Example sentences of "when [pron] [be] [adv] clear " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's no good pretending you 've any aptitude for art when it 's quite clear you 've none at all . |
| 2 | Well for my own part I think that one can educate students as far as possible in terms of what appropriate behaviour is , and I think that you can police students with disciplinary measures when it 's absolutely clear that when they know what the inappropriate behaviour is they nevertheless make a choice that they 're going to move beyond those boundaries of appropriateness . |
| 3 | I can say " This is a cherry " and everyone understands what I mean , but I can not very well say " This is an offspring " without committing a grammatical impropriety , except perhaps as a contextually forgivable elipsis when it is already clear whose offspring is being talked about . |
| 4 | * Use a pronoun only when it is completely clear what it refers to ( see p. 122 ) . |
| 5 | And he was unable to offer crucial half time words of encouragement when it was already clear Liverpool were confronted by a Russian side in a different class . |
| 6 | When it was fully clear of the cave , three of the hunters then simultaneously seized it by head , tail and centre and held it straight enough to feed head-first into an open sack held by the fourth man . |
| 7 | And just ask yourselves the question when another lorry 's coming by you , what do you do when he 's just clear ? |