Example sentences of "when [verb] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She helps out when lip-reading proves difficult . |
| 2 | Distinctions are drawn which when examined have little to recommend them . |
| 3 | WHEN pressed to name some rich and famous people who are customers at his London restaurants , Viscount Linley replied : ‘ As I was telling the Queen the other night , I just hate name-dropping . ’ |
| 4 | Fish knives and forks were invented when electroplating became common in the last century , before the manufacture of stainless steel . |
| 5 | These include particle-induced X-ray emission ( PIXE ) which provides quantitative analytical information down to the parts-per-million level for elements above sodium in the periodic table by measuring the characteristic X-ray emission following proton/electron collisions ; Rutherford backscattering spectrometry ( RBS ) , which when applied to thin biological specimens , provides information on the matrix elements C , N and O by measuring the energy of the backscattered incident ion after a nuclear collision ; and scanning transmission ion microscopy ( STIM ) which gives information on the structure and density of the sample by monitoring the energy loss of the transmitted ions . |
| 6 | Indeed , he states quite unequivocally , ‘ in such dwellings every labourer ought to live , and any nobleman might live ’ In the following decade , Pugin also enquires why the middle-class dwelling should be regarded as a scaling down of the houses of the great , for ‘ the smaller detached houses which the present state of society has generated , should possess a peculiar character : they are only objectionable when made to appear diminutive representations of larger structures ’ . |
| 7 | Another set of hatches by the back wall of the building , when opened sent more water spuming under the mill to reappear in the wide pond to the front . |
| 8 | Then , during the World Cup final , he clashed heads with England winger Simon Halliday and suffered a cut above his right eye — an injury which can be quite bothersome for a full-back , especially when attempting to gather high balls . |
| 9 | Often when attempting to explain some aspect of my studies to fellow students who were having difficulties , I would look up from the textbook we were sharing to see an expression of sheer disbelief pass across their faces . |
| 10 | KPMG 's head of venture capital , John Hustler , said : ‘ This will attempt to ascertain the current obstacles regarding access to information which venture capitalists throughout Europe face when attempting to fund transnational deals . ’ |
| 11 | I does have limitations , particularly when attempting to treat each element in isolation . |
| 12 | But problems do arise when attempting to test complete programs of several segments . |
| 13 | When attempting to interpret these results it must be remembered that the correlations of interest all rely on relatively small numbers of responses . |
| 14 | Caution is needed when attempting to interpret cross national data on psychiatric hospitals because of many confounding factors , demographic and geographical , as well as the pattern and availability of alternative services . |
| 15 | The regulations recently produced were indeed unhelpful when attempting to contain disturbed young people , but it is again another example of a ‘ knee-jerk ’ reaction to believe that tighter guidelines will cure the problem . |
| 16 | But it has particular force when attempting to understand design-and-society relations . |
| 17 | The results demonstrate the importance of incorporating accurate palaeogeographies into numerical modelling studies when attempting to reconstruct past climates . |
| 18 | Plugged liver biopsies are both effective and safe when used to perform percutaneous liver biopsies in patients with impaired coagulation . |
| 19 | A computer 's instruction set represents a language at its most basic level and , at this level , it is nearest to idea and , when used to write small programs , it has been argued that there is a merger of idea and expression in which case protection will be denied . |
| 20 | What does a photographer look for when commissioned to shoot pristine paradise ? |
| 21 | He was an independent spirit and when commissioned to buy new type for the Pennsylvania Gazette . |
| 22 | When told to leave all behind , his past , his roots , his culture , his sense of belonging , his status and position in society and the family , the friendship , support and love of those close to him , everything except for Sarah , his wife , and Lot , his nephew , he goes without a moment 's hesitation . |
| 23 | The same subjects when rested had higher voltage CNVs before fast responses than slow ones . |
| 24 | An animal , when threatening to attack another , will stare the intended victim squarely in the eye . |
| 25 | They do n't deserve fine furniture but , of course , when asked to do this I will say ‘ Of course , as you wish , sir ’ . |
| 26 | When asked to explain this the boy remarked ‘ my father called me an ear'ole [ a ‘ crawler ’ or conformist ] once , in the second year , for playing football and coming to school ’ . |
| 27 | When asked to restore those Frenchmen who had lost their lands for refusing to recognise the legitimacy of English rule in the duchy , the English negotiators refused point blank . |
| 28 | That should not be surprising , because when asked to name one favourite flower , beautiful above all others , again there can be little doubt that most people — in Britain at any rate , and whether gardeners or not — would choose the rose . |
| 29 | This reasoning leads to the prediction that , if the locus of impairment in surface dyslexia is within the visual word recognition system , the patient will sometimes confuse one homophone with another when asked to define single printed words — will say , for example , that the printed word frays means ‘ a part of a sentence ’ . |
| 30 | It is not uncommon to hear of old women who are cross when asked to perform domestic tasks in residential care ! |