Example sentences of "[adj] when it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And then I got another when it come to nineteen eighteen we got bombed out again . |
| 32 | Sarella smiled happily , pushing her other feelings aside and admitting , ‘ I 'm superstitious when it comes to work . |
| 33 | They are stingy when it comes to overheads : in most discount stores , there are few staff in sight and goods are sold out of the boxes they come in . |
| 34 | Charles was described as temperate in his consumption of both food and drink ( in an age and culture where gluttony and heavy drinking were often regularly practised by those who could afford it ) , and particularly careful when it came to alcohol . |
| 35 | Big Ben was lucky to get away with a mistake at the second fence in his warm-up round , but is likely to be more careful when it matters . |
| 36 | You 'll have to be careful when it comes to choosing a wife . |
| 37 | I 'm sure you 'll work something out with Ian , but Sophie will have to be very careful when it comes to choosing the right person to replace you . ’ |
| 38 | I ask the House to be careful when it has one of its own Members in its charge . |
| 39 | Moreover it saved us as a family from being caught in the 1914 — 18 war as my sister and I were eighteen and sixteen years old when it finished and almost all our contemporary male cousins were killed . |
| 40 | It was said to be 700 years old when it fell in 1896 . |
| 41 | Napoleon 's house of exile , San Martino , is worth a visit , although Boney was quite frugal when it came to buying furniture , clearly having other things on his mind . |
| 42 | The professional assessment is that the Mitre ball is heavier when it flies through the air and therefore lends itself to greater accuracy . |
| 43 | Users themselves , however , are not completely blameless when it comes to the slow uptake of open systems , Wendler observes , ‘ our clients do n't take products seriously until IBM is involved . ’ |
| 44 | Yes , but then when that income 's paid in , half of the income 's taxable when it 's assessed for you , and half would be paid gross to your wife , you know it 's a diff it 's a different , it 's a different er |
| 45 | Plenty of clever , talented children seem to make slow progress at learning skills which they know their parents care about — like reading — while showing remarkable confidence and daring when it comes to the things their parents ignore , like swinging upside down , or building complicated models out of Lego . |
| 46 | You can just about excuse Porsche for not altering the external shape , but forgiveness is impossible when it concerns the interior . |
| 47 | Maybe the question , ‘ What is it that I have to undo in order to help myself ? ’ is more appropriate when it comes to the Alexander Technique . |
| 48 | One was situated behind his fly-buttons ; greed was good in Reg 's book , but sexual greed was dangerous when it interfered with business . |
| 49 | Stereotyping can be dangerous when it allows us to distance ourselves from others , and to fail to see the individual through the distorting lens of our own prejudice . |
| 50 | But soon enough they learn competition , useful at first , but dangerous when it becomes , as it easily does , the only atmosphere . |
| 51 | It is certainly crucial when it comes to choosing your venue . |
| 52 | The importance of the rectum in pop is something rarely acknowledged , although it 's been a constant ; from George Clinton to the Beastie Boys ( with their crapped-in-pants waddledance ) , a record 's crucial when it has a lot of bottom . |
| 53 | He tried to get a post at the British Museum , and was most indignant when it went to George Children , a friend of Davy and thus possessing superior patronage . |
| 54 | It is clear , however , that in this case the contracting company felt extremely nervous when it found that representatives of a safety committee had gone straight from the employer to the ultimate operator in the field . |
| 55 | But the civil servants have been vague when it comes to the detail of who is to be the competent authority , who is to foot the bill for its work ( and any extra studies it may require before giving consent ) , and how much of its deliberations are to be made public . |
| 56 | He has lived here for eight months and knows more about the town than the Neftis , who are infuriatingly vague when it comes to giving directions . |
| 57 | Bucket shops with more to hide are often more cautious when it comes to recruitment . |
| 58 | I think I can count on the fingers of one hand the men I know who were desperate to experience fatherhood and regarded a woman 's desire for children as paramount when it came to choosing a partner . |
| 59 | The trouble is local authorities are autonomous when it comes to applying trading standards but Haverfordwest seems out of step with other councils on the issue . |
| 60 | ‘ It is amazing when it works — in the Scottish Open in February against Eva Webster it went so well that I near enough knocked both of us out . ’ |