Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | The name of each roundabout will be placed above advance direction signs only when these have to be taken down for maintenance work , so cutting down on costs . |
| 2 | One reason why we find it so hard to understand the development of form may be that we do not make machines that develop : often , we understand biological phenomena only when we have invented machines with similar properties . |
| 3 | Did n't we share a bath when we were little , ride ponies together when we were bigger ? |
| 4 | Quite apart from blackmail the New Zealand police had no proof that either Mafart or Prieur had planted the bombs so when the two appeared in court in Auckland on 4 November 1985 the prosecution announced that they had accepted a plea of manslaughter . |
| 5 | The position of the binary point affects the basic arithmetic operations only when performing multiplication and division . |
| 6 | Line management will accept advice from specialist staff experts only when such advice seems necessary or appropriate . |
| 7 | And we 've not had I I must say that over the years I might have had two cases perhaps when there 's been a query with regard to that in terms of packing . |
| 8 | Lists of stolen or lost traveller 's cheques are circulated to hotels and the cashier should consult these lists discreetly when dealing with traveller 's cheques . |
| 9 | Do you open your lips properly when speaking , or do you try to talk like a ventriloquist ? |
| 10 | Use complex words only when you need a precise meaning and a simple word will not serve the purpose . |
| 11 | Course then he finished , they finished dredging at night on , at nineteen thirty two cos they said it was costing too much the did and erm they were building some new cranes down there , so I said to my father , and he was very friendly with the Harbourmaster , he said erm was there any chance of getting one of them cranes so when he went and saw the Harbourmaster he said no he said the boy do n't know nothing about electricity either so he said no nor did no other buggers he said they did n't know anything about it so he got the job . |
| 12 | Each board has slightly different turning characteristics so when trying a new board it takes a while to learn where to put the back foot . |
| 13 | The real way to protect the earth is to stop motorists from being motorists — or at least to persuade them to use their cars only when absolutely necessary . |
| 14 | I am presumably using words literally when the metaphor is a matter only of etymology ( ‘ insight ’ ) , and feel still more confident of it when the etymology belongs to the Latin ancestor of the word ( ‘ intuition ’ , from intueor ‘ gaze at ’ ) . |
| 15 | The Georgians tend to start the lifts only when they have to , so if you are first up each lift , you ask them to open the next one ! |
| 16 | after my second week he said I 'd got the gift of the gab or something and I always manage to wind people round my finger and always always get what I want and everything and I always took my way out of shit and I heard this from Matt , you can imagine how upset I was like on my I tell you er I heard about it on the field weekend cos I was here and Matt was here as well and , and I just thought my God I 've been friends with this bloke , we were having baths together when we were like two years old and , and I 've known him all my life and if you ca n't trust him well where does the , where , well you know , who can you trust ? |
| 17 | Workers should first seek to persuade a child , warn him or her of possible restraint , and use such methods only when the child is believed to be at risk of harming him or herself , others , or damaging property . |
| 18 | In theory this sort of transitory demand from a minority of the community should not be allowed to influence selection decisions , but in practice librarians have often found it difficult to ignore long waiting lists entirely when selecting new books . |
| 19 | The best ad vice in order to guard against such a mismatch is to start out by piloting Compact in a small number of schools and to take in more schools only when the Partnership is satisfied that there are sufficient job opportunities available . |
| 20 | Nine months or a year 's time we may have a different animal working in that office and it may well be some person who has who does some J L O work to supplement John and does some project work , now er Jackie has indicated she 'd love to fill that role , and we all know what project she 'd want to be doing it , but er if we do put somebody in that role they will be project officer as well and on the wall will be a year planner and it 'll have things like crucial crew gala day and all these major major things and that particular officer will work quite closely with the new Pat and they 'll be able to take some of the weight off our shoulders so when we start planning for something like crucial crew you can delegate some of the work to the project officer and perhaps the other sergeant Now I know things do n't always work out quite that straightforwardly but you know the last year has been a bastard of a year for us in terms of sickness , four S L O's have been on long-term sick we 've lost Pat for all that time Jed was off for quite a while |
| 21 | These will include a lack of normal social contact and response ; a resistance to change ; an attachment to objects ; a lack of imaginative play ; an inappropriate emotional reaction to events , and frequent tantrums especially when young . |
| 22 | Some children are selective about where they have tantrums especially when parents become distressed by difficult behaviour in public places : on the bus or in the shops are prime target areas . |
| 23 | ‘ These big international companies recognise borders only when they want to use them to set one workforce against another , ’ says one . |
| 24 | The two countries ' governments have also promoted integrated pest management policies , helping farmers to apply pesticides only when necessary and reducing waste . |
| 25 | Dosifey , in his turn , risks much when sung by Nikolai Ohotnikov with a more human , troubled manner than is usual : his Act 1 prayer is beautifully done , but though it is an intelligent idea to seem to lead the Old Believers out of gentleness and a calmly assured faith , the music does ask for the inspired determination that finally takes them into the fire . |
| 26 | Such a technique can be a useful way of bringing two or more parties together when there have been serious misunderstandings which have led to conflict . |
| 27 | Rural Britain is full of retired brigadiers and industrial captains , chaps who got where they were through diplomacy , cunning and an instinct for knocking heads together when the bugle blew . |
| 28 | Economists using " transaction cost analysis " argue that markets are a more efficient way of allocating resources than bureaucratic hierarchies only when products are relatively standard , and when information on outcomes , risks and associated costs is relatively predictable and known . |
| 29 | The arguments over the significance of organic relationships that we normally associate with the debate over Darwin 's Origin of Species were being fought out in the natural-history museums and anatomy schools just when Darwin himself was first beginning to develop his evolutionary theory in the late 1830s . |
| 30 | There were rows of cars outside when I went , and you had to take a ticket with a number when you sat down . |