Example sentences of "in [noun] when [ex0] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that sorry , in agriculture when there was a good harvest , prices would fall more than proportionately to the change in quantity . |
| 2 | This makes homogeneous brittle materials much too dangerous to use in practice when there is any serious stress on them . |
| 3 | Her strategies include acknowledging you own sense of wholeness , of taking care to listen properly , to take charge of whatever choice you make ; to rechannel blame and guilt into something more positive , and to make space and time for what is really important , for instance not finding yourself bogged down in trivia when there are more important issues to be confronted . |
| 4 | Well i in rugby when there 's trouble , it 's face to face say what you wan na say and smack them ! |
| 5 | I look grimy , bad-tempered , just the sort of guy you 'd expect to find hiding in a woodpile in Deptford when there 's trouble about . |
| 6 | The increase in wages , however , seems to have persisted even in periods when there was a dearth of money , and Hatcher is prepared to accept the general line of the arguments put forward in Postan 's pioneering article of 1950 that population decline was the greatest single factor in bringing about these economic changes ( 75 , pp.47–54 ) . |
| 7 | If you knew about show-jumping , you had heard of Nutty McTavish , even seen her on television in replay when there was a lull in the senior event and the commentator decided to fill in with earlier happenings . |
| 8 | They point out that under the first-past-the-post system a small swing in votes tends to produce a major change in parliamentary strength so " exaggerating " a party 's lead in parliament in a way that leads to sharp swings in policy when there are only small shifts in voting and still more limited changes in public opinion . |
| 9 | That there are now 40-odd rugby development officers in Australia when there were two or three to capitalise on the 1984 Grand Slam tour is tremendous ’ . |
| 10 | The impulse previously contained or harnessed in the work setting becomes dangerous and inhibiting in bed when there is no alternative outlet . |
| 11 | She was just about to rattle the huge gates in fury when there was a clunk and the gates whirred open . |
| 12 | People sell at auction in booms when there is a strong pool of able buyers — but even more so during recession when there is a steady supply of sellers desperate for immediate cash or receivers and mortgagees trying to cut their losses . |
| 13 | What judge would award custody of a five-year-old girl to a single working woman down in London when there was a proper home , with both a father and a mother , waiting for her right here in the country of her birth ? |
| 14 | Home in darkness when there should be someone at home . |
| 15 | I seem to recall that there was a referendum once before on devolution in Wales when there appeared to be a majority in favour . |
| 16 | The Rev. Richard Westrope left Belgrave Chapel in Leeds when there were complaints about the ‘ social gospel ’ topics he had chosen for his Sunday evening social addresses : of course these problems were not unique to Nonconformist ministers . |