Example sentences of "and [noun] when it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly Russia has openly intervened with military force to control its satellites like Hungary and Czechoslovakia when it thought they were stepping out of line and also supported the introduction of martial law in Poland to curb industrial unrest . |
| 2 | Hugh Tait has taken the lead in trying to distinguish between fact and fiction when it comes to fakes and forgeries . |
| 3 | He had rheumatism and was known to be a bit quick ; tempered and impatient , but even Mother remarked how surprised she was at his skill and patience when it came to doctoring animals . |
| 4 | There has to be a new evenness of balance between parents and schools when it comes to making judgements about how schools should be managed . |
| 5 | One of the most unusual items is a grandfather clock featuring the figures of Adam and Eve when it chimes Adam passes an apple to Eve . |
| 6 | Sexy underwear 's got nothing on thermal britches and vests when it comes to keeping you cosy in the depths of winter . |
| 7 | Is your child all fingers and thumbs when it comes to getting dressed ? |
| 8 | It seems that the dolphin has been able to eliminate frictional drag and turbulence when it swims , a feat never achieved by any human-made vessel . |
| 9 | Erm , I 've been thinking that I ca n't chair this meeting and take the notes and things when it becomes , and if it , the fund comes through and it becomes the audio description project as opposed to this group , and you know we will be widening out a little bit , I wonder if we should actually have a chairman type person . |
| 10 | Having said that , however , most left academics and activists when it comes to the electoral crunch do vote Labour , excusing their commitment by saying that they do so " without illusions " but perhaps signalling by their actions that they do see some kind of meaningful choice at the polls . |
| 11 | The thing will be aimed at the corporate and commercial transaction processing markets and will run SQL relational databases like Oracle and Ingres when it comes to market in 1994 or 1995 . |
| 12 | That he managed to summon enough energy to make any collections at all during his stay is something of a miracle ; had he been more thorough and punctilious in his methods he would have saved history , as well as himself , a lot of time and trouble when it came to corroborating the theories that were to bring him such fame , and infamy , many years later . |
| 13 | As things stood when he became minister , the empire created wholly new regiments and divisions when it expanded its forces in wartime . |
| 14 | He went on to criticize the Holy Office for acting as judge and jury when it condemned theologians without giving them an opportunity to know what they were accused of , or of responding . |
| 15 | The mere idea made her feel faintly sick , as well as excited , but not sick enough to refuse the apple pie and cream when it came . |
| 16 | The fact that mothers are usually the first object of love for their offspring creates real differences between boys and girls when it comes to relinquishing that tie . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The new Holiday Inn at King 's Cross , London , will also have a Landis & Gyr system , controlling energy , fire and security systems and elevators when it opens next year . |
| 19 | In other words , the Conservative party , and its propertied core constituency , became interested in new forms of appeal and organization when it became apparent that the political reliability and social stability of the lower orders could no longer be ensured by traditional methods of social and political control . |
| 20 | The important difference between habituation and conditioning when it comes to context specificity appears to be that the latter involves the recall of associative information whereas habituation requires no more than the recognition of the stimulus as being familiar . |
| 21 | That is the trouble with the Labour party : one has to distinguish between its rhetoric and reality when it comes to law and order . |
| 22 | The flute adds brightness to oboe , clarinet , bassoon , and horn when it doubles them at the octave . |
| 23 | There are occasions when time drags , and others when it flies . |
| 24 | A £3.5m batch of new trains will join the fleet operating a direct two-hourly service to and from Middlesbrough and Thornaby when it comes into full operation on May 11 . |
| 25 | A £3.5m batch of new trains will join the fleet operating a direct two-hourly service to and from Middlesbrough and Thornaby when it comes into full operation on May 11 . |
| 26 | However , his complex arguments and bitter feuds with the Holy See were in the realm of politics ; kings , emperors and popes were well practised in setting aside or utilising matters of faith and devotion when it came to controlling the apparatus of temporal power . |