Example sentences of "when it was not " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a language , a world view , a form of life perhaps , wherein one of the principal reasons for according praise to a type of art is that it is able to give voice to a politics ; Bolshevism in the main case , though as Callinicos acknowledges , one of the salient points about Modernism was its ‘ ambiguity , its capacity to express a variety of different political positions ’ ; that is , when it was not engaged on its more usual ‘ flight from politics ’ ( p. 161 ) . |
| 2 | However , the Junker need for an external threat required that a sense of otherness , of not being Prussian , of not speaking German , when it was not altogether invisible , should be a threat . |
| 3 | The Teutonic Knights had indeed penetrated eastwards , but their influence , when it was not military , had been to spread a lifestyle and set of material , cultural and linguistic bearings rather than set in motion the bodily removal and resettlement of vast numbers of Germans . |
| 4 | Toughening their endurance by frequent climbs to nearly 3,000 feet ( 900m ) up the crags of Goat Fell on Arran they saw , when it was not raining — a rare occasion in west Scotland — Lieutenant Roger Courtney at sea , training his canoeists around the island 's choppy waters where a short sharp sea comes up with little warning . |
| 5 | Two doors shut the glass away when it was not in use , as if to remind me that too much self-admiration was unacceptable . |
| 6 | Only when it was not possible to squeeze another inch from the land do they stop , allowing the coarse heather to take hold on the steep cliffs . |
| 7 | And when it was not shouting him down as he tried to suggest that the powers of the courts were adequate , the conference heard Mr R. A. Butler pledge himself to a new building programme of short-sharp-shock Detention Centres . |
| 8 | He was mostly happy without an excessive amount of work , and when it was not there he did not invent it . |
| 9 | The issue flared up when the party was doing badly for other reasons , and subsided when it was not . |
| 10 | They could infer the complete message even when it was not explicitly stated in the text . |
| 11 | A fragile , breakable , disposable population , with no more than a toe-hold on life when trade was good and employment more plentiful ; flicked off life 's surface , almost without being noticed , when it was not . |
| 12 | If the creditor , without any fraud , accepted it in satisfaction when it was not a sufficient satisfaction it was his own fault . |
| 13 | Of course the horse named Bess , which I was given had a mind of its own , since it would always be eating and when it was not it only plodded along . |
| 14 | When it was not appropriate to have it last week , my hon. Friend the Member for Leicestershire , North-West ( Mr. Ashby ) made the facility available this evening . |
| 15 | When it was not immediately opened , one of them began to shout ‘ Too late ! |
| 16 | The document left many questions unanswered and when it was not endorsed by any major party figure it slid into oblivion . |
| 17 | We used enemas when it was not possible to utilise the enteral lavage . |
| 18 | We are unanimously of the opinion that the settlement was a sham on the facts in the sense that it was made to appear as a genuine gift when it was not . |
| 19 | Obviously , what is or may be of importance to an employer 's business is a question of fact ; and it was no doubt significant in Swain that S was the general manager , the wrongful employee was the managing director , his conduct was dishonest and it could have had a material effect on the defendant 's business ( labelling meat as " Empire Products " when it was not ) . |
| 20 | Well why would it be used in circumstances when it was not needed otherwise ? |
| 21 | It led her to believe that her deluded behaviour was within the realm of the acceptable when it was not . |