Example sentences of "when it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they who are elected to legislate for our society should unfortunately decide to pass a disastrous measure of legislation that will allow the public promotion of contraception and an access hitherto unlawful to the means of contraception , they ought to know clearly the meaning of their action , when it is judged by the norms of objective morality and the certain consequences of such a law … |
| 2 | When it is done , he wrote , it should look as though it had always been there . |
| 3 | as if my life had stopped when the glass was started and will only start again when it is done . |
| 4 | When it is too late to go on and too late to start again . |
| 5 | At the other end of the tourist season , Britain has a log-jam of holiday weekends , particularly if Easter is late , when it is followed closely by May Day and not much later by the spring bank holiday . |
| 6 | The company is expected to offer shares to its employees when it is allowed to do so , and a Stock Market flotation could follow in ‘ two , three or four years ' time ’ according to Mr Smith . |
| 7 | When it is electro-plated with silver it is called electro-plated nickel silver ( EPNS ) . |
| 8 | In the chasse , messieurs , mesdames , the beast is at its most dangerous when it is cornered . |
| 9 | A tail-wheel with a rubber tyre will resist skidding sideways over tarmac , but it will not grip quite so well when it is bouncing over rough grass . |
| 10 | Inevitably there are times and places when it is not possible to have a proper discussion on AIDS . |
| 11 | For a long time it has been known that heavy drinking during pregnancy can badly affect a baby 's development so that when it is born , its face and head are deformed and it is mentally backward . |
| 12 | possess any secret official code word , or password , or sketch , plan , model , article , note , document or information which relates to or is used in a prohibited place or anything in such a place , or which has been made or obtained in contravention of this Act , or which has been entrusted in confidence to him by any person holding office under Her Majesty or which he has obtained or to which he has had access owing to his position as a person who is or has been employed under a person who holds or has held such an office or contract — [ and who ] ( a ) communicates the code word , pass word , sketch , plan , model , article , note , document , or information to any person other than a person to whom he is authorised to communicate it , or a person to whom it is in the interest of the State his duty to communicate it , or ( aa ) uses the information in his possession for the benefit of any foreign power or in any other manner prejudicial to the safety or interests of the State , or ( b ) retains the sketch , plan , model , article , note , or document in his possession or control when he has no right to retain it or when it is contrary to his duty to retain it , or fails to comply with all directions issued by lawful authority with regard to the return or disposal thereof , or … |
| 13 | Actually , providing your timing is reasonable , this is not too dangerous , because you will be interrupting the attacking technique close to its source , when it is at its weakest . |
| 14 | When it is used in competition a score nearly always follows . |
| 15 | Is n't there something suspicious about making the performance of intentional actions the acid test of objective knowledge when it is quite possible that young babies have a very rich knowledge about the unseen existence of objects but that they lack the capacity to co-ordinate this knowledge with their motor skills at object removal ? |
| 16 | Neurons do not individually have the property of consciousness , consciousness emerges when a large number of neurons are interacting in the right kind of way ; just as speed is a property not of any single component of a car , but an emergent property of the whole system when it is operating in an appropriate way . |
| 17 | A pronunciation of a word is said to be assembled when it is built up piecemeal from its component letters . |
| 18 | For instance the strength of the priming effect suggests that covert recognition reflects the otherwise intact operation of the normal face recognition system when it is cut off from some centre of consciousness ( Young and De Haan , 1988 ) rather than the operation of a separate , subsidiary face recognition system . |
| 19 | In its most basic form the technique involves merely an outline , or when it is filled in , a silhouette ; but of course it can be much more elaborate than that . |
| 20 | As the critic Ernest Newman wrote : ‘ Music can become dance when it is subjected to repetition , multiplication and abstraction using steps , poses and gestures with pattern and expression to appeal to both the eye and the intellect ’ ( see also page 47 ) . |
| 21 | They have to be poured with caution and skill to keep the slight yeast sediment out of the glass and the publican has to rotate his stock carefully to make sure the beer is served when it is in the peak of condition . |
| 22 | In fact the chronicle succeeds in having its cake and eating it , all the way back to the stir caused by Nicholas Stavrogin 's arrival in ‘ our town ’ , when it is recorded among other things that he seemed to know a lot — ‘ But of course it did n't take much knowledge to astonish us ’ . |
| 23 | This does not prevent him from honouring English writing when it is honourable ; for instance Binyon 's Dante , Rouse 's Homer , the early books of Adrian Stokes , and the poems of Basil Bunting . |
| 24 | How can the erotic stirring for Aeneas be ‘ new ’ , when it is explicitly saturated with sentiment for the old , the dead , for ‘ Sicheus ’ ? |
| 25 | The real criticism of Mr Pound is not to be directed against his theory as such , but rather at the hasty headlong fashion in which he presents it , at the logical confusion of his intellect when it is not performing the task which is specifically his own , that task being poetry . |
| 26 | Eurotunnel , the Anglo-French consortium that will operate the twin-rail tunnel when it is scheduled to enter service in June 1993 , shocked the City by announcing that costs had risen by £2.2bn from an original estimate of £4.8bn , with the 50-kilometre tunnel still only one-quarter built . |
| 27 | An awareness of old history encourages caution when it is appropriated for a contemporary cause . |
| 28 | I enjoy my Stag most when it is loafing along in overdrive ( the DIY box has longer legs than the automatic ) , exhaust burbling as only a twin-pipe V8 can burble . |
| 29 | The planning officer is an employee of the council who handles the application up to the point when it is put to the planning committee , made up of elected councillors , for a decision . |
| 30 | The sun has chased away the shadows of the night , but what , when it is night again ? ’ |