Example sentences of "of [noun pl] when it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corporate executives contemplating the possibility of being required to commit corporate crimes know that they face a regulatory agency which for the most part will be unable to detect what is going on , and in the minority of cases when it does , it will have no heart and few resources to pursue the matter into the criminal courts . |
| 2 | So , next Tuesday and Wednesday , Christie 's in Amsterdam expects a full turnout of buyers when it sells 28,000 pieces of Chinese porcelain from a burnt-out junk shipwrecked around 1690 off Con Dao Island , Vietnam . |
| 3 | Bosses may take a good look at your hands during an interview and it 's quite common for men to put well-kept nails high on their list of priorities when it comes to women . |
| 4 | These problems have n't gone away , but they have been dwarfed by difficulties that stem from ‘ under-control ’ : adolescent and adult excesses due to drug and alcohol abuse ; poor self-control of anger ; a lack of scruples when it comes to a variety of antisocial actions , ranging from vandalism and violence to child neglect and child abuse . |
| 5 | But the bat surely no more 0thinks in terms of delays of echoes when it perceives an insect , than we think in terms of wavelengths when we perceive blue or red . |
| 6 | She provides the material for the Board of Fellows when it meets to consider the applications for upgrading to Fellowship . |
| 7 | The court now has a range of options when it comes to disposal . |