Example sentences of "as when a [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The focus on the addresser , for instance a speaker or an author , constitutes the emotive function , that of expressing the addresser 's attitudes or feelings ; the focus on the addressee or receiver , the conative function , that of influencing the feelings or attitudes of the addressee ; the focus on the context , the real , external situation in which the message occurs , the referential function ; the focus on the code , as when a message elucidates a point of grammar , the metalingual function ; the focus on the means of contact , as in the case , say , of expressions inserted by one party into a telephone conversation simply in order to reassure the other party that they are both still on the line , the phatic function ; the focus on the message itself , the poetic function . |
| 2 | The nature of a painter 's technique is never scrutinised so closely as when a work has just been cleaned , and at the heart of the exhibition will be eight of the fourteen Titians in the Louvre 's own collection that have just been freed of their treacly , dark varnishes and retouchings . |
| 3 | To illustrate this point , Piaget uses the following examples : the creation or imagined characters to provide a sympathetic audience for a child 's actions or speech ; catharsis , as when a doll is allowed to ride a machine which a child fears ; and compensatory combinations , as when a child goes through the motions of pretend washing up when forbidden access to the real thing by its parent . |
| 4 | But the question is not pursued with the same tenacity and intensity as when a child dies in tragic circumstances . |
| 5 | To anyone familiar with the conventions of the second-person singular in modern European languages it is no surprise to learn that Shakespeare preserves the distinction You/Thou primarily to express the relationship far/near , as when a parent addresses a child ( or a master a servant ) as Thou and receives You in reply . |
| 6 | Even so , he was called upon to sign documents on occasions , as when a conveyance relating to the chapel and its land was prepared in 1805 and his name as witness ( 'John Titford , Cardmaker' ) appears alongside those of John Lacey , shoemaker , Richard Butler , weaver , and James Browning , clothier ; together they form a nice little thumb-nail sketch of the kind of men who were ‘ Chapel ’ rather than ‘ Church ’ at this period . |
| 7 | Confrontation with a novel or unexpected event , in which few replicative aspects are evident , may mean that inappropriate constructs come to be applied as when a viewer orientated towards figurative painting attempts to discover recognizable content with an abstract work . |
| 8 | ‘ We ’ may be used in a number of status-embedded ways , as when a doctor addresses a patient with ‘ How are we feeling ? ’ or an adult says to a child ‘ Have we lost our voice , then ? ’ . |