Example sentences of "than when it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We are happy to legislate on something which is already happening in the game , in other words to make it legal for the hooker to strike as soon as the ball leaves the hands of the scrum-half — as happens in reality — rather than when it pitches . |
| 2 | Nowhere is the siren song of conservation more difficult to resist than when it combines a sentimental appeal to make a restoration project out of every down-at-heel relic , with the coded suggestion that it might even be a retail money-spinner in its own right if properly marketed by a curator and a press officer with a gift shop and a T-shirt designer on hand . |
| 3 | A train whistle or siren has a higher pitch as the train approaches than when it recedes . |
| 4 | Her mum 's 30-year-old wedding dress , altered to fit Joanne , was ruined at the cleaners and came back two inches shorter than when it went . |
| 5 | What is the Government 's attitude to Labour 's proposal for a defence diversification agency , bearing in mind that if it were so easy to create jobs through a Government agency , it is surprising that Labour has always left behind more unemployed than when it took office . |
| 6 | On few occasions has it shown less moral scruple than when it made a deal with Brezhnev to dispose of the Soviet gold . |
| 7 | Drugs always do better in nervous markets because people need them at least as much , if not more , when the economy is doing badly than when it starts to recover . |
| 8 | So it actually comes to us quite a bit smaller than when it 's filled in by them . |
| 9 | Closer than when it arrived there |
| 10 | This modified technique , involving the measuring of reaction time to clicks , was used by Holmes and Forster ( 1970 ) who showed that subjects were able to detect the presence of a click more rapidly when it occurred at a major constituent boundary than when it did not . |
| 11 | It would end up longer than when it started , right ? |
| 12 | What evidence is there , however , that , after nearly 22 years of sustained terrorist atrocities , the Provisional IRA is any nearer to achieving its objectives than when it started its activities in 1970 ? |
| 13 | I feel sure that it is a better Bill than when it started . |
| 14 | It drives around and the air that comes out of its exhaust is actually cleaner than when it comes in . |