Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] when [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some firms have adopted a formula which reserves a power to prevent more than one partner departing in any given period ( say a year ) , with complementary provisions to determine priority as between notices served on the same day , though in these frantic head-hunting times when whole departments may be recruited at a stroke , such provisions are realistically best seen as providing a basis for negotiation ( and perhaps financial adjustment by way of compensation ) . |
| 2 | The planning blight of the 1960s is apparent everywhere in the poorly designed , poorly constructed high rise blocks , most in a state of disrepair , which replaced terrace houses when whole areas were cleared . |
| 3 | The power being generated by each engine at the time of impact has to be established by assessing the temperature of the turbine blades when ingested material impinged on the blades during the crash and by the type of damage sustained by the compressor and turbine blades or , if appropriate , the propeller damage and the blade pitch angles . |
| 4 | Furthermore , in whole body calorimetry studies when total H 2 and CH 4 excretion were measured in healthy subjects eating test meals of various fermentable carbohydrates , the amount of excreted H 2 that could be accounted for was much less in non-methanogenic subjects . |
| 5 | They were being interviewed in two undisclosed police stations after the violent reaction of local people on Tuesday night when other youths were arrested . |
| 6 | The round mahogany table , friend of my childhood , under whose shelter I had lain and read ; whose clawed brass feet I had cleaned every Saturday morning when young , and then later , admiring them all the time — never having seen any other claws as fine or as lifelike as these . |
| 7 | The same behaviour operates in reverse : if the real wage rate is regarded as abnormally low , they will withdraw some of their labour services in the knowledge that they will be able to command a higher reward for their labour services when real wages return to normal . |
| 8 | A post office is invaluable because it can also act as a bank , not only during the week , but on Saturday mornings when normal banks are usually closed . |
| 9 | This suggests that either the K + channel bearing cells were overgrown by other cell types when true confluency was achieved , or confluency was associated with full polarisation of the cells and mvoement of K + channels to the basolateral membrane , which was inaccessible to the patch pipette . |
| 10 | Captured by Blackfoot or Atsina Indians when accompanying buffalo-hunters to Montana in the late eighteenth century , she was sold to eastern Indians and then on to a French-Canadian at Red River . |
| 11 | They mean that slum clearances still lack completion ; that low standards of living still persist , and that the lessons taught in the school and clinic , and good social habits , do not always survive the pressure of bad home circumstances when young people have passed from supervision . |
| 12 | Their much-derided ‘ copying ’ focus is now seen with more respect as showing a complete absence of the NIH ( not invented here ) syndrome that causes so many Western companies problems when new but not original ideas are introduced . |
| 13 | Higher social groups appeared to make more use of health services in relation to need however ( Brotherston 1976 ; Forster 1976 ) and research published shortly after the Black Report argued that they also obtained a disproportionate share of NHS resources when ill ( Le Grand 1982 ) . |
| 14 | Sheffield United looked to be heading for their third successive home win when substitute Simon Milton found space on the right . |
| 15 | As a result , farming interests now dominate many of the park committees and there must be doubt as to whether they are able to give proper consideration and weight to the park purposes when agricultural applications are being considered . |
| 16 | In the blithe mid-century days when five-year plans were supposed to create industrial sectors at the flick of a wand , there were five-year plans galore . |
| 17 | Their reaction time when symptomatic was also significantly longer than the repeat reaction time of the subjects who remained healthy ( recruitment value 360 ( SD 69 ) ms , repeat value 367 ( SD 72 ) ms , second repeat value 373 ( SD 124 ) ms ) ( p<0.05 ) . |
| 18 | Bolton , unbeaten before Saturday 's match , fell behind in the opening minute when right-winger Ryan Hill drifted into the penalty area , met a cross from the left , and fired in from an acute angle . |
| 19 | The Association was pleased to contribute to the organisation of student seminars held during Hotel olympia week when top speakers gave an insight into their industry sectors . |
| 20 | Contract Compliance Local authorities when inviting tenders must specify clearly the work to be done and the conditions under which it should be completed . |
| 21 | Clay An argillaceous compound with plastic characteristics when wet . |
| 22 | Early missionaries under Mellitus in AD 602 were exhorted by Pope Gregory to utilise earlier pagan sites when new churches were built , so that people could continue to use those places they were accustomed to frequent . |
| 23 | the lid : why cut a rebate the full length of the frame pieces when simple notches would have sufficed ? |
| 24 | I used to worry about the racket it makes at traffic lights when other drivers looked with scorn . |
| 25 | Such purchases are often made under long term Contracts , and may be enacted by computerised stock control programs when current stock levels reach a minimum " safety level " . |
| 26 | In many cases , this association of boundaries with mills means either that the mills were in existence when the boundaries were defined ( thus indicating an increased number of Anglo-Saxon mill sites and a more extensive interference with river courses than we formerly thought ) , or that special arrangements were made to alter parish boundaries when new mills were built . |
| 27 | On the island of Rhum for example , there was talk of introducing a pack of timber wolves when sufficient tree cover to support them was achieved at the end of an extensive planting programme by the Nature Conservancy Council . |
| 28 | Whilst this representation provides a very compact method of holding and handling a wide range of the common geometric forms found in engineering , it can result in a long processing time when real model edges have to be determined in complex models . |
| 29 | Acute schizophrenia can severely impair mothering skills when maternal distress leads to distraction and neglect . |
| 30 | New confusion swamped the prospects for resolving the row between the two government parties when Irish High Court president Mr Justice Liam Hamilton issued a statement highly critical of senior cabinet minister Des O'Malley . |