Example sentences of "when [pron] is [verb] that " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 He said : ‘ What is the housewife going to do when she is told that the price of her electricity has now reached 10 pence per unit .
2 It was agreed that the official opening of the museum take place at 2.30 p.m. on Saturday 24th October 1992 — when it is hoped that as many members as possible will attend .
3 More recently , Twin Peaks ( 1990- ) may be less surprising in its unsettling mix of crime , pastiche and parody when it is recognized that its coauthor , Mark Frost , was also a script writer of the first Hill Street Blues series .
4 It seems to me quite arbitrary to disallow man-made machines this ability , when it is accepted that men are machines , and that such an unknown machine as a Martian may also perceive meanings .
5 A spokesman said tribunals rarely ever order reinstatement when it is accepted that the allegations are true .
6 This state of affairs causes no surprise when it is recognised that ‘ what is understood is at least as dependent on how the receptor perceives the message as on how the communicator presents it ’ ( Kraft 1979:148 ) .
7 There can be no good reason to object to this when it is recognised that efficiency incorporates personal factors such as safety , health and quality of working life as well as system factors such as productivity and quality of work .
8 When it is recognised that England may have lost about one-third of her population in these critical years , the lull in military activity becomes understandable .
9 More fundamentally , however , because the suggested analogy at once breaks down when it is recognised that the public interest immunity presently in question is not , or at least not principally , confidentiality-based .
10 Not of course that the reasoning is invalid , or that the paradigm itself can not be questioned when it is sensed that something is going wrong ; indeed it is its destiny to lead eventually to intolerable anomalies and be replaced by another .
11 The poignancy of this catastrophe is the greater when it is realised that Andrew Carnegie , the greatest benefactor the British public library system has ever known , was himself a cotton man who started life as a boy in a cotton mill .
12 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 .
13 Indeed , this was the very reason that the Departmental Committee on the Treatment of Young Offenders had recommended , in 1927 , the reform of the system : ‘ When it is realised that these courts are specially equipped to help rather than punish the young offender , we hope that the reluctance to bring such children before will disappear . ’
14 The importance of the distinction between hire-purchase and sale becomes apparent when it is realised that different legal results followed .
15 All of this should be easily understood when it is realised that the effect of the contract being avoided or frustrated is generally that the parties are no longer required to carry out the contract ; they are excused .
16 One escapes the old analogy only by submitting to another ; the role of logic , even when it is suspected that there is something wrong at the foundations of the argument , is confined to applying and criticizing concepts thrown up by the spontaneous process of analogizing .
17 Nor from the point of view of the speaker , is there any hard and fast boundary between these and a non-restrictive adjective used in order to make explicit some property , when it is suspected that the hearer is unaware that it is implied by the use of the noun , as with poisonous in : ( 10 ) she threw Maisie 's lunch-box out of the window because it had a poisonous red-back spider in it Note that ( 10 ) further exemplifies the fact that whether an adjective is taken as restrictive or not depends on the rest of the entity-identifying phrase rather than just on the head noun .
18 This is particularly likely to provoke hostility when it is believed that there is an element of wilfulness in the old person 's responses .
19 The full measure of that remark may be gauged when it is recalled that he was a senior member of the University Senate and a Fellow of Peterhouse , Cambridge .
20 This was clearly important when it is recalled that Matadial , when cross-examined about the discrepancy between the January statement and her evidence , gave the explanation that the earlier version was due to a mistake by the police .
21 This is a reasonable result when it is recalled that the metric components correspond to the classical gravitational potential ( Section 4.3 ) .
22 This is particularly important when it is felt that ageing people can no longer look after themselves at home and some form of residential care is suggested .
23 The new rule , which should have come into effect on 1 April , will now be brought in when it is felt that more companies can afford the 5,000 koruny ( US$160 ) needed to fit the device .
24 When it is argued that because the British Parliament is now under the control of the executive , nothing should or can be done to alter the situation , this denies the capacity of politicians and the public to remedy defects in their own institutions .
25 When it is discovered that the combination of certain proportions of charcoal , sulphur and saltpetre produces disagreeable results , then there is no reason why the benefits of gunpowder should be restricted to China .
26 But when it is discovered that a substance harms women 's reproductive health , women of childbearing age are usually kept from jobs that might expose them to it .
27 This goal is about to be reached when it is discovered that a great deal more investment is required .
28 When it is said that the continuation of the sterling area was an ‘ implicit ’ decision ( in sharp contrast to the debates on overseas expenditure ) the point being made is that this continuation was not the result , it would seem , of any debate within the Attlee government .
29 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 .
30 But these histories are more intelligible when seen as part of a whole and when it is understood that the forces that encouraged or hindered their growth were deeply rooted in the local society of which they form so characteristic a part .
  Next page