Example sentences of "to [pron] when it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Discourse treats the rules of grammar as a resource , conforming to them when it needs to , but departing from them when it does not . |
| 2 | The majority of men say that sex makes no difference to them when it comes to choosing a doctor , surgeon , lawyer , MP or boss . |
| 3 | No one has come near to me when it comes to boxing skills , and that 's what I 'm interested in . |
| 4 | I see even our daughter is expendable to you when it comes to safeguarding those bloody royalties . ’ |
| 5 | To this end each transput device has an associated one-bit register , which is cleared as an operation starts and is set to one when it terminates ; an instruction is provided to read this register , and thus the programmer can establish when a transput operation is complete . |
| 6 | It is seldom simple and even the more experienced operators make mistakes , often because they do not understand the difference between source — what the original sound is like — and acoustics — what happens to it when it leaves the loudspeakers . |
| 7 | They did n't have any control , certainly , and not even very much knowledge as to how the commodity — and I 'm talking about cotton , rubber , tea , copper , bauxite , coco , sugar , coffee and so on — what happened to it when it enters the market of a developed country . |
| 8 | So a lot of it 's going to go through the big pipe and then what happens to it when it 's come through the , the , these three pipes ? |
| 9 | On the other hand , the police are left largely to themselves when it comes to making sure that the Act is actually followed . |
| 10 | That is , it is open to us to deliberate about the light that this fact throws on the person 's character ; but deliberation is not open to us when it comes to parsing the sentence . |
| 11 | In my retelling of the Divine Drama I have made use of primitive mythological ways of speaking because I do not believe that we have a better language that is available to us when it comes to understanding God 's revelation as story — as the great epic of salvation . |