Example sentences of "when [vb pp] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can be falsified by an observation statement to the effect that some substance , x , did not expand when heated at time t . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | So , when looked at from the point of view of total social production , Dept . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The figures for railways might sound encouraging , but , when looked at in detail , they fall away sharply in the subsequent two years . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | There were no differences between the two groups for any sinister electrocardiographic abnormality , as defined earlier , when looked at either individually or in combination . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | The box also has a sloping front making it easier to use when sat at a desk . |
| 20 | A child was classified as being temporarily absent if he or she was not in the compound when visited at least three times during a week . |
| 21 | This principle of self-help , of ‘ harambee ’ when applied at school level , may emphasise local differences , may lead to some difficulties over matters of replacement and repair , but , because it emphasises the community 's participation in the education of its children , must be accounted a social as well as a financial good . |
| 22 | This occurred despite the system being , from a Western perspective , singly ill-suited for its new air-defence role : inadequate in range , mobility , acceleration , and with engine components which were likely to melt when operated at full power . |
| 23 | Joins on silver or gold objects made with silver and gold solders can not usually be distinguished by radiography because they are approximately the same density as the metals they join , although they can sometimes be identified by colour difference or porosity when seen at high magnification . |
| 24 | Before any submicroscopic helical structures ( such as molecules , microtubules , flagella and viruses ) were known , H. R. Crane , whom I mentioned earlier , said ‘ … any structure that is straight or rod-like when seen at low magnification is probably a structure repeating along a screw axis ( ie , it is a helix ) . |
| 25 | Some aposematic prey that are conspicuous when seen at close quarters appear cryptic when living in family groups and viewed from a distance . |
| 26 | In theory the dazzle explanation makes sense , because the zebra patterning is just about as vivid as it can be , when seen at close quarters , but once again the facts do not support this idea in practice . |
| 27 | When seen at the age of six , he had poor muscle control and could not fasten up his buttons or tie his shoe-laces . |
| 28 | The road tops a hill and commences a long descent to a built-up area that , even when seen at a distance , is obviously a place of greater importance than any yet seen on the journey . |
| 29 | Observers in northern latitudes can never really appreciate how superb the star-clouds really are ; when seen at high altitude they are striking by any standards . |
| 30 | In the novels of the eighteenth century and Regency , the great houses of England occupy the foreground , while its cottages , when seen at all , are merely glimpsed as details in the scenery . |