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

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1 It is a well known fact that designers plant a line of bollards when they do not know what to do .
2 Employing the same double-delta wing shape as the Lockheed design , originally pioneered by the SAAB Draken , the Tu–144 suffered the most public of tragedies when it crashed at the Paris Air Show .
3 The price you pay for being able to chew when you are young is that you will run out of teeth when you are old .
4 Corporate executives contemplating the possibility of being required to commit corporate crimes know that they face a regulatory agency which for the most part will be unable to detect what is going on , and in the minority of cases when it does , it will have no heart and few resources to pursue the matter into the criminal courts .
5 Could you bring in a couple of ashtrays when you come in love ?
6 MILBURNGATE COUNTY LEAGUE KIMBLESWORTH are looking to complete a hat trick of wins when they take on Leadgate today .
7 The privately-owned Hawker Hunter , which was on its way to Merseyside , exploded in a ball of flames when it hit the ground .
8 Welcome back : Still to come on Central South … the problems encountered by a group of abseilers when they tackled a six hundred foot power station chimney .
9 Do n't do it in a provocative way — just quickly and calmly step back a couple of paces when you have finished , to increase the distance between you .
10 ‘ I wonder ’ , she said , ‘ whether any of you three who know how to spell cat have learned how to read a whole group of words when they are strung together in a sentence ? ’
11 You can sense the interdependence of words when they change their significance according to the words around them .
12 Frith ( 1980 ) has suggested that these good readers attempt to " spell by ear " , in that they rely tao heavily upon the phonological representations of words when it is more appropriate to use orthographic rules with a purely visual spelling check .
13 A still-frame button — vital for the precise location of edit-points when you are recording .
14 Some shaikhs saw no conflict of roles when they were themselves involved in disputes with members of their lineage , and used every means at their disposal to win an argument about , say , rights to land .
15 ‘ Drawing 1-1 up there with a team of kids when you 've been spanked 5-0 four days earlier made them believe they could finish the job at home . ’
16 Neighbours also provided a missing ingredient in our diet of soaps when it became a five-times- a-week fixture back in 1988 .
17 Producer Peter Waterman once had to rescue his starlet from a gang of teenagers when they began spitting at her in a nightclub .
18 Horribly aware that he was watching her every move , she tentatively slid the skis forward , uttering up a silent word of thanks when they obeyed .
19 ‘ Early statements of the model ( e.g. , Marslen-Wilson & Welsh ( 1978 ) ) assert that candidates drop out of the pool of word-candidates when they do not fit the specifications of context , in the same way as when they do not fit the accumulating sensory input .
20 Ask about the energy-consumption of gadgets when you buy them .
21 Initially , OSO 's efforts were helped by a ‘ full and fair opportunity ’ scheme negotiated with the oil industry which allowed vetting of bids when there was a risk of major contracts going abroad .
22 It is unhelpful to send a team of administrators when there is nothing.to administer !
23 The paper by Stiglitz ( 1979 ) provides an overview of equilibria when there is imperfect information .
24 LEAs will probably be reluctant to use this power and rather uncertain as to the kinds of circumstances when it should be exercised .
25 I mean I bought one or two pair of clogs when I was on the dredger and we 'd take the iro iron piece off underneath , that 's just like a , a shoe what a horse have , like go round the
26 ‘ I have started a review of our performance in all kinds of areas when there can be an impact on the environment to build up an objective picture of where we stand at the present and where improvement can be made .
27 This is especially likely in cases where the dog is soiling its quarters , or showing signs of abnormal sexual behaviour , such as mounting your leg or that of visitors when they are sitting down .
28 So , next Tuesday and Wednesday , Christie 's in Amsterdam expects a full turnout of buyers when it sells 28,000 pieces of Chinese porcelain from a burnt-out junk shipwrecked around 1690 off Con Dao Island , Vietnam .
29 Office workers who on the first day possible in the early year had rushed out in their lunch hour to cover any patch of grass with bare legs and arms , floral patterns and jackets , as if some strange immediate growth had been brought out by the sun , to die back in the early afternoon , had by now got the habit of staying in the dark bowels of buildings when they could .
30 The survey of seven airlines found the average age of pilots when they died was 61 .
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