Example sentences of "[be] [adj] when the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Duncan had been asleep when the policeman burst into the room to give him the news that Leeming had been found .
2 Work by Bagnold has shown that the pressures are greatest when the pocket of trapped air is thinnest and that when the dimension of the pocket at right angles to the cliff reaches half that of the depth of the pocket the pressure is negligible .
3 A Management Committee consisting of ERA , GDC , our contract architects , and TSA was established to run the project and this part of the project highlighted that ‘ genuine partnerships ’ are possible when the determination to succeed is there .
4 The method had found unburnt paraffin in the person 's lungs , thus suggesting that the person had inhaled paraffin and so been alive when the fire started .
5 ‘ I 'm told that he may still have been alive when the murderer , or murderers , hammered the shaft through his neck and into the floor of the hut .
6 ( ‘ Bet your gums are relieved when the rest of you goes to sleep . ’ )
7 All fees are payable when the invoice is issued .
8 All fees are payable when the invoice is issued .
9 All fees are payable when the invoice is issued .
10 All fees are payable when the invoice is issued .
11 All fees are payable when the invoice is issued .
12 All fees are payable when the invoice is issued [ and all final fees are to be settled at completion ] .
13 Such a result may have been unthinkable when the competition began , but the Ukrainian side looked forlornly unmotivated in their 5–0 defeat by Benfica a fortnight ago and must now manage without midfielders Yuri Moroz and Sergei Zaets , plus the defender , Anatoli Bessmertnyi — all suspended .
14 Hampstead had already brought her sharply into his mind — that had been obvious when the name had leapt into view on our arrival .
15 And these storm doors are closed when the gale is threatening heavy seas on and there 's another door inside that about eight feet inside that another heavy door and then there 's another ordinary door inside that .
16 Such local context-tables are useful when the shell script interfaces with another tool that generates material that is to be viewed in an idiosyncratic way , e.g. using special fonts .
17 Models of the item being marketed are useful when the product being sold is too large or bulky to be physically displayed .
18 Both these publications are useful when the statute first appears , but both suffer from the defect that they are not regularly kept up to date by reprints or supplements .
19 The expressions simplify a good deal once it is noted that the most significant contributions come from terms containing which are important when the probe passes across the region where .
20 As defined by ( 10.72 ) , z and are imaginary when the product fg is positive .
21 Waking saccadic or tracking eye movements are faster when the eye has farther to travel , so that while an eye movement over 5 degrees is completed after about 60 milliseconds , so is a movement over 10 degrees .
22 If H is the rate of heat transfer per unit area ( taken as positive if the transfer is upwards , for example from hot ground to cooler air ) , this scale is u τ enters this expression because the temperature variations needed to produce a given heat transfer are smaller when the turbulence is more vigorous .
23 ‘ Experiences , relationships etc are considered to be supportive when the individual involved sees the experience tin terms of his values , goals , expectations , and aspirations ) as contributing to or maintaining his sense of personal worth and importance . ’
24 However , he said patients should also remember they are calling a private home and the doctor will often be asleep when the call is made .
25 But you will be sorry when the Access bill comes in next month if you fall for it .
26 I 've never heard of the make before ( Melos ) , but it 's a nice machine and I 'll be sorry when the tape wears out .
27 This easement does not by any means apply to all developers and is in any case temporary : setting off the charge against the claims in this way will not be possible when the fund has been distributed and the money has been spent or locked up in some investment .
28 Some theoretical work , however , has questioned the importance of water freezing in sealed cracks and the frequency of freezing events , suggesting instead that crack growth will be greatest when the temperature ranges from approximately to -15°C .
29 As a simple example of a prediction that can be tested using the laser vaporization tube set-up , the collapsing model predicts ( as does the pentagon road ) that the ratio of the C 70 yield to the C 60 yield will be high when the tube temperature is low , and vice versa .
30 THE voters of Langbaurgh are likely to be campaign-weary when the time comes to place their cross .
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