Example sentences of "[adv] when they [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is there not some call on judges to be just a little a a little more respectful perhaps when they 're they 're dealing with cases like this rather than as flippant as he |
| 2 | Apparently when they 're not on the lines , there 's . |
| 3 | They try to blend them together when they 're really opposites ! ’ |
| 4 | And the ladies all when they were dressed they would have a skirt made of this and a frilly blouse with a high neck and er a silver buckled belt round their waist . |
| 5 | It must be remembered to breathe in ( using the special breathing technique ) when the arms or legs are up and to breathe out gently when they are down . |
| 6 | The meanings of morse are borrowed from the meanings of , say , English and messages encoded in it are meaningful only when they are interpreted , that is , decoded . |
| 7 | They are free only when they are electing members of parliament . |
| 8 | Slobs like me who iron only when they are forced to , and then only the bits that show , stand to recoup their investment after less than a year 's worth of shirts . |
| 9 | If you ask old people whether they ever think of themselves as old , they tell you it is only when they are ill or feeling very unhappy . |
| 10 | The first part of the definition of a test factor should now be clear : test factors need to be introduced only when they are related to both the variables under consideration . |
| 11 | Of course the true potential of these synthetic peptides will be revealed only when they are tried out against infections in live animals , and Professor Choppin 's research group is currently performing such tests . |
| 12 | There are times when the word unbelief is used to describe the doubts of those who are definitely believers but only when they are at a stage of doubting which is rationally inexcusable and well on the way to becoming fullgrown unbelief . |
| 13 | Has the industry finally shed its negative image for helping businesses only when they are in trouble ? |
| 14 | Has the industry finally shed its negative image for helping businesses only when they are in trouble ? |
| 15 | But writers want to redraft only when they are concerned enough about their work to want to improve it ; a good deal of the writing done in schools pupils would not wish to redraft , because it is n't important enough to them . |
| 16 | Like the cheetah and other hunting cats , they crouch and freeze motionless if their quarry looks in their direction , moving only when they are unobserved . |
| 17 | Only when they are fully fledged and ready to fly do they demolish it and leave . |
| 18 | The paradox is that argumentative positions sometimes become justified only when they are criticized ( Billig , 1987a ) . |
| 19 | As with protozoan parasites , ponds naturally support a whole host of bacteria — some harmless , some beneficial ( such as the filter bacteria Nitrosomonas and Aeromonas ) , still others are dangerous to fish — though invariably only when they are weakened by other factors . |
| 20 | Patients become bedridden only when they are terminally ill or if they are allowed to develop progressive scoliosis which results in intolerance of sitting . |
| 21 | The full significance of these texts emerges only when they are viewed in the context of Nizan 's major work of the period , Le Cheval de Troie . |
| 22 | A complete gene is then made up of a whole series of exons , which are actually strung together only when they are eventually read by the ‘ official ’ operating system that translates them into proteins . |
| 23 | Cash crops can also , of course , be commercially very lucrative , but only when they are acceptable on the world market . |
| 24 | " The conventions of the constitution , " as Professor LeMay observed , " have meaning only when they are looked at against a background of continuous political change . |
| 25 | ‘ Their views should be given weight only when they are clearly representative of opinion in the Parliamentary party or the Conservative Party as a whole , ’ he said on the same programme . |
| 26 | ‘ Are they like this at home , or is it only when they 're on holiday ? ’ |
| 27 | only when they 're close to it as well |
| 28 | But it 's only when they 're in a crowd but course , among that crowd are some that are bad and some that are good get carried along with them , that 's |
| 29 | Only when they were both naked and in bed did the girl remember her mother 's final request , to put on a load of washing . |
| 30 | Only when they were ready did Zack open the boot of the Volvo . |