Example sentences of "[be] [prep] when the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There have been times when the Church has persecuted even its own people who have held differing views . |
| 2 | At least one bookseller remarked to me that so many ex-library books had come on to the market in the last few years that he had begun to realise what it must have been like when the great monastic libraries were being dispersed . |
| 3 | There will be times when the movement will be in reverse . |
| 4 | Marketing is about responding , but there must be times when the response will be in the negative . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , where land is cropped regularly , there are bound to be times when the soil life is reduced or inhibited to a point where it fails to rebuild the damaged structure . |
| 6 | When assessing the financial rewards , it is wise to assume that there will be times when the accommodation is empty — so you will not be receiving any rent . |
| 7 | Maybe P and Q and R behave alike , but there may be times when the algorithm folds a set { P , Q , R } where , say , Q sometimes occurs in a context which never contains P or R. The algorithm looks for any context which contains some of X 's children but not the others . |
| 8 | With processors galloping at 66MHz it means that there will be times when the processor is held back waiting for a slow peripheral to catch up . |
| 9 | We are losing our liberties and our heritage and he declared ‘ I tremble what Ulster will be like when the children in our homes reach the years I have reached . |
| 10 | I want to have this man drive me in his car all night long , for us never to arrive anywhere … but if we should then let the gates swing silently open , let there be a long gravel drive , let it be like when the young master comes home from school . |
| 11 | You can have no idea at all what the weather will be like when the plants arrive : it could be wet and the soil like a quagmire , it could be too dry , or frozen hard , and planting quite out of the question . |
| 12 | What 'll it be like when the public come through the door ? |
| 13 | The old woman reflects " " " Now , is like when the fire flew away and ate up all the trees ' " " ( p. 93 ) . |
| 14 | It will be interesting to see what it 's like when the VL Bus video cards turn up . |