Example sentences of "when [noun sg] [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They become so engrossed in looking after it , or in trying to hook fishes , that they often fail to notice when money spills from their pockets . |
| 2 | Investors have been expecting its publication for the last two weeks but are fearful it will be kept back for the week when Parliament goes into the Christmas recess . |
| 3 | The completion date for the purchase of the land or the date when rent starts to be payable by the tenant is triggered by the issue of the certificate of practical completion of the building being bought or leased . |
| 4 | Following a year when toll increases from 60p to £1 and the recession slashed use of both tunnels by a million vehicles , business has begun to boom . |
| 5 | THE COURAGE of Essex man and woman will be tested later this year when bungee-jumping comes to Colchester . |
| 6 | Gaining access to new ideas or creating challenging alternatives when passivity predominates among the disabled community can be hard work . |
| 7 | There was an even larger turnout on May 14 when funeral marches for Kang were held in the capital and elsewhere . |
| 8 | There are also times when meaning derives from deliberate violations — or ‘ floutings ’ as Grice calls them — of the co-operative principle , always provided that the sender intends the receiver to perceive them as such , and that this is how , in fact , the receiver does perceive them . |
| 9 | It is when guilt lingers into adulthood that the damage is done . |
| 10 | We point this out because in order to consider the latter issue we will discuss experiments using both written and spoken presentation , even though we restricted our discussion of when processing begins to spoken language , where a relatively clear picture has emerged . |
| 11 | In the material analysed in this chapter there are occasions when interpretation calls for attention to the clues given by specific words ( as in examples c.2 , c.3 , and h.3 ) , to unusual syntax ( as in examples c.1 and g.1 ) , to unstated shifts that have to be inferred ( as in category h ) , and to a variety of quite subtle clues to the sources of speech and thought . |
| 12 | A solicitor who draws up your will can help you plan to reduce or avoid inheritance tax , and explain the various exemptions and reliefs available on lifetime gifts or when property passes on death , for example , on gifts : |
| 13 | This happens when water leaches out the salt used to preserve the leather or when leather comes into contact with sea water or salt used to grit the roads . |
| 14 | It was the river 's most elusive hour , when darkness lifts off darkness , and from one minute to another the shadows declare themselves as houses or as craft at anchor . |
| 15 | For people with a profound hearing loss there are bound to be times when speechreading seems to be very hard going , but even in the dark you are still on the way if your aim is clear and your courage bright . |
| 16 | Interesting parallels have also been drawn between the vortex patterns produced by flowing water — easily seen when a thin stream of coloured water is allowed to flow into a large volume of still , clear water , or when steam rises from a hot bath — and in the whorled patterns of the horns of many animal species . |
| 17 | Any change in rock porosity caused by the dissolution or precipitation of minerals when fluid flows through sedimentary or fractured basement rocks affects the rocks ' permeability , and hence how fast fluid flows through the rocks and what volume is transmitted . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It is only when politics leads to destructive conflict that we need to ask whether we should contain it . |
| 20 | This is when time drops into bottom gear . |