Example sentences of "can [adv] [verb] [adv] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | The injunctions that are undermining self-esteem can only do so when they are unobserved and unquestioned . |
| 2 | Note that prodder-armed Goblins can fight from a rear rank even if they have moved — unlike spears which can only do so when stationary ( see the Warhammer rulebook ) . |
| 3 | If the manager runs a sales team where everyone has the job title ‘ sales executive ’ , then that manager can only manage effectively when his or her team have regard for the manager 's active status over and above his or her overt status . |
| 4 | To be successful the direction-shifts of the fleeing animal must be irregular so that the predator can not anticipate either when or in which direction the next change of course will be . |
| 5 | But obviously the Government can not spend more when it is already ‘ overdrawing ’ at the rate of £50bn a year which anyone can work out is around £1,000 per head of population or say £2,000 per working person . |
| 6 | I can not say precisely when I expect him to return , though I should suppose in about a week from now . ’ |
| 7 | Unlike Ash , he can still function effectively when ripped in half ( after all , 57 years of technical progress have elapsed ) and saves her life as well as Newt 's . |
| 8 | In The Act of Reading , Wolfgang Iser argues that the literary work should be understood as a means of communication rather than as a representation of the world : ‘ It is a vital feature of literary texts that they do not lose their ability to communicate ; indeed , many of them can still speak even when their message has long since passed into history and their meaning no longer seems to be of importance ’ ( 1978:13 ) . |
| 9 | The user can always tell exactly when data of a given type was last transferred by use of the Transfer Dates View described in Section 3.2 . |
| 10 | They can also discriminate appropriately when the stimulus signals food in one context and extinction in the other , a result amply confirmed in experiments by Bouton and Swartzentruber ( 1986 ) . |
| 11 | It can often arise even when people are a mere few pounds overweight . |
| 12 | Thus the butty system slowly declined in importance through the 1920s and 1930s in Nottinghamshire , with Waller reporting from his interviews that ‘ few miners can now remember exactly when or how it disappeared ’ p. 126 ) . |