Example sentences of "[be] [verb] in [noun] when [pron] " in BNC.

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1 The answer to his first point is that it is absolutely clear that a number of people who break their bail conditions are remanded in custody when they are brought back to the court ; but that happens in only about six out of 10 cases , and in four out of 10 cases when those who break their bail conditions are brought back to the court , it seems that they are no longer remanded in custody but are again let out on bail .
2 Kenneth Markham , who works for the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research , funded by the New Zealand government , analysed flavonoids , photo-protective pigments which are synthesised in plants when they are exposed to harmful UV-B radiation , the wavelength most affected by the depletion of stratospheric ozone .
3 The blueprints we draw up about the environment we inhabit and our place in it are sketched in outline when we are very young and least able to see the whole picture .
4 He had been serving in Cairo when my father was born , and afterwards the family came to live in England , as my grandfather was posted to the Military Academy at Sandhurst as an instructor .
5 He had been serving in France when he met her , they had married as soon as the Hun had been finished off , and after the honeymoon it had been back to the colours for him and straight over to Ireland .
6 Earlier he had heard that a young clerk from the Post Office had shot himself while lying in bed … he had left a young widow , to whom he had been married in Calcutta during the previous cold season ; this act of despair had moved him more than any other of the many deaths he had witnessed since the beginning of the siege ; it was perhaps the fact that the young man had been lying in bed when he had shot himself that the Collector found so sad .
7 They may be laid to rest by ringing a bell which has been blessed in church when they are sighted , then burying the bell in one stretch of water and the clapper in another .
8 You will be informed when the date has been fixed for the appeal to be heard in Court when you must appear personally before the Court in support of your Appeal .
9 Well why would it be used in circumstances when it was not needed otherwise ?
10 This relationship should be borne in mind when we examine monetary policy in the next two chapters .
11 These opinions will then be borne in mind when it comes to planning future health and social care policies .
12 CHILE were thrown out of the 1994 World Cup by Fifa yesterday after forcing their decisive 1990 qualifier against Brazil to be abandoned in Rio when their players walked off claiming that the Chilean goalkeeper , Roberto Rojas , had been injured by a flare .
13 The old adage ‘ practice makes perfect ’ must be kept in mind when one begins to despair .
14 Everything was too bountiful in the New World , and after the austerity of wartime Britain , it gave her a feeling of guilt to be bathing in luxury when her countryfolk were fighting a war .
15 ‘ The public were placed in fear when they were expecting to be shopping peacefully .
16 said you would n't believe they were made in England when you look at the
17 We received a message by telephone that this was fine and that we were to get in touch when we were ready to take up the offer .
18 The conclusions we characteristically reach about this were learned in childhood when we needed to make sense of the many confusing and contradictory recordings in our three ego-states .
19 That is why the goods for which we are responsible are being labelled in Russian when they go to the former Soviet Union .
20 She said he had left the house in the forenoon of 24 October and been covered in blood when he returned at 3am the next day .
21 ‘ And in case you do n't believe me I would n't still have been covered in snow when I came in if I had ’
22 In a sense his experience supports his theory , but also mocks it , for the ability to perceive what is happening in London when you are in Oxford is not true spiritual knowledge .
23 The computer ‘ forgets ’ whatever is stored in RAM when it is switched off ; which is why it is so important to save to disk any files you have created beforehand .
24 Beatrix Potter was holidaying in Gloucester when she learned of a local legend about a tailor called John Pritchard … who returned to work on a Monday morning to find an unfinished coat mysteriously completed over the weekend .
25 One Sunday morning , about a week after I had seen my dad for the second time , I was lying in bed when I heard voices in the street below .
26 She had spoken to Cissie about ensuring that the door was locked in future when she was taking a bath .
27 I had letters which started , ‘ We were travelling up the motorway from London to Glasgow and I heard you … ’ or ‘ I live in Devon but I was staying in Leicester when I heard you .
28 But she was lacking in self-confidence when she should have had lots .
29 The Ayatollah was teaching in Qom when he was arrested in 1963 after condemning a raid on the college by the Shah 's security forces .
30 ‘ Is that what she was doing in London when she told him she was in Wales with her sick mother ? ’
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