Example sentences of "[adj] when [verb] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is quite different when dealing with a country as big as France in terms of population and area . |
| 2 | Therefore there is a real tradeoff involved , between the need for any bonus to he relatively generous when compared with a flat salary , and the need for there to be some bonus element . |
| 3 | Consequently , it can be determined whether relatively the costs of litigation are too high when compared with the amount of damages awarded . |
| 4 | We are very concerned that in in making provision for housing through to the year two thousand and six , we should not be making provision for that level of vacancy rate , which seems to us to be artificially high when compared with the the national figures . |
| 5 | For instance , it is possible to contend that the nouveau roman may be more accurately described as modernist or late modernist when compared with the apparently more subversive avant-garde experimentalism of the Tel Quel group , whose claim to be the natural successors of the revolution inaugurated by Finnegans Wake would be difficult to refute . |
| 6 | Without the safety net of a staff job , she had to be even more than usually careful when dealing with the fragile egos of those who appeared before the cameras — one adverse comment and she could find herself facing nothing but closed doors . |
| 7 | It is this , more than anything else , which makes the map of this sort of country look so empty when compared with the map of anciently enclosed country in say mid Sussex , Essex or Devon . |
| 8 | For the moment anyway , he would accept that his DSO of 80 was not acceptable when compared with an industry average of 63 . |
| 9 | Enforcement agents who adopt a compliance strategy , however , are preoccupied with securing conformity to a rule or standard when confronted with a problem . |
| 10 | Several of the major accounts appeared to be excessively overdue when compared with the total ledger aged debt statistics . |
| 11 | And if to is completely meaningless when used with the infinitive , why is n't it tending to disappear completely ? |
| 12 | Turning the dogmas of the Sandys Reformation into practicable military policies had not been easy when faced with the real world beyond the confines of Whitehall and Westminster . |
| 13 | Such views are held by economists who consider the beneficial effects of the threat of a takeover to be minimal when compared with the damaging effects of short termism . |
| 14 | To work out which way the pile runs , rub your hand over the carpet — it will feel smooth when running with the pile , and rough when going against the pile . |
| 15 | By the 1980s many asylums had contracted to a size which was dwarf-life when compared with the vast acreages and Palladian pretensions of their heyday . |
| 16 | Although the angle on the blade is quite large when compared with the normal , nevertheless it must be kept well sharpened . |
| 17 | Ten of the 16 transgenic plants remained completely healthy when infected with the red stripe virus in this way , while the other six showed much milder symptoms than those afflicting the control plants . |
| 18 | Such a weapon would be particularly useful when dealing with a school , because the myriad moving bodies produce too confusing an echolocation picture for the dolphin to be able to single out a victim . |
| 19 | These are much more effective when coupled with a thorough removal of acid organic detritus from the substrate . |
| 20 | Even the most competent high-flier , it seems , feels totally inadequate when faced with a child who simply will not get down to work . |
| 21 | The sensitive , the unsure , the non-aggressive boy reader must often feel inadequate when faced with the ‘ ideal boy ’ of stories . |
| 22 | But he was poor when compared with the parents of many of the children who attended his school , even when compared with some of the other teachers . |
| 23 | Although Exell 's reminiscences are coloured by the fact that he was an active Communist and trade unionist , they can not hide the fact that the pay in the new industries was generally good when compared with the majority of the working classes — and very high in periods of prosperity . |
| 24 | With two King George VI Chases at Kempton to his name and nearly £105,000 in the bank , this seven-year-old , owned by Marquesa de Moratalla , a 63-year-old who was born in Spain but now lives in Switzerland , and trained by Francois Doumen in a leafy suburb of Paris , seems vulnerable when faced with the infamous Cheltenham hill . |
| 25 | Acid House was all the rage ; multi-rhythmed electronic stuff popular on the disco circuit but only comprehensible when taken with the designer drugs now supplied as openly as condoms in some of the smarter venues . |
| 26 | At this point we find his conjectures implausible when compared with the view that global mean temperature is determined by global mean radiative forcing , including ( but not limited to ) greenhouse forcing from CO 2 changes . |
| 27 | The United Nations has been largely ineffectual when faced with a clash of interests between major powers , or even in dealing with more localized conflicts such as that between Israel and the Arab states , where great power interests are also involved . |
| 28 | However , good and indispensable as personal libraries are , they are of necessity puny when compared with the whole store of human knowledge . |
| 29 | Always have a fire extinguisher handy when working with a blowlamp . |
| 30 | The style was too extravagant , too romantic when compared with the simple , even tailored clothes she normally chose . |