Example sentences of "when [noun sg] [vb -s] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 A party may require his opponent to supply copies of documents which he is entitled to inspect ; the notice requiring the copy document must be served at or before the time when inspection takes place and must contain an undertaking to pay the proper charge , which charges are set out in Appendix A item 4 ( Ord 14 , r 5A ) .
2 He says that it is ‘ difficult to say when omnipotence becomes powerlessness ’ .
3 When the surf was flat , it was like listening to BBC Radio cricket commentators when rain stops play : the lack of action is balanced by a surplus of reminiscence .
4 Another kinship will be seen next month when Surrealism meets Romanticism in Venice .
5 There is an oscillation between light and darkness but no particular moment of time when day becomes night or night day ; as I walk across the landscape I may sometimes be on a hill top and sometimes in a valley bottom but at no point does the surface of the earth come to an end .
6 Of course Jed should not have tried to come between us ; it was a counter-revolutionary act on his part , Trotskyite even , when you think about it , but in that act was Praxis , the moment when theory becomes practice , and you should not have interfered . ’
7 It is the females who come on heat and who therefore determine when sex takes place .
8 ‘ But it is infinitely the best show in town at a time when legislation threatens press freedom and we shall do everything we can to support it through the arguments ahead . ’
9 Its importance , however , is not that we know when doubt becomes unbelief ( for only God knows this and human attempts to say so can be cruel ) , but that we should be clear about where doubt leads to as it grows into unbelief .
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