Example sentences of "that when [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We suppose that when somebody says something to us , it is meant to be informative , has some warrant in fact and is not a deliberate obfuscation or falsehood ( for further detail and discussion see Grice 1975 ; Levinson 1983 ; Sperber and Wilson 1986 ) . |
| 2 | He almost had me going , but my Rule of Life No. 14 is that when somebody offers you the chance of a lifetime , they usually mean theirs , not yours . |
| 3 | No mention about the difficult task that the County Council 's got in living within a budget , a capping level of three hundred and seventy million , and it would be reasonable , in in a , in a , in a sense that when somebody 's proposing opposition to a budget , it gives some indication as to what within the budget , would have to be cut . |
| 4 | What we 're trying to do is to write cricket bats , so that when we throw up an idea and give it a little knock , it might … travel … |
| 5 | So it 's surprising that when we 're staying in a guest house on a walking holiday we 're content just to order ‘ a packed lunch ’ , and hope for the best . |
| 6 | If we find that when we have stopped it , either things are just as bad ( which is improbable ) or that they are still fairly bad , then indeed it will be easier , scientifically easier , to detect any other causes which may be at work . ’ |
| 7 | Everything was fine except that when we were at it I did hear these funny noises coming from somewhere . |
| 8 | We knew in 1985 that when we made our preliminary announcement of our results for the previous financial year that we would become technically insolvent . |
| 9 | This may sound harsh , but it seems to me that when we lost our empire our eyes came down from the horizon and looked at our feet . |
| 10 | And it means that when we cook and eat puddings we can do so wholeheartedly . |
| 11 | Consider , he says , that when we speak of the existence of a sensible thing we mean that we are perceiving it by various of our senses , or could perceive it were we suitably placed . |
| 12 | It is important never to fall into routine ; and it is important that when we make music the audience sees that we enjoy playing well . |
| 13 | ‘ The situation could arise whereby we all own different bits of the same story but we will only know that when we go to one of the television networks with a proposal . ’ |
| 14 | The third principle tells us that when we call God ‘ transcendent ’ we are not saying that God is ‘ above ’ , ‘ outside ’ or ‘ beyond ’ the universe . |
| 15 | The problem may not be so much that when we talk of God we say nothing , as that we say too much — we say things that seem to combine irreconcilable images that can never be focussed upon one ‘ being ’ . |
| 16 | This is that when we look at the evolution of cultural traits and at their survival value , we must be clear whose survival we are talking about . |
| 17 | It means , by contrast , that when we talk of the technological imperative and resource allocation , we must realize that we are talking about the political process , and understand what this involves . |
| 18 | We both altered so much that when we went back to Middleton , Dave Fielding saw it in both of us , ’ she says . |
| 19 | These involve the relationship between X and Y and other variables which might be operating ; they are designed to ensure that when we compare groups which differ on X , we are comparing like with like . |
| 20 | It has been my observation that when we do that , far from disappearing , the difficulties actually seem to grow . |
| 21 | We can at will like Democritus develop this faculty of laughter , so that when we look at our fellowmen we can smile and even in the labyrinth of our own thoughts we can resort to humour and thus our lives can be less drab . |
| 22 | There is a widespread belief that when we are born we are like a blank sheet of paper on which life begins to write . |
| 23 | Then it is likely that when we recover we will not slip back again into that same pit . ’ |
| 24 | And so it came to pass that when we broke up for the summer holidays in 1941 , I set off on my bike to the farmer 's new settlement . |
| 25 | One major consideration with this type of communication is that when we disagree with something that is being communicated , we do not abruptly pull away or jump . |
| 26 | The problem is that when we 're going slowly , the lights flicker . |
| 27 | It suggests that when we have any doubts about our faith we should at once shelve our faith and doubt further . |
| 28 | You should also note that when we talk about scale uses , this does not mean merely running up and down the scales like a machine ; scales are there to show you which notes to use , the idea being that you are supposed to make melodic phrases or lines from them . |
| 29 | But let us assume that when we question him he proves not to have overlooked such dangers . |
| 30 | I have to admit that when we started we were convinced that , like everybody else , we took a risk by investing in the tournament . |