Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] when it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you liken the body to a computer for a moment , the computer can only function when it has the correct date and commands fed to it ; otherwise it refuses to work or breaks down altogether . |
| 2 | His polemical attitudes were somewhat softened when it seemed that he might have to act upon them , and he found it necessary to disavow the political and social activism which members of the Moot such as Karl Mannheim wished to pursue . |
| 3 | They did not — and it was admittedly no part of their business to do so — inform us for which purposes the existing social services are ‘ excessive ’ ; and it may be observed that other commentators , political and non-political , though they are frequently willing to indicate social services which in their opinion are ‘ inadequate ’ , are extremely taciturn when it comes to illustrating the more obvious half of the truism with specific examples . |
| 4 | The trouble was , it only spoke when it felt like it . |
| 5 | In the first instance decision of Harvey [ 1988 ] Crim.L.R. 241 , a confession of murder made by a psychopathically disordered woman was , it is submitted , rightly excluded when it became apparent that she might have been motivated by a childlike desire to protect her lover , whom she had over-heard confessing to the same offence . |
| 6 | The prosperity which all these minor towns reveal occasionally has a local explanation : Todi 's neighbour , Assisi , was greatly enhanced when it became the burial place of St Francis and a centre of pilgrimage . |
| 7 | it just depends when it stops weeping you see |
| 8 | It is obvious United can no longer compete when it comes to buying the best . |
| 9 | Council 's papers , though not its proceedings , seem to be proving more open than the Institute ever intended when it introduced its sunshine policy last summer . |
| 10 | Mr Coats awaits figures for his plan from the Treasury , which will collectively blanch when it sees them . |
| 11 | Bob watched her all the way down the stairs , agonized on her behalf ; still more agonized when it occurred to him , just as she went out of sight , that he should have gone down with her and carried the case . |
| 12 | But there was something dangerously lacking when it came to the matter of how they applied their logic to the solution of a particular problem . |
| 13 | and it worked , and it got over to Australia , it got unpacked and it still worked when it got to Australia , and it went on the stand and it stood on the stand for a week or however long it was . |
| 14 | And here , where we 're standing now , this is the act place where the train always whistled when it came round the bend . |
| 15 | French public opinion was enraged by the attempt and was further inflamed when it became known that Orsini 's bombs had been made in Birmingham and the conspiracy hatched in London . |
| 16 | Extensive calcareous flowstone and stalactite deposits are developed at spring discharge points in fractured bituminous limestones and combustion-metamorphosed marbles : the ground water is saturated with calcium hydroxide , with the consequence that calcite and aragonite rapidly precipitate when it comes into contact with atmospheric carbon dioxide . |
| 17 | The project also shows Europe is still divided when it comes to food . |
| 18 | Its authority was quickly established when it called off the demonstration called by the meeting of radicals on 8 October . |
| 19 | But , for all its growing sensitivity to spatial variation , historical change and human agency , Marxist state theory itself remains unevenly developed when it comes to appreciating the links between state and people and the emotional significance of the state . |
| 20 | Yet it nearly stopped when it started . |
| 21 | The government has managed , by and large , to restore public order which was notably lacking when it took over in April 1992 . |
| 22 | There were thirty-two plays in the Wakefield cycle , or Towneley cycle as it was also known when it formed part of the library of Towneley Hall in Burnley . |
| 23 | The Regional Council 's position as regards the implications of the appeal proposal on education were clearly recorded when it advised the District Council of its views on the appeal application ( ref LRC Written Submission para 6 a ( iii ) . |
| 24 | I 'd rather have when it comes to safety |
| 25 | This is how the new Thorp two seat trainer will really look when it goes on sale in the UK in a few weeks ' time . |
| 26 | But Robert Oppenheimer showed in 1939 that an old star of more than twice the mass of the sun would inevitably collapse when it had exhausted all its nuclear fuel . |
| 27 | The idea that the temporary real effects produced by demand stimuli are due to a lack of information which is readily available at zero cost is surely far fetched when it comes to calculations of the real wage rate . |
| 28 | Of course , the message will only make sense if it can be successfully decompressed when it reaches the user . |
| 29 | The experience of the seven-year-olds outside the communicative system is still limited , and their limitations are particularly exposed when it comes to repairing inadequate instructions . |
| 30 | ITED will be well received when it goes ‘ live ’ , judging by the reaction of some of the managers involved in pilot schemes . |