Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] when it is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is particularly likely to provoke hostility when it is believed that there is an element of wilfulness in the old person 's responses . |
| 2 | We stress that information only exhibits value when it is put to use in a specific context . |
| 3 | Newby therefore introduces one further element into the rural deprivation model , namely the relativity of deprivation , and reasserts the two basic problems of the model , the apparent well-being of rural areas based on their attractive environment , and the difficulty of defining deprivation when it is spread in small pockets over much of the countryside . |
| 4 | As the critic Ernest Newman wrote : ‘ Music can become dance when it is subjected to repetition , multiplication and abstraction using steps , poses and gestures with pattern and expression to appeal to both the eye and the intellect ’ ( see also page 47 ) . |
| 5 | It is believed , as already mentioned , that one of the greatest pleasures for a child comes from the security it feels when it knows that it is loved , and it is the ability to withhold manifestations of that love for a little while , or threaten so to do , that provides a non-violent means of securing acquiescence when it is required . |
| 6 | The good librarian is sensitive to individual difference , omnivorously interested in all areas of knowledge and in all problems of access to it , politely at ease with people , able to assert authority when it is required , and to employ systematic thinking in relation to all aspects of his work . |
| 7 | First , in circumstances where the post is expected to be used as the means of communication between the seller and the buyer , an acceptance takes effect when it is posted . |
| 8 | The three AA batteries are said to give 40 hours of continues operation , with a Lithium cell providing back-up when it is turned off . |
| 9 | Having seen how the courts control discretion when it is found on the Y level , it is necessary also to examine the control methods when discretion appears within , or is , the jurisdictional fact . |
| 10 | To hold the view that an officer must only tender advice when it is sought from him is entirely erroneous , for indeed it is his duty to tender advice when he thinks it should be given . |
| 11 | We only really know love when it is expressed in action ; when people demonstrate it . |
| 12 | " It could n't happen to me and , even if it does , we have all got to die sometime " is a common self-justification that almost belies belief when it is considered that a life threatening " pleasure " is nothing more than a mere cigarette . |
| 13 | An awareness of old history encourages caution when it is appropriated for a contemporary cause . |
| 14 | Feedback is easier to accept if you can do something constructive once you have got it ; if you know how to develop yourself , you are more likely to welcome feedback when it is offered and also more likely to solicit it actively . |
| 15 | After the logo 's dramatic unveiling on the stage of the New Athenaeum Theatre , there was a ripple of applause — and much muttering about the design , which may lose impact when it is scaled down for reproduction in newspapers and magazines . |
| 16 | A spokesman said tribunals rarely ever order reinstatement when it is accepted that the allegations are true . |
| 17 | However in the Nayar case it is clear that the matrilineal organization of the Nayar taravad only makes sense when it is viewed as a part of the larger society which included the patrilineal organization of the Nambudiri and the military organization of the pre-British South Indian principalities . |