Example sentences of "when it [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government , when it spends this £1 billion , pays with cheques drawn on its account at the Bank of England . |
| 2 | ( a ) The welfare principle Under s1(1) of the Act the child 's welfare must be the court 's paramount consideration when it determines any question relating to a child 's upbringing . |
| 3 | Sainsbury won much publicity when it appointed former Friends of the Earth director Jonathan Porritt to be its environmental policy adviser . |
| 4 | So erm having an extra network and all of the administration that goes with it seems very much a waste of time especially when it creates another tier of of sort of quasar membership . |
| 5 | What Dilys Powell missed when she described The Wicked Lady as a concatenation of ‘ the hoary , the tedious , the disagreeable , ’ as did other critics who saw Gainsborough 's films as a reassertion of an old escapist tendency in British cinema , was how much of an advance such films offered on everything of a similar sort that had gone before , and how they touched the sentiments of audiences who could no longer respond to stories of gallant endeavour quite as they could when it seemed that defeat was an imminent possibility . |
| 6 | She said the Edinburgh summit had been a tense time for the family when it seemed all Mr Garel-Jones ' work on Maastricht could have come to nothing . |
| 7 | With the detector in omnidirectional mode it bleeps when it receives any radar swap from within 5 miles ( 8 km ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Twenty-four hours , the way her luck ran when it concerned this man . |
| 10 | The use of a mode register reduces the number of operation codes required , but it does not eliminate the problem of an instruction being given operands of one format when it expects another format . |
| 11 | A stream ends either when it reaches the edge of the grid or when it joins another stream . |
| 12 | In some respects this is good when it means such topics as non-aqueous solvents are covered , but bad when the reader searches this chapter in vain for information about new solvents . |
| 13 | Well they did n't know and they to it were towing Julie 's car and the tow belt snapped , and of course when it jerked this car forward it cut the petrol off . |
| 14 | Taking the radical students ' ideals at face-value one might have expected them to see this incident as yet another example of oppression by a fascist regime and protest against it — after all , they protested enough when it used such methods against its own people . |
| 15 | This early class endured a miserable existence in damp , cramped circumstances and when it outgrew these premises , it moved into a building in Gem Street which although much larger was equally gloomy , dark and ugly . |
| 16 | When it moves any models in its path are run over , sustaining a strength 7 hit unless they can jump out of the way . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Sandvik broke new woodworking ground when it introduced that Sandvik XT range of saws last year . |
| 19 | If he wishes to accept the principle of the Bill , surely it is within his powers , when it reaches another place , to have either the long title or the short title amended and to bring in an amendment on a broader basis within the Bill 's scope . |
| 20 | There are plenty of occasions when the High Court exercises a supervisory jurisdiction over tribunals or bodies whose procedures allow for a more relaxed approach to the rules of evidence , but this does not detract from the fact that the High Court is performing the functions of the High Court when it exercises this jurisdiction . |
| 21 | Number seven ‘ Owain Glyndwr ’ is currently undergoing overhaul and No 8 ‘ Llewellyn ’ is the next for treatment when it finishes this season 's services . |