Example sentences of "[conj] when it [is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Except when it is actually feeding ( it eats bacteria ) , the paramoecium is in constant motion , frequently bumping into obstacles in its path and , when it does so , reversing by switching the beat of the cilia on one side . |
| 2 | Both will fire more when an edge is placed slightly off-centre than when it is symmetrically placed , an on-centre cell when there is more light than dark edge in the field , and the off-centre cell when the conditions are reversed . |
| 3 | Constant rain , and when it 's not raining it looks as if it 's about to . |
| 4 | I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way . |
| 5 | Ah , but when it 's actually done it 'll be connected wo n't it ? |
| 6 | But it 's alright just you know knowing about that , but when it 's actually going to happen to you , it 's something totally different . |
| 7 | A few small specimens will soon clear a tank of unsightly algae , but when it is all gone , and the snails have grown , the plants will suffer . |
| 8 | God 's grace can be as much misused when it is wrongly applied to those who are oversensitive as when it is completely forgotten by those who are insensitive . |