Example sentences of "when [noun pl] [be] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This criticism was valid in the early days of the human capital theory but not later when attempts were made to be more specific . |
| 2 | When a government is weak and under pressure and when policies are seen to be failing , little authority may attach to a Prime Minister and the advantages of office are rapidly turned to personal disadvantage . |
| 3 | This tends to come as a bit of a shock and explanation is required , to wit : there is absolutely no point in persisting in salaried employment when taxes are rising to 59 per cent and beyond , and interest rates are equally upwardly mobile . |
| 4 | When entries are transferred to the Working-Set they are packaged into bundles which are owned by predefined groups of lexicographers . |
| 5 | This problem is even more pronounced when labels are applied to children or staff , particularly in relation to perceived needs . |
| 6 | When variables were added to a model the change in deviance follows an approximate χ 2 distribution with degrees of freedom ( df ) equal to the number of additional parameters fitted . |
| 7 | If this view is held then it makes sense to borrow funds now at low rates to obviate the need for borrowing later , when funds are expected to be more expensive . |
| 8 | The Dreyfus case produced grave excesses , when Frenchmen were urged to ‘ arroser du sang des Juifs l'arbre de la liberté ’ and a Papal Nuncio reminded a French diplomat that ‘ la religion catholique avait en reserve des indulgences spéciales pour ceux qui , lorsque la bonne cause le réclame , versent le sang des juifs et des paiens ’ . |
| 9 | Like your hair , nails are primarily composed of keratin , a fibrous , porous protein , whose cells stretch when nails are exposed to water . |
| 10 | The power generators have argued that the price rises came about when subsidies were given to large firms , which added to the domestic power bills . |
| 11 | The problem for women is highlighted by a thirty-year-old trainee RSPCA inspector , dismissed because she wept when dogs were put to death . |
| 12 | When goods are delivered to the retailer they are first checked against the delivery note and entered in the stock records . |
| 13 | ‘ Rule 4 : When goods are delivered to the buyer on approval or on sale or return or other similar terms the property in the goods passes to the buyer : |
| 14 | For example , when goods are entrusted to a repairer for repair , he has a lien over them to compel payment of his repair bill . |
| 15 | But when studies were extended to the less seriously ill , uncertainty prevailed . |
| 16 | True , we had shown that protein and RNA synthesis increased when chicks were exposed to the stimulus , but how could we be sure this was due to the fact that they had learned something about it ? |
| 17 | When mealworms were given to a group of meerkats by means of a cleverly designed dispenser their activity increased enormously and the pattern was on a par with that of the wild populations ; without such a dispenser they showed more lethargic , passive and atypical behaviour patterns . |
| 18 | When things are cooled to within a few degrees of absolute zero — minus 273.16°C — strange things happen . |
| 19 | Yes I think that probably this had been er very wise in this er in so I 'm not saying that they 've helped us or anything but they 've kept the middle of the line and erm In the beginning when things were beginning to whatsit er the inspector sent two policemen down here and asked me would I ask the lads not to do any damage to property and all this , and that and said , Right there 's a lodge tonight and I shall ask them I shall tell them to do that . |
| 20 | When sounds are said to be ‘ voiced ’ , they are produced with vibration . |
| 21 | Care should be taken when items are claimed to be damaged ‘ beyond economic repair ’ particularly if the confirmation is received from a firm which has not been heard of previously . |
| 22 | When modifications are made to the categories employed in the monitoring , large statistical changes can follow . |
| 23 | When pensions are compared to average incomes , post-war pensions are demonstrably lower than the relative values of those in existence in the mid-nineteenth century . |
| 24 | I assure the hon. Gentleman that , as and when abuses are drawn to the attention of the regulator or the prosecuting authorities , the correct action will be taken , as has been happening in recent months . |
| 25 | As another explained , ‘ To most people a family row is Mummy and Daddy having a few words ’ , but when police are called to a domestic dispute in some areas of Belfast , |
| 26 | Debbie did not know her surname nor her address and when police were called to the hospital the little girl was too distressed and confused to help them with their inquiries . |
| 27 | The drama began when police were called to a pub car park in Blaydon , Gateshead , where a man was reported sniffing glue in a car . |
| 28 | When tests are given to adults , it may increase co-operation if a test has high face validity . |
| 29 | Through reference to pictures produced by Aboriginal children in Australia , Wales illustrates what can occur when children are exposed to quite different cultural influences . |
| 30 | When children were expected to be unquestioningly compliant , parents would suppress undesirable behaviour without discussing the whys and wherefores of their prohibitions . |