Example sentences of "which [is] [Wh adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of that 12-month period , a recruit qualifies as a Senior Aircraftman or woman ( SAC acting corporal ) , before earning the rank of Substantive Corporal , which is when the recruit is eligible for a specialisation course . |
| 2 | In the mornings Elaine can not get up before 9am — which is when her care assistant starts work . |
| 3 | The bad news is that the side finishing second in this group could well meet the Soviets in the opening phase of the knockout stage , which is when the World Cup begins in earnest . |
| 4 | His evidence : more and more babies were born to unmarried women during the past 30 years — which is when social-welfare spending shot up . |
| 5 | ‘ His work is about narcissism , but not the way we normally use that term , which is when someone is narcissistic , it means they 're self-involved . |
| 6 | If you wish to discuss any of the above in private , please feel free to call me — after one , which is when I rise , and before four , which is when I begin work . |
| 7 | If you wish to discuss any of the above in private , please feel free to call me — after one , which is when I rise , and before four , which is when I begin work . |
| 8 | Which is when I heard the car . |
| 9 | Dryness , a dry , hacking , barking cough in cold air , which is when they feel most uncomfortable ; copious expectoration of mucus in the warm which produces a general amelioration . |
| 10 | We might surrender to fear , which is when it will eat us completely , leaving us paralysed and unable to act or think clearly . |
| 11 | There is also the danger of a stroke which is when a blood clot occurs in the brain and the blood supply is cut off . |
| 12 | Men only seem able to do it when they are in their teens — which is when they peak sexually . |
| 13 | A perm makes the hair more porous but it is the rinsing that causes the hair to swell , which is when the damage is likely to occur . |
| 14 | Then they came back later in their Volkswagen — which is when Bob found the bug they 'd attached to the back of the TV set . ’ |
| 15 | They wake you at five a.m. , which is when I 'm often going to bed , and you 're so knackered by mid-morning that you doze all day . ’ |
| 16 | G. and I trek round to the sampling point for the discharge to the canal for the cooling water , which is when we see the plant is closed . |
| 17 | So the point of the maxim that actions speak louder than words is not that people never use non-linguistic actions to communicate ( which is when they may be deliberately misleading ) , but that language is much less often used to do anything else . |
| 18 | So this poor woman is er anaesthetized , intubated , which is when they put the tube down the throat and connect you up to the life-support machine , and then she 's supposed to be being maintained in her unconscious state with inhalation anaesthesia , in other words they give her er gas and air to breathe to keep her unconscious . |
| 19 | There is the Laundry Room on the second floor , scene of trysts and quickies and what the team here call knee-tremblers , which is when you do it standing up . |
| 20 | In fact , the biblical date for the creation is not that far off the date of the end of the last ice age , which is when modern humans seem first to have appeared . |
| 21 | She jumped a bit at the unexpected prezzy , but Cathedral pigeons are raised on bread and pretty soon my bird was tucking in , which is when I followed up — a bit harder — with a handful of precinct gravel . |
| 22 | Then I imagined Lewis , boots tied round his neck , for some reason suddenly resembling Shane MacGowan , skinning her jeans off , not me , and he turned into Rodney Ritchie , at home with his parents , unpicking the individual stitches of her jeans with a tiny knife , and the Ritchies all wore badly-fitting jeans and had denim curtains and denim carpets and denim light shades and denim wallpaper with the little rivets left on like poppers so you could just press paintings and photos onto the wall … except that Mr Ritchie looked like Claude Levi-Strauss , which is when I think I started to get confused . |
| 23 | ‘ Elephants do have long memories , ’ Daphne says , ‘ and they go into a period of deep grieving that will often last three or four months , which is when the really intensive care comes in . |
| 24 | For example , if original bearing was 030° , then twice that is 060° , which is when you stop timing . |
| 25 | which is when you 've been there for a for genuinely over an hour and a half . |
| 26 | Lacan also refers to the subject 's appeal to the Other , which is when the subject demands a guarantee of absolute recognition from another , that goes beyond what the other human being can offer as a response . |
| 27 | Other cutoff points have also been prevalent : quickening , for instance , which is when a woman first becomes aware of fetal movement . |
| 28 | I have to avoid the last period on the second Friday in October , which is when the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist celebrates ‘ the rich goodness of God 's vegetables ’ . |
| 29 | It 's it 's not if you do n't reach seven thousand pound it 's not a a failure situation , it 's just that 's we would be very happy to have that because the following year which is when no expenses come up for you know no no production costs come from erm then er that 's that 's the sort of profit we need to calculate for the |
| 30 | tell me about taking bearings , what do you do , let's give you an example , of some bearings to take , erm , and then you can tell me what you 're doing , so there 's a point there , and we 'll call that erm , P , just to be awkward , now let's say what we 'll do , this is what we 'll d , this is a typical problem in fact , erm , I 'll even draw that line on for you to start with , yeah , here 's the problem , a ship is sailing due North , okay , and when it 's at the point of A it takes a bearing on the lighthouse , so the lighthouse is somewhere , do n't know where it is , but bearing of L from A is forty five degrees , and the bearing of L from B , which is when the ship has sailed on a lot further |