Example sentences of "when [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | When eating on your own or with the family , serve a variety of crudités ( raw vegetables ) soaked in lemon juice or with a little reduced calorie mayonnaise as a dip . |
| 2 | When consulted on the alterations , the ladies considered that it was wiser to spend on greens and approaches but ‘ if on the clubhouse then for the caretaker ’ — i.e. a larger kitchen and scullery ’ , although they admitted they would like more basins and another w.c . |
| 3 | Watercolours of a very delicate or atmospheric style will exhibit greater subtlety when painted on Hot Pressed surfaces . |
| 4 | Even when cornering on a slippery surface . |
| 5 | Condition ( 1 ) is regarded as necessary because it is clearly not legitimate to conclude that all metals expand when heated on the basis of just one observation of a metal bar 's expansion , say , any more than it is legitimate to conclude that all Australians are drunkards on the basis of one observation of an intoxicated Australian . |
| 6 | Crew comfort is greatly improved as a result , and Challenger is a much more stable gun platform when firing on the move . |
| 7 | Moonrakers Guest House Ltd disputed liability to account for VAT on deposits when received on the basis that the company treated such deposits as belonging to the customer until either cancellation or the time of letting . |
| 8 | A further consequence of benefit to employers of this nuclear-family form , is that it places women in a weak position when competing on the labour market . |
| 9 | With the double-width light on and knitting tuck , the stitch pattern is the same as when knitting on every needle without the light on . |
| 10 | Thus , for example , various books on growing different flowers ( such as roses , chrysanthemums , dahlias and sweet peas ) should be close to one another when arranged on shelves in accordance with the classification scheme . |
| 11 | When pressed on this point , a typical response was : ‘ Why not ? |
| 12 | When pressed on this , one member of the team assured us that schools were by no means excluded from consideration on these grounds , but we may speculate that members ' own positions regarding comprehensive reorganisation will have played some part . |
| 13 | A ‘ Mills and Boon Romance ’ is defined in editorial terms more by virtue of what it is not , than by its own narrative conventions , which are unstated ; ‘ we reject anything that is obviously not a romance ’ , the PR office states , but when pressed on what constitutes ‘ romance ’ , their response is ‘ no murder , blood , guts or gore , and nothing pornographic either ; there 's nothing romantic about pornography ’ . |
| 14 | And yet when pressed on any of these issues he says , ‘ I do n't want to say anything . |
| 15 | The question doubtless uppermost in the vendors ' mind will be price and the purchaser 's response when pressed on this point should be carefully considered in advance . |
| 16 | Mr Lamont , when pressed on this last night at a meeting of the Conservative back-bench 1922 committee , justified it on environmental grounds , saying that the election pledge had been overtaken by a commitment at the Rio conference in June to cut Britain 's fuel consumption . |
| 17 | For many years , however , he was unpredictable and sometimes violent , and his conversation became rambling and incoherent when touching on the subject of his delusions . |
| 18 | Thus , when drawing on evidence from Wales and Yorkshire which dealt with local as opposed to national forms ( i.e. communal traditions of language and dialect , pride in place , manners and customs , speech , song and dance , acting , and craftsmanship ) , the Committee is able to find a place for them within their overall vision of Englishness , by saying : " We believe it to be in the highest interests of English culture that local patriotism , with all that this entails , should be encouraged " . |
| 19 | Another factor influencing this selection is the observation that variables which are nearly integer-valued often become integers , when branching on other variables . |
| 20 | When calculated on an appropriate pollen sum , they suggest that there was never any extensive , continuous forest cover . |
| 21 | It would seem reasonable to call a drug an analgesic for a rat if it delays the time when the rat licks its feet when parked on a hot plate . |
| 22 | ‘ The appearance of the bird when walking on the beach is very handsome . |
| 23 | Sue Baker , Observer motoring correspondent , has a theory : ‘ So often , when driving on a motorway , you see strings of cars in the outside lane , driving too fast and too close , the drivers trying to intimidate one another . |
| 24 | During a bright moon , headlights were kept off — otherwise they remained on only when driving on the road alone . |
| 25 | Police said last night that they were treating the incident as attempted murder and warned all women motorists to keep doors locked when driving on their own . |
| 26 | The 100-share index was 43 points up at 2,436.5 when trading on the Stock Exchange officially closed at 4.30 pm , reversing the fall of the past week . |
| 27 | Now that we have considered the type of information which the law deems as illegitimate for stock market trading , let us move on and look at some of the circumstances when trading on the basis of such information is illegal . |
| 28 | While the approach taken by the US courts has been much more progressive than that which has been adopted in Britain , it is nonetheless clear that in neither jurisdiction do directors owe a duty of disclosure when trading on impersonal stock exchange markets . |
| 29 | In 1949 , Jean Cocteau , the poet , dramatist and film director , wrote a letter to the American people when returning on a plane from New York to France . |
| 30 | When climbing on rough rock I reverse the jacket to protect the Pertex layer from tearing ; although I 've been surprised just how robust the garment is , given a total weight of just 600g . |