Example sentences of "when it [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This automatically switches the machine on when it hears a message coming through , recognises the medium being used , and then turns the machine off after the message has been recorded . |
| 2 | ‘ Not when it involves a member of my family ! ’ he snarled , all mockery gone . |
| 3 | When it takes over your life , you know , anything that happens to you is related back to food whether it 's you know , connected or not , that is when it becomes an eating problem . |
| 4 | ‘ It is when it becomes an obsession , ’ she said . |
| 5 | The car transporter was travelling down the slip road of the A418 to join the A40 when it left the sliproad . |
| 6 | The population nevertheless went on increasing until the decennial census of 1851 , when it reached a peak of about 424,000 . |
| 7 | As most readers will know already , OPEC became a major force in the international economy , and in banking and finance during 1973–74 when it raised the price of a barrel of oil from $3.00 to $11.65 . |
| 8 | Ministers may try to make a statement ( they secure this every Thursday with the weekly business statement ) ; the Opposition may seek to have a Private Notice Question ; the Government prefer to have a debate on a Government motion or bill ; the Opposition would like to have an Opposition Day when it opens the debate ; and backbenchers seek to get in with points of order and applications for emergency debates . |
| 9 | Consequently , the only time the operating system refers to a file by its name is when it opens the file . |
| 10 | The V-1 Buzz-Bomb assault on London began on June 12 , 1944 and Sugar 's first attack against their launching sites was on the night of June 24 when it attacked a site at Prouville with P/O G C Skelton in command . |
| 11 | The government claimed on Jan. 16 that security forces had destroyed the rebels ' headquarters , but on the following day the BRA staged one of its most spectacular actions to date when it attacked the island 's prison , releasing all Bougainville inmates and killing five prison officers . |
| 12 | Despite the minimalist parameters for the new channel set out in the Broadcasting Act , in profound contrast to the remit of Channel Four when it began a decade ago , we want to make an issue of the new Channel . |
| 13 | APOWERFUL bomb killed at least 50 people and wounded 500 in Bogota yesterday when it wrecked the headquarters of the Department of Administrative Security , the government agency charged with bringing Colombia 's drug dealers to heel . |
| 14 | APOWERFUL bomb killed at least 40 people and wounded 350 in Bogota yesterday when it wrecked the headquarters of the Department of Administrative Security , the government agency charged with bringing Colombia 's drug dealers to heel . |
| 15 | Hungary had turned back more than one million people from its borders since October 1991 , when it restricted the conditions of entry into the country . |
| 16 | Hungary had turned back more than one million people from its borders since October 1991 , when it restricted the conditions of entry into the country . |
| 17 | In the following words when unstressed : ‘ he ’ , ‘ she ’ , ‘ we ’ , ‘ me ’ , ‘ be ’ and the word ‘ the ’ when it precedes a vowel . |
| 18 | THE Darlington Building Society maintained the North-East trend among building societies yesterday when it announced a rise in profits by more than 30pc . |
| 19 | Evidence of human occupation here goes back to the Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic periods ( Early and Middle Stone Ages ) but its period of greatest activity was in the Late Iron Age , from roughly 100 BC to 50 AD , when it became a trading centre and port for people and goods from the Continent . |
| 20 | Indeed , these were , according to some local historians , Bayonne 's very best years , when it became a trading centre of European stature . |
| 21 | St Nicholas , Worth Matravers , was the mother church , Swanage being only a chapelry until 1487 when it became a rectory . |
| 22 | The Creykes lived in Rawcliffe Hall until 1924 , when it became a hospital for the mentally handicapped . |
| 23 | It was it was fun when we first started , because the weather was nice , you know it was er you c take a thermos up and have a picnic and sit in the chair and read a book or whatever if there was no one around , but after a while when it became a duty , yeah it was hard work getting up on a winter 's morning , knowing full well that you probably would n't see any cars if you down in until about ten in the morning , but you still had to be there at seven o'clock , and honking it down with rain or whatever . |
| 24 | The existing building dates from the 1740s when it became an oil mill for linseed In 1808 it was bought by the British Copper Company and was used for producing copper sheets In 1860 it was purchased by the East London Water Company and rebuilt as a pumping station . |
| 25 | The championship renamed yet again in 1986 when it became The Sports-Prototype World Championship , for both drivers and teams . |
| 26 | He was president of the Newcastle Chemical Society ( 1871–2 ) and a vice-president until 1882 , when it became the Newcastle section of the Society of Chemical Industry , in which he continued to take an active interest . |
| 27 | Later , the East Anglian Regional Advisory Council for Further Education ( EARAC ) was established in 1947 , with its secretariat provided by the Norfolk LEA , and the work of the Regional Consultative Council was absorbed into EARAC in 1953 when it became the Adult Education Sub-Committee of the East Anglian body . |
| 28 | They believe the court was mistaken last year when it granted a petition making the university authorities sole trustee , clearing the way for the proposed sale . |
| 29 | California 's Apple Computer did the same thing in a bigger way last October , when it halved the price-tag on its popular Macintosh model . |
| 30 | Informally , the Working Party of Library and Book Trade Relations is still in existence , though less active than in the 1970s , when it produced a number of valuable publications . |