Example sentences of "when [noun] [vb -s] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women face impossible difficulties in trying to combine the roles of mother , paid worker and unpaid domestic worker , and when marriage breaks down the consequences are obvious in terms of the vulnerability of lone mothers and their children to poverty . |
| 2 | This happens when water leaches out the salt used to preserve the leather or when leather comes into contact with sea water or salt used to grit the roads . |
| 3 | But it still hurts when Gordon sits out the big Euro nights . |
| 4 | The introduction makes a perfunctory bow to linguistics when Genette puts forward the hypothesis that narrative may be regarded as ‘ the development — monstrous , if you will — given to a verbal form , in the grammatical sense of the term : the expansion of a verb … |
| 5 | If the Foreign Secretary is still here — which I doubt — when Britain takes over the presidency of the European Community , will he insist that some race legislation is passed in the European Community to protect black and minority ethnic citizens when they move around Europe ? |
| 6 | The political anger of ‘ On Civil Disobedience ’ and ‘ Walden ’ has burned itself out ; only one remark still rings with it , when Thoreau considers how the cherry disperses itself by having its stones swallowed : ‘ It is only princes who can afford to have their cherry puddings stoned , and so make their lives more completely luxurious and useless . ’ |
| 7 | The only breach in the silence comes when Anya raps out the occasional direction — turn here , take the first left off the roundabout , and so forth . |
| 8 | Although Ice Cube 's role as an agent provocateur is unequivocal , his future as a bankable revolutionary must be open to doubt , despite his assertion on the liner notes of ‘ Predator ’ : ‘ I will become an African-American when America gives up the oppression of my people . ’ |