Example sentences of "when in " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the plea of a young Eritrean boy as he was being dragged back to the plane that had just brought him to the UK , when in September 1990 , he and his sister were denied access to the asylum procedure . |
| 2 | For one thing , the criticism could easily rebound on the people who run these places , when in most cases they know how bad things are themselves but they ca n't do much about it . |
| 3 | Take care not to move the plant when in flower , as the buds will drop . |
| 4 | When in her twenties , nothing could stop her and she was proud to remember marriages faltering and once even , Astrid 's , biting the dust . |
| 5 | I am a jealous , possessive sodden Kleenex style bitch when in love . |
| 6 | When in this empty say |
| 7 | Even when in lectures , which was not often , his mind was elsewhere . |
| 8 | Even the ever-ebullient Sir Peter Parker saw parts of the commuter system ‘ rattling into decline ’ , and nobody was surprised when in 1979 the government referred the services to the Monopolies & Mergers Commission . |
| 9 | When in trouble he could , like a god , make himself invisible or turn himself into an animal . |
| 10 | When in Rome etc . |
| 11 | When in use , the semi-circular wheel guard of the Hitachi deflects sparks , chippings etc away from the operator . |
| 12 | RSPCA spokesperson Amanda Avis explained : ‘ Owners are likely to be required to : Have the animal neutered ; get compulsory thirdparty insurance ; have the dog permanently identified and registered , and ; when in public , comply with muzzling and leashing regulations . ’ |
| 13 | And during the years when Pound was most under Yeats 's influence , Pound too embraced this ideal — as when in 1912 he went with Yeats and some others to pay an act of homage to one of the last English representatives of the type , the Sussex squire Wilfred Scawen Blunt : |
| 14 | His malevolence towards Pound , his friend since their college days in Philadelphia , is extraordinary ; and when in 1920 he amplified this piece in the prologue to his Kora in Hell , Williams compounded the offence by quoting selectively from a private letter that Pound had written him . |
| 15 | On the other hand , when in the ruined court of Eblis the bees find ‘ wild grass for their pleasure ’ , that is good too . |
| 16 | When in Auckland A cultural misunderstanding has led to a young Cook Islander being fined £75 by a New Zealand judge for squeezing the buttocks of two white women in a Wellington street . |
| 17 | When in peak condition , White is one of the most stylish throwers in a game which only too easily breaks down into brutishness . |
| 18 | For instance , an individual may be under the jurisdiction of his own laws even when in a different territory . |
| 19 | All ranks when in action look at , and study , the facial expression of the Officer in Command . |
| 20 | Provincial branches of Narkomzem only contacted Moscow when in need of salaries and funds — otherwise they led independent lives . |
| 21 | When in September 1922 the ARA discovered that the Soviet government intended to export grain in considerable quantities , most foreign relief organizations joined in the hue and cry . |
| 22 | When in fruit the lower part of the flower inflates and the ripe seed inside can rattle around , giving this plant the alternative name of ‘ red rattle ’ . |
| 23 | Certainly he waved his arms about more than most men when in action . |
| 24 | Irony was to the fore when in 1925 he wrote of the Russian Revolution , but behind it was a more important urge leading him to the poem ‘ Le Voyage ’ of his favourite Baudelaire . |
| 25 | The parliamentary leadership was usually assailed by the left for having failed to carry out socialist policies and having compromised with capitalism when in government . |
| 26 | He was , however , disappointed when in 1985 a planned merger with the Imperial Group failed to go ahead . |
| 27 | When in 1967 E. R. Leach made exactly the same point on the BBC , there was a national uproar with bishops and pundits of all kinds fulminating in the newspapers against the impiety of the idea , in much the same way that they had done against Engels almost a hundred years before . |
| 28 | When in 1972 the Uganda Asians started coming to Britain , the government 's Uganda Resettlement Board operated a deliberate policy of dispersal . |
| 29 | But when in one class he had taken the register and pronounced their names correctly , there had been some laughter from non-Indian children ( who were a minority in the class ) but floods of embarrassed giggles from Asian children , who seemed to prefer their names to be mispronounced in school . |
| 30 | Wexford , very much a countryman at heart , marvelled that the townsman calls grass green when in reality it is as many-coloured as Joseph 's coat . |