Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [adv] [verb] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | The profile has been also observed when HeLa TFIIF activity was reconstituted by each subunit separated under denaturing conditions ( 24 ) . |
| 2 | Density slicing is normally applied when only a single-band image of an area is available . |
| 3 | They 'd been considerably bucked when I got a place at Merton , you see . |
| 4 | The interest he attracted was greatly increased when , with the consent of the priest-in-charge , Richard preached at Mass with such charism that the congregation were moved to tears . |
| 5 | And what impact it had made was soon dissipated when it was realized that the ‘ total ’ war was still only partial after all , and that the well-to-do and high-and-mighty were still able to avoid the burdens which fell on ordinary people . |
| 6 | The RUC with new Pipe Major Mark Faloon must have been well encouraged when their ‘ C ’ set took third on 60 . |
| 7 | The Bishop of Kensington declared , ‘ Gaiters stopped being any use when bishops gave up riding horses as their mode of transport . ’ |
| 8 | Hugh McIlvanney 's feeling for his fellow-man shines through , too , although his emotions seem to have been already spent when he wrote his tribute to the late Jock Stein . |
| 9 | It is obvious how much better equipped the relevant authorities will be to prevent illegal exports or to retrieve a work of art thought to have been illegally exported when armed with a full description and photographs which enable title to be firmly established . |
| 10 | And his prayer seemed to have been amply answered when the Planetary Guard came for the Valence gang ; though , as is the way with prayers which are answered , there was cause for woe too — for the Valences were to be stripped of their best young fighters . |
| 11 | Accordingly managed floating was generally adopted when the adjustable peg was abandoned . |
| 12 | In another case , the Court of Appeal held that a prosecution had been properly discontinued when a defendant had taken out a private prosecution for perjury against a witness who had given evidence against him at committal proceedings . |
| 13 | Neither ailment had been positively identified when she arrived at the Royal and it was decided to transfer her for further investigation . |
| 14 | He added that he had been well treated when he returned for the US Open . |
| 15 | His solicitor , Mike Allan , told Sheriff Alexander Jessop that Say had been completely devastated when he arrived home to find a note from his wife , telling him their marriage was over . |
| 16 | Fifty years later , all chemists are taking pleasure in the recent restoration of John Dalton 's papers , which had been badly charred when the premises of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society were destroyed during the Blitz . |
| 17 | He had been badly damaged when the Zionists had sent their commando squad with explosives to La Seine-sur-Mer , close to the French port of Toulon , to destroy the two reactors that were to have been shipped to Tuwaithah 48 hours later . |
| 18 | This had been badly damaged when on Oct. 3 the Constitutional Court ruled unconstitutional the government 's proposals , based on the main plank of Smallholders ' policy , to return to their original owners lands confiscated by the state after the communists had taken power in 1947 . |
| 19 | She had been physically hurt when she was dragged from the villa and she had been held captive ever since . |
| 20 | In Austria , where 23,000 refugees ( over half of whom were from Romania ) sought political asylum in 1990 , the influx had been sharply reduced when visa requirements for Romanians and Poles were reintroduced ( in March and September respectively ) . |
| 21 | On May 15 the former Red Army Faction ( RAF ) member Günter Sonnenberg , who had been seriously injured when he was arrested in 1977 [ see pp. 28917 ; 29012 ] , was released on probation after serving 15 years of a life sentence . |
| 22 | That voyage had been the first leg of a planned circumnavigation , but those dreams had been brutally shattered when Masquerade was stolen from an anchorage in the Florida Keys . |
| 23 | Yes , it was , how extraordinary , it was her own ex-patient Hilda Stark , diseuse , comedienne and would-be infanticide , whose career had been violently interrupted when in a fit of madness ( to put it non-technically ) she had nearly strangled her baby in its cradle : and here she was , laughing and drinking champagne , a guest ; how improper , how indiscreet ; was she married to somebody , had she come as somebody 's wife ? |
| 24 | The region is often criticised for being bureaucratic and remote without too careful an analysis of these concepts ( Page and Midwinter 1979 ) ; but one criticism must surely be accepted — the ‘ certain balance ’ that Wheatley advocated is scarcely obtained when one region outweighs the rest . |
| 25 | A mother and her four children have been badly hurt when a train hit their van on an unmanned level crossing . |
| 26 | I agree wholeheartedly with his complaints and have been equally infuriated when missing wickets falling ‘ live ’ . |