Example sentences of "[adv] when it [verb] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were contained in the liquid membrane ready to attach themselves to a copper ion but only when it had been reduced to Cu + . |
| 2 | Only when it has been determined that the accumulation on the land is a deliberate one , need the court consider whether the defendant 's user is non-natural . |
| 3 | Only when it has been chewed up almost to a liquid can the food pass through the rumen , and on through the gut . |
| 4 | The prediction is made more precise by making it equal to 1,290 days and then adding another 45 days ( 12.11–12 ) — to the despair of the modern interpreter , — but probably to the complete satisfaction of the contemporary reader who read the prophecy just when it had been fulfilled . |
| 5 | Mrs Thatcher 's style of government was a major factor in bringing about her fall ; but why now when it had been a matter of controversy throughout her premiership ? |
| 6 | Now when it 's been travelling for three hours it goes through Manchester . |
| 7 | I do n't think they 're likely to go off , but you never know with live ammunition , particularly when it 's been jumbled about , as this stuff has . |
| 8 | Wholesale reform of language to eliminate sexism has proved more difficult , however ; particularly when it has been based on simplistic accounts of what language is and how it works . |
| 9 | Because then when it 's been er finished I 'm going to repaint the ceiling to cover up the |
| 10 | And then when it 's been our turn to come , we broke down . |
| 11 | It had only woken up again when it had been brought into the Store , near electricity . |
| 12 | It 's not easy to take up your life again when it 's been so brutally interrupted . |