Example sentences of "when [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The male does not attack it but , when mounting the tiny animal , simply performs the perfectly normal neck-bite that he employs when copulating with a female . |
| 2 | A little African ground squirrel gave a most convincing performance when examined by a zoologist . |
| 3 | When formed into a grid , two sets of parallel lines create a series of similar crosses . |
| 4 | Gungawatti , when frightened by a swarm of jungle bees , gave him his first ride on the back of a bolting elephant . |
| 5 | In a broad programme of work , a variety of methods or types of activity can be reasonably expected ; planning will begin to lay out the sequence in increasing detail , even when allowing for a number of variant paths or for the switching of the course according to observed student response : improvisation or student decision-making works best when possibilities have been foreseen and prepared for . |
| 6 | The headaches , which in Italy had been tolerable when eased by a siesta or a day or two 's absence from the office , or the circolo , where he picked up most of his cases , had become unbearable in New York . |
| 7 | If you have an electrical test meter you can devise one of your own , using two electrodes and measuring the current passing between them when pressed into a wall . |
| 8 | Cook brochettes under a hot grill for 5 minutes , turning once and brushing with marinade , until the fish flakes when pressed with a knife . |
| 9 | Bake at 180C/350F/Gas 4 for 25 minutes or until the top springs back when pressed with a finger . |
| 10 | For example , women have described to researchers how it is difficult to cut down on food when cooking for a partner who expects meat with his main meal ( Charles and Kerr , 1986 ) . |
| 11 | Until ATBC is known to be not only " microwave friendly " but also " user-friendly " , consumers are warned not to use cling film for wrapping food or lining dishes when cooking in a microwave oven . |
| 12 | Whatever , Mitchell 's remark suggests how , even when recognized as a fact of culture rather than biology , sexual difference remains fairly absolute within psychoanalytic theory . |
| 13 | Engineers already knew this , just as we know that the refrigerator will not work if it is not plugged in ; but Carnot 's achievement , when recognized after a quarter of a century , allowed theoretical understanding and in the end further advance in practice . |
| 14 | ‘ When walking with a lady always walk on the outside of the pavement . ’ |
| 15 | Sue Baker , Observer motoring correspondent , has a theory : ‘ So often , when driving on a motorway , you see strings of cars in the outside lane , driving too fast and too close , the drivers trying to intimidate one another . |
| 16 | When purchasing from a group , arrangements must be made to calculate and clear intra-group accounts . |
| 17 | ‘ It is a lie , ’ he stormed when quizzed by a TV reporter . |
| 18 | Close inspection of the data showed that the context effects were due to inhibition : when preceded by an anomalous context , words took an average of 110 milliseconds longer to identify than when preceded by a row of Xs . |
| 19 | We also saw that context can have an effect on the speed of visual word recognition , although experiments by Fischler and Bloom ( 1979 ; 1980 ) suggest that the effect is inhibitory rather than facilitatory , with a word taking longer to identify when preceded by a context which makes it semantically anomalous . |
| 20 | In 1949 , Jean Cocteau , the poet , dramatist and film director , wrote a letter to the American people when returning on a plane from New York to France . |
| 21 | When installed with a disc ( the Happy back-up ) it automatically performs all the operations needed to copy a guarded disc . |
| 22 | When applying for a place on a re-entry course keep the following questions in mind so that you can compare what is on offer to your own best advantage . |
| 23 | When applying for a place on MA courses five years previously , I 'd suggested that , although there were many excellent publications for identifying birds , insects , plants and so forth , ecological concepts were ‘ going public ’ . |
| 24 | Three conditions apply : the claimant must be in paid working employment for 16 hours or more a week , suffer from an illness or disability which leaves them disadvantaged when applying for a job and must have recently been getting benefit such as income support , housing or community charge benefit . |
| 25 | When applying for a job , make sure you emphasize the interests and leisure activities that an employer would find relevant . |
| 26 | It is used when applying for a job . |
| 27 | She explains in a recent description of her fiction that ‘ any specialist discourse when transposed into a non-specialist context or , if you prefer , when understood literally , can turn into metaphor ’ ( 1988a:129 ) . |
| 28 | A classic problem is posed by asking what form radiant energy takes up when confined in a container ( or cavity , to use the time-hallowed language of statistical physics ) whose walls are black . |
| 29 | Is it sensible to consider that this natural intelligence or healing power would produce a situation that was without a purpose , for which no reason existed and which was harmful to the person when considered as a whole ? |
| 30 | For example , operating decisions regarding the range of products to be made and sold would normally be made prior to the completion of the functional and master budgets , but these decisions when considered as a whole within the budgeting framework may be reconsidered and amendments made to the range . |