Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | Curiously , Gill and Jackson are aware of the problem of identity confusion but believe that it can be avoided if black children are placed transracially when very young : ‘ it is possible that older black children may , by the time a placement has occurred , have already internalised a definition of themselves as being black and that this definition may jeopardise the possibility of integration and emotional identification within a white family ’ ( p. 138 ) . |
| 2 | To be told that animals are treated cruelly when they are caused unnecessary or unjustified pain is of little use unless we are told what counts as unnecessary or unjustified pain . |
| 3 | It had been placed there when Mr Blakey had finished in the garden . |
| 4 | Any irregularities in the universe would simply have been smoothed out by the expansion , as the wrinkles in a balloon are smoothed away when you blow it up . |
| 5 | Weaker areas are exposed dramatically when the market turns down as it did during 1992 . |
| 6 | ‘ I hope these people are consulted fully when this application goes through , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Thinking that in years of spray-painting , of darting about near the police and taunting them with their nearness , they had been caught only when they wanted to be . |
| 8 | But , of course , rabbits are a commercial as well as a sporting crop and on that basis most efforts at containing their numbers are carried out when the bulk of the rabbits are likely to be mature . |
| 9 | I 've only met kennel cough once and that was last year , when a dog belonging to a friend caught it after having been boarded out when she had to go away for a few weeks . |
| 10 | This is what happens in the cases of textbook transmission that I referred to earlier : the teacher is required only to put into operation ideas which have already been realized as materials and is given no guidance in the evaluation of the validity of the principles on which the materials have been designed even when these principles are clear to the textbook writers themselves . |
| 11 | Suffice it to say that I find that had those alterations not been carried out when they were , it would not have been possible for the plaintiff to be discharged from Hunstead Park in May of nineteen ninety since her home would not have been suitable for her . |
| 12 | Most of these things are done automatically when there is an accident , and the officials concerned are usually waiting with all the information ready to hand to the investigator when he arrives . |
| 13 | Green manures , sown in autumn , are turned in when spring comes |
| 14 | It is likely that many of the remaining 13 cases could also have been resolved if focusing preferences had been applied weakly when appropriate ; in these cases , the discourse focus is typically a plausible referent , but is less plausible than one of the intrasentential candidates . |
| 15 | Because strong focusing preferences are applied only when appropriate , there is no need even to check that the dog biting the vet is a plausible event , since on linguistic grounds , no other possibilities exist . |
| 16 | Cockling gangs have been turned away when they arrive without council permits to take vehicles on the shore , which is owned by the local authority . |
| 17 | We went from house to house , passing White Memorial Hospital , whose waiting room had been shot up when one gang went to kill the wounded members of another . |
| 18 | Of course , the ( conditional ) expected price on sales differs from the ( unconditional ) mean price because sales are made only when the price is sufficiently high . |
| 19 | The intuition is straightforward : optimal output is a decreasing function of time since the expected price on sales is a decreasing function of time ; optimal output is an increasing function of σ since the more variation there is in output price the higher is the expected price on sales ( recall that sales are made only when the price is sufficiently high ) ; optimal output is a decreasing function of the ( per unit ) storage cost since the more expensive it is to store the less attractive is storing . |
| 20 | Increases are made only when the patient manages to complete each meal . |
| 21 | It just shows , I think , how vigilant Councillors need to be when you get all these documents , and you do get many of them if you 're a District County Councillor , and how necessary it is for you to read them and study them and to remember because these things are very very important when they 're put in when it goes to higher authority at that time . |
| 22 | All of this is a reminder that many messages are conveyed simultaneously when human beings communicate " face to face " . |
| 23 | Indicate which of them are essential and which are used only when required . |
| 24 | By some miracle , the 2CV had n't been towed away when I 'd finally dragged Ash out ; we 'd made it to the M1 , picked up a hitcher and — rather beyond the call of duty , I 'd have said — dropped him where he was going , in Coventry . |
| 25 | Patrick had been called in when the man had threatened his team with a baseball bat . |
| 26 | Her independence and organizing ability had been displayed early when she joined the Girl Scouts in 1909 and formed the first Bournemouth troop of guides . |
| 27 | However , favourable outcomes have been noted repeatedly when adequate treatment is given before the onset of central symptoms . |
| 28 | Families , too , are a great source of help and are roped in when the need arises . |
| 29 | As a general rule , overalls are worn only when necessary . |
| 30 | They are the only ones certain to be counted in an election , for votes of lower preference are counted only when transfers have to be made . |