Example sentences of "[subord] [conj] it [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | When the laser is reading information from the small , inner diameters of the disc , the disc 's rotation is significantly slower than when it is reading data from the larger , outer diameters . |
| 32 | Water holds a fascination for everyone , but never more so than when it is moving . |
| 33 | There is little evidence , however , to correlate serum concentrations after the dose with toxicity , and indeed experimental nephrotoxicity caused by gentamicin is more severe when the total daily dose is divided than when it is given by a single bolus , when concentrations after the dose are higher . |
| 34 | There is perhaps no better assurance of the reality of a fundamental drive than when it is seen to flourish in the most difficult and primitive circumstances . |
| 35 | The same piece of information is seen differently when it is received from a favourite and trusted subordinate than when it is received from the manager of the intelligence section : the manager of the intelligence section is neither respected nor trusted . |
| 36 | This was to be expected ; it is an essential part of the mechanism that at any given value of Δz , the particle should be hotter when it is ascending than when it is descending . |
| 37 | There will clearly be more shadow when the sun is at right angles to a ( closely planted ) row than when it is shining along it . |
| 38 | It may be fashionable to decry Robbins — and many of the universities ' problems stem from the rapid expansion of the 1960s which followed his report — but his pertinent description of the aims of higher education is no less valid today than when it was written . |
| 39 | When food was clumped , a thrush , after finding a food item , turned through a sharper angle than when it was spaced out , but kept the length of each jump constant independent of the food distribution . |
| 40 | . And nine times out of ten when I ask the congregation whether your church is bigger now than it was when it was founded nine times out of ten the congregation say , it is smaller now than when it was founded . |
| 41 | But there can be no appeal on the grounds that a house is worth less than when it was valued . |
| 42 | But there can be no appeal on the grounds that a house is worth less than when it was valued . |
| 43 | Such reductions might be marginal and therefore the enhancement tended to have less impact than when it was used for cross-school initiatives . |
| 44 | In the spring of 1968 there was much rethinking within the CRA [ Civil Rights Association ] leadership ; the tactics of Martin Luther King in America had been absorbed inasmuch that it was felt by some that only public marches could draw wide attention to what we were trying to achieve by normal democratic means . |
| 45 | If if it is considered that a new settlement is required to meet the housing provision in Greater York , then the first question that has to be asked is , is the criteria approach alone acceptable . |
| 46 | Erm again I i would n't have thought that you know odd days here and there would have any effect but if if it 's going to more long term and the you know the amount increases then it could have an effect on your premature retirement compensation . |
| 47 | You must reserve an area of memory which is sufficiently large for your machine code program before you assemble it , but you may have no real idea how long the program will be until after it is assembled . |
| 48 | The petition can be signed by the parliamentary agent himself , and this is of value because last-minute instructions are frequently received , and I have known cases where the client has not even seen the petition until after it was deposited , although he has of course cleared the content by telephone . |
| 49 | A pregnant woman whose baby had died in the womb was not told that her baby was dead until after it was born . |
| 50 | ‘ Well , what if I decided to put one of the lots back into the next auction , could I postpone payment on that until after it was sold ? ’ |
| 51 | This is what the window looked like before it was restored . |
| 52 | with the vein 's with the valves in everywhere , yes , it 's because they 've got to somehow or other , you 've got to somehow or other get the blood back up to the heart again , it 's not under pressure is it any more , cos it 's lost a lot of its pressure and the way it gets back to the heart of course that is it 's lying alongside the bones and the arteries and as you 're walking around , okay , the arteries are still having the pressure working , the muscles are still working and the vein lies next to it and the blood is able to be milked up , it 's milked back up to a non return valve , that shuts off and it ca n't drop back down any further and the next bit does the next bit up , okay , and then that shuts off and eventually it gets back to the heart and the capillaries what will that look like when it 's bleeding ? |
| 53 | — a one-page plan describing what you are going to do and the order you intend to do it in ( a PROCEDURAL PLAN ) ; — a one-page plan outlining what your essay should look like when it is finished ( a STRUCTURAL PLAN ) . |
| 54 | The fact that the break-up value of many large corporations is greater than their share value shows pretty clearly how much value corporate managers can subtract from their subsidiary businesses , but in fact few of us know exactly what managerial added value would look like when it is occurring . |
| 55 | Not because I 've tapped it into the word processor so many times — though that would be reason enough — but because once it is uttered even the most sensible , humane people tend to react in a disturbing , almost totalitarian , way . |
| 56 | Not because I 've tapped it into the word processor so many times — though that would be reason enough — but because once it is uttered even the most sensible , humane people tend to react in a disturbing , almost totalitarian , way . |
| 57 | The P G C is a difficult course to fill , really , for the people who are organising it , because although it 's called a one-year course , in fact it lasts eight months in practice , and there are so many aspects that have to be fitted in something has to go . |
| 58 | Because if it 's written by the bourgeoisie , it has n't got the authentic whiff — what ? |
| 59 | Not always noticed because if it 's called Cements it does n't look like a foreign company , but if it 's called Mitsubishi or something well , it will stand out . |
| 60 | So you know how to check whether the circulatory system is working because if it 's working you 'll be able to find a pulse pounding away , yes , that 's how you check it , you know the respiratory system 's working because if you want to check it what do you want to look for ? |