Example sentences of "[adj] and [adj] when it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The banks might have been imprudent in making the loans in the first place , but they are both clever and scrupulous when it comes to protecting the value of their assets . |
| 2 | A misrepresentation by the accused that the law was such and such when it was in fact different , and by that misrepresentation he obtained property , will lead to a conviction of obtaining property by deception . |
| 3 | Singing is one of those activities which seems perfectly simple and natural when it is working well , but which requires , for most of us , years of discipline and effort to perfect . |
| 4 | The particles themselves remain separate and discrete when it comes to being passed on to the next generation . |
| 5 | Perhaps he would be dry and cold when it came to it . |
| 6 | Why was it that this man was such a pleasant and knowledgeable companion , and yet so hard and ruthless when it came to getting his own way ? |
| 7 | I had even studied Geology as my science subject and although I was cack-handed and obtuse when it came to the practical side had enjoyed the theory well enough . |
| 8 | Gold is at its most malleable and ductile when it is purest . |
| 9 | There are also ideas for making the picture look even more effective and attractive when it is hung on the wall . |
| 10 | I mean , it will be , perhaps where they try and place the mortgage for you but erm I w I bet you they wo n't recommend anything but Legal and General when it comes to actually , you know , covering your mortgage . |
| 11 | If Sunset Beach , Banzai Pipeline , and Waimea Bay are the holy trinity of the thirty-odd North Shore breaks , Waimea is the Father , the holy of holies : slow to rise , but majestic and terrible when it does . |
| 12 | We were pleased when the news was good and depressed when it was bad , but first things came first and I suppose we all felt we were doing our bit and that our personal lives were at that moment of secondary importance . |
| 13 | And it is often at its most powerful and poetic when it is simple and direct — indeed , excessive complexity takes away from its effectiveness . |
| 14 | Consequently , as the stakes become bigger and bigger in the playing of the game , the scruples will become smaller and smaller when it comes to the back-alley work of player recruitment . |
| 15 | They all rave about Muddy , Charlie Patton and Son House — singers that came out of the same patch in Coahoma County — but they turn all reticent and confused when it comes to the act that 's outlived and outsold them all . |
| 16 | The household linen hang-ing on the clothes-line stretched across the backyard is certainly clean and white when it is first put on the line to dry . |
| 17 | You ca n't afford to be cheap and cheerful when it comes to your handbag … |
| 18 | You can afford to be cheap and cheerful when it comes to just about every other accessory , but a bag says more about you than all the rest put together . |
| 19 | The other vineyards were all wiped out in the phylloxera epidemic of the last century and never replanted ; but lonely though it is on the local wine lists , Irouléguy will do nicely ; I have never got much beyond the stage of dividing wines into nice and nasty when it comes to describing them , so all I shall say is that Irouléguy is nice . |