Example sentences of "be [adj] when it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We respond to all four strongly , but cats are weak when it comes to sweet tastes . |
| 2 | They are stingy when it comes to overheads : in most discount stores , there are few staff in sight and goods are sold out of the boxes they come in . |
| 3 | The trouble is local authorities are autonomous when it comes to applying trading standards but Haverfordwest seems out of step with other councils on the issue . |
| 4 | But the civil servants have been vague when it comes to the detail of who is to be the competent authority , who is to foot the bill for its work ( and any extra studies it may require before giving consent ) , and how much of its deliberations are to be made public . |
| 5 | ‘ Jamie says you 're ruthless when it comes to getting what you want . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I have been lucky when it has come to the crunch but in life you make your own luck . |
| 7 | It had seven base stones and four capstones ; she knew it well ; she had been present when it had been discoverd and excavated . |
| 8 | I am sure when it opens in May 1992 , golfers will appreciate its outstanding beauty . |
| 9 | You will do that because you think their price will be lower when it comes to delivering them back to the lender at an agreed date . |
| 10 | It helps the illusion of expertise if you give precise measurements and proportions in recipes , but , alas , I do n't believe this to be possible when it comes to vinaigrette . |
| 11 | I do n't know where this Doctor had this idea from but I do n't know how many years ago , but I remember I had my Co-op news every week and , and he said that he could see us going a full circle and I 'm just wondering when he 's gon if I 'll be alive when it comes round again because I , I do n't think that these big mass stores erm as I say they 're all right you see , people with plenty of money with a car they could fill the freezer up . |
| 12 | Rulers and governments might well be willing when it suited their own purposes to overlook the difficulties which precedence , titles and formal procedures in general so often caused . |
| 13 | You 'll have to be careful when it comes to choosing a wife . |
| 14 | I ask the House to be careful when it has one of its own Members in its charge . |
| 15 | Sarella smiled happily , pushing her other feelings aside and admitting , ‘ I 'm superstitious when it comes to work . |
| 16 | Stereotyping can be dangerous when it allows us to distance ourselves from others , and to fail to see the individual through the distorting lens of our own prejudice . |
| 17 | Even Elena 's advice could be unwelcome when it interfered with his contemplation of the project . |
| 18 | For all your alleged love for the poor and the oppressed , you seem to think that the public ought to be selfish when it votes . |
| 19 | Moreover , the Thessalians by tradition held the presidency of the Amphictyonic Council ( Syll. 175 ) which could be useful when it came to putting a motion . |
| 20 | They may also prove to be useful when it comes to breeding , a point that will be covered later in the series . |
| 21 | Gravel tidies have been found to be invaluable when it comes to fish digging . |
| 22 | I send you my love and thoughts , and God grant the news may be good when it comes . |
| 23 | It was a crass question — and an honest answer — but then there is nothing to say that very clever people ca n't be stupid when it comes to everyday human exchange . |
| 24 | I 'm old-fashioned when it comes to musicals , usually drawing the line after Sigmund Romberg . |
| 25 | She may also invite someone who will be important when it comes to selling it in Cabinet — someone like Willie Whitelaw . ’ |
| 26 | We may keep certain parts of ourselves well hidden from view , but our behaviour can speak volumes about attitudes , preferences and prejudices , some of which can be important when it comes to dealing with disputes and differences of opinion or possible action . |
| 27 | Now how a man who works on can think there 's anything funny about species I just ca n't understand erm but there it is. erm well , suppose , however , that in my view wrongly one did suppose that there was something erm in this sort of idea of the decoupling between the processes which we observed in single populations and erm the sort of mechanisms leading to large scale evolution , what kinds of processes are held to be important when it comes to large scale evolution events ? |
| 28 | That is to say that a word in bold in your word processor file should still be bold when it gets onto the page , even though it has changed from being monospaced typescript to a real typeface and may be in a different size altogether . |
| 29 | Grattan 's Parliament in Ireland , furthermore , can never have been sovereign or , if it was , then the Parliament of Great Britain itself ceased to be sovereign when it established it . |
| 30 | The idea was that the distinction should not be apparent when it came to examining human activities and social relationships in actual urban areas . |