Example sentences of "when [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , there will be a border area where the two interpretations merge , in the sense that certain particular values for adjective and noun meanings , when joined in an attributive combination , will under either interpretation always correspond to identical external situations ; hence even highly sophisticated investigators might be hard put to it to tell whether a given adjective is simply applicable to X or has as its value having the property of being-related-to-X . |
| 2 | a specially coded hyphen which is only displayed when formatting of the hyphenated word puts it at the end of a line . |
| 3 | This size of miniature looks quite lovely when ranged together in small groups of two or three , and I think they look best of all when hanging in a straight vertical line ( see p. 101 ) . |
| 4 | Rubber-based and liquid plastic paints also prevent free lime from escaping when painted over the entire surface of the concrete . |
| 5 | Here he found Frank a great help as he had a fair knowledge of native North American trees and shrubs which , when checked with the big books , sounded as though they 'd do well in the peaty soil of Eire . |
| 6 | The attack was based on a number of strands of evidence , including the fact that activation of the sympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system was too diffuse to underpin the range of subtle emotional experiences of which we are capable , and the observation that severing the spinal cord in dogs does not prevent them displaying facial signs of emotion when provoked in an appropriate way . |
| 7 | Even when cornering on a slippery surface . |
| 8 | To answer the question , whether this fragment is also able to enhance transcriptional activity when ligated to a heterologous promoter , we cloned the 117 bp AvaII fragment ( nucleotides -529 to -412 ) comprising footprint I and region III ( see Fig. 1 ) in sense or antisense orientation into plasmid pBLcat2 , which contains the HSV-tk promoter ( 16 ) . |
| 9 | These were not in general obtained except when noted from scanning newspapers or when highlighted by the online services . |
| 10 | Very sensitive patients who quickly become over stimulated by or prove the remedy when given in the standard dose can reduce it , next time , by diluting a teaspoonful from the first glass in a second glass of water thus reducing the dose by a factor of about 20 for each glass used . |
| 11 | The purported withdrawal of a resignation is ineffective as the resignation is final when received by the proper officer of the authority or the chairman as the case may be . |
| 12 | They looked for abstract relationships between the different structures , but they had little incentive to ask what kind of circumstance might lead a species to change when exposed to a new environment . |
| 13 | By the time he returned home , he had already passed beyond the position of Lyell and Forbes and had begun to investigate the possibility that species might actually be modified when exposed to a new environment . |
| 14 | But unknown to most of his colleagues he was busily collecting information that might bear on the question of how a species might change when exposed to a new environment . |
| 15 | Rainforest soils are usually very poor and when exposed to the harsh sun and heavy tropical rains , their fertility is soon washed away . |
| 16 | These letters when arranged in the correct order will spell a word which you fill in on this grid . |
| 17 | This is the quickest method , and achieves the effect of a chest harness when placed under an upward load , as is desirable in a crevasse fall . |
| 18 | So it 's not surprising that toddlers act so explosively when placed in a strange situation . |
| 19 | Although individually each song worked , when placed in a collective package the effect was a clouding of the impact . |
| 20 | Little effort was made to investigate how a species might actually respond when placed in a new environment , and the Lamarckians paid little attention to biogeography . |
| 21 | Indeed , Thomas Bradwardine , philosopher and later archbishop , when preaching to a mixed audience after the victories of Crecy and Neville 's Cross , used them to underline his view of the omnipotence of God and the impotence of man : victory in battle was conferred by God on the righteous , as St Paul had declared in II Corinthians 2:14 . |
| 22 | When pressed for a favourable reply the pontiff put forward a set of propositions which would have to be accepted by Napoleon before the ceremony could take place . |
| 23 | When treated with a prophylactic colectomy the colon cancer risj is eliminated and the rectal cancer risk is minimised by regulkar surveillance and fulguration of rectal polyps . |
| 24 | In the same way , shipwrights were expected to show initiative when building in the traditional way in wood ; but with the coming of iron and then steel as materials , leading to bigger ships as steam replaced sail , calculations led to exact drawings , which became the vehicle of centralized control and stronger industrial discipline . |
| 25 | When calculated on an appropriate pollen sum , they suggest that there was never any extensive , continuous forest cover . |
| 26 | When calculated for an individual subject this measure corresponds to the point on a confidence rating scale where the subject is indifferent between targets and distractors . |
| 27 | Though , oddly , when clad in a shape-concealing full skirt with matching box jacket she drove to work , thoughts of Cousin Naylor , as she had now dubbed him , were still prone to pop into her head . |
| 28 | Cole and Scribner point out that the specific skill developed for this purpose can be transferred to other tasks : they tested literates and illiterates in the Vai script for their ability to distinguish and reproduce units of meaning when heard as a continuous flow , and discovered that the literates were better at this task ( 1981 ) . |
| 29 | It would seem reasonable to call a drug an analgesic for a rat if it delays the time when the rat licks its feet when parked on a hot plate . |
| 30 | It is a common complaint of educational technologists ( self-styled ) that people still think of them as " something to do with machines " , or " audio-visual-aids people " , and most books and articles on educational technology spend valuable space on definitions , especially when addressed to the lay reader . |