Example sentences of "when it [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has the Minister accepted the argument which was put strongly to him and to which he listened carefully that day , that it makes no sense for Northumberland to be forced by Government spending restrictions to cut £3.5 million from its education budget when it spends less per pupil than most other authorities ? |
| 2 | When it happens again on the next cast I turn the air blue with some choice words . |
| 3 | Potatoes also contain an alkaloid called solanine , which when it occurs naturally in the potato at a level of approximately 0.01% is responsible for the characteristic flavour of the tuber . |
| 4 | The highest authority of the Fund is still exercised by the board of governors , but the constitution of the interim committee is such that decisions taken there are usually ratified by the full board when it meets annually in the autumn . |
| 5 | The great circulation successes were the Daily Mirror and Daily Express into the 1960s ; the Sun from 1970 onwards , when it bit hard into the Mirror 's market ; The Daily Telegraph until the 1980s and the Guardian , in a quiet way , after it had settled in London . |
| 6 | Gorbachev , speaking after his election as President , called for the conclusion of a ‘ new union treaty ’ of this kind ; and the Federation Council , when it met later in the year , agreed that a union treaty was necessary which would ‘ guarantee real economic and political sovereignty for the republics ’ . |
| 7 | SUE HOLWELL , the England sweeper , had the honour of scoring the first goal in the Women 's Typhoo National League when it got underway on Saturday . |
| 8 | — The owners of a new cabaret venue in Darlington plan to make it the showplace of the North when it opens later in the spring . |
| 9 | When it gets closer to the ground , you ca n't pick it up . |
| 10 | We do not accept the submission by Mr. Sedley , who appeared for the Bar Council , that there was any conscious distinction made between the occasions when this jurisdiction of the judges , however it was exercised , went to matters related to the administration of justice , such as the equipping of the courts with advocates who were fit to appear before them there , and the occasions when it went simply to matters relating to the administration of the Inns and their property . |
| 11 | When it drove away over the ochre expanse , it broke into pieces and dissolved in the air . |
| 12 | One of the speakers was suggesting that a proposal should be judged on its merits when it comes forward for approval to the registering authority and that if it does n't fit into the set pattern , that should n't necessarily debar it . |
| 13 | When it comes together as ES/MP it might be an option ’ . |
| 14 | On the whole , Acts , despite their legal precision , are fairly loose guides when it comes actually to setting up the services they authorize , and the decisions made by the administrators of services at central or local level are of great importance in shaping the provision . |
| 15 | When it erupted prematurely in Leinster the following May , Robert refused to lead a rising in Ulster before the expected French help arrived , and resigned his command . |
| 16 | How was I to know it would give her a heart attack when it reacted unfavourably with some other medicine she was taking/ I only meant to give her a bit of discomfort . |
| 17 | 5 years to the day , the Rogers family were in the television room of the Herald of Free Enterprise , when it capsized just outside Zeebrugge . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've always got the greatest thrill from music when it communicates directly to me . |
| 19 | What they do not see , of course , are the tears at the sheer frustration of it all when it hits home at two in the morning . |
| 20 | Bouncing and bucking down the rough , uneven scrubland of the sloping ground beyond , it finally fetched up hard when it smashed head-on into a rocky outcrop . |
| 21 | When it roars away from a traffic light , its burning tyres leave a patch of smoking rubber on the road behind . |
| 22 | Our cask-conditioned party could all agree on one thing , we 'd love to be on board the Champagne Express when it sets fullsteam-ahead for Reims this August . |
| 23 | What seemed to be a simple matter when merely held as a mental question , verbally unframed and with no thought given to response , appears as a simply impossible problem when it has actually to be put down on paper . |
| 24 | William Downes ' study of King Lear 's famous question to his daughters is a superb example of the level of depth and insight that stylistics can reach when it draws eclectically from a variety of areas within linguistics in order to relate the surface features of the text to the situational , historical and cultural contexts which are relevant to their effect and interpretation . |