Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun pl] when [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | US Senate armed services committee chairman Sam Nunn asked the Defence Department to conduct a further investigation , citing the statement in the ABC broadcast by Adml. ( retd ) William Crowe , former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff , that the Vincennes had been in Iranian waters when it fired the missile , not in international waters as previously claimed . |
| 2 | She still dealt in stolen goods when she got the chance , but the police were less interested in stolen goods than they had been in the more law-abiding times of some years before . |
| 3 | Ms Brenda Dean , general secretary of Sogat ( Society of Graphical and Alled Trades ) said : ‘ The decision will give the green light to a small minority of cynical police officers , encouraging them to build in unnecessary delays when they are investigating their own . ’ |
| 4 | Deutsch and Budwig ( 1983 ) , for example , found that children often used their own names in two-word utterances when they talked about objects currently in their possession , but a pronoun like me or my when they were claiming something not yet in their hands . |
| 5 | There was a lot of evidence accumulating at the time about lateralization of function in bird brains — for instance , it appears that chicks respond behaviourally in different ways when they view things with left and right eyes , while in song birds like canaries and zebra finches , the ‘ song centre ’ is located in a left-hemisphere region , rather close to our IMHV . |
| 6 | It had to be a British car , of course , since Pringle 's did so much business with the local automotive industry — not that Vic has ever driven a foreign car : foreign cars are anathema to him , their sudden invasion of British roads in the 1970s marked the beginning of the region 's economic ruin in his view — but he has to admit that you do n't have a lot of choice in British cars when it comes to matching the top-of-the-range Mercedes and BMWs . |
| 7 | Another great missionary , St Anskar , had to engage in similar arguments when he preached ( under the sponsorship of Louis the Pious ) to the Swedes at the prosperous port of Birka in the ninth century . |
| 8 | A Northumberland vet , Colin Barwise-Munro , put it in explicit terms when he said : ‘ In 1921 , the incidence of dystocia or difficult calvings in the European herd was reckoned in one survey to be no more than 3 per cent . |
| 9 | I liked to find my own stories — and I was just beginning to place the best of them in national papers when I was whisked off for two years ' National Service . |
| 10 | I have noticed that this frustrating experience usually occurs in promising conditions when you expect to catch fish , and when these bites begin they last for unusually long periods and happen very frequently . |
| 11 | You can solve this problem by putting such terms in inverted commas when you first introduce them . |
| 12 | Similarly , the families of the mentally ill need help in sudden emergencies when they can not cope with a very disturbed relative , general help in understanding and accepting the nature of the disorder and support if they have to make difficult decisions such as agreeing to the compulsory admission of a severely disturbed relative to hospital . |
| 13 | Roentgen was experimenting with electrical discharges in evacuated tubes when he observed the emission of rays which made nearby materials fluoresce , i.e. emit light when the rays fell upon them . |
| 14 | I am convinced that zander often shoal up or gather in great numbers when they are not hunting and to come across one of these occurrences as I have done from time to time is an unbelievably exciting experience . |
| 15 | Hypertriglyceridaemia is more difficult to define ( Hulley et al , 1980 ) , but it is our practice to institute active treatment of fasting serum triglyceride levels consistently 5 mmol/l or above in diabetic subjects when we are confident it is not secondary hypertriglyceridaemia . |
| 16 | She was in good spirits when I left . |
| 17 | There does need to be some organisation and structure , teachers do need time to organise their classrooms before the start of school and no one really wants to engage in long discussions when there are children to be settled and registers to be marked . |
| 18 | Davison 's investments failed , leaving the family in straitened circumstances when he died in 1893 . |
| 19 | ( It reached its zenith in Beautiful Losers when he referred to ‘ my factory ’ , his metaphor for Judaism as , ‘ a pile of rags and labels , a distraction , an insult to my spirit . ’ ) |
| 20 | Recognition of good work carried out by a student and help in improving standards when her work is less good will demonstrate the interest of the ward staff in her progress . |
| 21 | Motorists are doing 70mph in dreadful conditions when you can barely see in front of your nose . ’ |
| 22 | In peace-time the selection ratio , the ratio of applicants to available jobs is a key feature , there tends to be more testing in times of economic depression when jobs are scarce and also in post-war periods when there is extensive experience of using tests . |
| 23 | Elsie lived but we know very little about her beyond a few basic facts : she married an older man who was rather irascible and treated her badly ; she disappeared in mysterious circumstances when she was about twenty-six ; her body was discovered a year ago on the bed of the filled-in Loch Craig . |
| 24 | In the mid-1930s Seebohm Rowntree was in a particularly strong position to comment authoritatively on changes in living conditions when he repeated his 1899 enquiry in York . |
| 25 | More interestingly , the company is also to begin casting its nets in other waters when it introduces a new range of productivity tools under the name of Deskworks , in June , something it has talked about for ages . |
| 26 | Some members get involved in other activities when they join nationally : they also join their nearest local group . |
| 27 | Now it seemed fortunate that I had n't ; just as it seemed , though still obscurely , fortunate that I had n't lost my head in other ways when I wrote to her . |
| 28 | Nor was Crumwallis anxious to take over periods in other subjects when there was need — as in cases of sickness or ( frequently ) death . |
| 29 | IAN CHAPMAN , the former head of publisher William Collins who left in acrimonious circumstances when it was taken over by media mogul Rupert Murdoch , is back in the book business with a venture that links him with Sir David English , editor-in-chief of Associated Newspapers . |
| 30 | The move could force the city of Albuquerque to spend US$250 million cleaning up its water waste so that the Rio Grande is clean enough to drink in religious ceremonies when it reaches Isleta Pueblo , 20 kilometres downstream from the city . |