Example sentences of "[verb] when it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Berisford formerly owned British Sugar but was forced to sell when it came unstuck with property deals in the US . |
| 2 | Also worried are Taiwan and other neighbouring countries , which wonder what China will do when it has more of its own expensive new toys . |
| 3 | It is also , more generally , the essence of what the Barclay Report ( 1982 ) was seeking when it characterized social care planning as one of the core roles in which community social workers should be engaged . |
| 4 | Nationwide announced that 300 redundancies will be made when it closes 58 of its 361 estate agency branches . |
| 5 | Another typical resistance is met when it becomes clear that despite everything that is being achieved in terms of family understanding and awareness , individuals are sticking rigidly to old patterns of interaction and behaviour . |
| 6 | Most pumps have a filter to clean the incoming air , and this needs cleaning or replacing when it gets dirty . |
| 7 | Old providers of employment are artificially kept alive until a point is reached when it becomes obvious that support must be switched off . |
| 8 | Many of the ordinary Panamanians who gave the general such a stinging defeat in May 's annulled elections were astonished that the US allowed the coup to collapse when it had 12,000 troops stationed around the canal . |
| 9 | Triumphing against all odds and losing when it seems easier to win is one of Scotland 's most endearing faults . |
| 10 | If you 're well enough , we 'll ride when it gets dark . ’ |
| 11 | Brothers Max ( the mechanic ) and Edwin ( the engine tuner ) both raced themselves ( bikes and car rallies respectively ) but quit when it became obvious that Bradl was destined for the big time . |
| 12 | November : On Nov. 14 all 46 people on board an Alitalia DC9 died when it hit high ground while approaching Zurich airport in Switzerland . |
| 13 | The burden increased when it became clear that it was schools who would be held principally responsible in implementing the national curriculum , in taking the first steps in teacher appraisal and in managing their finances . |
| 14 | The Ren & Stimpy Show , featuring possibly the most deranged comic duo in years , became an instant cult hit when it appeared last autumn in pilot form on cable channel Nickleodeon . |
| 15 | He had few clothes — a ‘ good suit ’ of dark-blue lightweight dacron that was the badge of every American in those days , a couple of shirts , a long , shapeless tweed overcoat of German origin he wore when it got colder . |
| 16 | He had briefly been in the Army but had left when it became clear that he would not get commissioned . |
| 17 | The court must not make a bankruptcy order unless it is satisfied that the debt , or one of the debts , in respect of which the petition was presented has not been paid nor secured or compounded for , or is a debt which the debtor has no reasonable prospect of being able to pay when it falls due ( s 271(1) ) . |
| 18 | This strategy was scrapped when it became apparent that the government needed to take some action before the students revved up again for another outbreak of violence . |
| 19 | ‘ The Michelangelo computer virus that received worldwide attention last year is expected to cause even fewer problems this Saturday than it did when it struck last year , a team of IBM researchers said ’ . |
| 20 | This is one reason why firms are often most willing to start with a clean sheet of paper when setting up a new subsidiary , as Britain 's Midland Bank did when it established First Direct , its successful telephone-banking business . |
| 21 | With the detector in omnidirectional mode it bleeps when it receives any radar swap from within 5 miles ( 8 km ) . |
| 22 | In the first instance decision of Harvey [ 1988 ] Crim.L.R. 241 , a confession of murder made by a psychopathically disordered woman was , it is submitted , rightly excluded when it became apparent that she might have been motivated by a childlike desire to protect her lover , whom she had over-heard confessing to the same offence . |
| 23 | Twenty-four hours , the way her luck ran when it concerned this man . |
| 24 | The ceilidh was held in the stable yard of the castle but as there was no lighting , festivities had to cease when it got dark ; great to live by nature 's principles like this , but a shame to stop when it was going so well ! |
| 25 | Even the supposedly rigid ‘ external financing limits ’ imposed by the post-1979 Conservative government in Britain have proved to be flexible in practice ( Heald and Steel 1981 ) , with targets being adjusted when it became apparent that they would not be met . |
| 26 | Failure of Antarctic sanctuary plan A French proposal for the establishment of an Antarctic whale sanctuary was withdrawn when it became clear that it would not win the requisite 75 per cent level of support of IWC members . |
| 27 | The announcement a week ago that the company was seeking new equity financing made it pretty clear that the end was nigh for Littleton , Massachusetts-based massively parallel systems builder Alliant Computer Systems Corp , and the company announced last week that the boom has fallen when it fired all but 50 of its 225 employees and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection . |
| 28 | The first note was not paid when it fell due . |
| 29 | The demand must also specify someone with whom the debtor can communicate with a view to securing or compounding for the debt to the creditor 's satisfaction or , as the case may be , establishing to the creditor 's satisfaction that there is a reasonable prospect that the debt will be paid when it falls due . |