Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wrung bitterly when life seemed Hell . |
| 2 | Unfortunately a cold home , heated only when there are wet clothes around , causes damp and consequently health problems . |
| 3 | He thinks he has saved for his holiday — a fallacy that is exposed only when he tries to redeem those bits of paper against an empty spending account . |
| 4 | Still , it is good to know that British boxers can now command as much money for fighting in London as they once would have received only when topping the bill in the United States . |
| 5 | Reprocessing spent nuclear fuel rods increases the volume of waste and should be undertaken only when necessary for safety reasons . |
| 6 | As for confession , which had been allowed to laymen , this was to be undertaken only when the penitent was in mortal danger : the emphasis now was not on contrition but on absolution which could only be given by a priest . |
| 7 | The final information sheet for the healing phase was completed only when ulcer healing had been confirmed endoscopically , at which time the patient was transferred to the maintenance treatment regimen . |
| 8 | It was guarded only when the children were there : at night it was empty , because there was nothing to steal and no one to be hunted . |
| 9 | Thus , Prest has claimed that the assumption about indirect taxes can be justified only where the supply is perfectly elastic ( leaving aside the case of totally inelastic demand ) , whereas the assumption about income tax can be justified only when factor supplies are completely inelastic . |
| 10 | Intervention of that kind is justified only when the occasions of intervention have been announced in advance so that anyone who is listening will hear and understand . |
| 11 | It is broken only when his neighbour is injured and not before . |
| 12 | The embarrassed silence which followed was broken only when everyone turned to watch as the Simonova 's bay tractor beams started to draw the most recently captured platform through the force field . |
| 13 | Unfortunately there are side effects , and I gather the drug is given only when death is inevitable . |
| 14 | However , where there has been a contested hearing and : ( 1 ) a money judgment payable in one lump sum is ordered , the debt is registered only when the judgment creditor takes steps to enforce it , or issues an oral examination ; ( 2 ) a money judgment ( payable in one lump sum or by instalments ) including an order for costs to be taxed is entered , registration is effected on completion of taxation ; ( 3 ) an application for new trial has been made or an appeal lodged with the Court of Appeal , registration is effected when the new trial ( if ordered ) or appeal have been disposed of . |
| 15 | In other words , if precedent was followed , the package of budget cuts would be attacked piecemeal when it disappeared into the congressional maze ; even though there might be general agreement on the need to cut the budget , vested interests operating through sympathetic members could , one by one , weaken or restore specific cuts . |
| 16 | Many English teams playing in European competitions have fared badly when moving on to water-based pitches , still in short supply at home . |
| 17 | Whether the roles of chairman and chief executive should be split is a secondary issue which can be meaningfully addressed only when the company 's needs have been defined . |
| 18 | A couple will each receive a community charge bill , but their income and savings will be added together when their benefit is worked out . |
| 19 | The colours of certain other species can be modified only when there is a genetic shift in their population . |
| 20 | Heartburn or acid regurgitation were reported only when the oesophageal pH was less than four — that is , the symptom index was always 100% and was independent of endoscopic changes in the oesophageal mucosa and oesophageal function . |
| 21 | Sarcoidosis is very rare in children and intestinal sarcoidosis is extremely rare being reported only when there is active disseminated disease . |
| 22 | Yet identification with the aggressor , even if it may suggest a very early and rudimentary phase in superego development and therefore in internalization of the primal father , can not explain what had to happen next ; for , as we have seen , the crucial turning-point would have come only when aggression within the brother-band became inhibited . |
| 23 | The exceptions are that , unlike riot and violent disorder , the offence can be committed only when the violence is directed towards the person rather than property , and the threats can not be by words alone ; they must be at least accompanied by threatening gestures . |
| 24 | Such information needs to be considered together when selecting the most likely word from all candidates , which implies that the information must be combined in some way . |
| 25 | We have already acknowledged that latent inhibition can be expected only when the CS is identified as being the same as the pre-exposed stimulus . |
| 26 | Electoral reform can , it seems , be realistically expected only when it is initiated by a minority Conservative or Labour government as the price of survival exacted by a party or combination of parties holding the balance of power . |
| 27 | We would have come together when his hullabaloo was over . |
| 28 | We have yet to reach the position where sufficient students appreciate the import of underlying theory and this is why the geomorphologist reaches for his soil augur once theory is mentioned ( Chorley , 1978 ) and perhaps the situation will be resolved only when training in physical geography demands greater familiarity with scientific and mathematical methods and notation . |
| 29 | The devaluation or revaluation of a currency against the dollar was permitted only when a country faced a severe economic crisis . |
| 30 | A change of intention will normally be permitted only when a significant time has elapsed or a material change of circumstances has occurred sufficient to justify the person 's change of intention . |