Example sentences of "[that] when it be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has such great familiarity with the keyboard that when it is hidden for him by a cloth spread over it , he plays on this cloth with the same speed and the same precision . |
| 2 | I believe , however , that when it is felt almost unanimously in the House of Commons that something should be done — on a ’ no-line Whip ’ — Governments have at least a moral obligation to answer questions properly . |
| 3 | The position we have reached is that when it is said that the sea appears to a viewer to be uniformly blue this is neither a statement about what Reid calls the ‘ visible appearance ’ of the sea , nor straightforwardly a statement about the viewer 's opinion . |
| 4 | Or , more ingeniously , the underside can be mirrored so that when it is flipped up it will look for all the world like a large looking glass . |
| 5 | It is difficult to avoid the further thought that the given characterization of consciousness is elliptical , and that when it is filled in , as it must be , we are no further ahead , but have our definiendum turning up in the definiens . |
| 6 | The Birmingham School approach examines spoken discourse , seeking to interpret it in terms of a rank structure and showing that when it is analysed after the event , there is more order and form in it than might at first be apparent . |
| 7 | I should make it clear that when it is decided to intervene in a local authority 's own proposed development , the local authority is required to apply to the Secretary of State for planning permission . |
| 8 | If such information was not attended to in the judgment phase then it is possible that when it is seen in the recognition phase it will be noticed for the first time . |
| 9 | For a long time it has been known that heavy drinking during pregnancy can badly affect a baby 's development so that when it is born , its face and head are deformed and it is mentally backward . |
| 10 | Nowadays , most discussion about adaptation assumes that when it is found , a fit between organism and environment is the result of evolutionary selection pressures and nothing else ( e.g. Lewontin , 1978 ) . |
| 11 | I think that when it 's expressed in terms of the kind of real conditions of child sexual abuse and rape and sexual harassment and domestic violence and getting paid half the amount of money that men get paid and not having any reproductive rights and sterilisation abuse — these really basic issues that feminism has addressed . |
| 12 | Maybe it 's the most important thing I do but I think that when it 's elevated in the way we were talking about sexuality being elevated , it 's done a disservice . |
| 13 | And I know I was madly , madly involved with the symphony to the extent that when it was done — and it is one of the few works I say this of — I would not dare touch it again . |
| 14 | One well in Bondgate stank so much that when it was drained the decomposed body of a three-month-old baby was found . |
| 15 | I think this is one of the chairman because there was so many horrendous forecasts in the summer and autumn about the S S A that when it was announced you know we thought it was goods news and of course it was n't , erm so this is why they 're trying to be prudent and we have kept in our proposals to the erm , has already mentioned that er , thank god , the er democratic growth has been covered this year and so on , erm , plenty of other things that we would like to see erm to comply with the government 's own legislation erm but they where with all . |
| 16 | What upset charities is that when it was made law here , the Department of Trade and Industry decided to make the ruling stricter and to include second-hand toys . |
| 17 | If the document is to be regarded technically as a matter of law , as a codicil , of course it need not contain any appointment of executors , but the position still is that when it was signed by Mr. Winterbone it did not contain any effective disposition at all . |
| 18 | He could obtain a ‘ Charging Order ’ giving him a charge over Dunn 's house so that when it was sold his debt was paid out of the proceeds . |
| 19 | Paul Newman had just secured his first major film role , with Pier Angeli in The Silver Chalice ( which was so bad that when it was shown on television in the Sixties , he took out newspaper advertisements apologising to viewers for having to watch it ) . |
| 20 | I know that when it was finished , he turned to his wife and announced triumphantly : ‘ There , Bessie . |