Example sentences of "[adj] when [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point is that the experts were convinced Leakey was wrong when they could not possibly have known this to be the case In his rollicking ‘ Steady-state cosmology revisited ’ , Sir Fred Hoyle recounts what occurred when a paper submitted by his fellow astrophysicist Sir Hermann Bondi was set before that august body , the Royal Astronomical Society . |
| 2 | ‘ Because he is rich and he lives on a desert island like this when he could be in Paris … ’ |
| 3 | Why should we come to the Chamber to be bored rigid when we could be bored rigid in the comparative comfort of our own offices ? |
| 4 | I commented to Miklós that I had little hope of the New World solving the problems of the Old when it could not face up to its own difficulties . |
| 5 | This result was interpreted in terms of meaningfulness ' by Matsumiya , Tagliasco , Lombroso and Goodglass ( 1972 ) who showed in a separate study that inter-hemispheric asymmetry was greatest when subjects had to understand each stimulus word , and minimal when they could ignore the semantic content . |
| 6 | Robbie was glad when she could clear away and wash up , relieved when Fen did not offer to help . |
| 7 | Would you give them a hundred thousand pounds worth of life cover for a shorter period , looking at them making up the difference perhaps later when they could afford it , or would you give them initially a reduced amount of life cover , say eighty thousand , for the eighteen years ? |
| 8 | Food always tasted better when I could not see it . |
| 9 | I was ten when we could . |
| 10 | He became concerned when he could not locate him on the premises , because Mr Jowett was due to take over the lambing . |
| 11 | It may seem that the above methods are too time-consuming when one could just as well take every nth name from the list for one 's sample . |
| 12 | It was difficult when she could hardly speak at all , but she could n't let a statement like that go unchallenged . |
| 13 | She got very worried when he could n't even lift his head . |
| 14 | And his mother , anxious when she could not make contact with him , reported him missing nine days later . |
| 15 | An aquarium only became necessary when I could not put a name to even some of the commoner intertidal fish , in the short time that the tide was out . |
| 16 | And er she says that she did n't want summat expensive when she could be buying summat for kitchen , you know , like a microwave or summat like that . |
| 17 | Their suffering is totally unnecessary when they could easily be slaughtered near the farm of production . |
| 18 | It was shameful when he could so easily have afforded to show compassion . |
| 19 | But why go to all that trouble to make a 2D character appear solid when you could generate it on a computer in 3D in the first place ? |
| 20 | She went on : ‘ I felt I 'd only believe I was pregnant when I could see it . |
| 21 | You 'll be surprised when you could need it . |