Example sentences of "[adj] when [verb] with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consequently , it can be determined whether relatively the costs of litigation are too high when compared with the amount of damages awarded . |
| 2 | We are very concerned that in in making provision for housing through to the year two thousand and six , we should not be making provision for that level of vacancy rate , which seems to us to be artificially high when compared with the the national figures . |
| 3 | For instance , it is possible to contend that the nouveau roman may be more accurately described as modernist or late modernist when compared with the apparently more subversive avant-garde experimentalism of the Tel Quel group , whose claim to be the natural successors of the revolution inaugurated by Finnegans Wake would be difficult to refute . |
| 4 | Without the safety net of a staff job , she had to be even more than usually careful when dealing with the fragile egos of those who appeared before the cameras — one adverse comment and she could find herself facing nothing but closed doors . |
| 5 | It is this , more than anything else , which makes the map of this sort of country look so empty when compared with the map of anciently enclosed country in say mid Sussex , Essex or Devon . |
| 6 | Several of the major accounts appeared to be excessively overdue when compared with the total ledger aged debt statistics . |
| 7 | And if to is completely meaningless when used with the infinitive , why is n't it tending to disappear completely ? |
| 8 | Turning the dogmas of the Sandys Reformation into practicable military policies had not been easy when faced with the real world beyond the confines of Whitehall and Westminster . |
| 9 | Such views are held by economists who consider the beneficial effects of the threat of a takeover to be minimal when compared with the damaging effects of short termism . |
| 10 | To work out which way the pile runs , rub your hand over the carpet — it will feel smooth when running with the pile , and rough when going against the pile . |
| 11 | By the 1980s many asylums had contracted to a size which was dwarf-life when compared with the vast acreages and Palladian pretensions of their heyday . |
| 12 | Although the angle on the blade is quite large when compared with the normal , nevertheless it must be kept well sharpened . |
| 13 | Ten of the 16 transgenic plants remained completely healthy when infected with the red stripe virus in this way , while the other six showed much milder symptoms than those afflicting the control plants . |
| 14 | The sensitive , the unsure , the non-aggressive boy reader must often feel inadequate when faced with the ‘ ideal boy ’ of stories . |
| 15 | But he was poor when compared with the parents of many of the children who attended his school , even when compared with some of the other teachers . |
| 16 | Although Exell 's reminiscences are coloured by the fact that he was an active Communist and trade unionist , they can not hide the fact that the pay in the new industries was generally good when compared with the majority of the working classes — and very high in periods of prosperity . |
| 17 | With two King George VI Chases at Kempton to his name and nearly £105,000 in the bank , this seven-year-old , owned by Marquesa de Moratalla , a 63-year-old who was born in Spain but now lives in Switzerland , and trained by Francois Doumen in a leafy suburb of Paris , seems vulnerable when faced with the infamous Cheltenham hill . |
| 18 | Acid House was all the rage ; multi-rhythmed electronic stuff popular on the disco circuit but only comprehensible when taken with the designer drugs now supplied as openly as condoms in some of the smarter venues . |
| 19 | At this point we find his conjectures implausible when compared with the view that global mean temperature is determined by global mean radiative forcing , including ( but not limited to ) greenhouse forcing from CO 2 changes . |
| 20 | However , good and indispensable as personal libraries are , they are of necessity puny when compared with the whole store of human knowledge . |
| 21 | The style was too extravagant , too romantic when compared with the simple , even tailored clothes she normally chose . |
| 22 | Finally , lack of exercise is also a risk factor for heart disease but it 's relatively small when compared with the others . |
| 23 | The cost of hardware is often small when compared with the real cost of software which includes not only the purchase cost but also the staff time of the organisation in which it is to be installed . |
| 24 | Although the combination of cisapride and ranitidine significantly increased amplitude , duration , and propagation velocity of oesophageal contractions , the changes in oesophageal motility seem small when compared with the considerable reduction in acid reflux . |
| 25 | This record becomes even more impressive when compared with the previous year in which the Brent Charlie MMSC team recorded a disappointing 10 LTIs . |
| 26 | A degree of confirmation for the ‘ hypothesis of difference ’ between organizational types has been obtained , though with research instruments that seem blunt when compared with the complexity of the issues raised in the initial part of this paper , and with data that must await fuller statistical validation . |
| 27 | These theories seem naïve when compared with the explanations Marxists reserve for capitalist societies . |
| 28 | A continuous moulding machine for making wheel hubs will yield a more consistent product with less time spent idle when cleaned with the frozen pellets . |
| 29 | The announcement attracted criticism that the punishment was too lenient when compared with the amount of fees accountancy firms pull in from insolvency work . |
| 30 | Yet their forced complexity came to make them seem unconvincing when compared with the eventual attractions of the heliocentric system . |