Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb -s] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus when someone hears of the death of someone they are close to the reaction is , ‘ But it ca n't be true . ’ |
| 2 | When somebody dies of something other than natural causes almost all civilised countries , except those engaged in war or civil rebellion , have a legal procedure under which the cause of the death is investigated . |
| 3 | Lady Macbeth provides Macbeth with the determination he requires when she hears of the witches prophesy and her husband 's title of ‘ Thane of Cawdor ’ , she immediately begins planning Duncan 's murder . |
| 4 | When she complains of the drudgery of studying sound changes , Bernard hints that she does not really have what it takes to be a scholar . |
| 5 | Christian attorney Constance Cumbey goes a step further in The Hidden Dangers of the Rainbow when she writes of the ‘ coming age of barbarism ’ , and describes the New Agers as a ‘ viable movement that truly meets the scriptural requirements for the Antichrist and the political movement that will bring him on the world scene ’ . |
| 6 | But I could n't agree more with Philippa Davenport when she writes of the formality that seems to have overtaken marriage celebrations , particularly in England ( page 47 ) . |
| 7 | It would be a mistake to dismiss this , as Selma G. Lanes ( 1981 , p.47 ) appears to do when she writes of ‘ mere graphic decoration ’ . |
| 8 | Mary Warnock provides a scathing analysis of the government 's attitude to higher education when she writes of the contempt that the government has for universities and their staff : |
| 9 | When she disapproves of something you 've said or done . |
| 10 | Prediction has been shown to be difficult , if not dangerous , when one thinks of all those worthy , well-written , sincerely felt , and critically-supported books that remain unread ( see Manning , 1969 ; Avery , 1972 ) , and those obvious , apparently superficial and mundane pot-boilers that gain young readers ' affections . |
| 11 | ‘ When one thinks of the number of miserably displaced children from broken homes who 've been given a sense of purpose by the Pony Club ’ Sukey was saying , then , lowering her voice , ‘ take Perdita Macleod . |
| 12 | I lived in the book , as — in your others : I liked particularly Isabella and Evalie , and their gay early middle age — how comforting , too , to be with people who find ‘ the Change ’ such fun , when one thinks of the depressing nonsense that most people make out of it … . |
| 13 | And when one thinks of individual subjects , why is mathematics typically in the science faculty when it is not a science ? |
| 14 | The total area dealt with before 1760 could hardly have exceeded 400,000 acres , a negligible amount when one thinks of England as a whole — only just over one per cent . |
| 15 | This lack is astonishing when one thinks of the innumerable ancient towns of England that richly deserve such a study . |
| 16 | This is all the more significant when one thinks of the nature mysticism that was so common in every variety of ancient paganism . |
| 17 | When one thinks of all the PM 's work these last four and a half years and of all he is and stands for , and that this is the response it gets , it makes one lose faith a bit . |
| 18 | Someone must be doing their housekeeping rather better at those hospitals , especially when one thinks of the help the Memorial Hospital gets from the WRVS and the Friends of the Hospital who raise a good deal of money and have done so for many years . |
| 19 | Of course , America has always been highly influential , but when one thinks of the Rolling Stones and Beatles erm and what have you in the sixties and seventies , and how much it has influenced Continental light music , not light music but popular culture , it is incredible . |
| 20 | It makes one wonder about that when one hears of someone of such frailty being pursued and put in prison for failing to pay a tax that everyone recognises was nonsensical from the moment that it was introduced . |
| 21 | When one hears of the hardships which could be caused to the high salaried , then surely in this country which claims to be Christian , we face not a political problem , but a moral one . |
| 22 | When one speaks of the biblical God , one automatically says ‘ He ’ : that God is profoundly male . |
| 23 | When one speaks of the intention of the parties to the contract one is speaking objectively — the parties can not themselves give direct evidence of what their intention was . |
| 24 | However , these shareholders are not the persons generally meant when one speaks of membership of the clearing house . |
| 25 | Even when it speaks of stripping it still adds . |
| 26 | ( The RSV seems clear enough when it speaks of them looking into the ark ( 6.19 ) , but the Hebrew will not really bear that sense , and would suggest they merely looked at it . |
| 27 | Persian values also made themselves felt at native satrapal courts : a recently published Greek verse inscription from Lycian Xanthos , put up by a local dynast , echoes Persian educational ideals ( ‘ riding , shooting and speaking the truth ’ , Hdt. i. 136 ) when it speaks of : The dynast in question is called Arbinas : he is certainly a Lycian but it is thought that the form of the name is Persian . |
| 28 | The Diploma in Advanced Legal Studies is closely tied to the LL.M. and M.Sc. , although it can stand as an independent qualification when it consists of study and examination in three courses selected from the LL.M or M.Sc. |
| 29 | What the hell is the midfield formation anyway when it consists of Rocky , Fairclough , Macca and Speed ? |
| 30 | ( To avoid getting bogged down with routine reporting at the expense of his DIA mission , he had telexed Ms Starnes from Zurich to say he had been denied entry , a diplomatic untruth that still gives him a twinge when he thinks of it . ) |