Example sentences of "when [indef pn] [vb -s] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I DID NOT STAY to see the Eid — the Eid Al Iftr , that great feast of the breaking of the fast , the days of celebration when everyone dresses in new clothes as though the sackcloth of fasting has lifted and life has renewed itself once again . |
| 2 | Blowing right to left across the beach , and slightly on shore , it quickly reaches force 4 or more on about 65% of the afternoons in season , including the odd flat patch when nothing blows at all for six or seven days . |
| 3 | When someone intrudes into that space , our natural reaction is to move back , unless they are a lover or an attacker , so that we can keep our private area intact . |
| 4 | But erm on the absolute scale of temperature , zero kelvin is the lowest one can get , and all one can hope to do is to get ever closer to that zero , when one goes to low temperatures . |
| 5 | Yet when one talks to leading figures in American school librarianship one detects an uneasy dissatisfaction . |
| 6 | This argument is an example of the pitfalls that one can encounter when one talks about infinite systems . |
| 7 | When one thinks about that , it becomes apparent how complex the matter is . |
| 8 | And when one thinks of individual subjects , why is mathematics typically in the science faculty when it is not a science ? |
| 9 | Prediction has been shown to be difficult , if not dangerous , when one thinks of all those worthy , well-written , sincerely felt , and critically-supported books that remain unread ( see Manning , 1969 ; Avery , 1972 ) , and those obvious , apparently superficial and mundane pot-boilers that gain young readers ' affections . |
| 10 | When one thinks of all the PM 's work these last four and a half years and of all he is and stands for , and that this is the response it gets , it makes one lose faith a bit . |
| 11 | The exceptional quality of the portrait of Spring is immediately apparent when one turns to that of Summer … it is difficult to think that it was produced by the " painter " of Spring : the delineation of the features is insensitive , the colouring inferior " ( Smith 1976 , 9 ) . |
| 12 | When one turns from internal to external trade , one sees that some men at any rate recognized how important it was for England to control the sea . |
| 13 | When one lands on such a flower , it seizes the clumped anthers with its six legs and then vibrates its muscles so vigorously that its whole body shakes with a loud buzzing noise and pollen pours out of the anthers like salt from a vigorously-wielded salt cellar . |
| 14 | If the fluid pressure in which the system works is upset , this is a very uncomfortable experience , as anyone who has been seasick will confirm ; luckily things quickly return to normal when one totters onto dry land , white and shaken . |
| 15 | Erm with without a new settlement erm that that was indeed the the impression that erm I was left with as well , and what what we 've sought to do in in the evidence that we 've we 've put before you is to take the nine seven , nine thousand seven hundred figure in Greater York , and and er s based on the data supplied by the County Council to demonstrate that that actually when one looks at outstanding commitments erm with planning permission , identified the sites er without planning permission , those those that are allocated in local plans , making suitable allowances for small sites erm windfall sites and conversion , erm the the residual figure that is left in Greater York , which I calculate to be eight thousand six hundred and thirty seven , once one has taken away completions , which I think is an agreed figure between nineteen ninety one and nineteen ninety three of one thousand and sixty three , that erm , those existing commitments , and the sites likely to come forward , ma virtually match the figure for the outstanding housing requirement , so so one is left with a view that erm from from the data that 's put in front of us that there is n't a residue of that size to accommodate , although I accept that there may well be a residue of some sort , erm and it seems to me that the established Greater York erm framework , er is is the process by which that is distributed around the counties along the lines that the discussion 's proceeded this morning . |
| 16 | When one looks at biological materials one is impressed with the enormous care which Nature seems to take over the interfaces when she is being , as it were , teleological . |
| 17 | Furthermore , when one looks at these paintings by Cézanne one is often struck by the closeness between the poses of certain figures and those of the ‘ demoiselles ’ . |
| 18 | When one looks at this , it 's surprising what little guidance in the day-to-day practice of medicine it offers . |
| 19 | That this intuition can be trained and sharpened I have not the slightest doubt , and I further believe that this is most likely to occur when one looks upon natural phenomena with reverence and humility . |