Example sentences of "[adj] when it [vb -s] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sarella smiled happily , pushing her other feelings aside and admitting , ‘ I 'm superstitious when it comes to work . |
| 2 | The result is a lyrical prose particularly effective when it serves to embody a singing climax at strategic points — a not unsurprising tactical manoeuvre on the part of a writer trying to intimate the reality of a mystical experience which he expresses as transposing everyday speech to song . |
| 3 | The problem with archers is that they are extremely vulnerable when it comes to close combat . |
| 4 | Gravel tidies have been found to be invaluable when it comes to fish digging . |
| 5 | I think the regrettable thing about the parking in in the town is the way that some of the disabled slots at the surgery are taken by the cars of people who are perfectly able to walk from the car park , and I think the great problem we 're going to have is we 're going to rely on the public spiritedness of our fellow townspeople and there does seem to be a fair group of people who are extremely selfish when it comes to come to parking . |
| 6 | The biggest snag , says Mr Moore , is that some of the company 's employees expect too much of the new system , and are disappointed when it fails to deliver miracles . |
| 7 | David cheerfully admits to being ‘ very uninhibited when it comes to colour ’ . |
| 8 | This is then forgotten or repressed when it seems to have vanished altogether and there 's a third period , what Freud calls the return of the repressed when the initial trauma comes back in the form of symptoms and er ideally in the form of an analysis that finally brings it to the surface of consciousness and dissolves it , and this is a typical pattern . |
| 9 | To Sir Thomas Fanny is socially acceptable and both Fanny and Edmund will be secure when it comes to finance . |
| 10 | But amazingly we are just as careless when it comes to bank notes . |