Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] when [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You may ask about his daily routine when abroad ; he attends matins at church and priestly services either alone or with a small following , and worships so devoutly that he has set an example to all Italians of the honour and reverence that should be paid to bishops and clergy . |
| 2 | Henry Fairfield Osborn , the influential Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History , coined the term ‘ adaptive radiation ’ to denote the episodes of expansion , and insisted on the orthogenetic character of evolution within each specialized group when once established . |
| 3 | The Scots trailed 12-0 to Nadroga at the interval though , as in Canberra , the opposition scores , through Lala and Esala , the latter 's converted by Suka , had come from Scottish largesse when originally in possession . |
| 4 | The Scots trailed 12-0 to Nadroga at the interval though , as in Canberra , the opposition scores , through Lala and Esala , the latter 's converted by Suka , had come from Scottish largesse when originally in possession . |
| 5 | Incredibly , Muckamore lost out by one run to lowly Cregagh when seemingly in command while Holywood then lost to Carrick , being bowled out for 59 . |
| 6 | One night he was walking down a narrow , dark lane when suddenly , from behind a parked van , a huge man appeared . |
| 7 | It is quite pointless for critics of evolutionary thinking to waste time and space on a denigration of the hunches of earlier phases of an evolutionary inquiry when neither contemporary sources of information nor current developments in selection theory had arisen . |
| 8 | The range and scale of discovery sought is not perhaps strictly relevant , but in practice courts were more ready to allow the use of discovery under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure when relatively modest demands were made . |
| 9 | This was my distinct feeling when nervously trying to set up my first foray into journalism . |
| 10 | Trehub and Abramovitch ( 1978 ) showed that three- and four-year-olds exhibited a similar preference when simply asked to choose between two piles of different sizes : they preferred the larger one . |
| 11 | What seemed to be a simple matter when merely held as a mental question , verbally unframed and with no thought given to response , appears as a simply impossible problem when it has actually to be put down on paper . |
| 12 | It was Eric 's turn next : his presenter appeared in jogging track suit , and false beard , and needed to do little more than puff heavily round the stage several times intoning ‘ no , not on the roof , no , not on the roof , to bring the house down , rousing laughter even from those who did not know that these were the mysterious words that the Warden had uttered in a loud cry when abruptly roused from slumber during a session of group therapy . |
| 13 | My Lord Mayor , how could they not throw out their socialist ideology when so many Labour Councillors , Labour Councillors , were buying , and some in this very Chamber , were indeed buying their own Council house . |
| 14 | All these matters show that it is a vexed question when exactly there will be a change in the regime and that is a question I shall seek to answer a little later on . |
| 15 | These scenes , in which Chas ' burgeoning sexuality is alluded to , appear in the same context as his obvious distaste when actually faced with the prospect of kissing , ‘ Eeurk ! ’ or his hair being touched by a girl : ‘ Chas felt his hair suddenly prickle , as if it was full of nits ’ . |
| 16 | He had been dropped off a hard chance when just twelve were needed , but went on to hit the winning four off Botham , and his eight wickets and two useful knocks earned him the Man of the Match award . |
| 17 | ‘ Among those unable to be with us today , ’ continued the colonel , ‘ is a young man who followed Lieutenant Harvey into the enemy trenches and then killed four , perhaps five German soldiers before later stalking and shooting another , finally killing a German officer before being tragically killed himself by a stray bullet when only yards from the safety of his own trenches . ’ |
| 18 | Queen 's University student Cathy Gallagher retained her O'Loan Ladies Snooker Classic title when convincingly defeating Stoneyford 's Cathy Pegg in yesterday 's final . |
| 19 | Using Kirchhoff 's current law at the noninverting input of this trigger gives so that Hence the output switches over to the opposite saturation state from positive and negative saturation when respectively It is said that the circuit acts as a discriminator . |
| 20 | The problem is to explain the subsequent large negative basis when almost all shares were open for trading . |
| 21 | Both have a good flavour when fully ripened , but the unpasteurised cheeses are very strong and an absolute delight ! |
| 22 | There are people who have a good pension when there in retirement , do n't there department , I 'm the only one that 's elected . |
| 23 | Although microchips give machines only a smidgen of intelligence , that can go a long way when sensibly applied by human masters . |
| 24 | The skewness has a positive or negative value when more fine or more coarse materials are present than in a normal distribution , seen as tails to the right or left respectively on frequency distribution plots . |
| 25 | Mayson was denied his hat-trick by good ‘ keeping and twice Smyth was through , only to go for the unselfish option when perhaps a shot would have been better . |
| 26 | Yes , crushed apple was a very good medicine when properly blended with glucose and sterile milk for small stomachs . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , Tory backbenchers voiced their concern that speedy action should be taken over juvenile crime when about 25 MPs met Mr Clarke for more than an hour at a private meeting at the Commons . |
| 28 | It is natural to walk or run them and anyone who has done this will know that it becomes more of a rhythmic dance when perfectly attuned . |
| 29 | Price is an important factor when about 6 tonnes of potatoes are needed to produce 1 tonne of dried material . |
| 30 | ‘ There 's something about its jizz which makes me think it 's a … ’ is a very handy phrase when only a brief glimpse of the bird has been caught . |