Example sentences of "[vb mod] be when " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example : to move from one foot to two in any glissade , it can and should be when first studied a smooth gliding movement as it is when Albrecht gently draws Giselle to sit on the bench before telling her of his love . |
| 2 | Pregnant ladies and elderly people should be careful when eating soft cheese , as they should be when exercising . |
| 3 | I hope for your sake that those who provide them for you are as careful in following the rules as you should be when creating your own . |
| 4 | I wondered why this should be when Granny was so particular , but I was soon roused from my thoughts by Mum . |
| 5 | It was the shape of a helmet , the way you always think cops ' heads should be when they take off their helmets . |
| 6 | That principle dictated the choice as the Prime Minister 's successor of a leading figure in the party , but it did not indicate precisely who the appointee should be when the Conservative party was in office and there were competing claimants for the succession . |
| 7 | Why that should be when we know change is inevitable is something I shall have to ask my daughter . |
| 8 | Maybe we should be when your budget for all nations have plenty of food and plenty of resources should automatically make this sort of money and food available to nations without it . |
| 9 | Although it is of course true that people can be greatly helped by having the opportunity to talk about their impending loss , ( both their worries about it and their wish to talk about it together with the person who is dying ) this must be when the time feels right for the people involved and not when the helper , professional or lay , deems it appropriate . |
| 10 | The ideal must be when the picture and the sound make a complete agreement . |
| 11 | There was a yet greater strain upon the marriage , as there must be when one of the couple discovers and surrenders to the appeal of an all-prevailing fanaticism . |
| 12 | must be when I looked at it they 'd been grown in the field , because it 's burnt , you can see it 's got this reddish muck where all the mud down |
| 13 | it must be when she 's coming . |
| 14 | The organisation that calls the general election closest is the one that is most attractive to Tesco or Finefare or whomever it might be when they want to discover what the public thinks of their baked beans . |
| 15 | Again , it is surely relevant to ask what the cumulative effects on boys might be when responding to a literature which , unlike the world outside the novel , is populated entirely by the masculine . |
| 16 | It might be when I get used to it . |
| 17 | It must have been terrible for you all these years , but what a day it 'll be when Terry comes home , wo n't it ? ’ |
| 18 | If someone comes to ask you to move your car forward a bit so he can park his 10 ton truck which is completely blocking the road , it 'll be when you 've lost the car keys . |
| 19 | Oh I think that the well more or less kind of like what it 'll be when we were young . |
| 20 | Now how you 'll be when you 're seen as being more of an adapter , or more of an innovator . |
| 21 | You 'll be when they 're gone . |
| 22 | He might have listened to complaints of how stifling an aunt could be when one wanted to wander around London alone , or how one got sick in Venice or Paris , but he could only touch an elbow with mock sympathy or pat a sea-sprayed hand . |
| 23 | Alejandro was so staggered by Fantasma 's progress that he decided to waive his prejudice against greys ; not so much that he was prepared to get on her back , but he spent a considerable time wondering how he could flog Fantasma to a rich patron without them finding out how vicious and unmanageable the mare could be when she was away from Luke . |
| 24 | The afternoon job , grass boy , seemed to offer a wonderful chance to make amends , to show how responsible I could be when the opportunity arose … to show my initiative … |
| 25 | But the detective superintendent was only too aware of how double-edged a weapon irony could be when deployed against a bunch of journalists . |
| 26 | Wycliffe had no idea how frightening he could be when his whole personality was concentrated on an interrogation . |
| 27 | I looked across to where he sat hunched like a crow over carrion , and thought what a cantankerous old sod he could be when he chose . |
| 28 | She already knew how very bull-headed he could be when he was going after something he wanted . |
| 29 | As well , the rest of the house was as near to immaculate as a house could be when it contained three teenage boys and a busy man . |
| 30 | Another effect could be when the debtor falls to pay and the amount has to be charged to the profit and loss account as a bad debt . |