Example sentences of "for [adv] when [pron] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 The Amiga 's technical superiority counted for little when there were hardly any games for it , and hardly any of them used its facilities .
2 Colleague solidarity counted for little when there was a chance for one of the few organizational carrots — that of promotion .
3 There are units in some parts of the UK where you and your child can be cared for together when one or both of you are unwell .
4 Every castle mustered its defences and stood by to repel the normal sharp and brief attack ; for only when they were insolently sure of their supremacy did the Welsh assay a siege .
5 Nor can we fundamentally question the rules of logic , for only when we assume them can we ask a question at all .
6 For only when one is able to discriminate between what must be discarded and what still remains as valuable for the future will one also be able to decide whether one is ready to strike out in the new direction consciously and positively .
7 For ever and for ever when I move . ’
8 An autocorrelation will then be directly related to the corresponding space correlation with separation in the mean flow direction , the same curve applying for both when one puts .
9 For though when I say Gold is a metal , I say by implication that if there be any other metals it must resemble them , yet if there were no other metals I might still assert the proposition with the same meaning as at present , namely , that gold has the various properties implied in the word metal …
10 We were never without one for even when your friends were unavailable , it was still possible to have splendid games just bouncing the ball against a wall and catching it , something that gave hours of pleasure and , what was more important , trained the eye .
11 But this does not explain the state 's overall function , ; for even when it is controlled by officials drawn from other classes , it continues to serve the political interest of the hegemonic fraction .
  Next page