Example sentences of "which is [vb pp] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we find , for example , that men are like grass renewed in the morning but withered by the time of evening ( I 's 90.5 ) ; their days are like grass which is gone when the wind ( as here ) passes over it ( 103.15–16 ) ; the " son of man who is made like grass " is parallel to " man who dies " ( Isa 51.12 ) . |
| 2 | Laughter is the same language the world over , and the sense of pride and group identity which is engendered when a group tells another about who it is and where they came from is a critical factor in the cementation of the group and fostering of indigenous skills . |
| 3 | Fitting the water softener is a matter of breaking into the rising main and ‘ teeing ’ one pipe off to the softener and another from it ; a third pipe connecting the two tees contains a by-pass valve which is shut when the water softener is in use and open when it is not . |
| 4 | His theory is that leukaemia is a rare response to a much more common but , as yet , unidentified infection which is transmitted when large numbers of people from different backgrounds come together . |
| 5 | He banishes Hippolytus and prays for his death , which is granted when Poseidon sends a sea monster to upturn the young man 's chariot . |
| 6 | The price paid is that the air in the lung is saturated with water vapour , which is lost when the animal breathes out ( although some will be retained in the nasal passages if the air is cooled down before it leaves ) . |
| 7 | To test the possibility that the axons normally display a glial mitogen on their surface ( as has been suggested for axons in the peripheral nervous system ( PNS ) ) , which is lost when the axons degenerate and are phagocytosed after transection , we studied the effect of transection on mitosis in postnatal optic nerves of C57B1/6 and C57B1/6-WLD mice . |
| 8 | A term used in psychology , meaning the form which is lost when the parts are examined in detail without reference to their relationship to the whole . |
| 9 | They have complained that traffic has been going down the one-in-three gradient Bay Bank into the old part of the village which is prevented when police have been on duty in the past . |
| 10 | This marks their first exchange of vows , which is reiterated when Lise pretends to harness Colas by the ribbons to a trap of which she is the driver . |
| 11 | The traveller in Philips 's poem delights in a magical illusion , a pleasing unreality , which is mourned when the ice falls away . |
| 12 | The second step is controlling the actual physical effects on you of all the adrenaline which is produced when you sense you are in a threatening situation . |
| 13 | This permanently uncompresses a hidden or system file that is unmovable under normal usage ( like Compaq 's HIBRN8.DAT , which is produced when the Compaq LTE goes into sleep mode , to restore the machine to life exactly where it was when it shut down ) . |
| 14 | Example 1 shows the incident log file which is produced when the procedure GENERATE_ROOT_PACKAGE is called by user USER 1 with invalid data . |
| 15 | Modules under development have an appended letter ( development code ) which is removed when the modules are approved ; e.g. development module 2.1A is approved as 2.1 . |
| 16 | This method is based on the fact that mineral crystals accumulate and store energy , which is released when they are heated . |
| 17 | Further EEC evidence comes from studies of the contingent negative variation ( CNV ) — a negative waveform in the EEC which is elicited when a warning stimulus is given , shortly followed by an imperative stimulus which requires the subject to make a response . |
| 18 | When prototypes have satisfied the OR Staff , production is carried out by the Procurement Executive of the Ministry of Defence , using commercial contracts of a number of different types such as ‘ fixed price ’ , ‘ single tender ’ , and the much criticised ‘ cost-plus ’ , which is used when the technical risks are too high , the contractors able to tender too few , or the time too short for normal competitive tendering . |
| 19 | It is generally the present tense which is used when you describe a text , even when you describe it in terms which place it in the past ( e.g. by mentioning the author ) : In Los Gusanos ( 1991 ) John Sayles describes Miami as it was in the early 1980s . |
| 20 | The Solution is equipped with an audible alarm which is emitted when the ascent speed exceeds 10 metres per minute , when the dive becomes a decompression dive and when the decompression ceiling is reached . |
| 21 | There are unlimited opportunities for the creative production of multidisciplinary approaches to the development of teaching and presentation skills , given the many common issues for nursing and other healthcare professionals — a notion which is amplified when considering the strategic importance of good interprofessional communications throughout the service . |
| 22 | It seems to me that the facts of this case do not come anywhere near to the level of intolerability which is required when considering the provisions of article 13 . |
| 23 | Grey white chewing gum matter presents itself spasmodically at her mean Glasgow lips , alternating with her cigarette which is sucked when it is not rolling druggedly about on top of her ticket-issuing machine or charging up and down , and off , the long seat , dropping its fire and ash amongst the plastic cups and other less white rubbish , further propelled by chewed and muttered whinings about the discordant duet of erratic driving bus man and undone Corporation road holes . |