Example sentences of "when it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even a weekly visit by a local authority home help — when it was finally arranged — was not enough . |
| 2 | Even a weekly visit by a local authority home help when it was finally arranged was not enough . |
| 3 | Many people say that sex is most fulfilling when it expresses the commitment , care , security and understanding of an exclusive friendship . |
| 4 | When is an item worth over £60,000 ? ? ? … when it 's a prize in an Amnesty raffle . |
| 5 | Eluard 's soaring ‘ lyricism ’ helped to perpetuate a tyranny , and is the kind of thing which led Kundera to employ the title The Lyric Age for the work which first came to him in the mid-Fifties , and which his publishers prevailed on him to retitle Life is elsewhere when it was completed in 1969 . |
| 6 | I reviewed Take a girl like you when it came out , and took pains to convey how much I enjoyed and admired its incendiariness . |
| 7 | Years of scholarship and so many contentious performances mean that the character is now regarded as ‘ difficult ’ , when it can in fact benefit from the freshness and vitality of the natural actor , who will quickly find the comic qualities of the man as well as his serious side . |
| 8 | When it comes to acting people will always say ‘ Do n't — you 're going to get hurt ’ , and of course you wo n't believe them . |
| 9 | But when it comes down to concrete moral judgements and commitments , such abstractions will be found interpreted in opposing ways . |
| 10 | If they who are elected to legislate for our society should unfortunately decide to pass a disastrous measure of legislation that will allow the public promotion of contraception and an access hitherto unlawful to the means of contraception , they ought to know clearly the meaning of their action , when it is judged by the norms of objective morality and the certain consequences of such a law … |
| 11 | When it does , it tends to be a reaction to perceived injustice , such as internment without trial , or the conviction of a son by a sole judge in a trial held in total secrecy and on the evidence of unseen witnesses , or a simple case of one 's house being badly mauled by careless soldiers searching for arms . |
| 12 | As the ruling only applies to the institutions named , SPUC intends to get further banning orders made against other groups and named individuals as and when it becomes ‘ necessary ’ ( Irish Times , 30 Dec. 1986 ) . |
| 13 | When it fell to Dukes to introduce the second stage of the Bill empowering the referendum , he was forced to address himself specifically to the bishops ' arguments in their letter ( text , Irish Times , 15 May 1986 ) . |
| 14 | The Church of Ireland appears to have had this in mind when it invited the well-known English Roman catholic marriage consultant , Dr Jack Dominian , to provide a report on divorce for the Church of Ireland General Synod . |
| 15 | For when it comes it is more violent , more annihilating , more interminable than I can remember it , this feeling in the pit of the stomach , this physical pain and physical desire to retch , to want to get rid of something , of everything , to want to make all that is inside emerge and disappear , drain away , mingle with the rest of the detritus of the world , but it is not only physical , a physical sensation , he wrote , it is physical but it is also something else , not moral , not psychological , not spiritual , but something else , something other than the purely physical . |
| 16 | Even when it speaks of stripping it still adds . |
| 17 | When it is done , he wrote , it should look as though it had always been there . |
| 18 | It did n't stop her hoping , waiting and hoping , for the next five years , he wrote , wasting her life when it was obvious he had no intention of going through with it . |
| 19 | Told him there would also be something specifically for him when it was done . |
| 20 | as if my life had stopped when the glass was started and will only start again when it is done . |
| 21 | There comes a time in every project , he wrote , when it becomes clear that a head is no match for a wall . |
| 22 | When it is too late to go on and too late to start again . |
| 23 | Considerable care and skill are needed to handle cask beer when it reaches the pub . |
| 24 | At the other end of the tourist season , Britain has a log-jam of holiday weekends , particularly if Easter is late , when it is followed closely by May Day and not much later by the spring bank holiday . |
| 25 | WHY is it that hotel owners and operators put so much emphasis on recruiting professional ‘ hotel designers ’ to create the right hotel , but , when it comes to the inclusion of leisure facilities , then they appear to approach any designer , with the impression that it can be addressed from a design viewpoint just like any other area ? |
| 26 | The company is expected to offer shares to its employees when it is allowed to do so , and a Stock Market flotation could follow in ‘ two , three or four years ' time ’ according to Mr Smith . |
| 27 | If anything happened to the computer and it proved impossible to get at the data inside , you could go to your back-up diskettes and simply copy the data back into the computer when it had been repaired , or replaced , or put it onto another computer . |
| 28 | When it comes to silver-plated cutlery there are just as many confusing statements coming at the caterer . |
| 29 | When it is electro-plated with silver it is called electro-plated nickel silver ( EPNS ) . |
| 30 | WHAT constitutes value for money when it comes to food and drink ? |