Example sentences of "when the [noun sg] was [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | ( I got very adept at ‘ Swiss darning ’ and picking up dropped stitches with a latch tool when the garment was off the machine . ) |
2 | If ultrasonic methods were used , for example , anomalous effects would be observed when the wavelength was of the order of the phase dimensions . |
3 | A junction where judgments were required was signalled by the experimenter sounding a tone when the vehicle was at the centre of the junction . |
4 | He described the whole process as The Water of the Moon , presumably referring to its happening in a running stream when the moon was at the full : |
5 | They moved onto dinosaurs when the film was in the air , and now they ca n't make enough to meet demand |
6 | It seemed shocking that he should feel he had a right to complain about being woken up when the country was on the verge of civil war . |
7 | Then when the Globe was after the same guy , I got to figuring . ’ |
8 | Similar formality was observed when the court was on the move . |
9 | ‘ Thank you , Harald , ’ Carl whispered , when the man was at the front of the plane . |
10 | She also picked a shiny rayon for the yarn after dropping stitches right left and centre and making several false starts , I studied the pattern and taught myself how to latch up and darn in ( when the work was off the machine ) so that my ‘ botching ’ did not show . |
11 | At one time it was thought that the brain reached its peak of potential performance when the individual was between the ages of 18 and 25 years and that , from that time onwards , it began to deteriorate . |
12 | The Bill gives asylum seekers in that position the right — it did not exist when the case was before the court — to appeal to an independent adjudicator . |
13 | Hence for a trigram window , the final score assigned to each word will be the summation of three recognition scores : the score assigned when the word was in the first position of the window , the score assigned when the word was in the middle of the window and the score when it was the final element of the window . |
14 | Hence for a trigram window , the final score assigned to each word will be the summation of three recognition scores : the score assigned when the word was in the first position of the window , the score assigned when the word was in the middle of the window and the score when it was the final element of the window . |
15 | It was one of Chapman 's rules that even when the ball was on the other side of the field , a player must always be anticipating the next move . |
16 | The provisions , discussed more fully below , allowing a departure from all or part of the National Curriculum in certain cases or where certain individuals are concerned , were introduced when the bill was before the Commons in early 1988 . |
17 | This ‘ RG ’ equipment ( see Appendix 3 ) sent a beam of' invisible infra-red light from an Aldis-type lamp , the signal being visible only when the beam was on the little black box camera-sized receiver with a screen which , when the beam was intercepted , showed a green spot against speckle of' green pin-pricks of infra-red light from the stars . |
18 | He said " When the employee was in the Kingsbridge office he was in effect the Kingsbridge office . |
19 | In the euphoria which had followed the victory over France , there was even some talk that when the war was over the Party would be dissolved by the Wehrmacht and Germany would become a ‘ pure military state ’ . |
20 | As he 'd told Alison , spitting and scratching were nothing new but that was mainly when the car was on the road . |
21 | It can not be mere coincidence that the abandonment of paternalism came about when the party was on the cusp of a new generation of leaders . |
22 | Lighting the fire when the wind was in the wrong direction , or when there was no wind at all , took skill . |
23 | When the wind was in the west a sickly smell floated over the pits . |
24 | A last minute give away allowed the midlanders to claim a point when the match was in the bag . |
25 | A more serious incident occurred when the churchwarden was in the process of removing a crucifix in the churchyard following a directive from parliament for the removal of images from church property . |