Example sentences of "that when it is [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 ) . |