Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] when the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The affair seems to him to belong to the town , to have no future , and they are parted when the town comes under fear and hazard . |
| 2 | Some protestors demonstrated against her Dresden visit ; wartime bitterness had earlier been aroused when the Queen Mother on May 31 unveiled a statue in London to Sir Arthur " Bomber " Harris , wartime head of Bomber Command , and when German plans were disclosed ( but subsequently cancelled ) to commemorate officially on Oct. 5 the 50th anniversary of the development of the V2 rocket technology on the island Oie off Peenemünde on the Baltic coast . |
| 3 | Increases are given when the husband or wife Teaches 65 , with a bigger increase still at 75 . |
| 4 | deictic : a. gestural b. symbolic 2. non-deictic : c. non-anaphoric d. anaphoric These difficulties are compounded when the phenomenon of deictic projection , or shifts from the egocentric centre , are taken into account ; and they are further multiplied by the interaction of the semantics of non-deictic categorizations of ( especially ) space and time with deictic modifiers . |
| 5 | ( All leading spaces are stripped when the line is originally entered . ) |
| 6 | Vincent Piedboeuf , computer systems project leader for the international organisation , revealed that vital research into the disease had been halted when the computer became overloaded and crashed and said EORTC had been saddled with a gigantic phone bill . |
| 7 | The Manet had been painted when the painter was in England in 1867 , and had some things in common with his portrait of Zola . |
| 8 | I can only wonder at the fish that would have been caught when the river had fully fined down . |
| 9 | It had been caught when the zip was closed . |
| 10 | No real harm will be done should you get it wrong first time , but you will have to start from the beginning again and , depending on how much of the software has been installed when the error occurs , things can get rather complicated . |
| 11 | No real harm will be done should you get it wrong first time , but you will have to start from the beginning again and , depending on how much of the software has been installed when the error occurs , things can get rather complicated . |
| 12 | The Tour chief was concerned that negative headlines had been carried when the golf of David Gilford , the tournament winner , and the joint runners-up , Jamie Spence and Stephen Ames , should have been the news . |
| 13 | I am advised that doctors at the Queen Elizabeth II hospital have confirmed that Carley could not have been transferred when the hospital test results showed that she had meningitis and the test results were available within one hour of Carley 's admission . |
| 14 | In his report , Coleman suggested that the ‘ prodigious loss of horses was due to expert advice not having been sought when the outbreak started ’ . |
| 15 | The Cattle of the Cottagers are impounded when the Forest is driven by the Keepers , as all other Cattle are ; and when the Owners take them from the Pound ( paying the usual Fees to the Keepers ) they turn them again into the Forest , having no other Means of maintaining them … the Cottagers … are detrimental to the Forest , by cutting Wood for Fuel , and for building Huts , and making Fences to the Patches which they inclose from the Forest ; by keeping Pigs , Sheep etc. in the Forest all the Year ; and by stealing Timber . |
| 16 | Are n't you going to claim that the spider must have been disturbed when the undergrowth was cleared and so it was all my fault ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Nasals ’ , for example , is the name given to sounds which are made when the breath escapes through the nose . |
| 18 | The conservative resurgence had not been anticipated when the congress had twice been brought forward from early 1991 . |
| 19 | If only there remained some sort of plan of the former layout ; but it could hardly have been anticipated when the conversion was begun that a modern miller would be the buyer , who proposed to grind not corn but electricity . |
| 20 | Some writers use an engineering analogy and point out that the words ‘ stress ’ , ‘ strain ’ , ‘ tension ’ and ‘ pressure ’ are used when the load becomes too great and a breaking point is reached ; it is the point where the strain is so great that metal ceases to bend and it snaps . |
| 21 | The News International ban was just the type of dispute that must have been envisaged when the Code was drawn up . |
| 22 | Rock salt is the land equivalent of sea salt , having been deposited when the sea covered the area in a previous age . |
| 23 | After a positive test result the family practitioner and health visitor are contacted when the baby is about six weeks old to develop a social profile of the family and decide how best to approach them to offer a venous blood test to confirm or refute the screening test . |
| 24 | The cost in foregone earnings of bearing two children has been estimated at £119,000 if they are born when the mother is in her early 20s to £121,000 if they are born when the mother is in her mid-30s ( Joshi 1987a ) . |
| 25 | The cost in foregone earnings of bearing two children has been estimated at £119,000 if they are born when the mother is in her early 20s to £121,000 if they are born when the mother is in her mid-30s ( Joshi 1987a ) . |
| 26 | In those circumstances , the point had clearly been reached when the court should be prepared , in W. 's own interests , to overrule her refusal to consent to treatment , and we therefore ordered that she should be treated at the appropriate London unit . |
| 27 | Not so at the Grand National , where the horses are assembled behind a fibre rope ( call a tape ) some 70 metres long , whose ends are hoisted when the race is signalled to begin . |
| 28 | Those who are hurt when the environment is degraded , and who stand to gain the most from sound policies , are often the poor and the weak . |
| 29 | An association with ‘ urgency ’ has been found when the child passes urine frequently and with great urgency , often not reaching the lavatory in time ( Berg et al . |
| 30 | They were some of the first cars to be withdrawn when the fleet was modernised , and they were scrapped in 1934 . |