Example sentences of "[adj] when [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some aposematic prey that are conspicuous when seen at close quarters appear cryptic when living in family groups and viewed from a distance . |
| 2 | Every individual has his or her own writing style so the word ‘ truck ’ looks very different when written by two different people . |
| 3 | So why are they different when met over the counter in a social security office or a housing department ? |
| 4 | The size of a piece of furniture can look amazingly different when placed in different surroundings — lost in a vast , tall room , overpowering in a small one . |
| 5 | Washes look different when applied to papers of varying surface texture . |
| 6 | It is quite different when dealing with a country as big as France in terms of population and area . |
| 7 | As you become more experienced you will begin to appreciate that a coin can in fact sound slightly different when detected in varying types of ground . |
| 8 | Both the control and oxygen treated groups were similar in age , gender , bilirubin level , type and length of procedure and dose of midazolam , and proved not to be significantly different when compared by Wilcoxon 's rank-sum test ( Table I ) . |
| 9 | An order which was quietly used in some parish churches round the country without offence looked different when used on what was a national occasion with a national congregation . |
| 10 | Three in particular are easily missed or confused , even with slight HFHL , but are totally different when seen/felt . |
| 11 | Yet , as is always the case the results sound quite different when directed from the keyboard . |
| 12 | However , because the transcriptional properties of ATF1 and CREB are fundamentally different when fused to a heterologous DNA-binding-domain ( 30 ) it is apparent that changes in the relative proportions of ATF1 and CREB will have important consequences . |
| 13 | And since phonemic constraints across word boundaries often no longer successfully apply at the mid-class level , the total number of ways of parsing a given mid-class string into words is likely to increase considerably , despite the fact that the lexicon remains highly discriminable when represented in mid-classes . |
| 14 | Although the study of Huttenlocher & Zue ( 1984 ) suggests that words in the lexicon remain highly discriminable when represented in broad-classes , or a mixture of broad-classes and phonemes , an excessively large number of word-strings can be derived when these kinds of phonological representations are parsed in continuous speech . |
| 15 | It was , nonetheless , a film that tried to solicit an understanding of the emerging drug culture , and , for good or evil , persisted with its apologist tone that acid was OK when used with caution . |
| 16 | However , this is particularly interesting when related to outcome . |
| 17 | It is a family history that becomes much more interesting when set against the wider background of the local history of an important industry . |
| 18 | The desire of politicians to control annual outcomes in this way was unrealistic when applied to a policy in which the industry 's own long-term objectives ( in this case overcoming the capacity backlog ) were in conflict . |
| 19 | Disciplines have to be undertaken to take special care with potentially flammable items and those which may be chemically/physically unstable when moved from store . |
| 20 | On the road , the all-disc plus anti-lock braking is powerful , progressive and firm under foot though , surprisingly , the car felt slightly unstable when braking hard from 120mph-plus during the Millbrook acceleration runs . |
| 21 | If you put the N1 cam half-a-repeat to the left of centre on the machine , in this case between needles 12 and 13 on the left of centre , you 'll get three complete repeats and a three-quarter repeat at each edge ( Fig 3. ) , again rather messy when seamed . |
| 22 | Therefore there is a real tradeoff involved , between the need for any bonus to he relatively generous when compared with a flat salary , and the need for there to be some bonus element . |
| 23 | Q2 's rig is powerful and generous when measured against displacement and length . |
| 24 | Equation 7.7 can be compared with the earlier expression for geodesic deviation : taking account of the sign change in the spatial components of the metric when passing from Euclidean to Minkowski space . |
| 25 | Applying these results for the Schwarzschild metric when using spherical polar coordinates gives . |
| 26 | Mr Bumble was only brave when dealing with poor , helpless people . |
| 27 | It can be fairly clear when looking for something physical , but in trying to find earth energies there are difficulties in determining what comes from the individual and what from the site . |
| 28 | MRS THATCHER went to the American heartlands yesterday and made clear when questioned by university students that she viewed with alarm the idea of Britain under a coalition government . |
| 29 | The extent of the shift registered by these approaches becomes clear when compared with its antecedents . |
| 30 | One can not be so clear when considering other mosaics which appear to owe much to this manner of arrangement and depiction . |