Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] when we " in BNC.

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1 Mark : ‘ We get really strong reactions when we play .
2 We are all structural-functionalists today , just as we are all in a way Freudians and Marxists whether we like it or not ; but we must also recognize that we do gain additional insight into the significance of social phenomena when we know where they come from spatially and temporally .
3 ‘ Where were the old heads when we needed them when the chips were down ?
4 We found our way to the desk for Saudi Arabian Airlines when we had our first alarm .
5 So what will happen to those old boats when we reach saturation point , and , in any case , are we nearing it now ?
6 By conflating childhood with mythic time — and does not the world possess mythic proportions when we are small ?
7 We happened on some good 'uns , and we happened on some sort of funny ones when we goo round .
8 What is the point of discussing visionary schemes when we have not even dealt with the basics .
9 Turner ( 1984 ) notes the hypocrisy of excluding disabled people from these professions , stating : ‘ How can we tell patients they can lead normal lives when we do n't allow their peers to become our colleagues ?
10 We have similar difficulties when we look at such aspects as soul and intelligence : these have a profound effect on our daily existence , yet we have problems whenever we try to quantify them .
11 The brain should never be given contradictory clues when we attempt to reproduce any of the senses .
12 It 's going to be much colder at altitude than on the ground , but one help is the fact that you move with the wind , so you do n't get so much of a wind chill factor as you are on the ground , and we 'll be putting on extra layers when we actually take off , so we hope we 'll be warm enough .
13 Right okay can you go into the , just log the data okay last week we were looking at test for structural change and we said that the Chow test is the most commonly used test for structural change in actual fact Chow developed two tests erm , the parameter constancy , I E structural change , fir the first one is where you remember what the , the principle behind the Chow test that you split the whole sample into two sub periods , right and you see whether the , some of the res residual sum of squares from each sub sample , right , is significantly different from the residual sum of squares from a single estimation over the who whole sample period , right if they are significantly different that suggests that the parameters that are estimated over the full er sample period , right , are n't as good estimates as the unrestricted estimates when we are allowing two different sets of parameters just to be estimated .
14 But we are given an insight into the limitations of their cognitive capabilities when we observe a spider responding to a vibrating tuning fork by attempting to wrap it up for food .
15 The conclusive objection to ‘ kit of tools ’ or ‘ job in hand ’ as appropriate expressions when we talk of poetry , is in some late lines by Eliot :
16 Yeah , that needs to be signed and then we can use these and any future occasions when we 're all in the same place .
17 To pay the bank daily to do things with it and then to start adding to those costs which a bank charges by using all these sophisticated methods when we can in fact do what most staff want , which is to give them cash in a little brown envelope on a Thursday .
18 Our guarantee will not apply to certain exceptional circumstances when we are prevented form meeting our specified standards by events beyond our control .
19 Sometimes there are the most startling surprises when we come to realise how someone else is looking at a situation which , to us , could only be perceived in one way .
20 These compromises , resulting in records which were considered musically acceptable in those days , mean ethical decisions when we come to play them back today ; should we even try to restore the original ‘ fidelity ’ ?
21 We were taxed by ethical issues when we set up the elective ventilation protocol : ethics may be defined as what is right , and in turn that can be regarded as behaviour that causes no distress , offence , or indignity in the context of current societal values .
22 Those people who have had deep religious experiences often talk about them with a sense of awe — the feeling many of us have had as little children when we 've been in the presence of something powerful and magnificent .
23 I could if I just pick up one other point about you know , like the the non-standard times , or the non-standard occasions when we do fire evacuations currently er , I do n't know where we think the fire is but we all troop out via our normal fire exits and to our normal assembly ports erm , it maybe men , maybe an idea to do some fire evacuations where we stayed where the fire actually was and people have got to take other other routes to evacuate the building .
24 Hon. Members make strange predictions when we try to introduce measures to improve such industries and their performance .
25 We were not merely ready to welcome strange things when we had walked half a mile up a lane and met no man , but we were in a gracious condition for receiving whatever might fall to us .
26 We all send and receive visual signals when we talk to each other .
27 Hypertriglyceridaemia is more difficult to define ( Hulley et al , 1980 ) , but it is our practice to institute active treatment of fasting serum triglyceride levels consistently 5 mmol/l or above in diabetic subjects when we are confident it is not secondary hypertriglyceridaemia .
28 A useful exchange of views always takes place and engenders an excellent team spirit , which proved its worth with the campaign for increased subscriptions when we all felt we were working towards the same goal and had a common purpose .
29 My Group faced great difficulties when we tried to formulate our recommendations for the teaching of grammar .
30 Father had been a champion cyclist in his youth in Wales and saw that we were all given good bicycles when we reached years of discretion .
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