Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] when it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His polemical attitudes were somewhat softened when it seemed that he might have to act upon them , and he found it necessary to disavow the political and social activism which members of the Moot such as Karl Mannheim wished to pursue . |
| 2 | In the first instance decision of Harvey [ 1988 ] Crim.L.R. 241 , a confession of murder made by a psychopathically disordered woman was , it is submitted , rightly excluded when it became apparent that she might have been motivated by a childlike desire to protect her lover , whom she had over-heard confessing to the same offence . |
| 3 | The prosperity which all these minor towns reveal occasionally has a local explanation : Todi 's neighbour , Assisi , was greatly enhanced when it became the burial place of St Francis and a centre of pilgrimage . |
| 4 | There was no tax invoice because the firm was not registered when it billed for the work . |
| 5 | Sunlight reflected from a window among the palm trees to lance a sliver of dazzling light at our cockpit , then the reflection was gone and we were at sea level , engines screaming , and I fumbled for the camera , prayed it had not broken when it fell from the ceiling , and took another picture just before Maggot lifted the aircraft 's nose so that we swooped up and over the palm trees that edged the beach . |
| 6 | The issue of selecting an NSF candidate for the ( as yet unannounced ) presidential elections was not resolved when it emerged that any candidate would be required to endorse Roman 's programme . |
| 7 | The first note was not paid when it fell due . |
| 8 | Council 's papers , though not its proceedings , seem to be proving more open than the Institute ever intended when it introduced its sunshine policy last summer . |
| 9 | and it worked , and it got over to Australia , it got unpacked and it still worked when it got to Australia , and it went on the stand and it stood on the stand for a week or however long it was . |
| 10 | French public opinion was enraged by the attempt and was further inflamed when it became known that Orsini 's bombs had been made in Birmingham and the conspiracy hatched in London . |
| 11 | The project also shows Europe is still divided when it comes to food . |
| 12 | Its authority was quickly established when it called off the demonstration called by the meeting of radicals on 8 October . |
| 13 | But , for all its growing sensitivity to spatial variation , historical change and human agency , Marxist state theory itself remains unevenly developed when it comes to appreciating the links between state and people and the emotional significance of the state . |
| 14 | There were thirty-two plays in the Wakefield cycle , or Towneley cycle as it was also known when it formed part of the library of Towneley Hall in Burnley . |
| 15 | The Regional Council 's position as regards the implications of the appeal proposal on education were clearly recorded when it advised the District Council of its views on the appeal application ( ref LRC Written Submission para 6 a ( iii ) . |
| 16 | The idea that the temporary real effects produced by demand stimuli are due to a lack of information which is readily available at zero cost is surely far fetched when it comes to calculations of the real wage rate . |
| 17 | Of course , the message will only make sense if it can be successfully decompressed when it reaches the user . |
| 18 | The experience of the seven-year-olds outside the communicative system is still limited , and their limitations are particularly exposed when it comes to repairing inadequate instructions . |
| 19 | ITED will be well received when it goes ‘ live ’ , judging by the reaction of some of the managers involved in pilot schemes . |
| 20 | Truth is , the two cars are just about equally matched when it comes to acceleration in each gear . |
| 21 | However , while it was comparatively easy to cobble together a story around a popular star , the British industry was not yet well organized when it came to finding a steady output of ideas for dramatic features and developing them into workable scripts . |
| 22 | You were n't even born when it folded — and besides it was an English magazine . ’ |
| 23 | On the other hand , when one is obsessively searching for the solution to a problem , it may be consciously recognised when it occurs as a fluctuation in the random activity of the subconscious whereas in other circumstances it might not emerge at the conscious level at all . |
| 24 | The situation is equally blurred when it comes to the fund managers . |
| 25 | When viewers have had time to develop their own theories about the scene , they are strongly motivated when it comes to listening to the soundtrack to check whether or not they were right . |
| 26 | He got his PhD through animal experimentation , but he was n't qualified when it came to recombinant DNA technique . |
| 27 | But we see no reason why it should not be acceptable ( and consistent with our human rights philosophy ) for aims such as reform , reparation and requalification to be considered and at least sometimes pursued when it has to be decided what punishment ( if any ) should be allocated to individual offenders , as long as this does not have the result of making the punishment harsher . |
| 28 | The East Bank was consistently preferred when it came to investment , for irrigation , land reclamation , electricity , transport and communications . |
| 29 | Even the Romanian press admitted that progress was not universally welcomed when it meant uprooting oneself and family from the home which had sheltered generations , particularly not when it meant moving into a block-house . |
| 30 | The plane was completely destroyed when it hit a mountain in bad weather as it was trying to land . |