Example sentences of "a [noun] when [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | HUDDERSFIELD have an electronic scoreboard at Leeds Road — and it could blow a fuse when the Aussies play us next month ! |
| 2 | If a grandparent were to set up such an accumulation trust for the benefit of grandchildren , then income can be paid out to a grandchild when a minor and unmarried , without the income being aggregated with the income of the grandparent or the parents of the beneficiary . |
| 3 | That is particularly difficult in a recession when the future looks bleak for everyone . |
| 4 | A typical example occurred in a case when the Employment Appeal Tribunal overturned an industrial tribunal 's decision that it was not practicable to consult where 33 redundancies were required urgently , at a time when take-over negotiations were being conducted in secret . |
| 5 | This is a case when the west bank could be the best bet , providing the bream have a beat in that area . |
| 6 | ‘ I have jumped a bit when a car has backfired or the central heating has rumbled thinking for a moment I was hearing gun fire . |
| 7 | on the bus a bit when the weather improves I shall like to go to Harrendle |
| 8 | I bumped it against a door-frame when the earthquake started this morning and I lost my balance . ’ |
| 9 | Mr Billy Baker is the longest serving Engine Driver , having started in the Depot in 1948 as a fireman on the old steam engines , becoming a Driver when the diesel locomotives were introduced into Donnington . |
| 10 | He was carried off on a stretcher when the game was only 10 minutes old , after he had flown into a tackle from behind on Dean Saunders . |
| 11 | It 's rather like a computer when the disc goes wrong — you know the info is there but you ca n't tap into it . |
| 12 | That offer became a contract when the plaintiff accepted it . |
| 13 | Mr Crumwallis jumped a foot when the telephone rang . |
| 14 | If the accused helps himself to services , for example , by sneaking into a cinema when no one is looking , there is no obtaining by deception . |
| 15 | Already something of an embarrassment after the publicity surrounding the leak of his report , he became something of a liability when the results of the polygraph tests also leaked out to the press . |
| 16 | The fuss these ideas created , and a storm when the bishop of Caesarea in Palestine ordained Origen presbyter without reference to the bishop of Alexandria , moved Origen to migrate to Caesarea ( 231 ) . |
| 17 | Hazel heard its beak hit a pebble in the grass with a sound like a snail-shell when a thrush beats it on a stone . |
| 18 | I have a few questions of my own erm in , in doing it and erm was er when you say that , that males had males parental investment erm I was wondering how they , how can a male when the male decides to desert how can they be certain if the female is going to take care of the offspring , because I was wondering if erm if probability like the based by their genes it does n't matter if one female does n't take care of the offspring because they produce more offspring |
| 19 | He therefore only makes a judgement when a profit-decision has to be made , and in doing so takes the risk that he could be wrong . |
| 20 | Flashman missed the troubled Third Division club 's FA Cup defeat by Bournemouth with a bad back — the result of his alleged assault on a photographer when the club were fined £50,000 for financial irregularities . |
| 21 | Making a noise when a predator is nearby is , after all , a dangerous thing to do ; it may attract the predator to the noisy bird . |
| 22 | Detective Constable Ian says the girl was in a tent when the youths burst in and attacked her . |
| 23 | TWO men accused of killing a pensioner when a mugging went wrong had the charge found not proven at the High Court in Glasgow yesterday . |
| 24 | Indeed , the optic lobe contains a wealth of neurons which respond specifically to elaborate patterns of motion , such as the optic flow fields generated on a retina when an insect turns around or flies over the ground , but there have been disappointingly few descriptions of neurons with interesting spatial properties . |
| 25 | If you like , it is the same as the body producing the symptom of a cough when the lungs have become congested and need to get rid of the secretions in them . |
| 26 | TV GIRL Yvette Fielding was dragged screaming behind a horse when a stunt backfired . |
| 27 | So too , to a lesser extent , do the herbaceous plants of the bush ( 9000 species in Western Australia alone ) , which stood belly-high to a horse when the first Europeans arrived in the late eighteenth century . |
| 28 | He was knocked down and injured by a horse when the rider lost control while riding too fast . |
| 29 | The prosecution claimed that the murder victim was alone in a carriage when the defendant — aged 15 years at the time — confronted her , demanding money and brandishing a knife . |
| 30 | The previous Labour Government not only robbed pensioners of the Christmas bonus but , in one year , failed to uprate pensions for eight months — there was a gap when no improvement was made . |