Example sentences of "[verb] when [verb] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The consumers ' hints and suggestions , communicated over considerable distance and thereby often greatly distorted when realized by the manufacturers , resulted in changes in the cloth , which in turn prompted further comments . |
| 2 | Police said the raiders had taken £450 worth of sweaters but fled when disturbed by a passer-by . |
| 3 | Whitehall is unmoved by all this ; human rights violations are forgotten when perpetrated by a pro-Western government with ready cash . |
| 4 | Whitehall is unmoved by such considerations ; human rights violations are forgotten when perpetrated by a pro-Western government with ready cash . |
| 5 | Note that the in nudist would tend to be omitted when followed by a stop consonant such as — hence permitting the above ambiguity . |
| 6 | This fact may have helped fuel a legend that a whole village , except for one cottage , was drowned when cursed by a poor old man , an angel or a saint in disguise : |
| 7 | Elizabeth Thompson , secretary of Darlington Milk Buyers Company Ltd , who supply 33 dairymen in the town , said they had been only too happy to help when approached by the borough council . |
| 8 | We also saw that context can have an effect on the speed of visual word recognition , although experiments by Fischler and Bloom ( 1979 ; 1980 ) suggest that the effect is inhibitory rather than facilitatory , with a word taking longer to identify when preceded by a context which makes it semantically anomalous . |
| 9 | An alternative is a special posture that the prey adopts when approached by the predator , suddenly showing off its warning colours . |
| 10 | Glenda Grower gave Corbett Farraday the look old pros give when confronted by the naîvetés of fresh-faced amateurs . |
| 11 | Worse , however , is the fact that the image is also fixed in its proportions and , unless it has been created at precisely the size you wish to use it , it will distort when manipulated by the publishing package . |
| 12 | ‘ It is a lie , ’ he stormed when quizzed by a TV reporter . |
| 13 | A prevalence of H pylori antibody of 39% in 1969 serum samples , 40.9% in 1978 , and 34.8% in 1990 was found when assessed by an enzyme lunked immunosorbent assay ( ELISA ) . |
| 14 | Some heavy-duty buckets ( which were suitable for most purposes for which such buckets were normally bought or used ) collapsed when left by the buyer for several days stacked in extreme heat such that the contents reached 70° Centigrade ( 156° Fahrenheit ) . |
| 15 | Warsaw Pact tanks have been fitted in recent years with additional armour , designed to explode when hit by an anti-tank missile , so neutralising its effect . |
| 16 | I can only assume that the words were left out because an assurance ’ vigorously ’ to continue ’ fighting crime ’ would have raised only a horse laugh when offered by a Government with a record of this Government on this subject . |
| 17 | The appellants left when requested by the police to do so , but remained loitering outside the door of the club . |
| 18 | The trouble was that it did not necessarily sell well so that in some cases , such as that of the Burgundian lord , Guillaume de Châteauvillain , both he and his family , who acted as guarantors for the payment of 20,000 saluts which he had agreed to pay when captured by the French in 1430 , faced financial ruin . |
| 19 | But perhaps the critics hesitated when faced by a film whose politics were rarely foregrounded . |
| 20 | The data from cosmid , P1 and YAC libraries were processed in parallel databases which were combined when required by the analysis programs . |
| 21 | ‘ The Yugoslav Army has never fired on the people , ’ Col Budimir Mladenovic said when confronted by an angry Muslim villager who held in his hands the remains of an Army issue mortar shell . |
| 22 | If ever a man and a club seemed , in theory , to be ill-suited , then it is Winterbottom and Harlequins , the club who once caused Dick Best to say when confronted by a bout of absenteeism of Saturday : ‘ All perfectly valid excuses of course ; skiing in Andorra , shopping in Harrods … ‘ |
| 23 | One part-time farmer was killed when struck by a falling tree during a storm while a forestry worker died after a section of a felled tree trunk apparently rolled over as he attempted to handle it . |
| 24 | Ten joyriders have now been killed by the Security Forces since nineteen-eighty , while one soldier was killed when struck by a stolen car . |
| 25 | The chief inspector shivered with an indefinable dread , the fear she always experienced when faced by a hatred that could only be satiated through violence . |
| 26 | Similarly children have been spaced or limited when required by a variety of means ( e.g. abstinence after the birth of a child , or delaying the age for cohabitation ) . |
| 27 | They are expected to use a diversity of job search methods and to keep records of their job-seeking activities which they have to show when interviewed by an Employment Service counsellor . |
| 28 | We do know that , when gripped by a golfer , a club 's behaviour is different from the way it behaves when gripped by a clamp as it is in the standard manufacturers ' tests . |
| 29 | The accused 's intentions are best proved from any admission he makes when interviewed by the police . |