Example sentences of "when [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | And all Mr Clinton 's supporters look nervous when reminded that California 's Proposition 166 , which tried to make firms pay for health-insurance for all their employees , was shot down in flames last November on the grounds that it would destroy jobs . |
| 2 | When remarking that it was to have an entrance from Whitehall Road , we may recall the strenuous objections by the Corporation when the B.E.T . |
| 3 | There is no requirement to identify the other person but this may be advantageous in certain circumstances , e.g. when suspected that a defence may be used that there was no other person . |
| 4 | In terms of this critical pulsatance , at pulsatances above and below it respectively , the attenuation constant and phase shift per section are given by The fact that the transfer function becomes when establishes that , in the pass band , the output signal of a section lags in phase behind the input signal to that section . |
| 5 | A B Kay is entirely correct when advocating that the medical establishment is obligated to take action that is in the best interest of the general public . |
| 6 | On one occasion during field-work a father who needed to be present while his young son was being questioned at the station instructed his child to ‘ Tell these f'ing black bastards nothin' ’ , and when told that that was a lovely way to bring up his son replied , ‘ Aye , and I 'll keep bringing him up that way ’ ( FN 11/7/87 , p. 9 ) . |
| 7 | In The last Country Houses , a book which documents the death of the old tradition of hospitality , Clive Aslett records the response of a nouveau riche lady when told that some pleasant people lived near the rural seat her husband had just acquired . |
| 8 | When told that the total would be about 170 , he asked if this was not ‘ pitifully inadequate as compared with an annual enrolment of housing applicants of 400-odd , not to mention a backlog of 2,000 ’ . |
| 9 | John Hasted , professor of physics at Birkbeck College , University of London , and an investigator of the paranormal , was very wary when told that Shaw and Edwards had been fakers ‘ It 's possible that it 's true , ’ he told New Scientist Asked about his conclusions from his own work he said ‘ I accept that there are , shall we say , pulses of paranormal action which take the form of mini-acoustical shock waves . |
| 10 | As incumbent of Ayrshire 's oldest Earldom , Glencairn was reluctant to agree to Macrae 's suggestion that he should marry a commoner , especially one of such lowly background , but abandoned his scruples when told that Elizabeth 's dowry was to be £45,000 in diamonds and the estate of Ochiltree which Macrae had bought for £25,000 . |
| 11 | ‘ Her clothes are n't good , ’ she said of Madame Mayer , when told that she is rich . |
| 12 | If he was offered a 16-week repayment period for instance , instead of the 15-week ones , with £1.99 instalments ( ‘ Gosh , that 's under £2 a week ! ’ ) , he might be frankly incredulous when told that the rate of charge , instead of 6.6 per cent with the over-£2 instalments , was now 44.4 per cent . |
| 13 | He regards PR as a crucial issue and when told that one of its main criticisms is that it produces indecisive government , he came out with that wonderfully ironic comment — ‘ like the weak old government in Switzerland and in Germany and nearly the whole of Europe ’ . |
| 14 | Similarly when told that only if he returned all his tournament winnings would he get to heaven William replied in exasperation that it was impossible . |
| 15 | The Magistrate , for example , when told that Mrs Wright had been taken ill , showed no interest whatsoever , and when further informed , a little later , that she had given birth , observed dryly : " I 'm surprised that she had the energy . " |
| 16 | When offered the leadership for which he had fought so hard , Law almost lost It by his apparent doubt ; in his speech of acceptance he spoke at length of his unfitness for the job ; when told that he was now a great man and must learn to behave like one , he replied " If ! am a great man , then a good many great men must have been frauds . " |
| 17 | When told that his two years at sea did not count , he resignedly attended his medical only to discover that his hearing was impaired and he was declared unfit for military service . |
| 18 | In 1978 Lord Denning MR acceded to such a request when told that the Church of Scientology of California felt that in his court there was an unconscious influence operating adversely to the church . |
| 19 | Stephani Cook , writing about her experiences in hospital , describes how when told that she had to have yet another in a series of operations , describes how she cried like a child : |
| 20 | When told that Robertson 's condition in hospital was ‘ stable ’ , Clarke replied with a flash of humour that the news was better than expected . |
| 21 | Writers can excoriate poor persons secure in the knowledge that , unless a trade union or well-wisher finances the action , it is unlikely to be pursued : even a journalist as senior as Adam Raphael has quailed when told that the legal cost of suing another newspaper to vindicate his reputation could be as high as £250,000 if the case went to trial . |
| 22 | And why Jimmy looked so pleased when told that the General Election deposit was £500 , and not £1,000 as he 'd supposed . |
| 23 | Ballesteros explained that at a meeting of top players at Wentworth last year he had pushed the idea of more match-play golf and when told that American captain Tom Watson was also planning on the same lines he said : ‘ He copied me . ’ |
| 24 | When told that he was to become the recipient of the Peace Award , the normally eloquent Mr Gorbachov said ‘ words fail at such moments , I am moved ’ . |
| 25 | It would seem to stand more peacefully now when considering that there used to be much bustle and slamming of doors , the shouts and cries of a houseful of children and the ailing Reverend Tennyson . |
| 26 | These fundamental values should not be jettisoned simply because marriage is a factor in the case , as indeed the Court of Appeal affirmed when holding that a husband may be convicted of kidnapping his wife . |
| 27 | Christopher Martin-Jenkins succinctly summed up the situation when commenting that in less than a year England had been outplayed by the entire subcontinent . |
| 28 | Although ignimbrites can be unconsolidated deposits , the pyroclasts are frequently so hot when deposited that the contained gas is expelled and the individual particles are welded together to form a compact , impervious rock . |
| 29 | Mitzi , who was Brown Owl 's assistant , told them when asked that there was no limit to the number of bridesmaids a bride could have , but that two or three was most usual , for various reasons that she explained . |
| 30 | If , when hearing that I have been stilled at last they stand at |