Example sentences of "it be [adv] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reviews of exhibiting societies ' shows have constantly presented difficulties to critics , as it is only possible to give brief comments on some of the artists ' work ; how could it be otherwise when an exhibiting society shows several thousand works ? |
| 2 | Yet how could it be otherwise when they did not know where she was ? |
| 3 | oh dear , oh dear , just what will it be like when dad gets in ? |
| 4 | Basically like I say it 's just when I , when I bend it , |
| 5 | I mean it 's just when er , he 's basically |
| 6 | I 'm sorry mummy had to rush us so much this morning it 's just when we 're in a rush we have to get to school on time you see , it 's a bit rotten when you 're only three is n't it ? |
| 7 | Yeah , I know but it 's just when she 's sort of having to sit down all the time . |
| 8 | They can be interested on the central questions , if the central questions are sent in a framework that they do understand , and perhaps it 's best when it 's done by somebody who is bold , not afraid of being amateurish , not afraid of being controversial , because theology erm is a world that can mean obfuscation . |
| 9 | But it 's really when you 're together , you work on them more , do n't you ? |
| 10 | Now do welcome them , do make them feel at home , especially those of you who are new to the place you will know and remember what it 's like when you first come into a strange building that feels like home . |
| 11 | I mean it 's like when Shirl comes through like when Shirl comes through you know , they know all know Shirl does n't like bad what it means . |
| 12 | I mean it 's like when |
| 13 | But if you , like , you know what it 's like when we come |
| 14 | I mean it 's like when I walk in |
| 15 | always the way I mean it 's like when your trying |
| 16 | Well yes and they were it was you know the What impressed me also you know what it 's like when you go to these places I can remember going not so long ago to Blenheim and er just about to examine something and this thundering voice coming down the hallway , Do not touch . |
| 17 | their parents , but it 's like when they 're modelling in their bikini and they have to go , oh , I love the environment and erm , I support this charity , thank you very much , and I love world , and that 's it . |
| 18 | So , I can understand what 's going on , but it 's like when I saw it , I saw the R S C production , |
| 19 | There 's nothing wrong with being friends — it 's only when you do summat selfish it 's wrong . |
| 20 | ‘ You know it 's only when I 've had a drink I stop hearing those damned machines . ’ |
| 21 | I suppose that it 's only when you have the financial means that you get the treatment everyone deserves . |
| 22 | It takes a few moments to adjust — one moment one is dry , wearing dry swimming trunks and walking about , and the next one is progressively getting wetter ( including the swimming trunks , which somehow seems particularly inappropriate ) — and it 's only when half a length or so has been swum that the whole thing seems ordinary again . |
| 23 | And it stays like that throughout , so the baby does not use its mechanism to control the temperature , it 's kept at that constant degree of warmth and it 's only when the baby comes out that it has to start looking after itself . |
| 24 | And if you get It 's only when you get oily greasy stains that you think , oh I 'd better some ethanol or |
| 25 | The front of the machine sports some graceful curves , but it 's only when you take a peek round the back that you get some inkling that this one is different . |
| 26 | Technology is changing our world so much that small groups of people through computers and elsewhere are able to determine vast patterns of human behaviour and so it 's gon na be a long struggle but through our struggle in Africa and your struggle here where we all want democracy but democracy 's only a process what we have to contend with is also power because ultimately it 's only when you 're able to exercise that power that you can deliver for the majority of the people . |
| 27 | yes , because it 's only when the scheme actually starts to operate that you can er get a clear picture of what the cost are going to be , they are budgets , they are estimates and until you start incurring costs you ca n't be absolutely certain as to how the costs are gon na end up |
| 28 | It 's with an apostrophe is an abbreviation for it is , because you never , and I I think those three little rules there only apply only nouns have an apostrophe , pronouns never have an apostrophe and it 's only nouns ending in s , have an apostrophe and it 's only when they own the thing that follows , except when they , when they do n't end with an s , but you know the exception of men 's , women 's , children 's and sheep . |
| 29 | ‘ I think it 's good that men are now in this questioning mood , ’ she says , ‘ because it 's only when things are questioned that there 's any possibility of change . ’ |
| 30 | We do n't expect to do it overnight , though — it 's only when we are performing at a consistently high level that customers can forget some of their previous unsatisfactory experiences . |