Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun pl] when [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The firebird dined exclusively upon golden apples and its powerful wings created strong winds when the bird took to the air ; as he flew , all the other birds would fall silent in awe at his grace . |
| 2 | Space in rural bureaux is often short , hours are often limited and the portability of the microfilm system has many advantages when the information system can not be permanently stored . |
| 3 | ‘ But I am afraid Caroline has other obligations when the party ends . ’ |
| 4 | Make simple commands when the child is paying attention . |
| 5 | We have introduced automated welding techniques into the workshop which should show real benefits when the company secures larger volumes of work . |
| 6 | He suffered personal injuries when the cooker exploded . |
| 7 | Four of the casualties received serious injuries when the device ripped through a gents lavatory on Platform Four . |
| 8 | A woman suffered minor injuries when the car she was in collided with a van in Victoria Road , Consett , last night . |
| 9 | The council should have stopped these dealings when the district auditor began to question their legality in the summer of 1988 , but the new options were taken out between then and 23 February this year , when the council decided to cease making payments on the transactions . |
| 10 | ‘ With the reorganisation we will become leaner and stronger to prosper in difficult trading conditions and obtain high profits when the economy finally stabilises , ’ said , chief operating officer . |
| 11 | If the UK for example , purchases foreign currencies when the Fund 's holdings of sterling are 75 per cent of the UK quota , then drawings equivalent to 25 per cent of UK quota are available without restriction . |
| 12 | At the same time it is expensive to cover all areas when the volume of business in some of them is small . |
| 13 | A trust is imposed on the heirs that they should manumit four slaves when the testator 's children reach puberty . |
| 14 | The stranded motorist is a classic example ; there is no duty to accommodate stranded travellers when the inn is full . |
| 15 | Examples were given of machinery overturning on land undermined by badger workings ; a horse and rider both suffering broken bones when the horse put a foot through the roof of a badger tunnel ; a nine-month-old calf breaking its neck when it fell into a sett ; a young lamb trapped in a sett ; extensive damage to spring grazing pastures by badgers grubbing for worms ; wheat crops flattened and eaten or soiled by badgers ; and numerous examples of TB in dairy herds close to large badger populations known to be infected with TB . |
| 16 | I do have eventless evenings when the book falls out of my hands . |
| 17 | Stephanie Turner from Office Cleaning in Reading recently broke all records when a Tunisian offered £2 million worth of camels for her . |
| 18 | Brian Currie 's proposed amendment , that the PCD move in stages towards openness beginning with more comprehensive reporting — and taking further steps when the Institute has experience of how the reporting works in practice , received strong support . |
| 19 | A related property of the cylinder is that if the shortest paths between pairs of points , such as BC , are drawn on the surface then these become straight lines when the cylinder is unrolled . |
| 20 | The willingness of England to welcome foreigners into its communities , celebrated during wartime in the pleasantries of Tawny Pipit ( 1944 ) , is thrown into question by the searing melodrama of Frieda ( 1947 ) , where the ‘ kindly , good-natured people ’ of Denfield become vicious xenophobes when the stranger amongst them is a blonde German girl . |
| 21 | With some cunning too ; from floor to ceiling the walls were a mass of statues , gargoyles , bas-reliefs and fluted columns that cast weirdly-moving shadows when the dragon gave an obliging illumination at Twoflower 's request . |
| 22 | It was a hell of a job even to complete some episodes when the money ran out . |
| 23 | They had taken several houses when the Troop officer — Captain Johnny Giles — was working his way room by room through another . |
| 24 | namely Thucydides ) , but voting techniques were not : there was no counting of votes at all ( something which would have taken several hours when the agenda was as crowded as that given at the beginning of Demosthenes ' fiftieth speech of 362 BC ) , and the ‘ consensus ’ was determined by a show of hands , which tellers then adjudicated , in a fashion no more precise than that of a modern shop-steward who ‘ counts ’ a sea of hands at a trade union mass meeting . |
| 25 | Can you foresee any circumstances when an exception might be made to this rule ? |
| 26 | The effect of this extended limitation is that , even where the next friend has started proceedings during the disability , the court will not strike them out for want of prosecution , since the minor or patient could start new proceedings when the disability ceases : Tolley v Morris [ 1979 ] 1 All ER 71 . |
| 27 | I can even find potted shrimps when the wind 's in the right direction . |
| 28 | The rebels also captured the Boulogne tank factory on the outskirts of the city , killing three civilians when a tank they had commandeered collided with a bus . |
| 29 | In 1932 it had captured international headlines when the church was attacked by a mob of evangelical bigots who went to work with sledgehammers , wrecking altars and destroying ornaments of which they disapproved ; perhaps the last violent twitch of the Puritan tail on English soil . |
| 30 | While it is possible to specify many reports when the system is first designed , their number and content change frequently . |