Example sentences of "when it [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Melman told the tale of an American car parts manufacturer where one plant elected to perpetuate Taylorism when it installed computers , and the other agreed ( as a condition of collective bargaining ) to train workers to program , In the first plant , workers were designated ‘ operators ’ and paid $12–50 an hour ; when their machine malfunctions they nip the on-off switch and call in a repairman .
2 And I think when it says notes for supervisor , we can just put manager down there .
3 The insecticidal activity of most strains of Bt arises mainly from the proteinaceous δ-endotoxins , which are produced in such large amounts within the cell when it forms spores that they produce a characteristic crystal ( Fig. 3 ) .
4 Continue approach , radar , when it picks bursts cue position in get transferred radio beeps that keep jam , to land , and two obstructions ,
5 And when it sprayed sparks almost to the edge of the wide hearth he made no comment , such as , ‘ Be careful .
6 Newspaper group the Daily Mail looks set for a healthy year-end rise in profits when it announces results on Wednesday .
7 Just when it seemed things were going his way again this has happened . ’
8 When it met officials from the Department of Trade and Industry last year to urge that areas of the seabed close to the coastline and islands of Wales be withdrawn from the licensing round it was only partially successful .
9 The plane was en route from Dublin to Biggin Hill , when it developed problems over Wiltshire .
10 The plane was en route from Dublin to Biggin Hill , when it developed problems over Wiltshire .
11 He went on to criticize the Holy Office for acting as judge and jury when it condemned theologians without giving them an opportunity to know what they were accused of , or of responding .
12 Meanwhile the country loses control over vital assets , as Mexico did when it exchanged shares in one of its biggest manufacturing companies — Grupo Alfa , against a reduction of several hundred million dollars in its debts .
13 In the US , Pinnacle , which peddles almost anything and everything you 'd ever want for a Sparc system will have board and system-level HyperSparc and SuperSparc products when it gets deliveries from the chip-makers .
14 Will he also accept that his demonstration of confidence in the plant 's high quality power unit is most important for the company when it seeks orders abroad ?
15 NEWARTHILL , the McAlpine family 's private construction group yesterday joined the sector 's casualties when it announced losses for 1991 totalling £72.2m .
16 This can not have been the intention of Parliament when it prevented drivers from contracting out of their liability to a passenger .
17 yes the , the commission does n't seemed to of addressed itself to , to , the only question it seemed to of addressed itself to are whether the criteria objective , erm , that there could be reasons when it takes decisions and erm there should be an appeal procedure
18 Zeuxis 's painted vine provoked the wonder and the applause of all his audience when it attracted birds to peck at the plump fruit .
19 When it attacks companies like S.C.M .
20 A FREEZE in the annual grant to the Royal Scottish National Orchestra was announced yesterday by the Scottish Arts Council when it released details of grants totalling almost £20 million for 1993-94 .
21 This consequence was caused by London Weekend Television when it revealed that a juror in an official secrets case was a former member of the SAS , and by " The Guardian " when it published details of information discovered by police when they " vetted " a jury which was trying some anarchists .
22 The Court of Appeal has on this basis refused an interim injunction against " Private Eye " when it published details of convictions which had been " spent " under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act ( see below , p60 ) .
23 Nicaragua become the 28th state recognising Taiwan when it re-established relations on Nov. 6 , having switched recognition to China in 1985 .
24 But to what extent will these common-law principles protect the media when it publishes allegations of misconduct to the world ?
25 However , we shall adhere to the view ( treated more fully in Appendix A ) that there are no good grounds for supposing that systems designed to model relationships in external worlds will give us any insight into the syntagmatic links used by human syntax when it joins words into phrases and sentences .
26 When it means pens and pencils and papers and rubbers and
27 The fourth point is : ’ Why should a Health Authority turn down an unproven treatment when it holds contracts with Homeopathic Hospitals and is prepared to pay for such treatment to be carried out ? ’
28 Not surprisingly , the results are not always convincing : lyric poetry , for example is labelled as non-fictional even when it includes references to non-existing objects ( such as blue deer in Georg Trakl 's poems ) , while narrative and nonsense poetry are assigned to the fictional domain .
29 Millie was two hours under Sister Mary , and during this time she learned that the nun did not always bother to use her hand , she also used a ruler that seemed as flexible as rubber , for when it hit knuckles it bounced back from them .
30 But the bigger point is that pursuing wrong priorities discredits greenery as a whole — just when it needs friends to defend it from hard-pressed businessmen and rabid deregulators .
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