Example sentences of "when one [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But erm on the absolute scale of temperature , zero kelvin is the lowest one can get , and all one can hope to do is to get ever closer to that zero , when one goes to low temperatures . |
| 2 | When one goes for a major adventure like tornado you hope that most of the difficulties are are ironed out , clearly they 're not , another set of difficulties emerges . |
| 3 | Yet when one talks to leading figures in American school librarianship one detects an uneasy dissatisfaction . |
| 4 | Although on every side people tried to raise the old Watergate question , ‘ What did the President know and when did he know it ? ’ , it seemed curiously flabby and unsatisfactory ; as Elizabeth Drew wrote in the New Yorker , ‘ When one talks about what Reagan ‘ knew ’ , one could be dealing in metaphysics . ’ |
| 5 | This argument is an example of the pitfalls that one can encounter when one talks about infinite systems . |
| 6 | So , the , the other thing which is er erm , a real problem , partly because of that , is , is when one talks about an increase in in giving , increase in percentage i , or a contribution of the church is in er , we were talking about twenty percent la , twenty one percent last year that would be alright if everybody gave twenty one percent ! |
| 7 | If meaning is brought to birth within the text , the text itself is the bearer of all the Reality that inheres in meaning ; and that , when one thinks about it , is , while by no means all the Reality there is , quite a good portion of that part of Reality which matters to us . |
| 8 | When one thinks about it , when one remembers the way Miss Kenton had repeatedly spoken to me of my father during those early days of her time at Darlington Hall , it is little wonder that the memory of that evening should have stayed with her all of these years . |
| 9 | Presumably they went out of favour because when one thinks about them , they must have been dangerous . |
| 10 | Good names for mines really , when one thinks about it ! |
| 11 | When one thinks about that , it becomes apparent how complex the matter is . |
| 12 | Firstly , when one thinks about using computers in schools , one tends to think of technology , and you think of people with white coats and dials and sort of science and technology and so forth , whereas I think in schools the big interest is in using a microcomputer as a teaching aid and as a support to other services and other ways of doing things , so it is just as relevant in a primary school as a secondary school . |
| 13 | I think that 's an extremely good point actually , because of course , when one thinks about it and looks at it , there are many many things which are happening in today 's world which are disasters . |
| 14 | Prediction has been shown to be difficult , if not dangerous , when one thinks of all those worthy , well-written , sincerely felt , and critically-supported books that remain unread ( see Manning , 1969 ; Avery , 1972 ) , and those obvious , apparently superficial and mundane pot-boilers that gain young readers ' affections . |
| 15 | ‘ When one thinks of the number of miserably displaced children from broken homes who 've been given a sense of purpose by the Pony Club ’ Sukey was saying , then , lowering her voice , ‘ take Perdita Macleod . |
| 16 | I lived in the book , as — in your others : I liked particularly Isabella and Evalie , and their gay early middle age — how comforting , too , to be with people who find ‘ the Change ’ such fun , when one thinks of the depressing nonsense that most people make out of it … . |
| 17 | And when one thinks of individual subjects , why is mathematics typically in the science faculty when it is not a science ? |
| 18 | The total area dealt with before 1760 could hardly have exceeded 400,000 acres , a negligible amount when one thinks of England as a whole — only just over one per cent . |
| 19 | This lack is astonishing when one thinks of the innumerable ancient towns of England that richly deserve such a study . |
| 20 | This is all the more significant when one thinks of the nature mysticism that was so common in every variety of ancient paganism . |
| 21 | When one thinks of all the PM 's work these last four and a half years and of all he is and stands for , and that this is the response it gets , it makes one lose faith a bit . |
| 22 | Someone must be doing their housekeeping rather better at those hospitals , especially when one thinks of the help the Memorial Hospital gets from the WRVS and the Friends of the Hospital who raise a good deal of money and have done so for many years . |
| 23 | Of course , America has always been highly influential , but when one thinks of the Rolling Stones and Beatles erm and what have you in the sixties and seventies , and how much it has influenced Continental light music , not light music but popular culture , it is incredible . |
| 24 | Alternatively , during a spell of prolonged cold weather when one fears for the safety of the fish , a hole can be made in the ice by placing a pan of boiling water on the surface and allowing this to melt through . |
| 25 | PLAY The heightening of consciousness that arises when one awakens in a strange room that one can not momentarily identify |
| 26 | When one refers to something already mentioned : The year had been one of great political unrest . |
| 27 | It makes one wonder about that when one hears of someone of such frailty being pursued and put in prison for failing to pay a tax that everyone recognises was nonsensical from the moment that it was introduced . |
| 28 | When one hears of the hardships which could be caused to the high salaried , then surely in this country which claims to be Christian , we face not a political problem , but a moral one . |
| 29 | ONE of the things which sums up Border rugby is that when one arrives at Mansfield Park for a match , the bloke cheerfully parking cars in the wind and rain is liable to be one of Hawick 's living legends . |
| 30 | One should be near to the natural world when one meets with an unnatural death . ’ |