Example sentences of "[adj] when [verb] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , because the transcriptional properties of ATF1 and CREB are fundamentally different when fused to a heterologous DNA-binding-domain ( 30 ) it is apparent that changes in the relative proportions of ATF1 and CREB will have important consequences . |
| 2 | The desire of politicians to control annual outcomes in this way was unrealistic when applied to a policy in which the industry 's own long-term objectives ( in this case overcoming the capacity backlog ) were in conflict . |
| 3 | The significance of the seven-hooded Cobra is most clear when related to the discipline of Kundalini Yoga and the seven levels of consciousness leading to Samadhi or ‘ liberation ’ . |
| 4 | The second effect is the inferior performance of the CED when compared to the OALD . |
| 5 | These make life easier when attending to the filter . |
| 6 | The conclusion seems most sensible when applied to the displays between rivals for a mate , for food or for territory . |
| 7 | I was somewhat less impressed by Demidenko in the smaller-scale pieces : his Rejoice beloved Christians sounds slow and bland when compared to the super-human wizardry of Frederic Chiu on his stunning début recital of transcriptions for Harmonia Mundi , ( — a ‘ must ’ for all Busonians ) whilst the slower chorales on the Hyperion disc are given the visionary touch on MK by Tatiana Nikolayeva . |
| 8 | But what we 've got to bear in mind is that minor faults in our design can be very serious when translated to a job on the ground which . |
| 9 | Moreover , the principle of linguistic self-consciousness or reflexivity seems to be made even more explicit when transposed to the narrative model . |
| 10 | Although many patients are quite fit when admitted to the ward , they will become completely dependent when they have an anaesthetic and may only slowly return to independence after a surgical procedure . |
| 11 | And it is particularly inappropriate when applied to the world 's waters . |
| 12 | This conclusion assumes that phytoplankton productivity can be usefully indexed by biomass levels , which is inappropriate when applied to the North Pacific . |
| 13 | A now famed example of the former ( and we understand that it is now denied by Rolls Royce ) is that the Rolls Royce Silver Shadow was nearly called the Silver Mist which would have been most unfortunate when selling to the German market . |
| 14 | Why should milk from Holland be labelled 100 per cent Australian when sold to the Philippines ? |
| 15 | If anything , the metabolism of the obese becomes more sluggish when exposed to the cold . |
| 16 | Even though essential oils are sometimes given orally ( especially in the case of garlic ) they can often be even more effective when applied to the skin . |
| 17 | These results are very encouraging when compared to the performance of more traditional , hand-built , grammars created without the benefit of a corpus to learn from . |
| 18 | But I find them particularly disturbing when related to the death of a refugee seeking asylum in Britain . |
| 19 | The 375 years since it was unearthed seems to be short when compared to the 900 years or more it had lain buried . |
| 20 | The formula can be extended to a pop group , as in Lester 's Beatles films , or Boorman 's Catch Us If You Can ( 1965 ) centred on the Dave Clark Five , but it looks more than a little shaky when applied to a more complex , not to say maudlin , character like that written by Shelagh Delaney for Albert Finney in Charlie Bubbles ( 1967 ) . |
| 21 | The historiography of the post-Disraelian Conservative party is strikingly sparse when compared to the volume of work devoted to its opponents . |
| 22 | In addition , Anderson appears even more impolite when replying to the chairman because he appears not to be upholding the Co-operative Principle either , thus implicating his antipathy for the Colloquium . |
| 23 | If the sales commissions ( averaging 8 per cent ) had been included in the calculation the results for the funds would have been concomitantly worse when compared to a buy-and-hold strategy . |
| 24 | Law and order seemed fragile when opposed to the growing danger of the huge new slums whose populations were feared as classes dangereuses . |
| 25 | This effect has actually been observed by comparing a clock on the ground with one in a commercial airliner ; the clock in the airliner runs slightly slow when compared to the stationary clock . |
| 26 | Such a procedure is much more difficult when applied to a whole system of taboos in the way Freud does in Totem and Taboo . |
| 27 | Vanity was a sin , of course , and she knew that her appearance was completely irrelevant when compared to the importance of caring for Liz 's two little girls . |
| 28 | This cutting blade has to be kept sharp to perform its job properly without undue pressure in the hand , and is therefore made from a very hard steel — so hard in fact , that it can be brittle when subjected to a common form of misuse : the correct action with all secateurs is a firm steady squeeze , with no wrenching and definitely no twisting , which can cause the blades to break . |
| 29 | Whatever the merits of the arguments against Mr Soley 's proposal for a Select Committee in place of the Commissioner , they are much less convincing when applied to the more modest proposal put forward at the time by the SDP that there could be a Select Committee confining itself to the Commissioner 's report ‘ so that in turn it would report and give some reality to parliamentary accountability ’ . |
| 30 | But these figures look insignificant when compared to the cost of computer security breaches . |