Example sentences of "[adv] when it [vb -s] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Delors claims that ‘ binding procedures ’ do not break the principle of ‘ subsidiarity ’ — the idea that decisions should be taken at EC level only when it makes sense to do so . |
| 2 | The use of the penal law against workers , especially when it involves imprisonment , or the possibility of imprisonment , is one of the most persistent sources of conflict between labour and management , and between labour and governments . |
| 3 | Here in Canada we are badly isolated from regular contact with soccer , so when it comes time for the World Cup , the cable sports network dredges up some living bodies to do the commentary . |
| 4 | Walk slowly away when it loses interest . ’ |
| 5 | But the bigger point is that pursuing wrong priorities discredits greenery as a whole — just when it needs friends to defend it from hard-pressed businessmen and rabid deregulators . |
| 6 | It need only do what it does now when it examines doctors ' behaviour by asking them to justify that behaviour before a panel of their professional peers . |
| 7 | It 's refreshing , even when it gets way into the twenties ! ’ |
| 8 | Not surprisingly , the results are not always convincing : lyric poetry , for example is labelled as non-fictional even when it includes references to non-existing objects ( such as blue deer in Georg Trakl 's poems ) , while narrative and nonsense poetry are assigned to the fictional domain . |
| 9 | Even when it eschews prescriptivism and presents itself as science , grammar/linguistics remains a branch of patriarchal scholarship which is guilty of perpetuating sexism . |
| 10 | Liberation does not mean slaying the dragon , but rising above it , growing beyond it , seeing through its tricks and laughing gently and lovingly when it snorts fire at us . |