Example sentences of "when [pron] is [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The black and white feeds in a narrow range of tree species and when none is fruiting it eats leaves . |
| 32 | I can accept a wrong note from an orchestra but when everything is getting faster or slower , that I can not accept . |
| 33 | It is easy enough to design systems that work well when everything is going well . |
| 34 | When everything is going fine for us , and God is in quote , blessing us , when our life is flowing smoothly , it 's easy then to have faith , it 's easy then to trust , but do you know , those disciples in that boat , they were no safer after Jesus stilled the storm than beforehand . |
| 35 | Motorists would benefit in other ways too , eg. the difficulty of overtaking a cyclist on narrow streets when something is coming from the opposite direction . |
| 36 | As with most supernatural occurrences one never knows just when something is going to happen and this is the case in the studio . |
| 37 | There needs to be a facility whereby , when one is looking at a particular cross-reference , one can call up the entry or part of an entry to which that cross-reference refers . |
| 38 | The facilities are here , they have an important role and when one is looking open-mindedly — and systematically at a teaching problem one can not possibly ignore them . |
| 39 | The Minister used the word " can not " , but there is no such thing when one is dealing with Her Majesty 's Government or Parliament . |
| 40 | For when one is dealing with such volatile temperaments , the slightest thing may result in my instant dismissal . |
| 41 | But when one is dealing with associative use , we have to do with a binary distinction ; the adjective is introduced solely to indicate that its property , even though applicable to some other entity , is associated with the entity of its noun phrase , and here there are only two possible states — either the property is associated , in the view of the speaker , or it is not ( and of course by a slightly curious consequence of the communicational process , the state must always be the positive one , since if the property were not felt to be associated with that entity and needed for identification , then the adjective which designates that property would simply not appear ) . |
| 42 | The buyer naturally has the opposite concern and , in the absence of a formal back to back contract , when one is dealing with standard conditions of purchase the best that can be accomplished is to incorporate a provision like cl 1.3 of Precedent 2 , which notifies the seller of the possibility of prime contracts , and attempts to impose their terms upon the seller , coupled with an opportunity for the seller to examine them and a warning that they will apply , even if not examined . |
| 43 | Very useful when one is taking early retirement . |
| 44 | One can then say that it is only things of the second sort which count as things his action prevented , when one is calculating its good and bad effects , and thus distinguish Bentham 's criterion of rightness and wrongness from a rigorist one . |
| 45 | Recent years have made teachers familiar with this strategy , and with the costs that are associated with it , especially when one is trying to negotiate with a fairly implacable demander . |
| 46 | He says : ‘ There is boredom when one is trying to avoid awareness that one is very angry or disappointed with the other person . |
| 47 | With spreadsheet products not always well-differentiated in terms of the basic calculations that they can do , considerations such as the quality of printed output carry some weight when one is choosing from the array of packages on offer . |
| 48 | John Lennon 's ‘ Imagine ’ , so powerful when one is listening to it , may afterwards be quite easily broken down into fairly disparate elements : radical text ; rock-ballad melody , harmony and orchestration ; singer-songwriter ( ‘ confessional ’ ) piano ; soul/gospel-tinged singing . |
| 49 | According to one influential cognitive model ( Coltheart , 1985 ; see Figure 1 ) , there are two distinct reading routes that might come into operation when one is reading aloud . |
| 50 | When one is aiming simply to identify an entity for a hearer , in the nature of things one will tend to find enduring characteristics more reliable as the means of doing so , although there will certainly be a proportion of cases where some " occasional " property is just as useful . |
| 51 | The tension-relieving effect of cutting may be extremely important when one is considering therapeutic strategies to counter the behaviour . |
| 52 | When one is considering law in the hands of the judges , law means the body of rules and guidelines within which society requires its judges to administer justice . |
| 53 | That is particularly relevant when one is considering a diverse range of hazardous wastes . |
| 54 | It is fair to say , particularly when one is considering overseas relations , that there was some form of national sentiment , but at the same time one should guard against the assumption that this was a dominant force in determining men 's attitudes on all occasions . |
| 55 | Did they complain about the Fujitsu factory , which takes some beating when one is considering eyesores ? |
| 56 | HOW COMFORTING TO KNOW THAT WHEN ONE IS FINDING CITY LIFE A TRIFLE TIRESOME , ONE HAS FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES GRACIOUS ENOUGH TO INVITE ONE OUT FOR A DAY IN THE COUNTRY … |
| 57 | When one is asking questions , however , one must never forget that the answers come from the respondents , so one must always be thinking about those respondents . |
| 58 | Bad roots of title include leases ( when one is conveying the freehold ) , wills and equitable mortgages . |
| 59 | But these ‘ less-eligibility ’ arguments are surely at their weakest when applied to food , and virtually untenable when one is talking about people incarcerated for fourteen years or more . |
| 60 | Arguments about absenteeism ( not borne out incidentally by the surviving wage-books ) are hardly relevant when one is talking about piece-work in large firms . |