Example sentences of "is when [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is when agape love takes over and with our will we continue to show forth acts of love , doing what is best for our partner whether they deserve or respond to it or not . |
| 2 | It is when individual experiences of marriage come under scrutiny that differences emerge most strongly . |
| 3 | In fact , the biblical date for the creation is not that far off the date of the end of the last ice age , which is when modern humans seem first to have appeared . |
| 4 | The right time to measure lipids for the newly diagnosed diabetic is when good control has been achieved and thereafter probably yearly up to the age of sixty . |
| 5 | How frustrating it is when other people 's knitting always goes right and outs has ‘ hiccups ’ ! ) |
| 6 | His evidence : more and more babies were born to unmarried women during the past 30 years — which is when social-welfare spending shot up . |
| 7 | On Chicago 's south side the day the monthly cheque arrives is nicknamed ‘ mother 's day ’ , because that is when absent sons and husbands turn up . |
| 8 | But I think the best recommendation is when big business has used that company to produce a video for themselves , you know the companies with the big budgets and so on it 's an indication of the quality |
| 9 | This is when adequate sunlight is necessary even for the night bloomers . |
| 10 | A vast spectacle is planned for the weekend of June 17 and IS when French personalities will vie with lasers and special effects to evoke the past and guess at the future . |
| 11 | A continuing problem with hospital closure is when just parts — and often the most architecturally interesting and attractive ones — of a hospital are closed due to cut-backs . |
| 12 | ‘ When you said something about the real tragedy for anyone facing a handicap is when expected support is withdrawn , then yesterday at your flat I realised that you thought I 'd walked out on Jennifer when I discovered she had MS . |
| 13 | This is when free will has again been used for egotistical desires , your need for power , riches , or a soft ride . |
| 14 | CAR STICKER : Puberty is when little girls become women and boys become bastards . |
| 15 | It is when ontological anxiety has surpassed fear and become terror . |
| 16 | Continuous time means that observation is unceasing , such as a continuous record of river discharge ; quantized time is when imaginary sections are used to subdivide time , as when precipitation amounts are measured daily or weekly ; discrete time is when interest focuses upon time duration and frequency of events per unit of time ; and sampled time is when observations can only be made at particular periods , such as weekly measurements of plant growth . |
| 17 | That is when old age now begins . |
| 18 | The exception is when difficult cross-winds tend to put a large bow in the main line dragging the float out of position . |