Example sentences of "are [vb pp] [adv] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | Curiously , Gill and Jackson are aware of the problem of identity confusion but believe that it can be avoided if black children are placed transracially when very young : ‘ it is possible that older black children may , by the time a placement has occurred , have already internalised a definition of themselves as being black and that this definition may jeopardise the possibility of integration and emotional identification within a white family ’ ( p. 138 ) . |
| 2 | To be told that animals are treated cruelly when they are caused unnecessary or unjustified pain is of little use unless we are told what counts as unnecessary or unjustified pain . |
| 3 | Any irregularities in the universe would simply have been smoothed out by the expansion , as the wrinkles in a balloon are smoothed away when you blow it up . |
| 4 | Weaker areas are exposed dramatically when the market turns down as it did during 1992 . |
| 5 | ‘ I hope these people are consulted fully when this application goes through , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Most of these things are done automatically when there is an accident , and the officials concerned are usually waiting with all the information ready to hand to the investigator when he arrives . |
| 7 | Because strong focusing preferences are applied only when appropriate , there is no need even to check that the dog biting the vet is a plausible event , since on linguistic grounds , no other possibilities exist . |
| 8 | Of course , the ( conditional ) expected price on sales differs from the ( unconditional ) mean price because sales are made only when the price is sufficiently high . |
| 9 | The intuition is straightforward : optimal output is a decreasing function of time since the expected price on sales is a decreasing function of time ; optimal output is an increasing function of σ since the more variation there is in output price the higher is the expected price on sales ( recall that sales are made only when the price is sufficiently high ) ; optimal output is a decreasing function of the ( per unit ) storage cost since the more expensive it is to store the less attractive is storing . |
| 10 | Increases are made only when the patient manages to complete each meal . |
| 11 | All of this is a reminder that many messages are conveyed simultaneously when human beings communicate " face to face " . |
| 12 | Indicate which of them are essential and which are used only when required . |
| 13 | As a general rule , overalls are worn only when necessary . |
| 14 | They are the only ones certain to be counted in an election , for votes of lower preference are counted only when transfers have to be made . |
| 15 | Words which appear late in the list are remembered easily when recall is immediate as they are resident in short-term memory which has not had a chance to decay . |
| 16 | The main characters are brought together when Rachel breaks out of her inertia to start a campaign to get Haleemo 's other children into the country . |
| 17 | The other committees are convened only when necessary to conduct the special business for which they are appointed . |
| 18 | Indeed , the interests of the capitalist class are served better when the state apparatus is not composed of members of this class than when it is , when the ‘ ruling class ’ is not the ‘ politically governing class ’ . |
| 19 | In other words , we have another instance where common surface patterns are followed even when they may not be quite appropriate to the intensional structure ( see Section 8.7 ; and Ferris , 1982 ) . |
| 20 | Gender difference indicates that people will be admitted to care at a point when for older women they are likely to be frail and dependent , whereas men are admitted earlier when they are fitter , and may live longer in a home , settling more comfortably ( Willcocks , 1986 , p. 151 ) . |
| 21 | One could use cash accounting ( so that revenue and expenditure are recorded only when cash receipts and payments are made ) , while the other could use accrual accounting ( so that revenue and expenditure are recorded as they accrue ) . |
| 22 | By placing the paragraphs on the node-link-node triples , the traversal of the semantic net and the generation of cohesive linear documents is also facilitated , as paragraphs are invoked only when the two nodes which they connect are simultaneously considered . |
| 23 | For committees ( except those on private or hybrid bills ) , their public proceedings are covered only when one or other of the broadcasters , independent producers or other organisations wishes to film some part of a committee 's work for use in a programme . |
| 24 | Contrasts are sharpened further when the latter group is selected to act as a ‘ control ’ for the former . |
| 25 | Anything along those lines is welcome , however modest , but let us understand clearly that those payments are triggered only when the temperature reaches zero or below for seven consecutive days . |