Example sentences of "disappear when a " in BNC.

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1 One policewoman said that , while the men disappear when a rape victim is brought in , they all want ‘ to gawp at the girl when she 's being examined and read her statement ’ ( FN 17/2/87 , p. 19 ) .
2 Working with Raúl Hemández-Peón , he also showed that the auditory ERPs generated in the neurons in the cat 's ear almost disappeared when a salient visual stimulus , for example a mouse , was brought into the cat 's field of view .
3 In the next two sections we shall pay special attention to situations in which an original effect disappears when a third variable is brought under control .
4 If the relationship between two variables entirely disappears when a causally prior variable is brought under control , we say that the original relationship was spurious ; by this we do not mean that the bivariate effect did not really exist , but rather that causal conclusions drawn from it would be incorrect .
5 If the relationship between two variables disappears when a prior variable is controlled , the original effect has been explained away .
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