Example sentences of "[adj] when [pron] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Butler was , perhaps , not saying anything so very different when he observed that ‘ equal educational opportunity is not identical educational opportunity ’ . |
| 2 | Interesting though it may be to learn that there is a narrative-discourse-paragraph-introductory-particle in Huichol or Shipibo , it becomes decidedly less interesting when one discovers that the identification of the significance of these particles depends on a prior identification of the paragraph as a unit in which ‘ the speaker continues talking about the same thing ’ ( Grimes , 1975 : 103 ) . |
| 3 | It becomes interesting when it seems that Jane might hit Tom , or when one of them stops for a moment and thinks . |
| 4 | This is clear when we note that , given two different collections of incomparable subsets of |
| 5 | Similarly , in the assault on Ai ( Joshua 7–8 ) the true proportions of the narrative become clear when we realize that the disastrous loss of 36 men is matched by the setting of an ambush , not of 30,000 men of valour , but of 30 . |
| 6 | Frank Chapman , an executive council member of the EEPTU electricians ' union , was hissed and slow-handclapped when he asserted that scaling down nuclear power would put a brake on economic development in third world countries . |
| 7 | Darwin 's critics were wrong when they said that all my offspring would inherit half of it . |
| 8 | The spokesman , Rafi Horowitz , was wrong when he said that Palestinians could not claim their lands because they were citizens of a country at war with Israel . |
| 9 | My right hon. Friend must be wrong when he says that we are spending 4.3 per cent . |
| 10 | He was the first star to weather the storm of a dope scandal , emerging unscathed and proving the Indianapolis Star wrong when it prophesied that ‘ The public never did — never will — laugh off a dope scandal involving a screen favourite performer . |
| 11 | But there ; she was wrong when she thought that everybody prayed , because Mrs Aggie did n't pray , nor did Ben , nor his Annie . |
| 12 | Editor , — Catherine Pope is wrong when she states that the patient 's charter promises patients a maximum outpatient waiting time of 30 minutes . |
| 13 | ( It is paradoxically liberals who provide me with my argument for this when they argue that violent people can be ‘ understood ’ since they know no other language with which to express their inarticulate aggro . |
| 14 | We never reckoned with this when we went and trounced the lairds ! ’ |
| 15 | Miguel de Unamuno , the Spanish philosopher , made a point of this when he showed that it is impossible to separate belief from emotion : |
| 16 | The Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva adds another dimension to this when she says that ‘ reading is complicity in the creative process ’ ( quoted in Brodsky 1987 ) . |
| 17 | It was light when she awakened and eased her limbs to a more comfortable position on the soft bed . |
| 18 | Tycho Brahé opted out of the Copernican research programme and initiated another when he proposed that all planets other than the earth orbit the sun , while the sun itself orbits a stationary earth . |
| 19 | ‘ They must always be careful when they adjust and react to television that they do n't change the nature of their sport . |
| 20 | Moreover it saved us as a family from being caught in the 1914 — 18 war as my sister and I were eighteen and sixteen years old when it finished and almost all our contemporary male cousins were killed . |
| 21 | Born in Middlesex of an Irish doctor , she grew up in a pleasant and comfortable home in Ireland and was 5 years old when she noticed that her hearing was failing , and by the age of 17 , she was almost totally deaf . |
| 22 | To begin with , her assertion that the U.K. undergoes ‘ extreme political shifts ’ sounds most peculiar when one considers that the same party has been in power for over a decade . |
| 23 | His rounds took him to most parts of the building and Rain was eagerly accepting that it must have been Stan on the second floor making her jumpy when he mentioned that since the murder he did not go into MacQuillan 's room or those next to it because the police were usually there . |
| 24 | Very often there are schools , just across the road , full of children who will very probably become unemployed when they leave because they will not be equipped to fill any of the jobs that are available . |
| 25 | And the balance of early modern attitudes to the old looks a good deal less favourable when we realize that the terms of chronological age used then were quite different from those in use today . |
| 26 | This distinction becomes clearer when one sees that it is mainly the industrial applications which have developed into dispute resolution . |
| 27 | Relationships of this kind , including most of those between normal adults , give a place to emotions such as resentment , gratitude , forgiveness or disappointment which are only appropriate when we believe that someone 's behaviour towards us was conscious and intentional . |
| 28 | This asymmetry involved in the distinction between two types of justification only becomes dangerous when one supposes that all basic ( non-inferentially justified ) beliefs concern the nature of the believer 's present sensory states . |
| 29 | They also knew that the arrested men were respectable and law-abiding and they were highly indignant when they heard that an official spokesman had smeared them with the suggestion of criminal activities . |
| 30 | When they first met , Charlie called the shots by improvising in front of the cameras and using his experience from films like Bright Lights , Big City , with Michael J Fox , and 18 Again , with George Burns He said : ‘ Kylie was a little nervous when I improvised and it threw her off . |