Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] when [art] [noun sg] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike our southern ring road , the York road is single carriageway width and it is impossible to overtake when the road is anything less than quiet . |
| 2 | The extent to which , in informal care , it is acceptable for men to care for women in relation to more intimate tasks is variable and seems that gender taboos are less likely to apply when a man is caring for his wife , than , say , a son for his mother . |
| 3 | Greater latitude can be permitted to disparagement of politicians and self-promoting celebrities : the sting is less likely to pierce when the hide is thick . |
| 4 | A corollary of this last point is that the technique is likely to succeed when the signal is switched on at some moment to which the time origin may be ascribed , the inference being that the signal is zero up to time . |
| 5 | The Ebrahimi type of doctrine is most likely to occur when a partnership is converted into a company but the same people are involved as before and carry on the business with much the same attitude . |
| 6 | Relapse in the absence of a precipitating event is most likely to occur when the patient is living in a situation characterised by high expressed emotion between himself and a relative with whom he has a high degree of contact . |
| 7 | It is usually good to speak when the audience is bored . |
| 8 | Even to relatively unsophisticated subjects it is quite intuitive to sell when the price is high and store when the price is low , but it is much less intuitive to produce where the marginal cost is equal to some expectation . |
| 9 | I suspect that is merely because I have always been able to anticipate when a fox is likely to be present as the result of scent , footprints and tell-tale evidence around the burrow mouth . |
| 10 | The debtor is entitled to attend when the report is being considered and make any representations he wishes . |