Example sentences of "when the [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dooling and Lachman tested memory for passages which were vague and metaphorical and consequently very difficult to interpret on one reading , particularly when the overall theme of the passage was unknown . |
| 2 | A crack length of about 1 micron ( i.e. 10,000 Ångströms ) will therefore produce the theoretical stress at the crack tip when the average stress in the material is quite modest and for longer cracks the stress at the tip will be far higher . |
| 3 | As he makes clear , this is only of benefit when the average number of records that has overflowed from a track is two or more . |
| 4 | At Brighton , Dr Schramm speculated that neutrinos might all have been massless until quite late in the story , when the average energy of the neutrinos would have dropped below some threshold , making the three neutrinos develop their masses . |
| 5 | Effective sex education needs to be attuned to the realities of sexual behaviour when the average age at first intercourse is now between 16 and 17 ( Mant et al . |
| 6 | When the corresponding fraction of two different eluates , containing the same protein concentrations ( see Fig. 4A ) , were compared , the quantitative differences noticed in crude extracts were confirmed . |
| 7 | This shows a percentage decline since 1951 ( when the corresponding figure for boys was 29% , or 38% including direct grant schools ) ; during this period , there was a substantial increase in absolute numbers over the minimum leaving age in independent schools , but this was overshadowed by a much larger increase , proportionately as well as absolutely , in maintained schools . |
| 8 | The culmination comes on the night of the full moon when the sacred tooth of Buddha is carried through the streets of Kandy in a shrine set on top of a gigantic tusker. & illus : |
| 9 | Deceleration is initiated when the anticipated number of steps required to stop is equal to the distance from the target . |
| 10 | It may not be possible to adequately define ‘ damage ’ to the environment , or even to detect it , when the environmental impact of a genetically engineered bacterium may be as undramatic as replacing a naturally occurring species of bacterium . |
| 11 | When the administrative officer at the foundation , which works with the disabled , carried out a check , the discrepancies had come to light . |
| 12 | So clear did this become after the 1974 oil crisis , when the upward spiral of oil prices began , that international agencies invented a new category of country : the most seriously affected nations ( MSANs ) , i.e. those countries , mainly in Africa , who could no longer afford to buy oil . |
| 13 | Skipper Paul Masters , 24 , his cousin David Masters , 24 and crew member Peter Hope were presumed dead when the wrecked hull of the 27ft Peganina was found within sight of the harbour at Padstow , Cornwall . |
| 14 | The central problem developed when the participatory nature of ritual was destroyed and replaced with a concept of a god who had no need for the feelings of people , who was placed above them in ways that made any behaviour other than worship and penitence irrelevant . |
| 15 | When the 1992 intake of new MPs took their first tentative steps round Westminster on Monday morning , the place was in turmoil . |
| 16 | The Japanese historian Irokawa Daikichi has suggested that it was only when the economic plight of the early 1880s failed to respond to this conventional morality that some of the lower classes were forced to break out of their limitations in the violent incidents of the time . |
| 17 | This was in the early 30's when the economic war between England and the Republic was at its height and representatives of both governments happened to be attending the Imperial Economic Conference in Ottawa . |
| 18 | UN-sponsored talks had begun on June 2 , when the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ( FRY ) leadership called for Bosnian Serb leaders to stop the bombardment of Sarajevo and to hand over the airport to UN control . |
| 19 | When the siliconed edge of panel 3 is vertically aligned with panel 2 , slide panel 3 against panel 2 . |
| 20 | What happens when the unconscious child in Joan Halton finds yet again that she is always losing out , this time to her husband , to his old car on which he dotes or to his mother who is still demanding so much of his time and attention , and that he appears to be forgetting that he is now married and has new first loyalties ? |
| 21 | When the roaring giant of a tube train came , the fag sucker suddenly withdrew his double-buckled shoes from the concrete and became a little scuttling pixie to compete with all the other scuttling pixies , but managed a further quick change to a hunched-up half-shut-marble-eyed frowny scowling monkey as he took his tense unrest out on the floor of the tube train that was carrying him to his necessary employment . |
| 22 | When the good news from the Gulf arrived from Saudi Arabia via a Foreign Office cable , ‘ officials checked the rules to ensure the announcement could go out in Mr Major 's name ’ , he said . |
| 23 | Then , when the other half of Inner City , singer Paris Gray , has added her customary powerful vocals , the result will be an upbeat , impossible-to-stop-humming , accessible house single to follow the success of the pair 's first single , Big Fun , and their recent top five hit , God Life . |
| 24 | This is just what Honey and Hall ( 1989 b ) found — compound exposure attenuated the acquisition of latent inhibition by a tone when the other member of the compound was a click ; but ( as in the Mercier and Baker ( 1985 ) study ) a salient light was ineffective as an overshadowing stimulus . |
| 25 | Thus , when the first flicker of daylight broke on the horizon at about 02.30 on 1 June , Jellicoe found the sea empty : Scheer had eluded him and was even then reaching sanctuary . |
| 26 | They had reached the landing when the first door in the corridor opened and out stepped a man who seemed to have no connection with the boy Andrew Jones , for here was a handsome , well-built and tall man , and he was naked except for a small towel tucked round his waist . |
| 27 | Reich , born in 1897 , was thirty-two years old when the first part of The Sexual Revolution was published in 1929 ; Freud was already sixty-four years old when the notion of the death instincts first appeared in Beyond the Pleasure Principle in 1920 . |
| 28 | Compare the bank 's tenacity at taking away allowances with its reluctance to give salary increases when the first sign of adversity appears . |
| 29 | I began confidently enough , with a humorous extract , but when the first couple of jokes went by with never a chuckle from the audience , I became nervous . |
| 30 | But when the first storm of autumn stirs the water , they leave their holes in the reef and assemble in large groups . |