Example sentences of "when [noun] [vb -s] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The body of a cat when hunting takes on a quite different demeanour to that of the same pussy when out for an idle stroll or with some other intention in mind . |
| 2 | That there is an application called desktop publishing is certainly not in doubt ; when IBM sets up a Business Unit ( the last one was to develop the PC ) you know that something is going on . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But it still hurts when Gordon sits out the big Euro nights . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 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 | My alternative theory does not deny the influence of genetic characteristics , but , when history throws up a patterned sequence of black people entering sports in large numbers , excelling at them and continuing to demonstrate extraordinary zeal for particular disciplines , a more penetrating analysis of the social conditions beneath the sequence is necessary . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |