Example sentences of "when it [vb -s] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wo n't it be wonderful when it happens that you and I will be able to share a little secret that , in the womb of Walsingham , on our diocesan retreat ‘ a prayer was uttered and a commitment determined . |
| 2 | I wonder whether you could define the circumstances in which it is appropriate for the Government to introduce a law reform Bill and seek to push it through all its procedures in a day without it going to a Standing Committee to be considered carefully as to its detail , when it happens that there is no particular circumstance of urgency and when the reform concerned could lead to considerable difficulties for the courts if the measure is not fully considered ? |
| 3 | ‘ It helps to be a woman and I can exploit that when it suits because there are so few women in Parliament and it concerns a lot of people . |
| 4 | The loss of equilibrium is seen as being both a root cause of the crisis when it occurs and its manifestation . |
| 5 | But I am sure that a dynamic system which is flexible enough to respond to congestion as and when it occurs and can cope over time with any land use intensity changes without modification , will be more acceptable to the travelling public than rigid systems . |
| 6 | It is designed to watch the life of an application continuously , and when it detects that the application has crashed or hung , it recovers that application at an initial internal state or at the point at which data was last saved . |
| 7 | There is no way of monitoring arms once they are sold , although I believe Contraves when it says that it would have to fit the latest equipment to any ship , and would not fit Argentinian ships . |
| 8 | Social learning theory can be applied in many cases but is too extensive when it says that nothing in the human being is innate and that everything must be learnt . |
| 9 | But it does mention them in at least two contexts , one is when you 're measuring noise when it says that changes of twenty five percent should be recorded . |
| 10 | When it emerges that she has been doing her voluntary work in York for just six years , her enormous commitment becomes clear . |
| 11 | Listen to a car passing on the road : as the car is approaching , its engine sounds at a higher pitch ( corresponding to a higher frequency of sound waves ) , and when it passes and goes away , it sounds at a lower pitch . |
| 12 | If this trend continues , we can expect greater numbers of each successive cohort to reach pensionable age and to have both a longer expectation of life and fewer chronic illnesses and disabilities when it does than its predecessor . |
| 13 | If it does not , or when it files and gives notice that it is satisfied , or the court on application decides it needs no further information , then only is a return day fixed by the court . |
| 14 | ‘ You may stay and catch the ferry at first light when it crosses but that is your decision . ’ |
| 15 | It is the only substance , liquid at normal temperatures , which expands when it solidifies or freezes — a property shared only by diamond , silicon and germanium , three solids whose structures are related to that of ice . |
| 16 | ‘ From the beginning , that court has acted upon no narrow view of the cases covered by its duty to quash a conviction when it thinks that on any ground there was a miscarriage of justice … |
| 17 | What is required is a mechanism for thinning the lithosphere during the heating phase so that when it cools and subsides a region of negative relief is formed . |
| 18 | So you ca n't con you can control when it comes but you ai n't gon na ch you 're not gon na control how much you pay for , for , for almost anything , I 'm afraid . |
| 19 | In the meantime I intend to stay healthy enough to enjoy success when it comes and you 'd be wise to do the |
| 20 | In a series of meetings with employees he explained : ‘ A slimmed down , more agile Wedgwood Group will be much better placed to take advantage of worldwide recovery when it comes and to fight off our increasingly aggressive overseas competitors . |
| 21 | And I 'm scared of the light when it comes because I see things that are , like my face getting old . |
| 22 | They can never win , and when it looks like they might , someone moves the goal post . |
| 23 | When it looks like she 's finished , I sit her in front of the television . |
| 24 | Okay er the thirteen twenty five erm when it looks like they all went early . |
| 25 | This involves noting when the specified behaviour starts , noting again when it ends and recording the time lapse . |
| 26 | The study from which I am quoting reinforces this conclusion when it comments that : |
| 27 | That 's right , the , the , the id rewards the ego as it were with a feeling of pleasure when it 's when it 's met its demand . |
| 28 | What happens when it burns or explodes , so the okay , the potassium nitrate and the carbon and the sulphur burn and they give quite a bit of er C O two . |
| 29 | Of course this is not strictly true , but it makes the explanation simpler , and after all it does n't really make any difference to the cost whether you pay for your bulb or tyre when it fails or at the next service . |
| 30 | Limitations are imposed by the fact that you have to wait two months for the educational psychologist , you have to close the biology lab when it rains because it leaks and they have n't sent anyone to repair it yet , you have to apply for a short in-service course rather than the full-time MA that you really wanted to do because there are n't any secondments any more . |