Example sentences of "[adj] when [verb] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the moment anyway , he would accept that his DSO of 80 was not acceptable when compared with an industry average of 63 . |
| 2 | This makes the water appear chalky white when seen from an orbiting satellite . |
| 3 | These may be helpful when recovering from an illness or if you fear your normal diet is lacking . |
| 4 | The general experience is that they are likely to prove most effective when applied on an area-wide basis , and with the additional objective of improving the quality of the environment . ’ |
| 5 | Perhaps they compared what had occurred with elections in the Libyan past , or in other countries , and found their proceedings undignified when measured against an American presidential campaign , or the decorum of a Moscow election . |
| 6 | However , a single structure is insufficient when dealing with an interdisciplinary subject . |
| 7 | 8 When preceded by an interrogative pronoun ( I do n't know what to do ) or adverb ( Tell me where to go ) , or by a conjunction ( He looked at the clock , as if it was time to go ) , an infinitive with to is often equivalent to a dependent clause : What to do ; What am I to do ? |
| 8 | What essential information would need to be available when dealing with an enquiry from a conference organiser ? |
| 9 | It can also be most soothing when used in an eyebath . |
| 10 | The question of whether warranties should be given on a joint and/or several basis is less likely to be relevant when dealing with an asset sale ( where the contracting vendor will usually be a company ) as opposed to a share sale ( when individual shareholders will often be asked to give warranties ) . |
| 11 | A stronger indication still of the difference between sense-qualifiers and referent-qualifiers is that the former examples will remain odd even when the relevant noun is indicated by the context ( yet there will be no problem with the referent-qualifiers ) : ( 15 ) that stranger is a total one the kid was a mere one ( 16 ) his hut is a rudimentary one the tree felled was a deciduous one Again we may note that the other pair of sense-qualifying adjectives from example ( 1 ) do not sound odd when used with an indefinite head : ( 17 ) a lawful one the distant one but this is not surprising because they are adjectives with more than one meaning ; in one of these they are ordinary referent-qualifiers and hence they may quite freely occur in ( 17 ) with a presumption that the referent-qualifying meaning is the one desired . |
| 12 | Scruton ( 1984 ) has argued that freedom for conservatives is only possible when subordinated to an organisation or arrangement which defines the individual 's aim . |
| 13 | There are also sets of tiles which build up into larger designs ( known as feature panels ) , and which can look quite striking when surrounded by an area of plain tiling . |
| 14 | One problem we have discussed as affecting the writer of the blueprint detective story is likely to be even more acute when embarking on an inverted story : the difficulty of making a static situation into an ongoing narrative . |