Example sentences of "when [pers pn] is [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Child runs away and hides when she is called . |
| 2 | When she is stabled she may be vitamin A , D and E deficient . |
| 3 | He says ; ‘ Every woman has an Aphrodite in her who is easily recognized , her chief characteristics being vanity , conniving lust , fertility , and tyranny when she is crossed . ’ |
| 4 | He is thoroughly domesticated and loves cooking elaborate meals for her when she is absorbed in her work . |
| 5 | When she is banished , the familial circle is cracked , a prevalent theme in the play , and the only way forward now is a deterioration of the family unit and of Lear 's mind . |
| 6 | When she is finished and suitably stunning , regally stunning , I am disappointed . |
| 7 | Secondly , in the devouring quality of a human or animal mother when she is driven to reclaim the life to which she has given birth . |
| 8 | ‘ No man could come near to imagining the anguish experienced by a woman when she is forced to give away her child so that she herself may live ! ’ |
| 9 | Note the startling sparsity of adjectives : she uses them only when she is forced to , so they seem pressed out of the nouns through sheer weight of need . |
| 10 | The student 's understanding of the wide range of topics taught will be tested only when she is required to put it into practice . |
| 11 | Her emotionally deprived life is enhanced briefly when she is read to in a churchyard on Sunday afternoons by the invalid cousin she had loved as a child . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ What is the housewife going to do when she is told that the price of her electricity has now reached 10 pence per unit . |
| 13 | Her solicitor will be with her when she is interviewed , he said . |
| 14 | Tantrums at this time are common when she is thwarted and she hits out at people and objects when they do not bend to her will . |
| 15 | This was first apparent in The Quest ( 1943 ) where the arabesques danced in many ways became the movement through which Una ( danced by Margot Fonteyn ) expressed the emotions aroused when she is assailed by the four false Knights and then her joy when rescued by St. George . |
| 16 | Laura Mancinelli 's Mozart 's Ghost ( 1986 ) combines two rather donnish mysteries : the protagonist is pursued by ‘ anonymous ’ telephone calls which consist of nothing but music by Mozart ; when she is spared further harassment by the entire Turin telephone system seizing up , she goes off in pursuit of the concealed manuscript of Plato 's last dialogue . |
| 17 | But it was surely more than a matter of stylistic fashion which prompted the Jesuit scholar Fr J. H. Pollen to preface his very useful collection of sources for the Babington Plot of 1586 , designed to kill Elizabeth , published in 1922 , with statements such as ‘ The interest attaching to Queen Mary 's wonderful personality is so great , that when she is taken away , all else seems to fade into insignificance . ’ |
| 18 | This is because the student asks a question about the use of some part of the library when he/she is motivated to learn that particular point . |
| 19 | It was agreed that the official opening of the museum take place at 2.30 p.m. on Saturday 24th October 1992 — when it is hoped that as many members as possible will attend . |
| 20 | In its most basic form the technique involves merely an outline , or when it is filled in , a silhouette ; but of course it can be much more elaborate than that . |
| 21 | Points to remember are : a wide joint looks wider when it is filled , and a narrow joint is harder to fill . |
| 22 | It is difficult to avoid the further thought that the given characterization of consciousness is elliptical , and that when it is filled in , as it must be , we are no further ahead , but have our definiendum turning up in the definiens . |
| 23 | More recently , Twin Peaks ( 1990- ) may be less surprising in its unsettling mix of crime , pastiche and parody when it is recognized that its coauthor , Mark Frost , was also a script writer of the first Hill Street Blues series . |
| 24 | The concept of honour , artificial as it can often seem , can be an abiding emotional force in fiction , but only when it is demonstrated fully and specifically through believable characters as well as believable action . |
| 25 | Any character may take this item , but each time it is used ( not just when it is worn ! ) , the wearer must make a successful WP test or suffer from despair for D10 turns . |
| 26 | If a firm is to be successful , it will have to generate sufficient income to cover the cost not only of financing a capital asset but of replacing it when it is worn out . |
| 27 | Infection commonly occurs in children and infants , and the clinical progression of the disease is similar to syphilis when it is seen in the sporadic form ; the late manifestations , however , tend to be seen at a much younger age . |
| 28 | Like the donkey it is despised by its enemies and mistreated by its friends , but only because it is bound to be treated unfairly when it is seen unrealistically . |
| 29 | There is perhaps no better assurance of the reality of a fundamental drive than when it is seen to flourish in the most difficult and primitive circumstances . |
| 30 | But : ‘ Arbitrary as it seems when only its individual terms are considered , the system becomes coherent when it is seen as a whole set ’ ( ibid . ) . |