Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] when it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is called benevolence , more especially so when it takes the broad form of a wish for the happiness of others in general . |
| 2 | It said ‘ Danger ’ , but a big piece of the signboard had broken off , so perhaps when it wass whole it said ‘ Dangerfield ’ , not just ‘ Danger ’ . ’ |
| 3 | People did not have to face the problem alone as they do so often when it comes to social security benefit cuts . |
| 4 | If you wait long enough then when it finishes this large task everything will work as normal . |
| 5 | Zen had told them he 'd been involved in a traffic accident , which had got a good laugh all round when it emerged that he was from Venice . |
| 6 | Walk slowly away when it loses interest . ’ |
| 7 | Now unless you 're a skinhead of the old school , or have been time-warped for twenty years , parkas are not exactly in when it comes to neat threads . |
| 8 | They continue to fall away alarmingly when it comes to formal examinations and so decrease their own chances of gaining stimulating and challenging employment . |
| 9 | I was just there when it started . ’ |
| 10 | Even if the government backs legislation ( and even more so when it does not and the Houses find themselves confronted by a Private Member 's Bill ) no Bill will ever be passed which offends against the deeply held beliefs of Members , unless amended to accommodate them . |
| 11 | Then , as now , people were at a loss to help the whales back to deep water , and even more so when it came to explaining the phenomenon . |
| 12 | One of the interesting things that I do is go every so often and talk to groups of British civil servants who are going to spend some of them a week some of them up to six weeks on an exchange visit erm with the French civil service , in an attempt to learn a certain amount erm about how the system works , both so that they will be able to understand more easily when it comes to joint erm ventures , joint matters , joint policies , what the other side is doing and the pressures within which it 's operating , and also so that sometimes they may be able to learn things , and pick up useful tips and hints about the way to handle a particular problem . |
| 13 | The Pittsburgh group also described a similar constellation of findings and noted that HBV infection seems to progress more rapidly when it recurs in a second allograft . |
| 14 | This modified technique , involving the measuring of reaction time to clicks , was used by Holmes and Forster ( 1970 ) who showed that subjects were able to detect the presence of a click more rapidly when it occurred at a major constituent boundary than when it did not . |
| 15 | Britain 's biggest clothing retailer , Marks and Spencer , became the country 's most profitable retailer once more when it knocked J Sainsbury into second place with pre-tax profits up 25% to a record £736.5m ( $1.2 billion ) in the year to end-March . |
| 16 | Town planning needs and traffic needs clash most openly when it comes to squares and junctions , which is why the town at that point must reflect the needs of planning and give least consideration to the needs of traffic . |
| 17 | ‘ We were really down when it happened , and had agreed to knock the band on the head . |
| 18 | Whilst Sarah Hare left a perfect template for a gentlewoman 's funeral , Hannah Deane of High Ongar , Essex , went even further when it came to the specification for her coffin . |
| 19 | Dieting without exercise also forces the body to manage on less oxygen , and it reduces its oxygen intake even further when it has to take energy , not from food , but from the body itself . |
| 20 | and I stuck it up here then when it comes through , they brought the car on the Tuesday |
| 21 | And there is also the question of male bias in the construction of political agendas and the common expectation that the woman 's voice in politics should speak on ‘ family and women 's issues ’ and then only when it does not threaten the interests of men . |
| 22 | ‘ They only make love on the twenty-ninth of February , ’ said Hyacinth , ‘ and then only when it rains . ’ |
| 23 | In the curious world of Japanese politics , the cause of political reform may be moving forwards just when it seems to be moving backwards |
| 24 | Georgia , who 'd planned to keep her 40-year-old head down and let the day pass unmarked , felt quite differently when it dawned . |
| 25 | Then he would change people quite often when it did n't suit him to be with them any more . ’ |
| 26 | It is actually my experience that even the most difficult and complex modern poem , especially if you have read it beforehand , comes to life quite magically when it 's read alone . |
| 27 | But United 's shortcomings … weakenesses are still all too obvious … a leaky defence let them down again just when it mattered most when the final whistle was minutes away as Redfearn hit the equaliser to make it one-all |
| 28 | Personally , I do not find it objectionable , and in any case the smell goes off very quickly when it comes into contact with the soil and bacteria get to work on it . |
| 29 | Glaxo has since delayed the launch to await product approvals but it 's a massive project and will take out rigid packaging business forward very quickly when it comes on stream — probably late this year . |
| 30 | The lovely negro spiritual ‘ Balm in Gilead ’ expresses it very well when it refers to ‘ the sin sick soul . ’ |