Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] when the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Industrial relations became strained when the post office abolished a flexible shift system at the SWindon branch . |
| 2 | John Lennon dropped in on it , and got embarrassed when the poet , naked except for a pair of underpants draped round his head , kissed him on the cheek . |
| 3 | Bartlett 's ideas on schemata became popular when the development of computers meant that theories of this type could be programmed ( e.g. Minsky , 1975 ; Rumelhart , 1975 ; Schank , 1976 ) . |
| 4 | The role of the probation service became clear when the Home Office published , in 1988c , Tackling Offending — An Action Plan ' , a document setting out how these proposals could be put into practice . |
| 5 | All became clear when the jeep was unloaded at the other end . |
| 6 | To leap clear when the hill-top |
| 7 | Vauxhall could learn a few tricks here , the cacophony from the 16-valver becoming tiresome when the engine 's full rev range is explored . |
| 8 | They 've made him lie with his hands behind his head , which is a trick they probably picked from a Miami Vice afternoon repeat , except it looks stupid when the guy 's hairy legs are sticking out from the tail of his shirt . |
| 9 | The only inconvenience of the original interior was that the bedrooms all led into one another ( just as they had always done in houses past : passages were only deemed essential when the segregation of servants became the norm in the eighteenth century ) ; but this was overcome by making a gallery and rearranging the staircase . |
| 10 | THE FUTURE of the diminutive Hunslet quarry locos must have looked bleak when the slate industry at Llanberis finally closed in the 1960's , writes COLIN JAMES . |
| 11 | ‘ I read about them , it all goes dark when the sun covers the moon . |
| 12 | Not only did the Tories win more votes than seemed possible when the election was announced , but they improved their position relative to Labour on 13 of the 14 issues that Gallup monitored during the campaign . |
| 13 | When the puffer-fish escapes the jaws of the moray eel by inflating itself , we think , ‘ Perhaps I could do that when the moray eel comes for me ’ . |
| 14 | Things are made clear when the discussion turns to the progress of the Access Group . |
| 15 | ‘ Dad was made redundant when the yard was closed in seventy-three . |
| 16 | Instead of being made redundant when the ownership of your employer changes hands , you are nowadays automatically transferred to work for the purchaser . |
| 17 | He seemed disappointed when the dispute was settled at higher levels . |
| 18 | It seemed surprised when the crustacean raised its claws and valiantly fought back . |
| 19 | The driver became suspicious when the man , dressed in a dark uniform approached him and asked him if he 'd been drinking . |
| 20 | but Sale came back with ten points in ten minutes and were still going strong when the whistle went … too close for comfort |
| 21 | They had long since stopped expecting the world to deal kindly with them : they had used up their good fortune by remaining alive when the Plague came . |
| 22 | The reason for this will become clear when the fossil faunas are examined , for post-depositional breakage of the upper and lower jaws often removes any evidence of the jaws themselves so that only the teeth are left to provide an indication of the former numbers of jaws , and this index attempts to take this into account . |
| 23 | The Council objected to the houses lying empty when the City has a severe housing shortage . |
| 24 | PASSIONS run high when the subject of animal rights is raised ; so high that the warring factions can be at odds even over ownership of key metaphors in the argument . |
| 25 | County were beaten 3–1 , but the omens did not look favourable when the Town 's mascot , a stuffed donkey , caught fire at the post-match celebration . |
| 26 | A friend of mine suggests this is because my system is all transistor rather than valves , but the processor and power amp both sound fine when the volume of each is turned up with the volume of the other turned down . |
| 27 | Many of my Malawis are beautiful blue and purple colours which look great when the aquarium light is combined with natural daylight , but in the evening when there is no natural light , they look a pale blue/white colour — a far cry from their stunning metallic daylight colours . |
| 28 | The l.e.d. will become illuminated when the battery condition is ‘ good ’ and will become extinguished when the terminal voltage of the battery falls below about 8.1V . |
| 29 | The hips and thighs look spongy when the skin is pinched . |
| 30 | But at the height of Charlie 's love-affair with Celtic the romance turned sour when the player flatly rejected what he believed was an insulting financial offer from the Celtic board . |