Example sentences of "[adv] when it be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We spent a day together when it was finished because I knew there was going to be a fuss . |
| 2 | The concept of honour , artificial as it can often seem , can be an abiding emotional force in fiction , but only when it is demonstrated fully and specifically through believable characters as well as believable action . |
| 3 | Only when it is exposed to chemicals that harden the tissue and inhibit decay , a method known as fixation , is the brain easily studied and only then will it reveal the complexities of its organization . |
| 4 | In particular , a stimulus can come to acquire associative strength as a CS only when it is represented in the A1 state in company with another active node — excitatory conditioning will occur when the US node is in A1 ; inhibitory conditioning when the US node is in A2 ( see Chapter 1 ) . |
| 5 | New tonofibrillae become attached to the epicuticle only when it is growing . |
| 6 | Electoral reform can , it seems , be realistically expected only when it is initiated by a minority Conservative or Labour government as the price of survival exacted by a party or combination of parties holding the balance of power . |
| 7 | Vision comes alive only when it is shared . |
| 8 | Only when it is actualized through classroom activity can it have an effect on learning . |
| 9 | A surplus is an embarrassment only when it is subsidised : unsubsidised , it becomes an export success . |
| 10 | They also claim that forgiveness produces reconciliation only when it is preceded by repentance . |
| 11 | Appropriate feedback is vital in the patient 's relearning process , so he receives praise only when it is deserved : if he fails in any way , the physiotherapist remains encouraging and positive about it , but shows him how and why he went wrong , or she may simply leave that task for the moment and return to it later , when the patient can concentrate and get it right . |
| 12 | ‘ Only when it 's misdirected . |
| 13 | Only when it 's ringing . |
| 14 | Only when it was made into a glitzy film by Steven Spielberg did it become widely read and talked about outside feminist circles . |
| 15 | As Professor Elton has argued , it was not regarded as a constitutional force which deserved notice only when it was opposing or restricting the Crown . |
| 16 | The benefit conferred upon the taxpayers was one which logically followed only when it was determined that there were surplus places and the authorities of the college in their discretion agreed to admit the taxpayers ' children to these places . |
| 17 | She thought of taking off her overall — ; she was wearing one of Lily 's blouses underneath — only when it was unbuttoned and she looked in the mirror her chest poked out in a most peculiar way . |
| 18 | Outdoor pursuits , especially walks , were promoted at all times , reading by oneself only when it was raining , and television not at all ( although in old age she herself became a tireless watcher of ‘ the News ’ ) . |
| 19 | Only when it was discovered that some men , formerly working on the surface , were working in canteens on the lowest male rate — higher than the female rate — did the union begin to campaign for equal pay for the women . |
| 20 | His basic idea was to empty arteries and veins of their blood and replace it by something ‘ fluid enough when it is injected to run into the branches of the vessels , will afterwards quickly grow hard ’ . |
| 21 | It was not a professional affair , only a home-movie job , but it worked well enough when it was working . |
| 22 | More fundamentally , however , because the suggested analogy at once breaks down when it is recognised that the public interest immunity presently in question is not , or at least not principally , confidentiality-based . |
| 23 | Even in narrow legal terms , possession and use can not be separated absolutely ; but the notion of mere ‘ possession ’ breaks down when it is considered in its military and political context . |
| 24 | I ca n't afford to turn it down when it 's offered . ’ |
| 25 | Gen. Francisco Sánchez González , the Chief of Police , was named as Bernal 's replacement but was forced to step down when it was revealed shortly afterwards that the police payroll had been inflated by the inclusion of " phantom " policemen . |
| 26 | The " correct " way of constructing a building could never be such that it would immediately fall down when it was completed . |
| 27 | One presumes this was to help him keep the short ball down when it was bowled at the line of middle to leg stump . |
| 28 | That was not impossible , for there had been six months between the X-rays , in which case The tumour could have already been on the way down when it was spotted . |
| 29 | Though she has every confidence in the Trust , and particularly in John Sales , the Trust 's Chief Gardens Adviser , it is no easy thing to relinquish control of your life 's work — especially when it 's situated right under your nose . |
| 30 | But against the sky , especially when it 's beginning to get dark … |