Example sentences of "when they are not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She deals with the many administrative jobs , thus giving the band time to work on their music , especially when they are not touring . |
| 2 | She also helps with the care assistants , giving them something to do when they are not dealing with me . |
| 3 | Smaller animals on the grasslands prefer to hide away when they are not feeding ; so the prairie dogs , which are rodents , live in vast , colonial underground burrows in North America ( with burrowing owls for occasional company ) , and the sousliks do the same in Asia . |
| 4 | So people often switch off their hearing aids when they are not wanted . |
| 5 | Furthermore , the fact that he sees them as two distinct individuals does not necessarily mean that they exist as two distinct individuals when they are not perceived . |
| 6 | If they withdraw their cash from a particular school or college , when they are not getting what they want , the teachers will have to respond or lose their jobs . |
| 7 | ‘ Old people commonly are despised , ’ observed Richard Steele , ‘ especially when they are not supported with good estates ; ’ while another commented in 1621 how , in contrast to the common ‘ pleasure in infants ’ shown by women , ‘ old people are burdensome to all ; neither their talk nor their company is acceptable . ’ |
| 8 | As a suggestion , could I ask you to consider whether Constabulary could share the Heather/Sally machine when they are not using it ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | His lively and entertaining speech proved our long-held view of the sales force that when they are not annoying us , they are out playing golf ! |
| 11 | The alliance is cemented by that traditional political religion , forged in the previous century , which sees the natural law as most accessible to true believers , that it is obligatory to enforce its practice by law , and that those holding other views only have rights to put their views into practice when they are not seen by the bishops to do harm to the social fabric . |
| 12 | All eyes are upon her , apparently , when they are not cooing over her daughter . |
| 13 | Suppose , for example , that the police seek to remove a person 's clothing , or to take fingerprints when they are not authorised to do so , or persistently seek to question a person who makes it plain that he has no wish to answer , or seek to enter a house when they have no search warrant or a defective one . |
| 14 | The ‘ underclass ’ is what the working poor become when they are not employed . |
| 15 | It is not to be taken seriously — of course , electrons do not " choose " — but it is somehow irresistible for physicists to talk in this way , at least informally when they are not writing grave papers for their colleagues . |
| 16 | When they are not speaking London English , they may choose to " talk black " or " chat Patois " : but this " black " variety , as I shall show below , is focused on Jamaican Creole in particular . |
| 17 | If the order is wrong , or if the plants appear badly dried , shrivelled , broken or in similar bad condition , now is the time to say so , and not weeks later , when they are not growing well or are dead , as so many complainants do ! |
| 18 | Qaddafi , however , thinks of nations as permanently active groups in continual session , not disappearing from practice when they are not needed . |
| 19 | But the most important saving could be made by persuading people to turn off lights when they are not needed — either by time switches or by well-designed panels which allow people to select easily the amount of light they need . |
| 20 | Elders are often denied the status of ordinary adulthood when they are not encouraged to discuss how they see their situation . |
| 21 | Scripts can be thought of as slot-and-filler structures , in which the slots have default values so that events can be inferred even when they are not mentioned explicitly in a text . |
| 22 | Scotland has seven pipe and drum bands , each normally 25 or 30 strong , whose members form integral machine gun platoons when they are not playing . |
| 23 | How are social relations visualized and operated when they are not moulded by the impersonal ideology of capitalism ? |