Example sentences of "when it [verb] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was almost under the mare 's hoofs when it saw fit to leap into the air and then dart away at speed . |
| 2 | Payton could have completed a hat-trick a minute later but shot wide when it looked easier to score . |
| 3 | When it seemed impossible to sink any lower , the team rose to the challenge and sputtered their way through a pitiful draw with Iran , in which an own goal saved them from defeat . |
| 4 | Since the advent of phylloxera , when it became necessary to graft all European vines on to American rootstock , literally hundreds of rootstock varieties have been developed for virtually every permutation of vinestock and growing conditions . |
| 5 | He knew how to get a product that was decent and rather unexciting on to the shop floor , but when it became necessary to add more to that product and to innovate in design terms , he did n't know how to go about it . |
| 6 | Haslam learned the hard way how to handle such a traumatic situation and how to some extent to play God when it became necessary to select the people who had to go . |
| 7 | Frequently , they expressed a sympathy for guerrilla activities and direct action , without recognizing that successful guerrilla movements were either controlled by an organized and disciplined party ( as in China ) or turned themselves into a traditional type of party ( as in Cuba ) when it became necessary to consolidate their rule and implement their policies . |
| 8 | ‘ The trouble is that ever since the mid-80s , when it became illegal to import them , tortoise numbers have fallen . |
| 9 | Traditionally the practice has been to abandon old pits when it became uneconomic to go deeper , but to return to them when the price for clay improved or when a technical innovation made extraction cheaper . |
| 10 | When it became possible to study the German foreign office records after 1945 , says an American scholar , ‘ tests did not reveal essential documents … that were not printed by the editors of Die grosse Politia , [ but ] they did reveal that the editors , in making their selection , were influenced by a desire not to make the task of the rulers of the Weimar Republic more difficult , and not to injure the reputation of foreign statesmen who were still active after World War I and who were sympathetic to Germany ’ . |
| 11 | I 'm not saying that they are uneconomical , but there may be the odd one or two cases , like the of Berwick St James is a fine example , when it became uneconomical to maintain that school for the number of pupils which were attending , or proposed to be taken in the near future , and it was a sensible option for those children , and economically to close that school . |
| 12 | This is crucial to my theme because the concept of the unity of mankind could only become a fully meaningful idea when it became plausible to suppose that there was no hitherto undiscovered , unmapped , corner of the world where man-like but sub-human creatures might still survive . |
| 13 | Problems arise , however , when it becomes impossible to allow a long enough fallow period between cropping for the forest to redevelop and thus restore the nutrient content of the ecosystem . |
| 14 | Triumphing against all odds and losing when it seems easier to win is one of Scotland 's most endearing faults . |