Example sentences of "[pron] when [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same issue featured Bradley Martin — as Hopkins tended to byline himself when writing on drugs — noting the News of the World 's ‘ sensational splurge on drugs and the pop world ’ , the harmful effect the attack had had on Nuttall 's work as a teacher , and Miles 's self-proclaimed lack of enthusiasm for LSD . |
| 2 | Thus he persuaded himself when writing to Theo , but not when he was face to face with a spitting hell-cat who abused him vilely , telling him to stop messing about with his stupid painting , scraping and altering it until her nerves were in shreds . |
| 3 | He made , like many intellectuals , rather a fool of himself when flattered by people in power — in his case , Catherine . |
| 4 | He seems most himself when snarling like a caged animal , droning and whining like a buzz saw , hacking at his guitar as if he is chopping wood . |
| 5 | On the brink of suicide himself when imprisoned for writing to a friend who had been called a counter-revolutionary , Liang Heng wonders , ‘ Why should two good people like my parents be forced to divorce each other ? |
| 6 | On 10 March 1779 Wasbrough was granted a patent ( no. 1,213 ) for a ‘ machine , which when applied to a steam-engine or any perpendicular motion … will cause such movement to become circular , without the medium of a water-wheel , for grinding wheat and other grain , and for grinding , rolling , hammering , and other uses in mechanical operations ’ . |
| 7 | An example of Wimsatt 's ( 1958 : 147 — 8 ) is what he calls the metaphor , and many would call the simile , in the last line of this passage from Donne 's ‘ A Valediction : forbidding mourning ’ ( like Eliot , the New Critics were particularly attached to the Metaphysical poets ) : The comparison between the lovers ' separation and the hammering of gold into leaf-form brings together two terms which are clearly quite different and therefore might justifiably be described as opposites ; and the conjunction of meanings thus established creates a series of connections ( the relationship between the separated lovers is like gold leaf in that it is ethereal ( ‘ ayery ’ ) , delicate , easily damaged , but at the same time precious , pure , bright , etc. ) , which when related to real experience possesses considerable illuminating force . |
| 8 | This aura of instant unassailability and permanence was transferred to The Independent On Sunday , which when compared to its competitors appeared positively understated in its three compact sections . |
| 9 | Now which when differentiated with respect to gives . |
| 10 | Unlike the pluralist approach which when dealing with macro-political issues directs its attention towards attitudes , ethics , belief systems and individualistic cultural components , this Gramscian Marxist perspective investigates the linkages between economic structures ( such as landholding ) , national development ( such as the effect on artisan or fledgling industry of suddenly imposed competition with more advanced areas ) and the instruments of intellectual control through which the economic domination is legitimated . |
| 11 | 8 The stimulus is the pin which when pressed onto the hand , causes us to feel pain . |
| 12 | Protein kinase C is the name given to a group of kinases , which when activated by diacylglycerol in the presence of phospholipids such as phosphatidylserine , phosphorylate proteins on serine or threonine . |
| 13 | These are commands selected from menus displayed on the screen although the keyboard is used , the main input device is currently the ‘ mouse ’ which when moved on a table produces corresponding movements of a pointer arrow on the screen . |
| 14 | A substantial number of miscible blends have now been discovered using this principle and it is possible to identify certain groups or repeat units , which when incorporated in polymer chains tend to enter into these intermolecular interactions and enhance the miscibility . |
| 15 | His 2:20:36 was an impressive 13-minute improvement on last year , which when projected over 26 miles , should put him comfortably inside his 3:20 target for the ADT London Marathon . |
| 16 | The keyboard operator punches holes in a paper roll , which when run through casting machines produces individual characters . |
| 17 | 9.15 ( a ) An L-section which when cascaded with itself with reversed input and output connections as depicted in ( h ) forms the symmetric T-section of figure 9.1(b) . |
| 18 | He was the sort of person who might , after much hard study , have finally learnt two phrases from the language of flowers : the gladiolus , which when placed at the centre of a bouquet indicates by the number of its blooms the hour for which the rendezvous is set ; and the petunia , which announces that a letter has been intercepted . |
| 19 | " There needs to be some factor which when seen in its true light makes the reason for the murder obvious , but which is more easily seen in a false light . " |
| 20 | Certain conditions can be described specifically e.g. broken limb etc , which when allied with the claimant 's occupation can generally provide a good indication of the potential duration of a claim . |
| 21 | which when chilled in the fridge ( not freezer ) acts as a cold compress for baby 's gums and helps to reduce any discomfort he 's feeling . |
| 22 | It 's a device which when read by scanner , gives a unique code ; one of 34 billion possibles . |
| 23 | After five minutes or so and a few shaky moments in some bankside undergrowth , a huge koi graced my net which when put on the scales went a shade over 15lb . |
| 24 | These forts were built of stone tied together with wood beams which when set on fire generated sufficient heat to fuse or " vitrify " the stones . |
| 25 | These forts were built of stone tied together with wood beams which when set on fire generated sufficient heat to fuse or " vitrify " the stones . |
| 26 | In fact , the data which he cites lead one to a conclusion , which when transposed into terms closer to those used in this book , might be stated as follows : When an attributive adjective A qualifies a nominal head N , then , if we have referent-qualification ( which is by far the more common case ) the property of the adjective acts , in identification , independently of the property inherent in the noun . |
| 27 | Coats of arms are described according to rules known as blazon , a term which when used as a noun is a description in words of a coat and , when as the verb ‘ ( to ) blazon ’ , the act of so describing . |
| 28 | Now it is possible to write down a sequence of matrices unc Mr ( r is usually n or n + 1 , depending on the variant employed ) which when used as a chain to premultiply A , condense it to the unit matrix , so that unc which evidently implies unc The numerical procedure is to operate successively on 91 ) ; given A we can write down M1 and we evaluate unc so that ( 1 ) becomes unc Knowing B we can now write down unc and form unc and so on , until R is obtained . |
| 29 | The bond equivalent yield is the coupon of a bond which when trading at par would give the same yield as a discount security . |
| 30 | She also begins to understand the power of her sexuality , which when purged of its impurity and wantonness can greatly enhance the life and luck of her husband . |