Example sentences of "when [pron] is [vb pp] " in BNC.
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1 | When everyone is prepared , you call out one of the words . |
2 | When someone is bereaved they have to make considerable readjustment socially speaking . |
3 | When someone is said to act or react with ‘ full ’ or ‘ sufficient ’ awareness — qualifications which recur in our argument without further explanation , with no doubt irritating frequency — it is implied that he is aware of everything relevant to his choice of means or ends . |
4 | Our choice of ‘ aware ’ , as a philosophically uncorrupted word which can help us to approach philosophical problems from a different angle , does have something to do with its recent currency in the valuations of ordinary discourse , as when someone is said to apply abstract principles without being aware of other people as persons , or to have lost by too exclusive concentration on the uses of things awareness of the colours of dawn and the scent of the flowers . |
5 | It is suggested that when someone is threatened with a weapon during a crime the victim may focus his or her attention on the weapon to a degree which may subsequently hinder identification of the assailant . |
6 | When your skin becomes damaged by sunburn it loses heat and moisture more easily and when it is extensive then sunstroke follows when someone is dehydrated and lacking salt . |
7 | When someone is asked a question , it is likely that before answering he will direct his gaze away from the questioner 's eyes ( Argyle and Cook , 1976 ) particularly if the question requires some thought . |
8 | On letters written on typewriters made from old toothbrushes and elastic bands , prisoners facing death tell their correspondents of daily life in the jail , of the regulations , of the procedure before an execution is carried out , of how their cell light shudder under the strain when someone is electrocuted in the chair . |
9 | ‘ When someone is told to do something , their good discipline ensures the job is done . |
10 | It is always sad when someone is driven into a corner and becomes desperate . |
11 | you have all heard rumours about who is using clenbuteriol and when someone is caught farmers will say : ‘ It 's about time the Department caught up with him ’ . |
12 | When someone is infected with HIV , the virus is present in body fluids and inside some of the body 's cells . |
13 | Having looked briefly at some of the background to anticipated grief and why it occurs we need to consider how it gets expressed when someone is expected to die . |
14 | A chases B. When B is caught , s/he freezes , eyes closed , counts to 5 , then chases A. The game continues for as long as you want — or to a pre-set time limit , or when somebody is caught three times , for example . |
15 | ‘ When somebody is taken in , in a distressed state , there should be supervision to ensure they stay in the hospital , ’ Mr McFall said . |
16 | Child runs away and hides when she is called . |
17 | When she is stabled she may be vitamin A , D and E deficient . |
18 | 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 . ’ |
19 | He is thoroughly domesticated and loves cooking elaborate meals for her when she is absorbed in her work . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | When she is finished and suitably stunning , regally stunning , I am disappointed . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | ‘ 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 ! ’ |
24 | 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 . |
25 | The student 's understanding of the wide range of topics taught will be tested only when she is required to put it into practice . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | Her solicitor will be with her when she is interviewed , he said . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | 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 . |