Example sentences of "happens when a " in BNC.

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1 A brief description of the intercept method should provide a flavour of what happens when a radiocarbon result is calibrated .
2 What happens when a so-called Third World nation or region says to the imperialist powers , NO , we will not conduct our affairs according to your orders ?
3 This spectacular fall happens when a gust of wind hits the sail and you are thrown off your feet over the boom .
4 This happens when a man 's ordinary hours of duty are 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. and when one likes to look forward to spending a few hours with one 's family .
5 THE BRITISH government has decided to pull the plug on a European investigation into what happens when a pressurised-water reactor goes badly wrong .
6 This is shown by looking at what happens when a Siamese kitten is reared in a very cold environment .
7 But The Ancient Mariner is really concerned with what happens when a man upsets the powers of Nature —
8 Consider what happens when a crack approaches an interface of this kind which is roughly at right angles to it .
9 This is what happens when a person lives locked inside a view of the world that does not take the existence of others into account ’ .
10 Is what happens when a child is confused .
11 On this occasion , however , his calm appeared to have been ruffled by Dr Dunstaple 's words and he replied with a note of impatience in his voice : " If any evidence were needed it would be enough to see what happens when a weak saline solution is injected into the veins of a patient in the condition of collapse .
12 Never mind that this is very seldom what happens when a bullet strikes a forehead and especially when it comes out at the back of the head .
13 Okay I mean the question on the paper might well be , What happens when a metal reacts with an acid .
14 Right , so what what happens when a piece of paper burns , or sugar burns or
15 In class structure grammar , bondage happens when a dependent clause is bound to an independent clause .
16 This happens when a succession of items are placed one after another in a sentence without words to indicate their order or importance .
17 What happens when a majority voting equilibrium does not exist has been explored in a number of studies .
18 Figure 16–4 showed what happens when a wage tax is levied but the supply of labour is completely inelastic .
19 The curve in the middle shows what happens when a mixture of benzene and naphthalene is cooled .
20 As for change of intention , this happens when a person has done the Non-Intending Practitioners ' Course but subsequently wishes to be eligible to practise here .
21 I 've just talked about what happens when a branch member wants to appeal but this is a branch as a whole that 's made a decision at a meeting that it does n't agree with something that 's happened .
22 If you think of it the other way when , what happens when a price , when a price falls , alright , if farmers er , assume that price fall will be sustained over a number of periods , then they think , right well in order to achieve the same level of income , right , as I did previously , if prices have fallen , I 'm going to have to increase my output .
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