Example sentences of "[adj] when they [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Darwin 's critics were wrong when they said that all my offspring would inherit half of it . |
| 2 | ( It is paradoxically liberals who provide me with my argument for this when they argue that violent people can be ‘ understood ’ since they know no other language with which to express their inarticulate aggro . |
| 3 | ‘ They must always be careful when they adjust and react to television that they do n't change the nature of their sport . |
| 4 | Very often there are schools , just across the road , full of children who will very probably become unemployed when they leave because they will not be equipped to fill any of the jobs that are available . |
| 5 | They also knew that the arrested men were respectable and law-abiding and they were highly indignant when they heard that an official spokesman had smeared them with the suggestion of criminal activities . |
| 6 | Never the less , it is the child speaking we do n't put the words into their mouths and as such when they speak and when they write it down , it 's one of the , possibly one of the few chances of having primary evidence of how the child is at er , writing er , on an official document |
| 7 | When the company began to embody computers in its products , the engineers responsible were dismayed when they found that a 50 per cent overhead on the purchase price of the hardware had been charged by the estimators . |
| 8 | When the company began to embody computers in its products , the engineers responsible were dismayed when they found that a 50 per cent overhead on the purchase price of the hardware had been charged by the estimators . |
| 9 | New dishwasher owners are usually horrified when they find that a 3 kg box of detergent costs anything between £2.59 and £5.93 , depending on where you shop and whether you buy a supermarket own brand or one of the well-known names such as Finish or Sun . |
| 10 | If you study the long-term unemployed , sadly what happens is they lose their job or they do n't get employment , and eventually they keep working hard , right , but after the period of time they get dispirited when they find that people are not willing to take them on , and of course it 's a terrible thing for them to cope with . |
| 11 | All that is known of medieval warfare suggests that Lothar and his men would not have been sleeping after dawn — least of all when they knew that battle was imminent — and that Lothar 's scouts would have kept him well informed of his brothers ' moves . |
| 12 | We think Smooth Tubes look good when they glow but if that is a problem , Mr Fothergill , call us or your dealer and we 'll make you a special without the LEDs . |
| 13 | But Derek , 33 , was quietly confident when they met and vowed : ‘ I 'm determined to give them a run for their money . ’ |
| 14 | If social anthropologists are sincere when they say that their subject is a kind of micro-sociology and when they proclaim that they no longer feel themselves to be members of a culture/society which is intrinsically " superior " to that of the people they are studying , why do n't they study themselves ? |
| 15 | ‘ There 'll be plenty of lasses hereabouts who wo n't be dry-eyed when they hear that he 's gone . ’ |
| 16 | It calculates that drivers will be angry when they hear that the price of lead-free petrol could reduce performance — especially in West Germany where there are no speed limits on autobahns . |
| 17 | So you can see why mothers get angry when they discover that even everyday foods such as apples can cause a build-up of unwanted chemicals in their children 's bodies . |
| 18 | That this concern with " dangers " is allied to a culturally interventionist stance rather than the service of preconceived needs is evident when they state that it will be their " practical policy " to combat " the dangers of print " which , while they " can not be eliminated , will be more and more easily repelled , as the germs of disease are repelled by vigorous health " . |
| 19 | The German co-producers were shocked when they found that the contract for Melancholia gave this right to the BFI , since in Germany final cut is almost always given to the director . |
| 20 | Fletcher said : ‘ It looks like two different pitches — one when they bowl and another when we bowl on it . ’ |
| 21 | The Lancashire members were furious when they heard that Gooch and the other England selectors had axed Red Rose favourite Phil DeFreitas , preferring Essex pacemen Neil Foster and Mark Ilott . |
| 22 | Penzias and Wilson were worried when they found that their detector was picking up more noise than it ought to . |
| 23 | Harrison and Mehta are more convincing when they argue that one precondition for a long-term settlement in Afghanistan based on a stricter interpretation of non-alignment could be a broad Great Power or regional understanding on the neutralisation of Southwest Asia . |
| 24 | Pluralist accounts of the Japanese state for example underestimate the ambiguity of the division between public and private when they imply that individual rights in a liberal democracy confine the scope of the state to exclusively public spheres . |
| 25 | Yet the programmers and the educational technologists are undoubtedly right when they insist that current trends and changes in education require more systematic thinking , whether or not we always adopt on every occasion their particular model for it . |
| 26 | My hon. Friend the Member for Newcastle upon Tyne , North ( Mr. Henderson ) and the hon. Member for Southwark and Bermondsey ( Mr. Hughes ) were dead right when they said that the Bill is a lost opportunity . |
| 27 | I would hate to find myself part of any anti-Diana conspiracy , but it did cross my mind that some of her critics were right when they claimed that she deliberately sought to dominate family photographs . |
| 28 | Well yo you would n't think they 'd do that when they know that people can hear you . |
| 29 | Children grew disobedient when they knew that they could not be set aside : farmers were ousted of their leases made by tenants in tail ; for , if such leases had been valid , then under colour of long leases the issue might have been virtually disinherited : creditors were defrauded of their debts ; for , if tenant in tail could have charged his estate with their payment , he might also have defeated his issue , by mortgaging it for as much as it was worth : innumerable latent entails were produced to deprive purchasers of the lands they had fairly bought ; of suits in consequence of which our antient books are full : and treasons were encouraged ; as estates-tail were not liable to forfeiture , longer than for the tenant 's life . |
| 30 | Guards were either abruptly mistrustful or effusively friendly when they discovered that you could speak their language . |