Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [vb -s] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lady Macbeth provides Macbeth with the determination he requires when she hears of the witches prophesy and her husband 's title of ‘ Thane of Cawdor ’ , she immediately begins planning Duncan 's murder . |
| 2 | When she complains of the drudgery of studying sound changes , Bernard hints that she does not really have what it takes to be a scholar . |
| 3 | Christian attorney Constance Cumbey goes a step further in The Hidden Dangers of the Rainbow when she writes of the ‘ coming age of barbarism ’ , and describes the New Agers as a ‘ viable movement that truly meets the scriptural requirements for the Antichrist and the political movement that will bring him on the world scene ’ . |
| 4 | But I could n't agree more with Philippa Davenport when she writes of the formality that seems to have overtaken marriage celebrations , particularly in England ( page 47 ) . |
| 5 | It would be a mistake to dismiss this , as Selma G. Lanes ( 1981 , p.47 ) appears to do when she writes of ‘ mere graphic decoration ’ . |
| 6 | Mary Warnock provides a scathing analysis of the government 's attitude to higher education when she writes of the contempt that the government has for universities and their staff : |
| 7 | When she disapproves of something you 've said or done . |
| 8 | Even when it speaks of stripping it still adds . |
| 9 | ( The RSV seems clear enough when it speaks of them looking into the ark ( 6.19 ) , but the Hebrew will not really bear that sense , and would suggest they merely looked at it . |
| 10 | Persian values also made themselves felt at native satrapal courts : a recently published Greek verse inscription from Lycian Xanthos , put up by a local dynast , echoes Persian educational ideals ( ‘ riding , shooting and speaking the truth ’ , Hdt. i. 136 ) when it speaks of : The dynast in question is called Arbinas : he is certainly a Lycian but it is thought that the form of the name is Persian . |
| 11 | The Diploma in Advanced Legal Studies is closely tied to the LL.M. and M.Sc. , although it can stand as an independent qualification when it consists of study and examination in three courses selected from the LL.M or M.Sc. |
| 12 | What the hell is the midfield formation anyway when it consists of Rocky , Fairclough , Macca and Speed ? |
| 13 | ( To avoid getting bogged down with routine reporting at the expense of his DIA mission , he had telexed Ms Starnes from Zurich to say he had been denied entry , a diplomatic untruth that still gives him a twinge when he thinks of it . ) |
| 14 | Sir : Timothy Garton Ash ( 'The sickly child of the cold war' , 29 September ) speaks for himself when he talks of ‘ our ideal — a larger European Community ’ . |
| 15 | He dissembles when he talks of their return , too . |
| 16 | One of the big problems the widower does have is that he does not feel so free to express his grief to others by weeping when he talks of his wife , their life together and the events that led up to her death . |
| 17 | When he talks of his work as a film editor , an edge appears in Gordon 's voice , a timbre of professionalism . |
| 18 | However , one detects more than just a hint of resentment when he talks of the ‘ middle-class ’ , who , with their penchant for rationalisation and organisation , appear to have appropriated the game . |
| 19 | When he talks of the ‘ metal landscape ’ he is referring to the world of the train and not to the one of green landscapes which we would expect . |
| 20 | When he talks of taking the war to the terrorists , I must reassert from the Dispatch Box that the actions of Her Majesty 's Government , and of the security forces on their behalf , will be conducted under the rule of law and that the rule of law will not be thrown away , for that would be a concession to the terrorists . |
| 21 | the Far East , including Japan , Australasia and South America are among the areas that bring a gleam to his eye when he talks of the future . |
| 22 | When he says of Bilbo that he gave up the Ring ‘ of his own accord : an important point ’ , he may be saying only that Bilbo ca n't have become too badly addicted , or more moralistically that Bilbo 's good impulse will help his cure . |
| 23 | He had grown accustomed , even in the work of supposedly enlightened anthropologists , to terms such as ‘ savage ’ , ‘ lower races ’ , and ‘ inferior races ’ , so that when he speaks of ‘ inequality ’ , he may well be thinking of a vertical model , though he may mean simply ‘ difference ’ when he writes that |
| 24 | He exaggerates when he speaks of a ‘ deafening silence , from historians on the land question , but he makes a strong case for placing the land issue near the centre of any sound historical analysis of the period . |
| 25 | But when he speaks of ‘ causes ’ he means , he says , either ‘ efficient causes ’ ( which produce , or bring effects and appearances about ) or , in the case of what he calls ‘ entire causes ’ ( the combination of causes and their effects ) , a combination of efficient and material causes . |
| 26 | Roger Duvoisin ( 1965 , p.25 ) extends this idea when he speaks of the well-designed page . |
| 27 | The question that arises here is whether Gandhi is referring to an ‘ essence ’ or ‘ primordial element ’ when he speaks of the heart of one religion being identical with the heart of another religion . |
| 28 | As we have seen , Gandhi recognizes that no single religion can embody the whole truth , and that all particular religions contain errors since they are human constructs or formulations , but does it follow necessarily that when he speaks of Religion underlying all human constructs , or at the heart of all religions , he is referring to an ‘ essence ’ of an ‘ entity ’ or a ‘ primordial form ’ of religion after the fashion of Schleiermacher ? |
| 29 | Gandhi , as we have seen , uses different terminology when he speaks of the symbols of religion becoming fetishes which , in his view , are idolatrous and fit only to be discarded . |
| 30 | Again one has the feeling that he speaks of himself when he speaks of her . |