Example sentences of "[noun] when [pron] [verb] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Dr John Burton , however , who left the classic example of outside prejudice when he observed that the local roads bred two memorable creatures , ungainly spindle-shaped oxen and beautiful long-legged women . |
| 2 | Thus in Hartog v Colin and Shields [ 1939 ] 3 All ER 566 , it was held that the plaintiff could not sue on a contract for the sale of hare skins at so much per pound when he knew that the offeror really meant to sell at that price per piece . |
| 3 | In Benton v Campbell , Parker and Co Ltd [ 1925 ] 2 KB 410 , it was held that the auctioneer was not liable to the purchaser for the sale of a car when it transpired that the person who put the car into the auction was not the owner . |
| 4 | It can also be important for the purposes of the provisions which require persons who were concerned with the making of settlements to notify the Revenue when they believe that the settlor was domiciled in the United Kingdom and the trustees of the settlement are not , or will not be , resident in the United Kingdom ( see IHTA 1984 , s218 ) . |
| 5 | Sandy , a visitor , told us : " It brought tears to my eyes when I heard that the house would be closed for renovation . |
| 6 | The police and ambulancemen arrived on the scene minutes earlier than the fire brigade and swung into action when they learned that an unconscious woman was trapped in the house . |
| 7 | All this , but with examples drawn from chess instead of from whist and bridge , is what Wittgenstein has in mind when he says that the term ‘ language-game ’ is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity . |
| 8 | The second argument is put forcefully by Firestone when she argues that the sexual repression Freud describes and the adoption of parent ( especially father ) figures by children which they carry through into later life can only be seen in the social context of oppressive patriarchal relations in the home . |
| 9 | ‘ Look how he controlled his disappointment when he found that the dead man was not Sir Henry . ’ |
| 10 | I think I speak for the vast majority of the environmental health committee when I say that the abatement and noise pollution has been one of our ongoing major concerns in things for the last twelve months . |
| 11 | There would have been an enormous panic when they realised that the Irish girl had been picked up by the Bonnards . |
| 12 | Accordingly I am of the view that the judge was in error when he decided that the removal of the child was not unlawful . |
| 13 | We loaded the first two into the trailer , and were heading a few yards further on to pick up a third canister when we noticed that the enemy fire was now being directed at our part of the cornfield . |
| 14 | But there was laughter at his response to a question about a reported split among the directors when he said that the board was ‘ united and happy ’ with the direction the club was taking . |
| 15 | But there was laughter at his response to a question about a reported split among the directors when he said that the board was ‘ united and happy ’ with the direction the club was taking . |
| 16 | IT lifted my sorrow when I saw that the Mirror finally shamed the blundering DSS into paying a disabled man 's benefit increase after a nine-month delay . |
| 17 | Mittler and Mittler ( 1982 ) make a similar point when they argue that a clear distinction should be drawn between the concepts of ‘ partnership ’ and ‘ involvement ’ . |
| 18 | We may scrape and spit and dab and rub , until the point when we declare that the truth stands plain before us , thanks to xylene and propanol and acetone . |
| 19 | As Leonard commented in Police Gazette , ‘ I 'd rather sleep with ashes than with priestly wisdom , ’ which has even more point when we understand that the ashes referred to are those of the victims of the Holocaust . |
| 20 | Sir : While agreeing with much of what Jonathan Glancey say in his article on ‘ A-road ’ architecture ( 4 October ) , I think he misses the point when he says that no one cares about it . |
| 21 | But does not Dr. Jackson have a powerful point when he says that the new system — This is a man working in the system . |
| 22 | Nye ( 1984 ) made the same point when he observed that the agenda for examining the power of US firms in the 1980s was little different from that of the early 1970s , despite the relative loss of US power . |
| 23 | There was , in fact , a social element present in the Treaty of Rome itself , but Mr Hattersley had a point when he suggested that the last ten years saw capitalism and the pursuit of free trade relegated within the EEC to a secondary position . |
| 24 | Voting will not be announced until this morning — but gay campaigners were cheered by delegates when they protested that the party 's policy review had replaced a commitment to ‘ full equality ’ for gays with ‘ greater equality ’ . |
| 25 | When thesis subjects as broad as juvenile delinquency in the South or differential fertility in the U.S.A. are chosen — subjects which transcend any bounds of accomplishment during graduate work and which are not definitely formulated — they are likely to bring the young research person to a state of despair when he realizes that the masses of material he has assembled answer no questions , neither confirm nor refute any hypothesis , and yield nothing toward developing a scientific sociology . |
| 26 | But Willis ends his account with a note of despair when he writes that the life of the shop floor worker should not be romanticised and that others should not be blind to its nature : |
| 27 | The project ran into difficulties when we discovered that the forms of ‘ collaboration ’ being developed in the classrooms observed were more all pervasive yet apparently less structured and organised than had been anticipated . |
| 28 | In analysing the new acting Ferguson was nearer the mark when he suggested that the movies were now coming up with richer and more vital people but Daugherty 's comments serve to remind us that techniques and styles which should have been feeding into a new cinema of experimentation and realism were being used rather to bolster old conventions of melodrama . |
| 29 | She seems a little slow off the mark when she asserts that the attempt to control drugs became ‘ a War only when crack emrged ’ . |
| 30 | Harlequin captain Winterbottom was on the ball when he said that the cup suited them best in so many ways . |