Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] when it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let's have a defence review so both the military and the industries are prepared for change when it comes . ’ |
| 2 | She was hardworking and industrious , and in her work as a contracts officer enjoyed the challenge of getting value for money when it came to servicing the needs of the company 's departments . |
| 3 | WHAT constitutes value for money when it comes to food and drink ? |
| 4 | The new fifth television channel , wherever it is situated , will open up further opportunities for programme-makers when it starts up at the end of 1993 . |
| 5 | Orthodox accounts , as we have seen , tend to ignore or explain away evidence for variability when it does not have reflexes in present-day RP . |
| 6 | The owners feel spurned , wondering why their cat has not come to them for help when it feels seriously ill . |
| 7 | The largest single shipload so far discovered were the 524 Chinese passengers on the East Wood which had to call for help when it broke down near the Marshall Islands earlier this year . |
| 8 | He was dialling the restaurant to book the table for lunch when it came to him . |
| 9 | A UK resident company must account for ACT when it pays a dividend ( or any other qualifying distribution ) to its shareholders ( s 14 ) . |
| 10 | Employing the same double-delta wing shape as the Lockheed design , originally pioneered by the SAAB Draken , the Tu–144 suffered the most public of tragedies when it crashed at the Paris Air Show . |
| 11 | The neighbouring RAF bases at Bentwaters and Woodbridge in Suffolk , to be vacated by the U.S. Air Force next year , will not be required by the Ministry of Defence when it takes over full control of the sites . |
| 12 | On other occasions committees have been generally in support of government action but have urged that it be undertaken more vigorously : the Defence Committee has been critical of the Ministry of Defence when it has spent less than the sums provided in the annual estimates . |
| 13 | And as there are four times as many outbreaks in the home than in hotels , takeaways and restaurants etc , it is clear that the domestic kitchen is the last line of defence when it comes to food hygiene . |
| 14 | Non-cooperation , as Gandhi understands it , does not always have to be an act of love in the same way as satyāgraha has to be , but it is in act of love and consequently a branch of satyāgraha when it seeks to promote the good of a wrongdoer . |
| 15 | The mighty Grand Hotel of 1863 and the rows of Victorian terraces tell of a different type of resort when it became Yorkshire 's equivalent to Lancashire 's Blackpool . |
| 16 | Soviet leaders were willing to support such a conception of non-alignment when it hindered the Western states . |
| 17 | And of course when it got heated it used to blow and it used to blow all the burning debris all over . |
| 18 | And of course when it goes through they already have our our as it were |
| 19 | the trees were racing down the river , the river was running oh they were huge , then of course when it subsides you 've got a build up of trees , that 's left , you know left on the , where they 've blocked |
| 20 | Well they did n't know and they to it were towing Julie 's car and the tow belt snapped , and of course when it jerked this car forward it cut the petrol off . |
| 21 | Corporate executives contemplating the possibility of being required to commit corporate crimes know that they face a regulatory agency which for the most part will be unable to detect what is going on , and in the minority of cases when it does , it will have no heart and few resources to pursue the matter into the criminal courts . |
| 22 | Everything going into the hole dust clouds , light beams , stars , spacecraft , you anything crossing the boundary sphere marking the edge of the hole — it gets crushed out of existence when it arrives at the central point of the hole . ’ |
| 23 | Weeks like this do n't crop up very often so make the most of the window of opportunity when it opens before you . |
| 24 | In response to the multiplicity of factors affecting their lives , the peasantry have shown that they can act positively , making the most of opportunity when it presents itself . |
| 25 | The privately-owned Hawker Hunter , which was on its way to Merseyside , exploded in a ball of flames when it hit the ground . |
| 26 | MICHELIN , the world 's largest tyre maker , which sounded a warning of the depths of recession when it plunged £527m into the red last year , yesterday surprised the market with an operating profit throughout 1991 . |
| 27 | This can not have been the intention of Parliament when it prevented drivers from contracting out of their liability to a passenger . |
| 28 | One practical reason for the literal rule is that judges are now deeply afraid of being accused of making political judgments at variance with the purpose of Parliament when it passed the Act . |
| 29 | and then they informed me that it was out of stock so I wrote them rather a a polite letter saying that it took them a long to realize it was out of stock when it had been ordered in March and erm I thought their communi communicative system in their office was er non existent . |
| 30 | To assume so would be seriously to underestimate the ability of civil servants to use the rhetoric of Keynesianism when it suited them and to ignore it when it did not . |