Example sentences of "[noun] when [pron] [verb] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the pollsters have a point when they complain that at election time they are like a doctor asked to make a diagnosis over the telephone . |
| 2 | It is suggested that there must usually be a special element in the employee/connection contact which creates a reasonable risk that the employee will be able to appropriate some part of the business when he leaves because of the chance that customers would seek him out on account of his knowledge of their requirements . |
| 3 | The sun trickled around the blinds in Kate 's bedroom , falling in narrow shafts over the poppies on the wallpaper and on the orange-painted dressing-table It was warm in the room when she awoke and for some seconds she was aware of pleasurable anticipation , before the revelations of the day before came flooding in on her . |
| 4 | So effectively Robert Harris and Noel Timms ( ‘ Backs against the wall ’ , 15 April ) turn Parkinson 's Law on its head when they say that in residential care ‘ time expands in accordance with the potentially limitless tasks which exist ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ He was rather like a new-born baby when he came because of the lack of stimulation , ’ she said . |
| 6 | But if it makes easy sense when we learn that after the ground clearing achieved in the early publications Joyce sets to work on an enormous new fictional venture , guesses about new preoccupations and the leaving behind of old collapse in face of the reality of Ulysses , for in it we read , among a thousand turnings and an wanderings , of a single day , the sixteenth of June nineteen hundred and four , in Dublin , and how two characters , separately and together , live out that day among the welter of their acquaintance , their needs and deeds and thoughts , their places of refuge and of risk , and if one of these two , Leopold Bloom , is new , the other is Stephen Daedalus , and Dublin is everywhere in the novel , almost to the point where everywhere is Dublin . |
| 7 | And we must all agree with George when he states that in future the pill pedlars will not only have to show that their nostrums work , ‘ but also that they actually bring benefits in social and economic as well as in purely medical terms ’ . |
| 8 | A convention exists when people follow certain rules or maxims for reasons that essentially include their expectation that others will follow the same rules or maxims , and they will follow rules for that reason when they believe that on balance having some settled rule is more important than having any particular rule . |
| 9 | To be fair , he echoed his party 's line when he said that of course the 20 per cent . |
| 10 | He was about to go back to the company when he realised that in the middle of the town was a house where an old man lived , exactly where the company were planning to build their new station ; and the old man was refusing to sell . " |
| 11 | ‘ From the beginning , that court has acted upon no narrow view of the cases covered by its duty to quash a conviction when it thinks that on any ground there was a miscarriage of justice … |
| 12 | I had tried three of them , swallowing the small amounts in the glass with what I thought was a superbly noncommittal expression when I discovered that in the middle of the room were two iron spittoons , waist-high . |
| 13 | Of course this is not strictly true , but it makes the explanation simpler , and after all it does n't really make any difference to the cost whether you pay for your bulb or tyre when it fails or at the next service . |
| 14 | I 'm only half joking of course when I say that by comparison the rip-offs and the scams and the scandals mean nothing . |
| 15 | It seemed ridiculous , but a frown crossed his face when he remembered that in a very short time the hard fiat sand that he was walking on would be thirty feet under the water of one of the most unpredictable estuaries in the world He also knew that the tide was usually preceded by a rising wind |
| 16 | She was singing on stage when we arrived and by the time I had reached my seat I said to the man who was with me , this is the Salome I have been looking for . |