Example sentences of "[adv] when [pron] [is] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When you walk through a storm hold your head up high ’ AS the song says , Graeme Souness wo n't have to walk alone when he 's backed by the experience of Roy Evans and Ronnie Moran . |
| 2 | Note the startling sparsity of adjectives : she uses them only when she is forced to , so they seem pressed out of the nouns through sheer weight of need . |
| 3 | The student 's understanding of the wide range of topics taught will be tested only when she is required to put it into practice . |
| 4 | Only when he 's learnt to blow crystal without blemishes and scars , does he make the grade . |
| 5 | The concept of honour , artificial as it can often seem , can be an abiding emotional force in fiction , but only when it is demonstrated fully and specifically through believable characters as well as believable action . |
| 6 | Only when it is exposed to chemicals that harden the tissue and inhibit decay , a method known as fixation , is the brain easily studied and only then will it reveal the complexities of its organization . |
| 7 | In particular , a stimulus can come to acquire associative strength as a CS only when it is represented in the A1 state in company with another active node — excitatory conditioning will occur when the US node is in A1 ; inhibitory conditioning when the US node is in A2 ( see Chapter 1 ) . |
| 8 | Electoral reform can , it seems , be realistically expected only when it is initiated by a minority Conservative or Labour government as the price of survival exacted by a party or combination of parties holding the balance of power . |
| 9 | Vision comes alive only when it is shared . |
| 10 | Only when it is actualized through classroom activity can it have an effect on learning . |
| 11 | A surplus is an embarrassment only when it is subsidised : unsubsidised , it becomes an export success . |
| 12 | They also claim that forgiveness produces reconciliation only when it is preceded by repentance . |
| 13 | Appropriate feedback is vital in the patient 's relearning process , so he receives praise only when it is deserved : if he fails in any way , the physiotherapist remains encouraging and positive about it , but shows him how and why he went wrong , or she may simply leave that task for the moment and return to it later , when the patient can concentrate and get it right . |
| 14 | ‘ Only when it 's misdirected . |
| 15 | And he 's a sensible lad , with good prospects , he 'll do well enough when he 's finished studying at that university . |
| 16 | His basic idea was to empty arteries and veins of their blood and replace it by something ‘ fluid enough when it is injected to run into the branches of the vessels , will afterwards quickly grow hard ’ . |
| 17 | More fundamentally , however , because the suggested analogy at once breaks down when it is recognised that the public interest immunity presently in question is not , or at least not principally , confidentiality-based . |
| 18 | Even in narrow legal terms , possession and use can not be separated absolutely ; but the notion of mere ‘ possession ’ breaks down when it is considered in its military and political context . |
| 19 | I ca n't afford to turn it down when it 's offered . ’ |
| 20 | Bud is also applied to a more developed eye as above , especially when one is implanted in a stem in the process of ‘ budding ’ . |
| 21 | yes , erm my wife came from the Midlands , from Coventry and her family roots were in Coventry at the Midlands , in fact there she still has numerous nieces and nephews and great nephews and great nieces there to this day , my with the exception of a sister who moved , who , to Basildon , erm I have two brothers and er they still live in London , still live in East Ham , er the distance is not too great erm and , but obviously as we get older the amount of visiting we do will be constricted by the difficulties of getting from Harlow to East Ham especially when one is compelled to stop driving a motor car |
| 22 | How time flies especially when one is meant to be writing lots of letters . |
| 23 | Though she has every confidence in the Trust , and particularly in John Sales , the Trust 's Chief Gardens Adviser , it is no easy thing to relinquish control of your life 's work — especially when it 's situated right under your nose . |
| 24 | Where an odour has multi-sources this problem is exacerbated especially when it is created by two or more chemicals coming together neither of which individually amount to a nuisance . |
| 25 | There is the special delight Britons have in gossip , especially when it is hinted that politics are spiced with sex . |
| 26 | We bring these habits to video too — especially when it is treated as a substitute TV . |
| 27 | The Council was clearly implying that ( as Newman saw ) Scripture itself works sacramentally , especially when it is made actual by effective reading and preaching in the liturgy . |
| 28 | Given the difficulties involved in this kind of work , especially when it is based on ‘ official ’ data ( see Chapter 3 ) , this may seem rather dubious . |
| 29 | Strains in glass — as in most other transparent solids — become visible in polarized light and sunlight is partially polarized especially when it is reflected from non-metallic surfaces such as a road or the paintwork of a car . |
| 30 | That scepticism about language - especially when it is divorced from the purposes of daily life — has become a hallmark of much contemporary thought . |