Example sentences of "when [verb] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | a specially coded hyphen which is only displayed when formatting of the hyphenated word puts it at the end of a line . |
| 2 | Tenth-century kings tried to achieve a balance between secular and ecclesiastical power in the localities rather than to crush the former ; this was demonstrably the aim of Otto I and Otto II when disposing of the tributes exacted from the Slav peoples . |
| 3 | After washing , twist taps were not turned off with the paper towel ; and where elbow taps were available , they were used properly only four times ; and when disposing of the paper towel in foot-operated pedal bins , nurses used their hands to open and close the bins . |
| 4 | Those places in army units were invariably awarded through political interest , though admittedly rarely in so blatant a manner as that adopted by Sir David Cunynghame , a West Lothian politician , when disposing of the junior medical officer 's place in his regiment in 1760 . |
| 5 | A bad choice could arouse discontent which would more than offset the value of an appointment in attaching an individual voter to an interest , and it was wise to take abilities and honesty into account when disposing of the posts . |
| 6 | When appraised of the situation , he turned white , and slumped into his chair . |
| 7 | Even when told of the embassy 's closure , few seemed alarmed : ‘ Well , they ca n't just leave us here , and we 're not going back , so they 'll have to do something , ’ said one . |
| 8 | When told of the forthcoming marriage between Lydia and Tobias , Jonadab expressed his amazement . |
| 9 | Council leader , Coun John Williams ( Lab ) , when told of the plans by The Northern Echo said : ‘ I will need to find out much more about this before we can decide we can support it or not . ’ |
| 10 | On one level it is hard to see how we can avoid reproducing this contradictory space when speaking of the inner city as a place , a fusion of social problems . |
| 11 | This is not to use the term ‘ romantic ’ in the pejorative sense in which it must be used when speaking of the film made of The Happy Return , in which Lady Barbara , envisaged as a coy , magazine-cover blonde ( and without the hereditary Wellesley nose ) fluttered her eyelashes at Gregory Peck as an equally improbable Hornblower . |
| 12 | He said the Dales crew was on its way to an emergency in Newton Aycliffe when alerted of the Harwood incident . |
| 13 | A less obvious but equally debilitating problem is the propensity of farm workers not to join a trade union even when availed of the opportunity to do so . |
| 14 | The later term that Freud adopted to this super ego has become synonymous in people 's minds with conscience the idea of the super ego as the the role of conscience and presum presumably that 's another aspect of the same thing and er Serg Moskovicy in his excellent book Age of the Crowd erm which is on the reading list which I can thoroughly recommend in discussing this point of how Freud sees the leader as the kind of super ego of the followers quotes one of the Nuremberg war criminals , I forget which it was now erm Goering or Goebbels or one of these er people who when asked of the Nuremberg war tribunals why did you do the things you did , replied Adolf Hitler was my conscience and that 's er that 's a very erm good example of this idea of er how the the role of conscience can be transferred from the individual to the , to the leader of the group and I suppose Dean you would say erm illustrates one of the greatest dangers of group , group membership because er obviously if if that happens in a group , then erm individuals are to some extent erm surrendering their moral self-responsibility and of course if Freud 's insight is correct , then there was an element of truth in in this in this excuse Adolf Hitler was my conscience . |
| 15 | Ian Paisley , who had travelled to Rome to disrupt the visit , accused Dr Robert Runcie of ‘ treacherous and lawless behaviour ’ when talking of the Pope 's role in the universal Church . |
| 16 | WE should note when talking of the Rover car company 's current success that it was Honda of Japan that modernised Rover 's factories . |
| 17 | Perhaps , too , the darker minds , full of rancour and disharmony , anger , lust , egotism , greed and intense attachment to the things of this world , takes the hell it experienced in physical life into its own world of mental hell when deprived of the physical form . |
| 18 | But Wright , when warned of the BBC 's footage of his clash with Howells , replied : ‘ I do n't care what the BBC say or show . ’ |
| 19 | When informed of the attacks on photographers , League president Gordon McKeag refused to comment . |