Example sentences of "be [adj] when [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Duncan had been asleep when the policeman burst into the room to give him the news that Leeming had been found . |
| 2 | Work by Bagnold has shown that the pressures are greatest when the pocket of trapped air is thinnest and that when the dimension of the pocket at right angles to the cliff reaches half that of the depth of the pocket the pressure is negligible . |
| 3 | A Management Committee consisting of ERA , GDC , our contract architects , and TSA was established to run the project and this part of the project highlighted that ‘ genuine partnerships ’ are possible when the determination to succeed is there . |
| 4 | The method had found unburnt paraffin in the person 's lungs , thus suggesting that the person had inhaled paraffin and so been alive when the fire started . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm told that he may still have been alive when the murderer , or murderers , hammered the shaft through his neck and into the floor of the hut . |
| 6 | Cases of underlexicalisation are clear when a non-specific noun ( such as log ) is used to refer to something for which a specific word exists in English . |
| 7 | Assessments are straightforward when a child is subject to a care order and the local authority has sole responsibility for that child 's welfare . |
| 8 | ( ‘ Bet your gums are relieved when the rest of you goes to sleep . ’ ) |
| 9 | It had been Fei Yen 's idea to have a midnight picnic and Tsu Ma had been delighted when the two girls had come to them with blankets and a basket , interrupting their talk . |
| 10 | All fees are payable when the invoice is issued . |
| 11 | All fees are payable when the invoice is issued . |
| 12 | All fees are payable when the invoice is issued . |
| 13 | All fees are payable when the invoice is issued . |
| 14 | All fees are payable when the invoice is issued . |
| 15 | All fees are payable when the invoice is issued [ and all final fees are to be settled at completion ] . |
| 16 | ‘ You presume to worry about your mother 's safety , ’ he countered thoughtfully , ‘ yet you are indignant when the tables are turned ? ’ |
| 17 | These changes are maximal when the parasites are emerging from the gastric glands ( P1.I ) . |
| 18 | Such a result may have been unthinkable when the competition began , but the Ukrainian side looked forlornly unmotivated in their 5–0 defeat by Benfica a fortnight ago and must now manage without midfielders Yuri Moroz and Sergei Zaets , plus the defender , Anatoli Bessmertnyi — all suspended . |
| 19 | Hampstead had already brought her sharply into his mind — that had been obvious when the name had leapt into view on our arrival . |
| 20 | Transfers are inevitable when a lawyer leaves the firm . |
| 21 | His fascination with anything to do with space and spaceflight bordered upon obsession and he had been horrified when The New Hope had been blown out of the sky by the Seven . |
| 22 | The June 27 breakthrough on tank numbers had been anticipated on June 14 , when the Polish-French proposal was recorded at a CFE plenary session without Soviet disagreement , but had then apparently been frustrated when the Soviet representative raised technical objections at a working group meeting later in the day . |
| 23 | Clearly things are livelier when the suitcases are packed off on Friday morning . |
| 24 | And these storm doors are closed when the gale is threatening heavy seas on and there 's another door inside that about eight feet inside that another heavy door and then there 's another ordinary door inside that . |
| 25 | Such local context-tables are useful when the shell script interfaces with another tool that generates material that is to be viewed in an idiosyncratic way , e.g. using special fonts . |
| 26 | Both these publications are useful when the statute first appears , but both suffer from the defect that they are not regularly kept up to date by reprints or supplements . |
| 27 | Models of the item being marketed are useful when the product being sold is too large or bulky to be physically displayed . |
| 28 | It would be interesting to learn who had been present when the fastidious Miss Easterbrook had had her accident with the tea . |
| 29 | Retrospective radiological review showed that this lesion had been present when an initial diagnosis of coeliac disease had been made 12 months previously and a detailed description of the natural history of the lymphoma during this period was thus available . |
| 30 | The expressions simplify a good deal once it is noted that the most significant contributions come from terms containing which are important when the probe passes across the region where . |