Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] it come " in BNC.
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| 1 | You become excited when you discover an entry from a brand leader but descend into despondency when you find that large , marketing-led organisations can be incredibly sloppy when it comes to presenting written reports . |
| 2 | MERSEYSIDE parents are among the most generous when it comes to giving pocket money , a survey has revealed . |
| 3 | Constance could not decide whether or not his diffidence sprang from fear or indifference , and she found it puzzling that someone as confident as Nicky in every other area of his life should be so timid when it came to love . |
| 4 | You need to ask yourself what is so different when it comes to talking to an audience ? |
| 5 | Things are somewhat different when it comes to the sales decision : here it seems that many worked out at quite an early stage that the sales strategy ought to take a reservation form ( with perhaps an intermediate section to take account of risk and risk aversion ) . |
| 6 | Many people are extremely generous when it comes to giving money to conservation . |
| 7 | But knowledge develops unevenly ; Dewey 's luck was not so conspicuous when it came to , say , radio engineering , where relatively simple new subjects end up with a classification symbol of twelve digits or more . |
| 8 | I WAS married four years ago to a girl I loved very much , but I lost her to another man , because I was so incompetent when it came to having sex . |
| 9 | How could a man so intelligent in every other way be so obtuse when it came to ordinary everyday living ? |
| 10 | ‘ while peer review may be relatively successful in deciding among proposed new areas of research , it is far less satisfactory when it comes to identifying declining areas and groups . ’ |
| 11 | I think the regrettable thing about the parking in in the town is the way that some of the disabled slots at the surgery are taken by the cars of people who are perfectly able to walk from the car park , and I think the great problem we 're going to have is we 're going to rely on the public spiritedness of our fellow townspeople and there does seem to be a fair group of people who are extremely selfish when it comes to come to parking . |
| 12 | But she is n't so dependable when it comes to housework . |
| 13 | The problem with archers is that they are extremely vulnerable when it comes to close combat . |
| 14 | Then , as M. Dupin stresses more than once in his book , all types of genuine Gruyère cheese should be cut into little pieces for cooking , never on any account grated , a procedure which causes it to form sticky masses rather than the long creamy threads which constitute one of its essential characteristics — a characteristic considered especially important when it comes to the soupe au fromage of the eastern French provinces , that same soup which , transmogrified into the onion soup of the Paris all-night bistros , has now found its way into packets labelled la soupe au fromage instantanée . |
| 15 | As he continued to climb , the sea appeared less troubled and it came as a surprise to see the white turmoil round the foot of each headland and promontory . |
| 16 | I think that a chief , or perhaps a leading group would after a while be decided on and priorities set in a way more mature than the boys , but girls would be less imaginative when it came to building shelters and lighting fires , and also less physically able to lift heavy objects and build things . |
| 17 | Jay , however , is less forthcoming when it comes to defining exactly what it is he and his colleagues at Talkin' Loud are looking for . |
| 18 | They were less well-informed when it came to knowing the sort of people who were likely to volunteer as foster parents . |
| 19 | The perils of introducing a new foodstuff are far greater : we are highly conservative when it comes to food . |
| 20 | ‘ British orchestras are so conservative when it comes to programming concertos , ’ laments Cho-Liang Lin . |
| 21 | This sort of research , which critics describe as ‘ playing God ’ , gets even more morally knotty when it comes to gene therapy , with its potential for monitoring and altering human genes to check for and eliminate hereditary diseases . |
| 22 | You 'll find your Steamatic is also extremely efficient when it comes to cleaning fiddly places like the areas such as skirting boards , picture rails and behind radiators . |
| 23 | While the fax machine is easy to use , it 's less attractive when it comes to mass faxing , as someone has to feed each document in and dial the destination . |
| 24 | Karl was not unintelligent when it came to his own interests , his own career . |
| 25 | Again , we welcome that , but is it not sad that it comes 12 years after this Government were elected and after not just one but two Secretaries of State since I have been a Member of Parliament have been influenced because of criticism of tobacco advertising and irresponsible elements in the tobacco industry ? |
| 26 | He has lived here for eight months and knows more about the town than the Neftis , who are infuriatingly vague when it comes to giving directions . |
| 27 | Not likely when it comes to being a tireless spokesman for everything the Rochdale Cowboy 's not thinking of hanging up his spurs . |
| 28 | Blofeld is not alone when it come to the Josef Stalin Caring Employer Award . |
| 29 | Since the headmen were neither recruited , trained nor even supervised in a consistent manner , it is not surprising that they were generally inactive when it came to dealing with crime . |
| 30 | To say that a mother is ‘ permissive ’ neglects the fact that her attitude may vary from one area of behaviour to another : she may be highly permissive about behaviour towards visitors and yet utterly intolerant when it comes to toileting . |