Example sentences of "[be] [noun pl] when [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are times when photography by women becomes women 's photography , a close bonding of consciousness , an awareness , not of feminist issues , but of a precise and finite condition of being . |
| 2 | They confound you because there are times when conditions are compatible only to a warm bed yet you end the day with a netful of fish . |
| 3 | Then there are times when conditions are so ideal you would almost expect to catch fish on a baitless hook , but the net remains idle . |
| 4 | There are times when conditions develop which can not readily be related to known disease conditions . |
| 5 | There are times when Chancellors are right to fuss with mini-measures , and there are times when they need to make an instant impact . |
| 6 | Inevitably , there are times when professionals disagree among themselves . |
| 7 | ‘ There are times when women have a place in a man 's life , ’ he admitted gruffly . |
| 8 | There are times when parents get so angry with their children that they are in danger of losing their self-control . |
| 9 | Now there are times when Jesus actually sat down with his disciples afterwards and explained to them what the parable was about and there was a reason for that , it was because , simply , the folk would not have understood it . |
| 10 | There are times when making a certain promise ( say to look after a friend 's child if the friend dies before the child comes of age ) are morally worthwhile but where one does not have an obligation to make them ( remember that in this example too one may find other adequate ways to help one 's friend ) . |
| 11 | There are times when making language function effectively is more important than producing perfectly pronounced , grammatically correct sentences . |
| 12 | There are times when public opinion is n't the best way to decide a technical issue , but in this case the harm done would be minimal . |
| 13 | THERE are times when life not only kicks you in the teeth , but follows up with the knee in the groin and the rabbit punch to the back of the neck as well . |
| 14 | Even in the best run schools there are times when children , staff , parents and neighbours do n't receive the quality of service that they feel they deserve . |
| 15 | There are times when prejudice only contributes to conflict in the narrow band of outlook and experience where that prejudice exists . |
| 16 | Conversely , there are times when readers do have rights to affect written discourse . |
| 17 | There are times when mistakes are made in school and things go wrong : children blamed for things they did n't do , events may be cancelled at short notice , cardigans and coats lost or , even worse , end up in the toilet bowl . |
| 18 | There are times when people are in need , and that 's fine , but the problem in this parish is not the people in need not being supplied , the problem is that people are , are simply receiving what they wish to receive and not actually making very much contribution . |
| 19 | Because its period is not much more than a month shorter than a year , there are times when maxima occur with Mira too close to the Sun to be seen . |
| 20 | This is fine in most cases , but there are times when averaging is less than ideal . |
| 21 | There are times when attacks on the lesbian and gay communities seem very clearly to be an attempted stirring-up of popular hatred as a diversion of attention from society 's real problems , and times when the readiness of the government to pander to that hatred looks even more sinister . |
| 22 | There are times when Time itself pauses . |
| 23 | Clearly there are times when information at one level can and does guide the interpretation of a lower-level unit . |
| 24 | My Lords , I think I made it perfectly clear what I did mean er I did qualify it by saying that of course there are times when patients do have to wait on trolleys for diagnostic purposes , for observation and for other reasons er but once an admission has been agreed , then that patient should be admitted , that is our policy and that is what we 're working towards . |
| 25 | There are times when items of special interest must take precedence over any schedule . |
| 26 | I was trained as a scientist , and there are times when science matters more than the individual . |
| 27 | There are times when barbel are so preoccupied with whatever business they have at hand , whether it be feeding , spawning , or just browsing , you can stand on the river 's edge right over the top of them and watch them without them taking fright and scurrying off . |
| 28 | However , there are times when oil painting is impractical . |
| 29 | Between 1370 and 1500 there is only one case of a father and son both being aldermen , William Reynwell ( 1397–1403 ) and his son John ( 1416–45 ) ( 104 , pp.363–4 ) , although there are cases when brothers or cousins both held office . |
| 30 | It may evoke nostalgia now , or appear quaintly naïve , but there have been periods when crime and disorder seemed soluble , if not yet totally vanished , problems . |