Example sentences of "[noun pl] when [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't need to listen to the words when she could read her future in their eyes . |
| 2 | Why scrub the front steps when you can steam them clean ? |
| 3 | While they chastised multiculturalism for identifying racism as the ideas in people 's heads when it should be located in institutional structures , they themselves underestimated the resilience , malleability and power of ‘ race ’ as a discursive category . |
| 4 | Go for his legs when you can |
| 5 | Similarly , the families of the mentally ill need help in sudden emergencies when they can not cope with a very disturbed relative , general help in understanding and accepting the nature of the disorder and support if they have to make difficult decisions such as agreeing to the compulsory admission of a severely disturbed relative to hospital . |
| 6 | Milan , one point ahead of Sampdoria at the top of the table , also have teething problems , trying to rotate half a dozen foreigners when they can only use three ! |
| 7 | Tenants need help decorating their homes when they can no longer do it themselves , and owner occupiers on low incomes need both financial and practical help to adapt , repair and improve their homes to suit their needs , or just to make them habitable . |
| 8 | ‘ Care managers are stepping into a different world , managing budgets and telling clients when they ca n't do something because there is no more money . |
| 9 | Similarly , you should not just look at the eyes or ears when there may be a problem here . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This is the fault of of er behind the fact er we have to ask speakers when they can come to give their talk . |
| 12 | Do n't hoard savings when they could be better used to repay borrowings . |
| 13 | We snatched opportunities when we could , when my children were staying with friends or even , once , and extra dangerously , when they were asleep ( though the fear that one of them might wake put me off so I did n't try that again ) . |
| 14 | I think one of the difficulties of science — you talked at the beginning of switching people off science — is there are some golden opportunities when you can argue science , you can argue politics , you can argue English Literature with your teacher — it 's very hard to argue mathematics with your teacher . |
| 15 | The mirror 's failing , which spreads starlight around in haloes when it should be concentrated in a point , has masked the effect of the jitter . |
| 16 | Noel Hulse , a National Union of Teachers spokesman , said : ‘ It is a pity that resources are being wasted on repairing schools when they could be used for books . |
| 17 | I remember one time er these barges , old barges when you used to come up there , they ai n't got any engine in 'em at all because now they got motors in 'em , but erm , at that time , I was asleep one night and er these barges had been up , they 'd been down the the engine room , cos the engine room and the stoke hall was all in one and th and then I was so sound asleep they 'd filled the sacks up with coal and took them up over the and took the only thing they did do they did n't take the shovel they 'd used , cos they bought their shovel from off the barge and they left that downhill that 's how they 'd pinched the coal . |
| 18 | Over the previous twenty years we had become preoccupied with structural arguments about regions and areas when we should have been concerned about how the service was run . |
| 19 | ‘ I have started a review of our performance in all kinds of areas when there can be an impact on the environment to build up an objective picture of where we stand at the present and where improvement can be made . |
| 20 | How , a week after that crazy decision , are we to place confidence in Ministers who talk about policing and crime prevention in our urban and rural communities when they can not tell one from t' other ? |
| 21 | How the hell can I calm down when that fucking idiot of a chef has got the entire kitchen staff making canapés when they should be preparing the buffet ? |
| 22 | Nonetheless , stateless justice was underwritten by the state 's justice with which it coexisted ; and the officers of state justice , for economy of control and to avoid conflict within the force , encouraged groups to make their ad hoc settlements when they could . |
| 23 | LEAs will probably be reluctant to use this power and rather uncertain as to the kinds of circumstances when it should be exercised . |
| 24 | The Minister knows my views on such matters when they might affect service personnel and families . |
| 25 | Money is tight so we need to be quite clear on I mean for instance I mean the seats have been recovered you know people smoking in the seats when they should n't be smoking and putting they 're putting their cigarette 's out on the floor I do n't know |
| 26 | What had the members seen for their entrance fees and contributions when it could be shown that in that year they received some £pound9,000 in benefit while over £pound32,000 went into the management of the union ? |
| 27 | ‘ They lined the rapids when they could , lowering down the boats on a rope . |
| 28 | Office workers who on the first day possible in the early year had rushed out in their lunch hour to cover any patch of grass with bare legs and arms , floral patterns and jackets , as if some strange immediate growth had been brought out by the sun , to die back in the early afternoon , had by now got the habit of staying in the dark bowels of buildings when they could . |
| 29 | Also engineers are singled out here as the culprits when it could well have been social ( and technically incompetent ) scientists ! |
| 30 | Why they should want ti work in them smelly places when they could be out in God 's good air , Aah sh 'll nivver know . ’ |