Example sentences of "[adj] when an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ian Gow , Conservative member of Parliament for Eastbourne since 1974 , was killed on July 30 when an Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) bomb exploded underneath his car as he was preparing to leave his home in the village of Hankham , near Eastbourne in Sussex . |
| 2 | The scandal began in September 1991 when an inquiry revealed that thousands of cheques had been drawn in excess of the account-holders ' funds at the House bank , thereby providing the offenders with limitless and interest-free credit . |
| 3 | A total of 223 people were killed on May 26 when an Austrian Lauda Air Boeing 767-300 , on its way from Bangkok to Vienna , crashed over Suphan Buri province in north-western Thailand . |
| 4 | At least 31 people were killed on Oct. 26 when an armed group numbering about 20 attacked a fishing village near the Cap Skirring tourist area , 600 km south of Dakar . |
| 5 | The pervading aura of peace was interrupted only in the early 1870s when an army of men carved a railway throughout its length , since when an undisturbed tranquillity has prevailed . |
| 6 | 9.3 When an employee is absent due sickness or disablement as a result of an accident arising out of and in the course of employment , the employee will be entitled to a separate allowance calculated on the same basis as the sickness allowance . |
| 7 | The SNC agreed to meet again in New York on Sept. 21 when an SNC delegation would attend the 46th UN General Assembly . |
| 8 | One piece read to the rally referred to the local effect of the militarization of Europe during World War II when an aerodrome was built locally , and was written by Polly Devlin , a journalist originally from the area . |
| 9 | Scare stories about Britain 's beaches have abounded since 1976 when an EEC directive laid down the acceptable limits of sewage pollution , the year Wessex Water set about turning the tide of increasingly dirty beaches . |
| 10 | The well-equipped organ has two manuals and was built by T. Hopkins and Sons of York who installed it in 1910 ; the air was pumped by hand until 1950 when an electric blower was installed . |
| 11 | 11.7 When an employee has been assaulted in the course of duty , the police must be called unless the manager and employee make a case for this not to be done . |
| 12 | Australia had been a whaling country until 1978 when an official enquiry , which was supported by all political parties , concluded that the public wished to see an end to whaling . |
| 13 | The proof came in December 1977 when an indiscreet civil servant in the Northern Ireland secretary of state 's team divulged the details of private conversations that he had listened to ‘ on the tapes ’ . |
| 14 | This question arose in the Strauss case in 1958 when an M.P. , taking up a matter on behalf of a constituent , made certain allegations against the Electricity Board . |
| 15 | One British Army soldier was killed and another was seriously injured on May 16 when an IRA bomb exploded under an Army van at an Army careers information office in Wembley , London . |
| 16 | Under United States pressure following the murder of three US nuns by the security forces , the junta appointed Duarte as President in December 1980 [ see p. 30685 ] ; he stood down in April 1982 when an interim administration succeeded the civilian-military junta . |
| 17 | Gp Capt R C Hockey sent Air Mail the excellent photograph of what happened at Kinloss on a dark night in October 1943 when an Anson was approaching to land at the same time — and on the same bit of field — as a Whitley was just starting its take-off run . |
| 18 | But the inherent danger in adopting the confrontational approach was illustrated in 1980 when an undercover SAS officer was brutally gunned down by IRA killers as he stormed a Belfast hide-out . |
| 19 | The last public challenge to the DVR 's policies failed in 1986 when an elected volunteer worker from the Dart Valley Railway Association was blocked from becoming a Director by the Board . |
| 20 | The accident at the graphite moderated , light-water-cooled pressure tube reactor at Chernobyl occurred on 26 April 1986 when an explosion produced an uncontrollable fire which lasted several days and led to vast quantities of radionuclides being lifted high into the atmosphere . |
| 21 | Their fame began innocently enough in 1893 when an enterprising baron founded a lottery to pay for the Rio de Janeiro zoo . |
| 22 | Another is the Great Orange Riot of 1971 when an Italian team , playing Spain in Cagliari , but tactlessly , without any Cagliarian representatives , was chased off the pitch by Outspan-wielding Sconvols . |
| 23 | 1.4 When an employee has been physically assaulted in the course of duty the police must be called in , unless the employee and the line manager make a case for this not to be done on professional grounds . |
| 24 | Many of them grew up during the student revolution of the 1960s when an extraordinary hostility to wealth , power and respectability came to dominate a generation . |
| 25 | The worst case was in July 1989 when an alternator set fell off at around 100mph at Harrow on the main line into Euston and caused a major derailment , fortunately with no more than a few injuries . |
| 26 | This has been open to doubt since June 8 , 1989 when an extreme left-wing group pumped 20 bullets into Valenzuela 's former chief , ‘ Wally ’ Fuentes Morrison . |
| 27 | It all started with a public meeting in 1989 when an action committee was set up . |
| 28 | One person was killed and six injured in Athens on July 14 when an anti-tank rocket narrowly missed Finance Minister Ioannis Paleokrassas ; the November 17 group claimed responsibility for the attack , which took place in Constitution Square , central Athens . |
| 29 | He was put down early in 1986 at the age of eighteen when an incurable heart condition was diagnosed . |
| 30 | A member of the Woman 's Royal Army Corps and a passer-by were injured on Feb. 20 when an IRA bomb fell from underneath a van and exploded in Leicester city centre . |