Example sentences of "is [conj] when [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He almost had me going , but my Rule of Life No. 14 is that when somebody offers you the chance of a lifetime , they usually mean theirs , not yours . |
| 2 | ONE of the things which sums up Border rugby is that when one arrives at Mansfield Park for a match , the bloke cheerfully parking cars in the wind and rain is liable to be one of Hawick 's living legends . |
| 3 | Another reason for rejecting this causal theory of meaning is that when one asks what is meant by a statement one is normally concerned to know what a reasonable speaker is saying in uttering it . |
| 4 | The first point in my manifesto for those with small gardens is is that when they go on a spree to a garden centre , they should quickly nip any delusions of grandeur in the bud . |
| 5 | The problem with these ‘ lowlier ‘ buildings is that when they come under threat they rarely make the news . |
| 6 | The talk , says Mimms , is that when they develop a new ground it 'll be built around the old boardroom . |
| 7 | I know , but what I mean is that when they see the city centre , the people who are walking up and down the city centre , they see all the national charities , they do n't necessarily feel that they 're organised in the same way and therefore that they should be participating , and the whole palaver of getting a licence and applying is actually quite difficult , it 's not a simple , it 's not something , we get numerous telephone calls in the office saying ‘ Well can I go out next Saturday and rattle a tin for such-and-such ’ , and you say ‘ Well , you ca n't ’ , and it 's left much too late , so that people do n't know about the way you get licenses to rattle tins in city centre . |
| 8 | The first thing you need to know is that when they need to wear armour . |
| 9 | When you have a very small , very select , very ladylike grammar school , joined with two rough and ready secondary moderns what basically happened in my view is that when they joined together the grammar school staff , or most of them , could n't cope with the rough and ready aspect the school they came to have . |
| 10 | The position is that when we admit anyone to nursing home care , they can only be admitted if there is a joint assessment partly by a social worker from this department , partly by either the nurse or G P , or consultant , and the , the key element needless to say in that , in terms of need , is very much the health authority input . |
| 11 | As I say the main idea is that when we get the answers to these er you you know regardless of what you 're actually telling me you know whether you them right or not . |
| 12 | As you go backwards in time , to say the first minute of the universe 's life , the density is not absurdly high , it 's only a little more than that of water , but the density of radiation is much , much higher — it 's a million times higher — and the temperature is like the inside of a nuclear reactor , so one of the interesting things is that when we get back to just a minute , say , after the apparent beginning of the expansion , we 're not yet dealing with any bizarre physics , we 're dealing with conditions that we know and understand on earth . |
| 13 | But surely such intuitive resemblance must be based on some underlying implicit common themes our difficulty is that when we try to spell these out we arrive at the various problems experienced in our earlier attempts at definition . |
| 14 | ‘ All I can say is that when we brought in the Wheel yesterday there was no sign of the Scapegoat . ’ |
| 15 | The joy of the Christian is that when we express our sorrow and our anxiety we shall receive God 's peace and we shall receive God 's joy . |
| 16 | This is that when we look at the evolution of cultural traits and at their survival value , we must be clear whose survival we are talking about . |
| 17 | It 's , all this is showing really is that when we do multiplication normally , you see if you , if you 've done this sort of multiplication , you 've seen the pattern and how things are working and how you 're not , someone says to you multiply erm seventeen by a hundred and one . |
| 18 | For example if you 've got between thirteen and twenty for an activist that 's a very strong preference , however for a reflector a very strong preference is eighteen to twenty , because by nature most of us tend , you know most of us tend to stand back and think so what we actually need , what we wh what we can see is that when we compare our scores against the general norms it 's a much more accurate picture of our learning style . |
| 19 | The team 's feeling is that when we find that place we will know who was the killer . |
| 20 | The practical result of this is that when we study the individual child we see a succession of stages of development which from the point of view of the id are just as they should be and — because the id is the oldest , most fundamental and , from the point of view of the instinctual drives which originate it , the most important agency — are just what they should be . |
| 21 | One major consideration with this type of communication is that when we disagree with something that is being communicated , we do not abruptly pull away or jump . |
| 22 | Erm , we do know quite a lot about erm , why it is that when you diet you start to think about food all the time , and why it is that certain things happen , and I think that there 's more and more information and knowledge being gathered and yes , the na , the desire to change has to come from the individual but perhaps , having clinics available where people can go when they 're ready to change or where they can get help . |
| 23 | The trouble with all these lines is that when you get to a length exceeding about fifty miles ( 80km ) , the curvature of the Earth begins to become significant : a straight line on the map is not necessarily a straight line on the ground . |
| 24 | . And the idea with these is that when you get reimbursed for expenses , you put the receipt into the expense envelopes then at the end of the month , erm , you would staple the envelope and attach it to your company expense claim or you know , throw it at the person who 's going to give your money back or whatever . |
| 25 | What must seem stupid to non-gardeners , or those who take a rational view of the whole business , is that when you prepare the ground for sowing you first dig it over and make it loose , only to tread it firm again . |
| 26 | The point I am making here is that when you tackle a big job you need the necessary resources to complete it . |
| 27 | What makes you nervous about them is that when you go to dinner with them , they pump up the chair . |
| 28 | The secret is that when you point to the pile you rest a hand on the table with the appropriate number of fingers extended . |
| 29 | A nice touch is that when you make a new entry in the database , it 's saved automatically . |
| 30 | Incidentally , one of the curious phenomena of my library is that when you take out Bleddyn 's autobiography from the shelves it automatically opens at the very page mentioned above . |