Example sentences of "it be [adv] when [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | oh dear , oh dear , just what will it be like when dad gets in ? |
| 2 | I mean it 's like when Shirl comes through like when Shirl comes through you know , they know all know Shirl does n't like bad what it means . |
| 3 | ‘ I think it 's good that men are now in this questioning mood , ’ she says , ‘ because it 's only when things are questioned that there 's any possibility of change . ’ |
| 4 | It is there when Orwell calls the Left ‘ Bolshevik commissars , half gangster , half gramophone , escaped quakers , vegetarian cranks and back-room Labour party crawlers ’ , or when he dismisses the Marxist dialectic as an argumentative Pea-and-thimble trick ; there again when Waugh reviews Stephen Spender 's flatulent autobiography World within World ( 1951 ) : |
| 5 | Enthusiasm is closely linked with interest , for it is only when things cease to interest us that we lose enthusiasm . |
| 6 | They are separable ; but in the end it is only when process and artists come together that the most memorable work is achieved : when Dürer and woodcut , Daniell and aquatint , Greenaway and colour printing meet in immortal partnership . |
| 7 | The second is that it is only when people think about what the visual system does in the real world that they begin to study it appropriately . |
| 8 | In the later interviews it is only when grandparents were not known directly that there is no significant memory of them , and we can reasonably assume that this was also the commonest reason for lack of memory in the first set . |
| 9 | Material objects may become temporary substitutes for important relationships , like the mauled soft toy or ragged piece of blanket in childhood , but it is only when relationships with ‘ things ’ rather than people become an established pattern for ‘ shutting out ’ that there is cause for concern . |
| 10 | In fact , sometimes it is only when doubts are expressed that we have the first clue that things are no longer the same . |
| 11 | It was 1am when Sergeant Alan King spotted Vernage unloading stolen gear into a house . |
| 12 | Hayling and Walsh had already probed the possibility of getting their hands on some of this money , but it was only when Horsley arrived in March 1986 that things began to really move . |
| 13 | But he said it was only when Dr Philip Owen , a Home Office toxicologist , told him on Jan 16 that he learned Mr Threlfall had taken a fatal dose of 90 dextropropoxyphene tablets . |
| 14 | But it was only when Susato began to publish at Antwerp in 1543 that their songs appeared in quantity and it was Susato who really launched Crecquillon with a book of 36 chansons à 4 parties in 1543 , though he had published Crecquillon 's greatest hit , ‘ Ung gay bergier ’ , in a miscellaneous collection the year before . |
| 15 | Lord Lane , the Lord Chief Justice , described the case 's circumstances as ‘ wholly exceptional ’ and said it was only when Mr Butler was driven into a corner that he drew the sword in self defence . |
| 16 | Passers-by were clearly baffled by what they saw and it was only when curiosity proved too much that anyone came near enough to be buttonholed . |
| 17 | But it was only when tourists and journalists began to return from Bucharest in the mid-later 1980s with photographs of the demolitions and stories about their effects on the local people that any organized criticism of the regime got under way in Western Europe . |
| 18 | Billy had come home a physical wreck and it was only when Danny himself took up boxing seriously that his friend regained some of his self-esteem by helping and instructing him . |
| 19 | But it was only when Raine , now 62 , decided the sightings were upset-ting her ailing husband that she decided to try to kill off the spook . |