Example sentences of "[adv] when [pron] is [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Note the startling sparsity of adjectives : she uses them only when she is forced to , so they seem pressed out of the nouns through sheer weight of need . |
| 2 | The student 's understanding of the wide range of topics taught will be tested only when she is required to put it into practice . |
| 3 | The concept of honour , artificial as it can often seem , can be an abiding emotional force in fiction , but only when it is demonstrated fully and specifically through believable characters as well as believable action . |
| 4 | Only when it is exposed to chemicals that harden the tissue and inhibit decay , a method known as fixation , is the brain easily studied and only then will it reveal the complexities of its organization . |
| 5 | In particular , a stimulus can come to acquire associative strength as a CS only when it is represented in the A1 state in company with another active node — excitatory conditioning will occur when the US node is in A1 ; inhibitory conditioning when the US node is in A2 ( see Chapter 1 ) . |
| 6 | Electoral reform can , it seems , be realistically expected only when it is initiated by a minority Conservative or Labour government as the price of survival exacted by a party or combination of parties holding the balance of power . |
| 7 | Vision comes alive only when it is shared . |
| 8 | Only when it is actualized through classroom activity can it have an effect on learning . |
| 9 | A surplus is an embarrassment only when it is subsidised : unsubsidised , it becomes an export success . |
| 10 | They also claim that forgiveness produces reconciliation only when it is preceded by repentance . |
| 11 | Appropriate feedback is vital in the patient 's relearning process , so he receives praise only when it is deserved : if he fails in any way , the physiotherapist remains encouraging and positive about it , but shows him how and why he went wrong , or she may simply leave that task for the moment and return to it later , when the patient can concentrate and get it right . |
| 12 | His basic idea was to empty arteries and veins of their blood and replace it by something ‘ fluid enough when it is injected to run into the branches of the vessels , will afterwards quickly grow hard ’ . |
| 13 | Bud is also applied to a more developed eye as above , especially when one is implanted in a stem in the process of ‘ budding ’ . |
| 14 | yes , erm my wife came from the Midlands , from Coventry and her family roots were in Coventry at the Midlands , in fact there she still has numerous nieces and nephews and great nephews and great nieces there to this day , my with the exception of a sister who moved , who , to Basildon , erm I have two brothers and er they still live in London , still live in East Ham , er the distance is not too great erm and , but obviously as we get older the amount of visiting we do will be constricted by the difficulties of getting from Harlow to East Ham especially when one is compelled to stop driving a motor car |
| 15 | How time flies especially when one is meant to be writing lots of letters . |
| 16 | Where an odour has multi-sources this problem is exacerbated especially when it is created by two or more chemicals coming together neither of which individually amount to a nuisance . |
| 17 | There is the special delight Britons have in gossip , especially when it is hinted that politics are spiced with sex . |
| 18 | We bring these habits to video too — especially when it is treated as a substitute TV . |
| 19 | The Council was clearly implying that ( as Newman saw ) Scripture itself works sacramentally , especially when it is made actual by effective reading and preaching in the liturgy . |
| 20 | Given the difficulties involved in this kind of work , especially when it is based on ‘ official ’ data ( see Chapter 3 ) , this may seem rather dubious . |
| 21 | Strains in glass — as in most other transparent solids — become visible in polarized light and sunlight is partially polarized especially when it is reflected from non-metallic surfaces such as a road or the paintwork of a car . |
| 22 | That scepticism about language - especially when it is divorced from the purposes of daily life — has become a hallmark of much contemporary thought . |
| 23 | He was one of those people who are instantly popular , and I felt sure he must know and relish his power over others , the power that only exceptional physical beauty can give , especially when it is allied with intelligence and strong animal magnetism . |
| 24 | Finally , fast motion can , after all , express speed , especially when it is used subjectively , as in so many car chases — the one in The French Connection , 1971 , is a better example than most , and includes similar speeded-up shots of the subway/elevated railway . |
| 25 | It could be claimed that it is unacceptable for public money to be used to fund the Commissioner , especially when it is remembered that legal aid is not available for legal representation before Industrial Tribunals , for example , for unfair dismissal claims . |
| 26 | In February 1980 the Afghan Foreign Minister argued that ‘ the presence of foreign troops in a country , especially when it is requested by that country , is basically not against the principles of non-alignment ’ . |
| 27 | Stac Polly is an extraordinary mountain when seen from a distance and doubly so when one is engaged on the traverse of its narrow ridge . |
| 28 | When he believes that Tom is not guilty of the rape of which he has been accused , we know that Tom is innocent so when he is found guilty of raping Mayella Ewell , it is quite clear that the decision had been heavily prejudiced . |
| 29 | So when it is argued today that the sexual deviant challenges sexual difference by denaturalizing it through parody , the realization of the early modern transvestite that both the deviant and the difference are effects of culture rather than nature is being revived and sophisticated . |
| 30 | On this basis alone the islands have clearly exceeded their carrying capacity , the more so when it is realised that almost all the food imports are in the form of foreign aid . |