Example sentences of "[ex0] be [noun] when [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inevitably , there are times when professionals disagree among themselves . |
| 2 | There are times when Chancellors are right to fuss with mini-measures , and there are times when they need to make an instant impact . |
| 3 | ‘ There are times when women have a place in a man 's life , ’ he admitted gruffly . |
| 4 | There are times when parents get so angry with their children that they are in danger of losing their self-control . |
| 5 | They confound you because there are times when conditions are compatible only to a warm bed yet you end the day with a netful of fish . |
| 6 | Then there are times when conditions are so ideal you would almost expect to catch fish on a baitless hook , but the net remains idle . |
| 7 | There are times when conditions develop which can not readily be related to known disease conditions . |
| 8 | Conversely , there are times when readers do have rights to affect written discourse . |
| 9 | Even in the best run schools there are times when children , staff , parents and neighbours do n't receive the quality of service that they feel they deserve . |
| 10 | There are times when items of special interest must take precedence over any schedule . |
| 11 | Because its period is not much more than a month shorter than a year , there are times when maxima occur with Mira too close to the Sun to be seen . |
| 12 | There are times when attacks on the lesbian and gay communities seem very clearly to be an attempted stirring-up of popular hatred as a diversion of attention from society 's real problems , and times when the readiness of the government to pander to that hatred looks even more sinister . |
| 13 | There are times when mistakes are made in school and things go wrong : children blamed for things they did n't do , events may be cancelled at short notice , cardigans and coats lost or , even worse , end up in the toilet bowl . |
| 14 | My Lords , I think I made it perfectly clear what I did mean er I did qualify it by saying that of course there are times when patients do have to wait on trolleys for diagnostic purposes , for observation and for other reasons er but once an admission has been agreed , then that patient should be admitted , that is our policy and that is what we 're working towards . |
| 15 | Between 1370 and 1500 there is only one case of a father and son both being aldermen , William Reynwell ( 1397–1403 ) and his son John ( 1416–45 ) ( 104 , pp.363–4 ) , although there are cases when brothers or cousins both held office . |
| 16 | And despite repeated requests , there are occasions when Groups relate directly to Area Secretaries instead of Coordinators , as previously agreed . |
| 17 | There are occasions when teachers would want detailed feedback for diagnostic purposes or to evaluate their teaching , but an assessment scheme which is tightly based on a large number of criteria would compel teachers to work to them even when it might not be appropriate to do so . |
| 18 | There are days when members approach me , and say how much they enjoy the club members who thank me for enriching their lives . |
| 19 | Even manager Lawrie McMenemy admitted : ‘ There were times when teams could n't hold a candle to England but that 's all changed now . |
| 20 | ‘ There were times when things were a bit tense because they were having to do so much for themselves . |
| 21 | Just as in the progress of the disease there were times when things appear to be ( and may be ) getting worse . |
| 22 | There were times when men went and made confessions to Bishop Hrolf , to stop him talking about engineering . |
| 23 | There were clashes when police attempted to remove one such barricade . |
| 24 | ‘ It was incredible , it was like a bomb going off , ’ was how Pat described the opening ; just as in England at the beginning , there were days when customers had to be locked out and long queues formed . |
| 25 | There were occasions when riots were connected with more overtly political incidents . |