Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 've got to push down on the bike to get your seating right so when you 're on the throttle it 's all hooked up together . |
| 2 | The difficulty , of course , lies in imagining how such a complex behavioural syndrome , which is stable only when complete , could arise in the first place . |
| 3 | Vision comes alive only when it is shared . |
| 4 | Joan had met Sir James Tyrell — the constable who had replaced Brackenbury — and she had found him pleasant enough when Alianor had presented him to her . |
| 5 | It was because of this that ‘ rest is possible only when fatigue demands it . |
| 6 | Bringing up the fledglings necessitates a great deal of work in finding food , and polygyny , as we have seen , is possible only when food is exceptionally abundant under r conditions . |
| 7 | Organised collecting , however , on today 's scale , was possible only when nations became sufficiently prosperous to build and staff large national museums . |
| 8 | They argued that an ultra-right political movement could be possible only when its language and assumptions had first become an accepted part of the Federal Republic 's political discourse . |
| 9 | Equality is possible only when people are systematically denied the freedom to choose . |
| 10 | Power over the inclinations of the fallen ‘ flesh ’ is possible only when the Spirit is given control by our act of deliberate choice . |
| 11 | Indeed , if it was not clear before she went to Australia , it must have been before she left , that only when she has once more played in The Championships — and preferably won the title — will people be ready to forgive and forget . |
| 12 | but they 're not relevant to that so when you actually come to that you fill in all the relevant details |
| 13 | no , so he said erm , when I opened it court order , I said well I do n't know what yours is I said but it 's nothing to do with this , I said this is about that so when I opened the other one I remember then that when they originally built that court order bit he give me one cheque for sixty two quid and one for sixty nine |
| 14 | Mm yeah I like that So when they picking his car up then ? |
| 15 | Low interest rates are inflationary only when they coincide with an overheating economy as they did in 1987–8 . |
| 16 | This small Islamic jug ( OA 1952.2-14.1 ) of the ninth century AD appears intact below when viewed by ordinary light , but X-rays show that it is extensively repaired right , especially around the rim . |
| 17 | They are free only when they are electing members of parliament . |
| 18 | I have almost no social life , free only when my disabled mother can manage my child for a few hours . |
| 19 | Although serfs became free only when they were recruited into the regular army , not when they enrolled in a militia , in the mid-1850s they chose to believe otherwise . |
| 20 | Darwin 's finches , for example , could be seen to be extremely interesting only when their affinities were pointed out to him by a taxonomist . |
| 21 | Such matters are to a great extent determined conventionally by syntax , and become noticeably expressive only when a writer makes a graphological choice which is to some degree marked or unconventional , such as a deliberate misspelling . |
| 22 | Lydia realised this afresh when she came downstairs the following morning . |
| 23 | Particularly s this so when they ignore the warnings of their advisors on matters like budget and timescale . |
| 24 | I did n't like to see him like this so when the second man had gone I turned to Dad . |
| 25 | The typical climber develops a thick strong stem which , although pliable enough when young to be bent and trained to a support , becomes woody and rigid by its second year . |
| 26 | But do this only when your heading is a large figure . |
| 27 | You must be careful to use programs such as this only when you are desperately stuck so they do not spoil the fun of adventuring around each level . |
| 28 | There 's speech for this only when she 's away |
| 29 | You did n't spend half enough when you got the chance , ’ he said when he saw the bill . |
| 30 | That is most evident with out-of-the-money puts , exercisable only when the peseta touches an exchange rate lower than current forward rates . |