Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb -s] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When one notes that Jaguar 's pre-tax profits for the first half of 1989 had slumped to £1.4 million , it is easy to see that a company valuation of £1.6 billion might be considered rather high . |
| 2 | The need for such a sketch is obvious when one recalls that ritual and ritualistic ideas can make sense only when taken in reference to a total structure of thought and system of social and historical reality ( most of which I shall , of course , be able only to touch on here ) . |
| 3 | this man managing , almost single-handed , a country as large as Scotland ; when one sees that man , living in a leaky mud hut , holding , by the sway of his personality , the balance even between fiercely antagonistic races , in a land which would cover half a dozen of the large English counties ; when one sees the marvels accomplished by tact , passionate interest and self-control , with utterly inadequate means , in continuous personal discomfort , short-handed , on poor pay , out here in Northern Nigeria — then one feels that permanent evil can not ultimately evolve from so much admirable work accomplished , and that the end must be good . |
| 4 | This view is enforced when one remembers that investment lead times — that is , the period between basic investment in assets and the time when the product shows up as profitable in the company accounts — can be quite long . |
| 5 | ‘ Such odd things determine why and when one makes that kind of decision . |
| 6 | The right of reply privilege does not merely protect responses to criticisms made in Parliament , of course : it is a privilege of general application , arising from the legitimate interest of individuals in protecting their reputations , and it is shared by the media when it facilitates that interest . |
| 7 | Even when it has that opportunity , because directions have to be sought , it is clear , as we have seen above from Sullivan v West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive , that it has no power to exclude such evidence at the interlocutory stage other than to limit the number of witnesses . |
| 8 | For one thing he certainly over-states it when he says that pleasure always comes from satisfaction of an antecedent desire for something other than pleasure . |
| 9 | He is a former partner of Gaffer Hexam 's , but Hexam repudiates him when he finds that Riderhood has been robbing live bodies as well as dead ones . |
| 10 | er when he starts that noise . |