Example sentences of "when [verb] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The local doctors believed that when undertaken by the child 's mother it could have positive effects but fundamentalists like the magistrate insisted that any such teaching was morally wrong . |
| 2 | These were not in general obtained except when noted from scanning newspapers or when highlighted by the online services . |
| 3 | A little African ground squirrel gave a most convincing performance when examined by a zoologist . |
| 4 | In some of these cases the defendant appeared mentally normal when examined by the doctor , but the doctor was none the less willing to infer from the circumstances that there had been abnormality of mind at the time of the killing , and to write a report which brought this within section 2 . |
| 5 | Indeed some years later ( when examined by the Radcliffe Committee on the working of the monetary system ) Sir Henry Self was to show that his basic attitudes to this question remained fundamentally unchanged : interest rates , he said , affected their costs , not their investment behaviour . |
| 6 | The purported withdrawal of a resignation is ineffective as the resignation is final when received by the proper officer of the authority or the chairman as the case may be . |
| 7 | Required to be stated were the goods ' identification marks , the number of packages or quantity of goods and the indication whether the stated weight was the carrier 's or the shipper 's , and the apparent order and condition of the merchandise when received by the carrier . |
| 8 | Gungawatti , when frightened by a swarm of jungle bees , gave him his first ride on the back of a bolting elephant . |
| 9 | When stopped by the car park attendant , the disturbed man shoved the attendant aside , causing him to fall and break his wrist . |
| 10 | The headaches , which in Italy had been tolerable when eased by a siesta or a day or two 's absence from the office , or the circolo , where he picked up most of his cases , had become unbearable in New York . |
| 11 | ‘ No , not at all , thank you , ’ said the Prince , and , even when pressed by the professor , he would not be moved . |
| 12 | When pressed by the defence on how he could see what was happening in the dark the man replied : ‘ I was reared without lights . |
| 13 | When pressed by the US Federal Trade Commission for an explanation they replied that it meant that the inside of the car was 700 per cent quieter than the outside . |
| 14 | Although their protection was n't evident Millie was conscious of it , and there were times when she felt as hemmed in as she had done during that tortured year or more when guarded by the sisters . |
| 15 | The metabolic clearance rate of G17 was 8 ( 6–93 ) before and 8 ( 6–76 ) ml/kg.min after treatment when calculated by the first method and 9 ( 6–74 ) and 8 ( 6–62 ) ml/kg.min respectively by the second method . |
| 16 | Worse , however , is the fact that the image is also fixed in its proportions and , unless it has been created at precisely the size you wish to use it , it will distort when manipulated by the publishing package . |
| 17 | More and more it came to be used in relations between states which were not themselves French-speaking : in 1664 the new imperial ambassador to England addressed Charles II in it at his first audience and in 1677 the king of Denmark , when addressed by a Polish ambassador in Latin , replied to him in French . |
| 18 | The Queen remains a remote figure , glacial and impenetrable except when caught by the press cameras watching one of her horses winning at the races . |
| 19 | Even when caught by the coastguard or the Immigration and Naturalisation Service they seldom get sent back . |
| 20 | ‘ It is a lie , ’ he stormed when quizzed by a TV reporter . |
| 21 | Close inspection of the data showed that the context effects were due to inhibition : when preceded by an anomalous context , words took an average of 110 milliseconds longer to identify than when preceded by a row of Xs . |
| 22 | We also saw that context can have an effect on the speed of visual word recognition , although experiments by Fischler and Bloom ( 1979 ; 1980 ) suggest that the effect is inhibitory rather than facilitatory , with a word taking longer to identify when preceded by a context which makes it semantically anomalous . |
| 23 | Close inspection of the data showed that the context effects were due to inhibition : when preceded by an anomalous context , words took an average of 110 milliseconds longer to identify than when preceded by a row of Xs . |
| 24 | 8 When preceded by an interrogative pronoun ( I do n't know what to do ) or adverb ( Tell me where to go ) , or by a conjunction ( He looked at the clock , as if it was time to go ) , an infinitive with to is often equivalent to a dependent clause : What to do ; What am I to do ? |
| 25 | But his cash income of 80 yuan a month , even when supplemented by the sale of a pig or two a year , gives the family a yearly cash income of no more than 1,500 yuan . |
| 26 | And the IMF 's charms become virtually irresistable when supplemented by the ‘ intangibles ’ : VIP treatment at airports , royalty-class and first-class travel , Dallas-style hotels , generous allowances for overnight stays in playground cities and for high-class nightclubbing in ‘ sin cities ’ , personal secretaries on every mission , G-5 Visas allowing staff to bring maids into the United States , not to mention medical , insurance and pension perks . |
| 27 | When attacked by a leopard , for instance , all the dominant males rush towards the attacker and together are able to intimidate it . |
| 28 | The pilot caught a bullet in the chest when attacked by a JU night-fighter . |
| 29 | How can women who have been taught that their choice in sexual relations is passive , limited to being able to say yes or no when approached by a man , be expected to make a sudden leap into active love-making where their desire is acknowledged , and their pleasure is a definite goal ? |
| 30 | Ultimately I took to wearing them all the time — only whipping them off when approached by a boy I vaguely fancied or at the doorway of the house of a friend of my mother 's , with a boy my mother fancied for me inside . |