Example sentences of "to [noun pl] when [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Although it is the profit rate before taxation which reflects the underlying economic forces of capital accumulation , labour supply and competitiveness , it is the profit rate after taxation which is of most direct concern to employers when they make investment decisions .
2 Consequently she never stopped bellyaching to Daisy about how all the other Pony Club members had at least three ponies , and how humiliating it was having to hack to meetings when everyone else rolled up either in the latest horse boxes with grooms , or driving Porsches with telephones .
3 To use the argument from error without that assumption we would have to point to cases when we mistakenly took there to be another mind present .
4 Perhaps scenting less than total absorption from his audience , he concluded , ‘ Like us , if we 'd have clung on to liveries when it was n't profitable .
5 There are other accessories you can use to increase the impact of the picture , including cords , tassels and ribbons that could be added to pictures when they are hung on the wall .
6 Full details of this scheme will be given to fans when they book their places for the trip .
7 From society 's point of view the only question is whether those who had the benefit of these excellent libraries in the forces will have the same access to books when they leave .
8 The scrolls , giving a history of the cathedral , will be handed to visitors when they leave .
9 I recall listening to him tell it to visitors when I was a child , and then later , when I was starting out as a footman under his supervision .
10 However , active sleep is confined to periods when they sleep with closed eyes .
11 A spokesman said : ‘ Cardholders should only offer their account number to companies when they themselves have initiated the call .
12 A spokesman said : ‘ Cardholders should only offer their account number to companies when they themselves have initiated the call .
13 Will he also explain why we have one of the few remaining Governments who still refuse to give legal protection to workers when they take legitimate and justified industrial action ?
14 Your background , your pedigree , yes you you you 've been brought up in a , possibly your fa your your parents , they 've taught you the right way , they are thrilled pieces , or they were if if they ma , they may well have been de dead by that time , but they were thrilled to pieces when you as a pharisee became a teacher , and a ruler , a leader amongst your people !
15 Byrne plays the young ragamuffins ' father , Papa Riley , a former leader of the travellers who went to pieces when his beloved wife died in childbirth and now subsists on cheap whisky and stale fags in a rundown council flat while his boyos fend for themselves .
16 I was thoroughly put off the whole notion while sharing a flat in New York with a woman who went to pieces when she lost her favourite crystal , and who went to a ‘ Fear of Failure ’ workshop one week , only to attend a ‘ Fear of Success ’ workshop the next .
17 When creating a stencil design , it is essential to remember to leave a space between each leaf or flower shape , otherwise the stencil card will drop to pieces when it is cut out .
18 For the standard enquiries always use one of the printed forms of requisitions , which all law stationers sell , being careful to delete irrelevant questions , such as those that relate to leaseholds when you are buying a freehold ; and as you add your own special requisitions arising on the particular title , tick your marking against each point on your notes on title .
19 Many stroke and head-injured patients return to sports when they feel well enough .
20 Aristotle only produces spurious suggestions about a woman 's incapacity to think or to stick to principles when he is obliged to say something about why their judgements lack authority .
21 these people only refer to farmers when there is news like a food scare to react to .
22 This leads to problems when I try to conceive of my own knowing , believing or thinking in behaviourist terms .
23 The giving of often lavish presents to diplomats when they left a court to which they had been accredited , when a treaty was signed between two states or a special embassy of congratulation or condolence was sent , still a widespread practice in the first years of the nineteenth century , fairly soon became unimportant .
24 War with England ( 1796–1802 ) was a sheer disaster , revealing all the inherent weaknesses of Spain 's position in the American market ; American ports were opened to neutrals when it became evident that Spain could no longer supply her colonies .
25 When nylon underwear first became popular I produced similar fireworks and had to earth myself to radiators when nobody was looking .
26 He never talks to players when they are in the process of playing a shot …
27 I was talking to friends when I realized that someone was watching me .
28 Nurses who found her were reduced to tears when they read a heart-rending note pinned to her dress .
29 He was close to tears when he started to read a statement in which he opened his heart as never before .
30 A teacher , again in a Southall primary school , told of an ‘ amusing ’ incident when an Indian girl of ten was reduced to tears when she had to go out in the sun in the summer term .
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