Example sentences of "the [adj] when it " in BNC.
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| 1 | It led her to believe that her deluded behaviour was within the realm of the acceptable when it was not . |
| 2 | Wilko does n't seem to be the smartest when it comes to totting up transfer prices ! |
| 3 | I commented to Miklós that I had little hope of the New World solving the problems of the Old when it could not face up to its own difficulties . |
| 4 | There is precedent for saying that a drunken belief that the car belongs to the accused when it did not does not give a s.12(6) defence : Gannon ( 1988 ) 87 Cr App R 254 . |
| 5 | But she put it up here , I think probably to make it easier , I mean if anyone 's had , I do n't know if anyone had children in the seventies when it was the fashion to wear very long skirts , or even as I find going up and down stairs in my nightie , you 're more than likely to fall and break a leg and the baby 's neck at the same time , if you wear a long skirt . |
| 6 | News is that it 's alive and well in Eau Claire , Wisconsin , and is even considering an initial public offering of shares — and IBM Corp , which holds a large minority stake , will be marketing and supporting the SS-1 when it comes out . |
| 7 | It is quite reasonable to make this identification : in practice , a process which can either behave correctly or diverge will probably do the former while it is being tested , but will do the latter when it is being used in earnest . |
| 8 | in the fifties when it first started and how |
| 9 | He was careless , and in S 963 gave the indiction as the fourth when it was actually the fourteenth . |
| 10 | These include whether we can produce grain at prices which match those of the Paris basin or the re-emerging countries of the former Eastern Bloc , once known as the bread basket of Europe : can we produce and process milk with the efficiency of the Danes who last year paid producers an average price of 25 pence a litre for milk against 21 pence in Britain ; can we match the Dutch when it comes to producing , and in particular processing pigmeat ; can any horticultural enterprise compete with Spain with its cheap labour and sunshine . |
| 11 | ‘ You do n't know who 's hiding in that snicket by the church — it could be the vicar or it could be Dracula , they look the same when it 's dark . |
| 12 | It is n't a good idea to draw a sketch first of how you want the finished work to look , since it never seems to look quite the same when it is finished . |
| 13 | In a stinging attack , Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown mocked Mr Major 's habit of looking on at soccer and cricket matches — and said the Premier did the same when it came to the economy . |
| 14 | It was much the same when it came to doctors for the people . |
| 15 | And the same when it came to er subtracting , you see , it were all done on the board and you copied it onto your plate On to your slate . |
| 16 | The formal publication stage is much the same when it comes to record content — peer and institution review will still be looking for the same things . |
| 17 | the same when it 's cooking either |
| 18 | From the moment in the mid-Eighties when it became known that Baron Thyssen was hunting a new location for his famous collection of paintings housed until only a few months ago at the lakeside Villa Favorita near Lugano , city fathers and heads of state began to vie for the prestige of exhibiting it . |
| 19 | ‘ There 's something terribly … decadent about lazing in the Caribbean when it 's raining in England , ’ she murmured . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ To us , they are still the best when it comes to forward play ’ , says Taiwan national coach Jason Lin . |
| 22 | THE French are the meanest when it comes to sending Christmas cards , a survey revealed yesterday . |
| 23 | Obviously the proposer and seconder of this motion do not remember what this scheme meant to people in the forties when it was demeaning and degrading and a great intrusion into their private lives and I do feel Mr Mayor that as it was a a it was demeaning and degrading in the forties it will be no less demeaning and degrading in the nineties . |
| 24 | Wear shorts on Monday when the temperature is 65 degrees and be in winter clothes the next when it drops to 35 degrees . |