Example sentences of "when they [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This occurs when the similarities are subtle or intricate , or when they require prolonged discrimination in order to make them intelligible . |
| 2 | If young people get used to the idea of the pub being a centre of the community , a place for sensible conversation and for sensible drinking , they are less likely to abuse the pub and its facilities when they become young adults . |
| 3 | Only when they become international players do they become the responsibility of international coaches . |
| 4 | There are , of course , other forces at work in the global system , and in some respects global capitalism has had to come to terms with these , particularly when they become opposing forces . |
| 5 | However , bearing these caveats in mind , it is still reasonable to expect children to have made demonstrable progress along the developmental path when they reach key stages in the education system . |
| 6 | Usually , a stallion drives his sons out when they reach sexual maturity ( the fillies wander off , to be snapped up by some lucky bachelor ) ; but some stallions will allow their sons to stay on for years , co-opting their help in defensive action or mare-collecting raids . |
| 7 | They can be especially powerful when used in conjunction with genetic manipulation , and the two techniques are at their most convincing when they yield similar results . |
| 8 | And 18 months ago three women won undisclosed damages after being sacked from a Swindon book company when they developed repetetive strain injury or RSI . |
| 9 | The Presidents of Costa Rica , Honduras and Panama undertook a joint European tour on May 19-22 , when they attended top-level meetings with the UK , French and Italian governments and with representatives of the European Communities ( EC ) in Brussels . |
| 10 | People with a milder form of chemical sensitivity have also been found — they may become dizzy and nauseated if they breathe too many car exhaust fumes , have headaches when there is a strong smell of paint , or develop a sore throat and catarrh when they use particular cleaning fluids . |
| 11 | Those who could not console themselves with the thought of world-wide respect for their domestically heartily despised ruler were at least supposed to despair when they heard Western statesmen pour flattery over Ceauşescu . |
| 12 | The universality of social representations is expressed by Aebischer and Thommen ( 1983 ) , when they characterize social representations as ‘ all the knowledge and understanding that a society , or subgroup of the society , has about a given object ’ ( p. 5 ) . |
| 13 | He said the English were fine ones to bang on about cruelty when they sent little boys off to boarding school when they were eight . |
| 14 | He skipped out when they sent old Polgar to the chokey , eh ? ’ |
| 15 | But in , let's Heathrow show without any more do n't be surprised when they support extra capacity at Stansted to make Stansted . |
| 16 | But last year American Airlines and United started nibbling away at this business when they replaced bankrupt Pan Am and TWA on many of the services between America and London . |
| 17 | East African Asian children are sent for assessment even when they speak fluent English … |
| 18 | When they try sweet reason they are ignored . |
| 19 | If he turned and looked at her , she might have to give a straight reply , but to his narrow back , which could have been the back of a much younger man , she began to tease , in the way that she had learned so many of her new friends liked , when they made similar inquiries too , like the painter who 'd lain on her bed and asked her earnestly if she 'd ever experienced simultaneous orgasm , or the musician who 'd volunteered he 'd show her a ‘ perversion ’ he was sure nobody would have demonstrated to her before , and began nuzzling between her legs . |
| 20 | The Minister does not know the figures , but I shall tell him what farmers in Orkney found when they made simple inquiries . |
| 21 | Except when they made wonderful pictures . |
| 22 | Originally about a foot long , it had been cut into two , when they made excellent cycle handlebar grips for only 3d a pair . |
| 23 | The problem is that it is highly improbable that a group of patients with brain injury constitute a natural kind , even when they display similar symptoms on some test or other . |
| 24 | Kitson in £1.3m move FOOTBALL : Derby County yesterday smashed their transfer record when they signed Easington-born striker Paul Kitson in a £1.3 million deal from promotion rivals Leicester . |
| 25 | Some said they were sensitive to the water , their symptoms leaving them when they drank bottled water . |
| 26 | These freight forwarders frequently act either as carriers in their own right when they consolidate multiple shippers ' cargo and hire space on the vessel or vessels involved in the maritime leg of the journey . |
| 27 | Throughout the electorate the swing to the Conservatives was stronger amongst those who generally had relatively little interest in politics ; amongst those who did not tune in to watch highbrow television or radio news ; amongst those without professional qualifications ; and amongst those who , despite stating a party preference in 1986 , none the less denied being party ‘ supporters ’ — we can call them politically ‘ uncommitted ’ — even when they had political preferences . |
| 28 | His Lordship concluded that the company could restrain the receivers from proceeding further when they had sufficient assets to redeem the receivership , and if there was a serious issue to be tried as to whether that point had been reached , then an injunction could be granted . |
| 29 | It was only a one-sided lock , which is completely and totally different to an ordinary lock er working both sides , you see what I mean and er I er I 'd got to er make a key , number thirty-nine just like that , see but I had it and I could find out what thirty-nine was and I could make them one and send it and knowing it would fit see and er when they had different people working there , you know staff , things like that , not a lot of orders but er somebody else come . |
| 30 | At the same time speculative builders will be reluctant to slide back into the nightmare of the late Eighties , when they had huge land banks which were decreasing in value by the month secured on loans that were costing more . |