Example sentences of "whenever a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The usher 's name was George , and during the westerns whenever a redskin bit the dust the audience called out , ‘ Georgie , take out the body ! ’ |
| 2 | In the same way , nerve cells in the spinal cord show activity whenever a particular movement is made by the arm . |
| 3 | One of her innovations was to put asterisks in the margins whenever a piece of particularly fine writing came up . |
| 4 | Policemen marshall grumbling queues whenever a load of bread or chickens jolts in from the country . |
| 5 | More recently there has been the ( largely ineffective ) battle to stop the spread of franglais , involving the introduction of a law in 1975 and two subsequent government decrees banning the use of all American and English words and expressions in advertisements , official documents and on radio and television , whenever a French alternative was possible . |
| 6 | A statute called Quia Emptores ( 1290 ) had enacted that whenever a tenant alienated his land for an estate in fee simple , the alienee should hold , not of the alienor , but of the alienor 's lord . |
| 7 | Whenever a person is confronted either with death or potential life , they must immerse themselves in a mikva in order to purify themselves spiritually . |
| 8 | He called him a skinny runt and a half-grown whelp , and he bellowed with amusement whenever a threatening movement or a deliberately sudden yell of ‘ Boo ’ caused the boy to flinch with alarm . |
| 9 | Miss Bruce 's distaste for innovation made itself manifest in the dreary proposals served up to the Conservative and Labour governments in the seventies — whenever a request for names for public duties arrived in her in-tray , the same roll-call of has-beens fell out of her out-tray . |
| 10 | Major Kirkwood of Woodbrook , according to a member of the family , always sent for the bone-healer and the vet whenever a horse became lame . |
| 11 | The Ha'penny Bridge had been illuminated , and shone green in the darkness , rocking whenever a group of people crossed over . |
| 12 | Impromptu discussion groups formed whenever a man sat outside his house . |
| 13 | Similarly , the chorus from the terraces whenever a member of the opposition was hit in the unmentionables and was being approached by the trainer with magic sponge and slopping bucket , was : ‘ Nay lad , do n't wash ‘ em . |
| 14 | Whenever a new manager was brought in to take charge of them , they refused to co-operate : in the end we just had to take the porters on . ’ |
| 15 | They descend on Glasgow whenever a few people with talent appear . |
| 16 | There is a need to investigate whenever a case is referred alleging abuse . |
| 17 | Although the constitution of the Confederation contains detailed regulations on the powers of the federal government and on the content of federal policy , all this means is that whenever a centralising measure is proposed , they amend the constitution . |
| 18 | The Report also noted , somewhat prophetically in the light of the present government 's ‘ open enrolment ’ policy under the ERA 1988 — which is designed inter alia to identify bad schools by their lack of popularity with parents — that ‘ whenever a school is unpopular that should be an indication to the authority to find out why and make it better ’ . |
| 19 | So whenever a recession or squeeze begins , Derry is likely to feel it fist . |
| 20 | Whenever a man smiled at him he smiled right back . |
| 21 | The release torque should be measured at the beginning of the test , and whenever a container is opened throughout the whole period of the test . |
| 22 | In a Channel 4 television programme it was alleged that whenever a major dispute comes up , it would immediately become an area for investigation . |
| 23 | In a Court of Appeal decision , reported in the same volume as the case from which the passage above is taken , Lord Denning thought that there was a breach of the peace ‘ whenever a person who is lawfully carrying out his work is unlawfully and physically prevented by another from doing it ’ . |
| 24 | Adjoining the studio was a funeral parlour with a window opening into the studio , so it was necessary to stop classes and rehearsals whenever a funeral took place . |
| 25 | Whenever a limb abnormality involves truncation , one can be pretty sure that this is due to damage to the ridge and so loss of the progress zone . |
| 26 | There is , however , no Cornish equivalent to the stone Liver Bird on Merseyside that supposedly flaps its wings whenever a virtuous woman passes underneath . |
| 27 | Whenever a thing demanded is offered it is rejected . |
| 28 | Sometimes , but not too often , there was the sound of a window being broken , whereupon a general speedy exodus took place , with the consequent panic whenever a knock came at the street door during the next few days . |
| 29 | The headteacher has the right to attend relevant meetings whenever a deputy headteacher is being appointed . |
| 30 | In this case the details can be entered here whenever a file is amended and a printout obtained at will . |