Example sentences of "when it [is] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Below-the-collarbone lengths tend to drag your face down when it 's already suffering from the effects of gravity . |
| 2 | It 's just there to take the edge off things when it 's not settling on it 's own . |
| 3 | She started to go , and then turned back , saying cheerily , " Just think how nice it will be when it 's all finished with , " and then she actually added , " Well , I must go and feed my puss-puss now , or she 'll be ever so cross . " |
| 4 | I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way . |
| 5 | We talked about how fast you can make a 1.1 MkII Escort run when it 's only firing on three cylinders and how to make it run on three cylinders when it wants to run on just two . |
| 6 | The gesture is likely to be surrounded by much ballyhoo when it is officially announced in April . |
| 7 | With most designs of planting baskets , a hessian or foam liner is required to retain the compost when it is eventually placed in the pond . |
| 8 | North sea operators are given dispensations , not only when there are equivalent or higher alternative arrangements in place but in some cases when it is well known to the authorities that the platforms are operating at a level that would not be allowed if they were completely new platforms . |
| 9 | As TR1 and D1 are not isolated from their heatsinks , these ‘ sinks must NOT touch the diecast screening box when it is finally fitted over them . |
| 10 | The point is this : trust is only applauded when it is not seen to be misplaced . |
| 11 | If you plan to eat in the living room , try to buy as generous a table as possible but one which will look quite in keeping with the room when it is not laid for a meal . |
| 12 | Thus although it is commonly suggested that the notion of certainty is relevant to the analysis of claims to knowledge , but not to the analysis of knowledge itself ( e.g. , in Woozley , 1953 ) , this leaves us with no method of explaining why certainty should be required before one can claim knowledge when it is not required for knowledge itself , i.e. , for the existence of what one is claiming . |
| 13 | This is saying that power becomes dangerous when it is not used with mercy — in other words , when a ruler becomes merciless . |
| 14 | When it is n't fitted with Genuine Porsche Parts . |
| 15 | God 's grace can be as much misused when it is wrongly applied to those who are oversensitive as when it is completely forgotten by those who are insensitive . |
| 16 | Reed warblers are no more likely to eject a model cuckoo 's egg when it is simply added to those already in the nest than they are when a substitution is carried out . |
| 17 | Rule 5 tells us that property passes when it is unconditionally appropriated by one party with the other 's assent . |
| 18 | How can the erotic stirring for Aeneas be ‘ new ’ , when it is explicitly saturated with sentiment for the old , the dead , for ‘ Sicheus ’ ? |
| 19 | Money paid to a Travel Agent is held by him on your behalf until your booking is fully confirmed when it is then held for Amsterdam Travel Service Limited . |
| 20 | But a reply from Darlington Borough Council said : ‘ We can not offer a guaranteed cure for condensation particularly when it is often caused by a tenant 's lifestyle . ’ |
| 21 | The general rule is that an acceptance takes effect when it is actually communicated to the offeror , Entores v. Miles Far Fast Company ( 1955 C.A. ) and Brinkibon Ltd. v. Stahag Stahl ( 1982 H.L. ) . |
| 22 | There may be a third exception to the general rule that an acceptance takes effect when it is actually communicated to the offeror . |
| 23 | God 's grace can be as much misused when it is wrongly applied to those who are oversensitive as when it is completely forgotten by those who are insensitive . |