Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [noun] when [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pearce pauses for reflection when asked to define the qualities which took him to the top with such apparent ease . |
| 2 | From being someone who simply happened to fail his first driving test , he becomes a person who ‘ always goes to pieces when sitting beside the examiner ’ . |
| 3 | This is produced by an enzyme system which gives off light when exposed to oxygen and is a vastly more efficient process than that used by us to create artificial light . |
| 4 | It was clearly not an easy one ; and the small group who made the bond designed to shore up its decision pales into insignificance when set against the numbers involved in the second bond . |
| 5 | The Myc transactivation domain also functions in yeast when fused to heterologous DNA-binding domains ( LexA-Myc ( ref. 22 ) and 1–235Myc-SRF , data not shown ) . |
| 6 | Most d-i-y tiles probably start out with a plain metal straight-edge , but find that it quickly slews off line when scoring a shiny tile surface . |