Example sentences of "[adj] when a [noun sg] has " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it were clear when a party has formed an intention to incur legal obligation , if a person did commonly define the obligation he desired to assume in terms which left little doubt as to its nature , it would be unnecessary , and indeed merely foolish , to require an additional test of that intention . |
| 2 | Referring issues to a named firm or company can run into similar problems but , again , it is appropriate when a dispute has already arisen : see 8.2.4 . |
| 3 | Injury is more likely when a joint has become stiff either with age or disuse . |
| 4 | Scotland 's normal practice in qualifying groups is to pick up points early on and then drop some later when a cushion has been inflated to break their fall . |
| 5 | This kick is especially useful when a fighter has been knocked to the ground and his opponent is closing in for the kill , although in training it is learned from a standing position . |
| 6 | Holmes and Forster interpreted this pattern as indicating that a listener 's processing load is least at clause boundaries , since reaction time should be shortest when a subject has the smallest processing load . |
| 7 | Second , there are often two different passives available when a sentence has a sequence noun + adjective following the verb ; for instance , the fourth example of the previous set can be linked either to ( 4 ) or to ( 5 ) : ( 4 ) the packages registered were sent by our lawyer ( 5 ) the packages were sent registered by our lawyer It is intuitively obvious that ( 4 ) corresponds to the postnominal attributive interpretation of ( 3 ) ( c ) , but ( 5 ) to the other intensional pattern introduced here . |
| 8 | Aerial ULV sprays will be most suitable when a pest has to be controlled over vast areas at the same time ; in the control of tsetse fly , for example , and in forests , to control pine beauty moth in Scotland . |