Example sentences of "to be [adj] when it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may also prove to be useful when it comes to breeding , a point that will be covered later in the series . |
| 2 | It helps the illusion of expertise if you give precise measurements and proportions in recipes , but , alas , I do n't believe this to be possible when it comes to vinaigrette . |
| 3 | For all your alleged love for the poor and the oppressed , you seem to think that the public ought to be selfish when it votes . |
| 4 | Gravel tidies have been found to be invaluable when it comes to fish digging . |
| 5 | Grattan 's Parliament in Ireland , furthermore , can never have been sovereign or , if it was , then the Parliament of Great Britain itself ceased to be sovereign when it established it . |
| 6 | To such people the world abroad too often resembled a sewer down which credulous Americans were persuaded to pour money only to be surprised when it disappeared without trace . |
| 7 | Now how a man who works on can think there 's anything funny about species I just ca n't understand erm but there it is. erm well , suppose , however , that in my view wrongly one did suppose that there was something erm in this sort of idea of the decoupling between the processes which we observed in single populations and erm the sort of mechanisms leading to large scale evolution , what kinds of processes are held to be important when it comes to large scale evolution events ? |
| 8 | You 'll have to be careful when it comes to choosing a wife . |
| 9 | I ask the House to be careful when it has one of its own Members in its charge . |
| 10 | Other linguists imply even more clearly that there is no difference in meaning between the two versions of the infinitive by claiming that to is meaningless when it precedes the bare infinitive form . |