Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun pl] when [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | US Senate armed services committee chairman Sam Nunn asked the Defence Department to conduct a further investigation , citing the statement in the ABC broadcast by Adml. ( retd ) William Crowe , former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff , that the Vincennes had been in Iranian waters when it fired the missile , not in international waters as previously claimed . |
| 2 | She still dealt in stolen goods when she got the chance , but the police were less interested in stolen goods than they had been in the more law-abiding times of some years before . |
| 3 | Ms Brenda Dean , general secretary of Sogat ( Society of Graphical and Alled Trades ) said : ‘ The decision will give the green light to a small minority of cynical police officers , encouraging them to build in unnecessary delays when they are investigating their own . ’ |
| 4 | Deutsch and Budwig ( 1983 ) , for example , found that children often used their own names in two-word utterances when they talked about objects currently in their possession , but a pronoun like me or my when they were claiming something not yet in their hands . |
| 5 | There was a lot of evidence accumulating at the time about lateralization of function in bird brains — for instance , it appears that chicks respond behaviourally in different ways when they view things with left and right eyes , while in song birds like canaries and zebra finches , the ‘ song centre ’ is located in a left-hemisphere region , rather close to our IMHV . |
| 6 | Many believe the government recently took the confusion between public service and commercial logic to its ultimate fatuity in another areas when it announced it would shut down one third of all the country 's post offices to provide the public with , in its words , a better postal service . |
| 7 | This philosophy obviously works in some cases when it is an established function like an accountant . |
| 8 | North sea operators are given dispensations , not only when there are equivalent or higher alternative arrangements in place but in some cases when it is well known to the authorities that the platforms are operating at a level that would not be allowed if they were completely new platforms . |
| 9 | You 're a fool in some ways when you 're too smart for your own good . |
| 10 | Concern was also expressed in some quarters when it became known that Christopher Ball was to be appointed Chairman of the Board , on the grounds that as head of an Oxford College he would not appear to have the intimate knowledge of the further education system that such a post requires . |
| 11 | ( The ‘ new evidence ’ was greeted with derision in some quarters when it became known that the L'Express story had originated over lunch with a senior official from the American Embassy in Paris . |
| 12 | It had to be a British car , of course , since Pringle 's did so much business with the local automotive industry — not that Vic has ever driven a foreign car : foreign cars are anathema to him , their sudden invasion of British roads in the 1970s marked the beginning of the region 's economic ruin in his view — but he has to admit that you do n't have a lot of choice in British cars when it comes to matching the top-of-the-range Mercedes and BMWs . |
| 13 | Another great missionary , St Anskar , had to engage in similar arguments when he preached ( under the sponsorship of Louis the Pious ) to the Swedes at the prosperous port of Birka in the ninth century . |
| 14 | A Northumberland vet , Colin Barwise-Munro , put it in explicit terms when he said : ‘ In 1921 , the incidence of dystocia or difficult calvings in the European herd was reckoned in one survey to be no more than 3 per cent . |
| 15 | Well we you did n't have a lot of chance in these circumstances , in these circumstances when they when they possessed every every piece of modern equipment , or equipment that w was modern in those er in th in those er in those days , and you 're not er |
| 16 | ‘ There will come a time , Creggan , when you will learn that the fretting here in these Cages when you think the world has passed you by has taught you more than all the flights , and kills , and territories you may have made or seen . |
| 17 | John Wesley discussed faith in these terms when he compared it to a ‘ spiritual sense ’ in his Earnest Appeal to Men of Reason and Religion : |
| 18 | I liked to find my own stories — and I was just beginning to place the best of them in national papers when I was whisked off for two years ' National Service . |
| 19 | I have noticed that this frustrating experience usually occurs in promising conditions when you expect to catch fish , and when these bites begin they last for unusually long periods and happen very frequently . |
| 20 | Whether developing countries can become competitive latecomers is a pressing issue that we discuss in later chapters when we look more deeply into the issues of social structures and human skills . |
| 21 | You can solve this problem by putting such terms in inverted commas when you first introduce them . |
| 22 | Similarly , the families of the mentally ill need help in sudden emergencies when they can not cope with a very disturbed relative , general help in understanding and accepting the nature of the disorder and support if they have to make difficult decisions such as agreeing to the compulsory admission of a severely disturbed relative to hospital . |
| 23 | Roentgen was experimenting with electrical discharges in evacuated tubes when he observed the emission of rays which made nearby materials fluoresce , i.e. emit light when the rays fell upon them . |
| 24 | I am convinced that zander often shoal up or gather in great numbers when they are not hunting and to come across one of these occurrences as I have done from time to time is an unbelievably exciting experience . |
| 25 | Hypertriglyceridaemia is more difficult to define ( Hulley et al , 1980 ) , but it is our practice to institute active treatment of fasting serum triglyceride levels consistently 5 mmol/l or above in diabetic subjects when we are confident it is not secondary hypertriglyceridaemia . |
| 26 | She was in good spirits when I left . |
| 27 | We find most frequently in the words ‘ you ’ , ‘ to ’ , ‘ into ’ , ‘ do ’ , when they are unstressed and are not immediately preceding a consonant , and ‘ through ’ and ‘ who ’ in all positions when they are unstressed . |
| 28 | It is increasingly difficult for the relatives of the elderly sick to obtain even respite care in many hospitals when they themselves need a rest . |
| 29 | Davison 's investments failed , leaving the family in straitened circumstances when he died in 1893 . |
| 30 | ( It reached its zenith in Beautiful Losers when he referred to ‘ my factory ’ , his metaphor for Judaism as , ‘ a pile of rags and labels , a distraction , an insult to my spirit . ’ ) |