Example sentences of "when [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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1 | He was the sort of person who might , after much hard study , have finally learnt two phrases from the language of flowers : the gladiolus , which when placed at the centre of a bouquet indicates by the number of its blooms the hour for which the rendezvous is set ; and the petunia , which announces that a letter has been intercepted . |
2 | The reading undertaken while under stress — while waiting for the dentist , for example , or while sitting in a plane during turbulence , or when fatigued at the end of the day — is usually of this order . |
3 | Audiences might have enjoyed reinterpretations , as when Odling at the same period suggested that phlogiston was an anticipation of the idea of chemical energy , rather than a non-substance . |
4 | The financial constraints on Ayr racecourse are reflected in much-reduced prize-money for today 's Scottish Champion Hurdle , which features a rematch between Fidway , fourth in the Champion Hurdle , and Granville Again , who fell when challenging at the second-last . |
5 | However , when interviewed at a 4-month follow-up , more of the experimental group showed overall improvement in their social problems ( 70 per cent ) than the control group ( 53 per cent ) . |
6 | The box also has a sloping front making it easier to use when sat at a desk . |
7 | Frequently it is found that an accident is the result of a combination of adverse circumstances , each of which is normally containable but when occurring at the same time can lead to disaster . |
8 | Trained in Ireland at the Cullinane yard for his first run of the 1984–5 season , he was then moved to Paddy Mullins , winning a handicap hurdle at Limerick Junction on his second outing for his new stable before his mood let him down again in the 1985 Gold Cup : he tried to pull himself up after a circuit and was tailed off when refusing at the last fence . |
9 | I was reminded of this , fresh as I was from reading some of the slanging that made the Bermondsey bye-election so appealing , when looking at a joint release from six trades unions . |
10 | Most people feel chilly instinctively when looking at a picture like this even though the photograph itself is obviously not cold . |
11 | When looking at a bag with this design make sure there 's enough room for your feet without compressing the filling . |
12 | As competent users of English , it is not easy for us , when looking at a piece of discourse which we understand , to imagine how it appears to the language learner . |
13 | When looking at a narrative design , the possibilities of obtaining different perspectives are especially significant : it is precisely the lack of a wide border which would have made the story of the Dido and Aeneas mosaic , from Low Ham , Som. , so hard to follow . |
14 | The DTI showed ‘ lack of a sufficiently rigorous and enquiring approach ’ when looking at the activities of the investment group . |
15 | Working with a graduate student , Andrew Himes , Dr Simpson decided he had overestimated the number of fat neutrinos , but that he still saw them , both when repeating his work on tritium and when looking at the beta decays of sulphur . |
16 | No such clear-cut patterns emerge when looking at the substance of their preferences : whom they had chosen to comment on , and whether they regarded them favourably or unfavourably . |
17 | One department is concerned with worldwide issues ; for example , when looking at the outlook for energy , it does not feel qualified to do this type of study itself . |
18 | When looking at the paddle and arm positions the important points are as follows : |
19 | Your eye makes a natural adjustment for this when looking at the scene direct so that the colour appears the same irrespective of the lighting . |
20 | Kelly , for example , can hardly control his incredulity when looking at the mythological world of demons . |
21 | A word can be misspelled , mis-recognised or mis-written , but all three cases appear the same when looking at the pattern recogniser output . |
22 | When looking at the calendar it 's worth bearing in mind that there is usually a year 's grace between the death of the previous Phoenix King and the coronation of his successor . |
23 | When looking at the factors associated with abuse it is , however , important to differentiate ‘ what we know ’ about physical abuse and neglect from sexual abuse . |
24 | When looking at the local underbelly of the centre initiative at Powick , it was seen that the provision of more than one psychiatric hospital within a district , after 1982 , meant certain death for one or other institution . |
25 | Nowhere is this more obvious than when looking at the competitive reactions to the acquisition of other companies . |
26 | These might now be labelled ‘ fundamental principles ’ and it is important to bear them in mind when looking at the limitations of the legal aid scheme ( Pollock , 1975 ) : |
27 | Such data are relevant when looking at the impact trade unions may be able to have on the national political process . |
28 | Whilst we talk freely about a " car " when looking at the thousands of bits ( or entities , in CAD terms ) there is no one part that contains the " true essence of a car " . |
29 | would say that there were no differences in mortality rates when looking at the various classifi classifications and control . |
30 | Some aspects of the nature of the site have already been discussed when looking at the effect of the building regulations . |