Example sentences of "are [v-ing] when [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because none of us wants to have er , the problems that are occurring when you do n't put any sheep dip on . |
| 2 | He recognises that they are boasting when they talk . |
| 3 | read the following judgment of the court , prepared by Brooke J. In these two cases we have been invited to determine , as preliminary issues , the capacity in which judges of the High Court are acting when they sit as visitors to the Inns of Court to determine appeals against orders by which barristers are to be disbarred or suspended from practice by their Inns . |
| 4 | ‘ We should therefore hate the committee to think that we are complaining when we say that , far from having a benefit to declare , we were clearly disadvantaged and out of pocket . ’ |
| 5 | Ms Khudiakova herself may , from time to time during the week of the show , model some of the 20 outfits — a red silk skirt patterned with the heads of workers who look as if they are marching when you walk in it , a red evening dress decorated with a swath of flowers reminiscent of the relief on a pavilion in Moscow 's Stalin-era Exhibition of Economic Achievements . |
| 6 | Yes , I think that the crucial thing that 's emerging , especially from the area of artificial intelligence , is that we 're beginning to understand that what the name of the game is getting people to express their intentions , and for a long time we 've been , as it were , stuck in languages that do n't really help you to do that and we 're really beginning to understand now that erm what people are doing when they program indeed , I mean as it were the ace programmers , are expressing their intention for whatever 's to be done in the task the computer 's to perform clearly . |
| 7 | I need interpreters in my surgery who can speak Punjabi , Urdu and Gujarati , otherwise I can not understand fully what my constituents are saying when they have complicated immigration problems . |
| 8 | If only she could understand the excruciating pain her boys are suffering when she treats them like this , and realise that they will carry that pain for the rest of their lives . |
| 9 | However , now that it is necessary to identify the functions the judges are performing when they sit as visitors in cases which are concerned with the question whether people are fit and proper persons to become or remain barristers , we must for the first time examine their function in that context alone . |
| 10 | Unfortunately many modern anthropologists are very vague as to which of these different objections they are making when they object to ‘ evolutionism ’ in general . |
| 11 | It is not really surprising that animal diseases are increasing when we consider the Government 's deliberate run-down of their veterinary service . |
| 12 | ‘ We are hoping when she returns her parking will have improved , but we are not over-optimistic , ’ said Bob . |
| 13 | These problems are unsurprising when one considers the diversity of the national interests of the Member States : Denmark 's quasi-neutrality , Germany 's delicate constitutional problems , France 's dislike of fighting alongside the United States , Britain 's willingness to do so . |
| 14 | This is the really important information cats are receiving when they approach a meal . |
| 15 | It is often this particular language to which academics are referring when they make general claims about the nature of English or of literacy . |