Example sentences of "[noun pl] when it [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The BBC was forced to drop an independently produced film for Arena on lorry drivers when it emerged that it was partly funded by a hauliers ' association . |
| 2 | ‘ No , this he threw back into the bushes when it snapped and turned in his hand . |
| 3 | The Commission has many allies when it argues that enlarging the Community will provide the impetus necessary for closer Political integration . |
| 4 | The rock was in just three pieces when it arrived and needed to be hammered into the correct sizes for the set-up . |
| 5 | The census of 1930 revealed the the state of affairs when it showed that more than twenty-two per cent of the population were ethnic and linguistic Germans . |
| 6 | There is no way of monitoring arms once they are sold , although I believe Contraves when it says that it would have to fit the latest equipment to any ship , and would not fit Argentinian ships . |
| 7 | The Proceedings of the Royal Society completely overlooked Lear 's beautiful Parrots when it decided that , ‘ The so-called Century of Birds from the Himalaya Mountains ’ was ‘ by far the most accurately illustrated work on foreign ornithology that had been issued up to that period . ’ |
| 8 | If this trend continues , we can expect greater numbers of each successive cohort to reach pensionable age and to have both a longer expectation of life and fewer chronic illnesses and disabilities when it does than its predecessor . |
| 9 | The Beveridge Report referred to both of these consequences when it argued that social security benefits should be of subsistence level only , allowing the individual , if he so wished , to make his own provision for higher benefits through voluntary insurance — which should also be positively encouraged by the government through tax allowances . |
| 10 | Absolon 's portrait thus ends with particular bathos when it transpires that he still can not escape the vulgar facts of the body 's nature , try as he might : This second instance of a marked word in the Miller 's Tale encourages a recall of the context of the first , Nicholas 's grabbing of Alison , and thus even before it has been dramatically explicated completes the second fabliau triangle , Nicholas — Alison — Absolon , which forms a symmetrical reflection of the first , Nicholas — Alison — John . |