Example sentences of "[noun sg] but [adv] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fingers come round , things go in and out of my mouth but even when I venture to open my eyes I see nothing . |
| 2 | Praise was never given to an individual child but only when the entire class did well . |
| 3 | That sort of system is not so easy for actors looking for their first job but easier when you are well known . |
| 4 | More noteworthy is the declamatory freedom with which rhythms are interpreted — not only in the long solos for the second piano but also when these are accompanied by the most complicated rhythmic canons in the other instrument . |
| 5 | Er , one and another one who did , who was a waiter but part-time when they had somebody important in , which I think I 've put down here , that one 's finished with . |
| 6 | Well it 's like what most exercises are , it seems like a lot of nonsense but actually when it comes to the crunch , you actually know what 's going to happen , you know the the procedures and everything like that . |
| 7 | The campaign , sponsored by Gilbeys of Northern Ireland , included a sixty second television commercial which carried the message : ‘ We want you to enjoy a drink but never when you 're driving ’ . |
| 8 | Your daffodils seem to be suffering from the problem known as ‘ blindness ’ , that is they produce foliage but even when they do produce buds these remain small and dry out before opening up . |
| 9 | The weakness of this is that it fails to view the implications of the spending when it makes its impact but only when the spending actually takes place . |
| 10 | No probably not in a sense but then when complete enough to actually use is another matter . |
| 11 | Tufte has developed five principles for elegant , informative data displays ( panel 3 ) , which should be borne in mind at all stages in data analysis but particularly when preparing figures for publication . |
| 12 | Now either , either we have , ei either you accept that and y y you 're saying n not only in terms of land reform is the Communist Party prepared to see poor peasants being allocated less than subsistence land but even when they are allocated land they 're being taxed on their income even though it 's well below subsistence . |
| 13 | Well er as I say , I 've always been a union member but then when I was self-employed it was different and I kept me fees up for a , to somewhere I do n't know what it was , but er when er yes , when er I was coming to come on me own and I went down the locksmith 's to see about it and they said er , what did they say now , they said you could n't do that , whatever it was , and er we 'll have to do this and that and the other . |
| 14 | This can occur at any time but particularly when the student has been observed or supervised in her nursing care . |
| 15 | They were contained in the liquid membrane ready to attach themselves to a copper ion but only when it had been reduced to Cu + . |
| 16 | The social worker within a local authority is never professionally involved with a family simply because it is a family but only when family considerations impinge upon the welfare and interests of some member of a client group — usually a child but perhaps an elderly or disabled adult . |
| 17 | The study by Butler and his associates is the most important in this area because they found not only that health visiting favoured no one class but also when a more sensitive analysis of the data was made that took account of over-crowding , house amenities , parental education , as well as father 's occupation , they found that the lower socio-economic groups received more health visiting . |