Example sentences of "[subord] when it be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , the visitor could be forgiven for being a little disappointed , although when it is floodlit at night the theatre very much comes to life . |
| 2 | An important point to bear in mind when choosing roses for pressing — or any other flowers , for that matter — is that once anything has been flattened it appears much larger than when it is viewed three-dimensionally . |
| 3 | When the laser is reading information from the small , inner diameters of the disc , the disc 's rotation is significantly slower than when it is reading data from the larger , outer diameters . |
| 4 | Water holds a fascination for everyone , but never more so than when it is moving . |
| 5 | There is little evidence , however , to correlate serum concentrations after the dose with toxicity , and indeed experimental nephrotoxicity caused by gentamicin is more severe when the total daily dose is divided than when it is given by a single bolus , when concentrations after the dose are higher . |
| 6 | There is perhaps no better assurance of the reality of a fundamental drive than when it is seen to flourish in the most difficult and primitive circumstances . |
| 7 | The same piece of information is seen differently when it is received from a favourite and trusted subordinate than when it is received from the manager of the intelligence section : the manager of the intelligence section is neither respected nor trusted . |
| 8 | This was to be expected ; it is an essential part of the mechanism that at any given value of Δz , the particle should be hotter when it is ascending than when it is descending . |
| 9 | There will clearly be more shadow when the sun is at right angles to a ( closely planted ) row than when it is shining along it . |
| 10 | It may be fashionable to decry Robbins — and many of the universities ' problems stem from the rapid expansion of the 1960s which followed his report — but his pertinent description of the aims of higher education is no less valid today than when it was written . |
| 11 | When food was clumped , a thrush , after finding a food item , turned through a sharper angle than when it was spaced out , but kept the length of each jump constant independent of the food distribution . |
| 12 | . And nine times out of ten when I ask the congregation whether your church is bigger now than it was when it was founded nine times out of ten the congregation say , it is smaller now than when it was founded . |
| 13 | But there can be no appeal on the grounds that a house is worth less than when it was valued . |
| 14 | But there can be no appeal on the grounds that a house is worth less than when it was valued . |
| 15 | Such reductions might be marginal and therefore the enhancement tended to have less impact than when it was used for cross-school initiatives . |
| 16 | with the vein 's with the valves in everywhere , yes , it 's because they 've got to somehow or other , you 've got to somehow or other get the blood back up to the heart again , it 's not under pressure is it any more , cos it 's lost a lot of its pressure and the way it gets back to the heart of course that is it 's lying alongside the bones and the arteries and as you 're walking around , okay , the arteries are still having the pressure working , the muscles are still working and the vein lies next to it and the blood is able to be milked up , it 's milked back up to a non return valve , that shuts off and it ca n't drop back down any further and the next bit does the next bit up , okay , and then that shuts off and eventually it gets back to the heart and the capillaries what will that look like when it 's bleeding ? |
| 17 | — a one-page plan describing what you are going to do and the order you intend to do it in ( a PROCEDURAL PLAN ) ; — a one-page plan outlining what your essay should look like when it is finished ( a STRUCTURAL PLAN ) . |
| 18 | The fact that the break-up value of many large corporations is greater than their share value shows pretty clearly how much value corporate managers can subtract from their subsidiary businesses , but in fact few of us know exactly what managerial added value would look like when it is occurring . |
| 19 | When the switch is open the pins are held at +5V via R1 — allowing the SRAM to be removed , whereas when it is closed the pins are switched direct to ground — ( ) V ) switching the SRAM into circuit . |
| 20 | Oh , yes , revenge is never so sweet as when it 's deserved . |
| 21 | Widcombe Manor , with all its crisp carving on pilasters , columns , quoins , swags and urns , is as fresh today as when it was built — perhaps by the Bath mason Thomas Greenaway as it is a fine display of all the decorative details he could do best . |
| 22 | Statham Lodge was built in 1742 in extensive wooded grounds as a country manor house , and remains as graceful and elegant now as when it was built . |
| 23 | Much of the detail contained in this chapter remains as true now as when it was written . |
| 24 | Sadly , that remains as true in 1992 as when it was written in 1989 . |
| 25 | Once mistaken for a joker , he could henceforth be seen as a crank : an important advance in reputation , though this playful and darting mind was seldom so serious as when it was spoofing , or so earnest in intent as when making a joke . |
| 26 | One in Devon has 70 members and is carried on much as when it was founded in 1799 . |
| 27 | It would seem then that in our example there was an unconditional appropriation of the contents of each bag as when it was emptied into Mrs. Jones ' coalhouse . |