Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] when [pron] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My hon. Friend the Member for Newcastle upon Tyne , North ( Mr. Henderson ) and the hon. Member for Southwark and Bermondsey ( Mr. Hughes ) were dead right when they said that the Bill is a lost opportunity . |
| 2 | Interesting though it may be to learn that there is a narrative-discourse-paragraph-introductory-particle in Huichol or Shipibo , it becomes decidedly less interesting when one discovers that the identification of the significance of these particles depends on a prior identification of the paragraph as a unit in which ‘ the speaker continues talking about the same thing ’ ( Grimes , 1975 : 103 ) . |
| 3 | It is clear , however , that in this case the contracting company felt extremely nervous when it found that representatives of a safety committee had gone straight from the employer to the ultimate operator in the field . |
| 4 | Relationships of this kind , including most of those between normal adults , give a place to emotions such as resentment , gratitude , forgiveness or disappointment which are only appropriate when we believe that someone 's behaviour towards us was conscious and intentional . |
| 5 | They also knew that the arrested men were respectable and law-abiding and they were highly indignant when they heard that an official spokesman had smeared them with the suggestion of criminal activities . |
| 6 | And the balance of early modern attitudes to the old looks a good deal less favourable when we realize that the terms of chronological age used then were quite different from those in use today . |
| 7 | Erm and that 's , of course , why she 's so delighted when she finds that the Rivers are her relations . |
| 8 | Morrissey 's ‘ Englishness ’ is somewhat ironic when you consider that his parents and his entire extended family only arrived here during the '50s . |
| 9 | Moreover , the failure of national forces to intercept the enemy is especially remarkable when one remembers that local ones often had no problem . |
| 10 | It was only later when he saw that the comment seemed to centre around the sexual scene that he realized the riot would hurt the picture . |
| 11 | Perhaps less curious when one remembers that mentally handicapped people have always been ostracised by those who believe they live in a comfortable world of normality . |
| 12 | The circle of radar is especially useful when you consider that most of their lives are spent in open water . |
| 13 | ‘ I am so pleased when you do as I ask . ’ |
| 14 | Well all I can say is that , erm Sir Simon was being extremely modest when he said that the development of this company er , has been due er , entirely to the executive directors . |
| 15 | I think you had a little bit of a soft spot for Poole did n't you , and you 'd have quite liked to have gone there and a little bit perhaps disappointed when you heard that they 'd picked up Marvin Cox ? |
| 16 | This is perhaps less surprising when one considers that these definitions are derived by examining and grouping the actual collocations found for any particular word , and then working backwards to a definition from the separate contextual groupings [ Mackin , 1978 ] . |
| 17 | She records that he was somewhat surprised when she announced that she had ‘ just asked for them ’ ! |
| 18 | It it 's all rather ironic when you think that Argos grew out of Green Shield . |
| 19 | When they first met , Charlie called the shots by improvising in front of the cameras and using his experience from films like Bright Lights , Big City , with Michael J Fox , and 18 Again , with George Burns He said : ‘ Kylie was a little nervous when I improvised and it threw her off . |
| 20 | Similarly , when they exchanged the names of their schools , she found herself immensely relieved when he declared that he was at Winchester , for she had heard of Winchester , she knew something about Winchester , she did not have to feign a non-existent knowledge of Winchester . |
| 21 | I am sure that I am not alone when I say that I learned more through the Iii-service courses organised by Basil Rocke than through my entire period of earlier , formal training . |
| 22 | Nevertheless he looks mildly concerned when he relates that his son has , to his surprise , decided to live in the city . |
| 23 | To my relief , she was not shocked when I asked if I could spend most of my stay at Lough Corrib asleep in bed . |
| 24 | It was imperative , as he knew , not to get embroiled in politics , and he had been utterly furious when it appeared that architect Rod Hackney had done it for him . |
| 25 | And it is not surprising when one considers that normally one detects a first edition simply by looking on the title verso for information . |
| 26 | Yet this is not surprising when one realizes that both were close to the docks and that the iron foundries in their areas were more conveniently situated for the timber yards and wharfs along the north bank . |
| 27 | This is not surprising when you learn that he is a successful businessman , and in fact the founder of San Diego 's ComputerEdge Magazine and the founder of the company that published this book . |
| 28 | Normal children are usually quite easily satisfied when they know that adults are being honest with them : – |
| 29 | Thus , we were not surprised when we found that the effect of preconditioning was lost in rabbits that had forty or more 5-min occlusions over 3–4 days ( unpublished observation ) . |
| 30 | I was not surprised when I heard that the old man had gone to live with Dorothy . |