Example sentences of "[conj] it [adv] [verb] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | The term primitive , however , no longer has the pejorative connotation in anthropological , and socio-philosophical writings , that it once had when the evolutionary theory prevailed . |
| 2 | Based on the shape of this receptive field , they then search for the stimulus that gives the best response from it , and in Figure 7 you see that one particular cell responded best to movement of a bar oriented at a particular angle , and also that it only responded when this bar moved in one direction . |
| 3 | Should a metal bar be heated ten times , a hundred times , or how many times before we can conclude that it always expands when heated ? |
| 4 | The first hint that there might be a connection between black holes and thermodynamics came with the mathematical discovery in 1970 that the surface area of the event horizon , the boundary of a black hole , has the property that it always increases when additional matter or radiation falls into the black hole . |
| 5 | Doing their best for the glory of Canada , the whole field of eleven swept round the bend and went down the far side as if welded together , and it still seemed when they turned for home that that was how they might finish , in a knot . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This obviously applies when the word " language " is used in its direct sense , but it equally applies when it is used symbolically for perceptions and values . |
| 8 | But it soon vanished when I mentioned my wish to visit Manu National Park . |
| 9 | But it still hurts when Gordon sits out the big Euro nights . |
| 10 | She 'd overcome it by the time she was eighteen but it still surfaced when she got excited about something . ’ |
| 11 | The real power in Aquitaine , in the sense of the power to appoint men or collect and transfer money , lay , of course , with Henry — as it always did when he was on the Continent and chose to exercise it . |
| 12 | Intrigued , and a little afraid of the gyrating shadows that loomed like feathery figures on the walls beside them , the boy kept close to the bent figure , curiosity alive in him , and a strange excitement driving him on as it always did when he was with the old man . |
| 13 | It tinkled furiously , as it always did when he became agitated for any reason . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , the French performed a volte-face worthy of their government 's foreign policy habits , and gave the cardiac arrest generation nouvelle cuisine , or cuisine minceur and then cuisine naturelle , as it quickly became when the first fanatical asceticism mellowed . |