| 27 | For his abilities and interests had been felt throughout the land , and had touched Palestine itself ; the day would not be far distant when a woodland would be dedicated to him , the Lyon Cohen Memorial Grove , at Kadesh Naftali , south of Jerusalem . |
| 28 | No Talmudic saying was nearer to him than that at the end of the Kiddushin : ‘ When a man faces his Maker , he will have to account for those ( God-given ) pleasures of life which he failed to enjoy , ’ and the Mezeritzer Rabbi commented , albeit a little more warily , ‘ You may reach a compromise between evil and good by enjoying legitimate bodily pleasure and serving God at the same time . ’ |
| 29 | When a quotation is followed by an attributive phrase , the comma is placed within the quotation marks . |
| 30 | This word universal is never the name of anything existent in nature , nor of any idea or phantasm found in the mind [ my italics ] , but always the name of some word or name ; so that when a living creature , a stone , a spirit , or any other thing , is said to be universal , it is not to be understood that any man , stone etc. , ever was or can be universal , but only that the words , living creature , stone , etc. , are universal names , that is , names common to many things ; and the conceptions answering them in the mind are the images and phantasms of several living creatures or other things . |