Example sentences of "when one is [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There needs to be a facility whereby , when one is looking at a particular cross-reference , one can call up the entry or part of an entry to which that cross-reference refers . |
| 2 | The facilities are here , they have an important role and when one is looking open-mindedly — and systematically at a teaching problem one can not possibly ignore them . |
| 3 | The Minister used the word " can not " , but there is no such thing when one is dealing with Her Majesty 's Government or Parliament . |
| 4 | For when one is dealing with such volatile temperaments , the slightest thing may result in my instant dismissal . |
| 5 | But when one is dealing with associative use , we have to do with a binary distinction ; the adjective is introduced solely to indicate that its property , even though applicable to some other entity , is associated with the entity of its noun phrase , and here there are only two possible states — either the property is associated , in the view of the speaker , or it is not ( and of course by a slightly curious consequence of the communicational process , the state must always be the positive one , since if the property were not felt to be associated with that entity and needed for identification , then the adjective which designates that property would simply not appear ) . |
| 6 | The buyer naturally has the opposite concern and , in the absence of a formal back to back contract , when one is dealing with standard conditions of purchase the best that can be accomplished is to incorporate a provision like cl 1.3 of Precedent 2 , which notifies the seller of the possibility of prime contracts , and attempts to impose their terms upon the seller , coupled with an opportunity for the seller to examine them and a warning that they will apply , even if not examined . |
| 7 | Very useful when one is taking early retirement . |
| 8 | One can then say that it is only things of the second sort which count as things his action prevented , when one is calculating its good and bad effects , and thus distinguish Bentham 's criterion of rightness and wrongness from a rigorist one . |
| 9 | Recent years have made teachers familiar with this strategy , and with the costs that are associated with it , especially when one is trying to negotiate with a fairly implacable demander . |
| 10 | He says : ‘ There is boredom when one is trying to avoid awareness that one is very angry or disappointed with the other person . |
| 11 | With spreadsheet products not always well-differentiated in terms of the basic calculations that they can do , considerations such as the quality of printed output carry some weight when one is choosing from the array of packages on offer . |
| 12 | John Lennon 's ‘ Imagine ’ , so powerful when one is listening to it , may afterwards be quite easily broken down into fairly disparate elements : radical text ; rock-ballad melody , harmony and orchestration ; singer-songwriter ( ‘ confessional ’ ) piano ; soul/gospel-tinged singing . |
| 13 | According to one influential cognitive model ( Coltheart , 1985 ; see Figure 1 ) , there are two distinct reading routes that might come into operation when one is reading aloud . |
| 14 | When one is aiming simply to identify an entity for a hearer , in the nature of things one will tend to find enduring characteristics more reliable as the means of doing so , although there will certainly be a proportion of cases where some " occasional " property is just as useful . |
| 15 | The tension-relieving effect of cutting may be extremely important when one is considering therapeutic strategies to counter the behaviour . |
| 16 | When one is considering law in the hands of the judges , law means the body of rules and guidelines within which society requires its judges to administer justice . |
| 17 | That is particularly relevant when one is considering a diverse range of hazardous wastes . |
| 18 | It is fair to say , particularly when one is considering overseas relations , that there was some form of national sentiment , but at the same time one should guard against the assumption that this was a dominant force in determining men 's attitudes on all occasions . |
| 19 | Did they complain about the Fujitsu factory , which takes some beating when one is considering eyesores ? |
| 20 | HOW COMFORTING TO KNOW THAT WHEN ONE IS FINDING CITY LIFE A TRIFLE TIRESOME , ONE HAS FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES GRACIOUS ENOUGH TO INVITE ONE OUT FOR A DAY IN THE COUNTRY … |
| 21 | When one is asking questions , however , one must never forget that the answers come from the respondents , so one must always be thinking about those respondents . |
| 22 | Bad roots of title include leases ( when one is conveying the freehold ) , wills and equitable mortgages . |
| 23 | But these ‘ less-eligibility ’ arguments are surely at their weakest when applied to food , and virtually untenable when one is talking about people incarcerated for fourteen years or more . |
| 24 | Arguments about absenteeism ( not borne out incidentally by the surviving wage-books ) are hardly relevant when one is talking about piece-work in large firms . |
| 25 | That line of analysis tends to indicate that when one is interpreting s740(3) and the meaning of the expression " relevant income " ( meaning " income which can directly or indirectly be used for providing a benefit for an individual or for enabling a benefit to be provided for him " ) the taxpayer may be having the benefit of a slightly generous interpretation if the Revenue permit , in any year in which income arises , the amount of the relevant income in that year to be reduced by the amount of expenditure incurred in that year . |
| 26 | Caution may need to be exercised when one is making statements about the relationship in the gap . |
| 27 | This means that when one is treating a patient with homoeopathy , a substance is used which produces in a healthy person symptoms and signs similar to those presented by that patient . |
| 28 | When one is selling , one 's duty is basically to obtain the money agreed , and to relieve one 's client of any obligations relating to the property sold , and the mortgage redeemed . |
| 29 | Nearly thirty , at the mercy of involuntary depressions which seemed causeless , and which struck at him ‘ just when one is feeling cheerful ’ , he analysed his feelings with considerable insight and honesty . |
| 30 | Two cultures rarely understand each other , especially when one is waxing dominant . |