Example sentences of "when [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | He favours the plain dishes when eating at home , such as a plate of mince , sardines , spaghetti or bacon and eggs . |
| 2 | ‘ Tread ’ is the part of the tyre which comes into contact with the road surface in normal driving , i.e. not when cornering at speed . |
| 3 | It can be falsified by an observation statement to the effect that some substance , x , did not expand when heated at time t . |
| 4 | He was the sort of person who might , after much hard study , have finally learnt two phrases from the language of flowers : the gladiolus , which when placed at the centre of a bouquet indicates by the number of its blooms the hour for which the rendezvous is set ; and the petunia , which announces that a letter has been intercepted . |
| 5 | The physical contact which He must have had with them when reclining at table ( compare John 13:25 ) and which He obviously never dreamed of disallowing ( Luke 7:38 , 39 ) must have made them feel clean and acceptable ’ ( Nolan 1976:39 ) . |
| 6 | The reading undertaken while under stress — while waiting for the dentist , for example , or while sitting in a plane during turbulence , or when fatigued at the end of the day — is usually of this order . |
| 7 | Audiences might have enjoyed reinterpretations , as when Odling at the same period suggested that phlogiston was an anticipation of the idea of chemical energy , rather than a non-substance . |
| 8 | More than 12,000 people have been treated in America and elsewhere and some have complained of glare , especially from car headlights when driving at night . |
| 9 | When driving at speed , the engineers noted that headwinds and crosswinds caused the blades to lift off the windscreen . |
| 10 | The bond equivalent yield is the coupon of a bond which when trading at par would give the same yield as a discount security . |
| 11 | All footprinting experiments were performed at 37°C in glutamate buffer with 200 µM cAMP ; RNA polymerase was at 75 nM and CRP when added at 40 nM . |
| 12 | Standard curves were obtained using synthetic platelet activating factor ( Bachem , Switzerland ) , which produced typical dose dependant platelet aggregation when added at 0.5–50 pg/tube . |
| 13 | The financial constraints on Ayr racecourse are reflected in much-reduced prize-money for today 's Scottish Champion Hurdle , which features a rematch between Fidway , fourth in the Champion Hurdle , and Granville Again , who fell when challenging at the second-last . |
| 14 | When climbing at full throttle , the 2,300 rpm or so of your fixed-pitch propeller probably delivers less than 75 per cent . |
| 15 | We are retaining our Medau identity when appearing at prestigious events and thanks to the generosity of one of our Vice-Presidents ( ‘ Medau 's Grandmama ’ as she calls herself ) Peggy Secord , the Team will appear in new Medau Blue outfits at the CCPR Festival at the Royal Albert Hall in 1985 . |
| 16 | ARGUMENTS against electoral reform look rather threadbare when looked at against the reality that our constitution has already failed to prevent ideologies of the extreme Right and Left from seizing power at both local and national levels . |
| 17 | We must look at flowers with a new intensity and from different angles for the flowers when looked at thus can themselves inspire the observer . |
| 18 | So , when looked at from the point of view of total social production , Dept . |
| 19 | The reasonable conclusion is that one and the same thing is ‘ called a sensation when considered merely in itself , and a quality when looked at in relation to any one of the numerous objects , the presence of which to our organs excites in our minds that among various other sensations or feelings . |
| 20 | An abacus uses human gall-stones on taut human sinew , the rocking horse has a semi-skeletal head , a set of wooden toy soldiers all have subtle mutations when looked at for a second time , and so on . |
| 21 | The metropolitan areas ( both GLC and MCCs ) consisted of strong boroughs or districts and relatively weak strategic authorities when looked at in terms of the services provided . |
| 22 | The relatively low cost of long distance inter-city bus services , combined with their comfort and strict passenger control has , for instance , made them a highly competitive force when looked at from the viewpoint of older or economy conscious passengers . |
| 23 | The figures for railways might sound encouraging , but , when looked at in detail , they fall away sharply in the subsequent two years . |
| 24 | If I may anticipate a point which , I know from experience , the hon. Member for Oldham , West ( Mr. Meacher ) may in due course seek to make , those increases mean that , when looked at alongside the extra help that we have made available in the past four years through income-related benefits for the less well-off families with children , which will amount to some £600 million next year , total expenditure on help to families next year will be higher than if we had simply increased child benefit each year since 1987-88 . |
| 25 | There were no differences between the two groups for any sinister electrocardiographic abnormality , as defined earlier , when looked at either individually or in combination . |
| 26 | However , it should perhaps be made clear that for most people with schizophrenia , their brains appear completely normal as far as can be made out when looked at under the microscope . |
| 27 | The seeds of herbs may be dispersed by large mammals , which eat and pass plant material in bulk : many such seeds have up until recently been considered to exhibit merely ‘ gravity ’ dispersal , when looked at in isolation from the rest of the plant . |
| 28 | However , when interviewed at a 4-month follow-up , more of the experimental group showed overall improvement in their social problems ( 70 per cent ) than the control group ( 53 per cent ) . |
| 29 | The box also has a sloping front making it easier to use when sat at a desk . |
| 30 | Frequently it is found that an accident is the result of a combination of adverse circumstances , each of which is normally containable but when occurring at the same time can lead to disaster . |