Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | It said that equal treatment applied only from the date when the European Court made its ruling . |
| 2 | I lived only for the day when I would come into my own . |
| 3 | If your bitch is not neutered , you should be aware of the possibility of this behavioural change occurring soon after the time when she would normally have given birth , just over two months after her last heat . |
| 4 | Mr Rikanovic almost certainly knew nothing about Swiss law , by which anyone holding an item publicly for three years without judgment against him acquires title , but it is interesting that the visit occurred just at the time when Lord Northampton sought to have the ownership dispute heard by the Swiss courts . |
| 5 | The book begins with the 1950s , when baby manuals indexed ‘ fathers ’ as ‘ for fathers see mothers ’ , and men were ‘ angry ’ , ‘ tough ’ or ‘ queer ’ ; it ends with ‘ a new agenda for the 1990s ’ , described hopefully as a time when men join women in fighting for an end to exploitation of women at work and home , and the ‘ masculinity ’ we have known will come to a timely end . |
| 6 | The first prisoners had come here in the days when the state of war between England and Germany was still largely theoretical . |
| 7 | Indeed the Director of Kenya 's Institute of Education looks forward to a time when a syllabus may be devised which , in addition to a national ‘ core ’ , has specific defined areas where programmes devised at district or local levels will be developed and implemented . |
| 8 | British qualifications in public health medicine fully meet the requirements of the directives and the faculty looks forward to a time when the specialty will be formally recognised in all member states and not only in Britain , France , and Ireland . |
| 9 | He looks forward to the day when home computers are so widespread that the price for software will drop by 75 per cent . |
| 10 | There is no doubt she feels that she has paid a high price for her royal life and looks forward to the day when she can spend a weekend in Paris or , as she says , ‘ I can run along a beach without a policeman following me ’ . |
| 11 | Birthtales looks forward to the day when these female experiences are considered to be a valid subjects for inclusion in galleries . |
| 12 | A number of the men absconded during the week , returning again in the evening when they said that they had been Christmas boxing . |
| 13 | Athletics , too , had moved away from the days when black sportsmen in the USA were forbidden to compete against whites . |
| 14 | The success of Alain Aspect 's team in confirming experimentally one of the more subtle predictions of the theory ( New Scientist , 6 January , p 17 ) came just at the time when , in an echo of the great days of J. G. Crowther , The Guardian published Terry Clark 's report of an experiment in which a macroscopic object can be made to behave , in some respects , like a single quantum ‘ particle ’ , and when these weighty tomes arrived for review . |
| 15 | Where in the 1930s the mother was given solemn warnings as to what would happen if she disobeyed the rules , the mode now is to refer her , with continual reassurances however , to what might possibly result from some mistaken handlings : ‘ Here 's what happens once in a while when the needs of the child are n't recognized ’ ( Spock , 1946 , chapter on ‘ The Two Year Old ’ ) . |
| 16 | Regular breathing exercises , especially done early in the morning when the air is fresh , will clear the mind and invigorate the body . |
| 17 | Too often , it was remembered only when some chore required to be done as on the night when William Black arrested the men on the covert operation and someone was wanted to allay with a concocted story any suspicions which might be forming in the mind of Seán McNamee . |
| 18 | Spring snow , as you might imagine , occurs late in the season when the offpiste is covered with a fall of snow too heavy to ski as powder , which remaining untracked , freezes into a firm — but not rock solid ( because it has not been compressed by skiers ) — cover . |
| 19 | In that moo , Jinny caught an echo of the bellowing noise Florence had made earlier in the year when they took her calf away . |
| 20 | She is full of admiration for the care and attention she is receiving at the hospital but is already looking ahead to the time when she is strong enough to go on to a convalescent home . |
| 21 | Clearly , the writer is also looking forward to the day when the Word of God will become flesh and live among us . |
| 22 | My reason for not having done it myself and my father 's reasons for not having done it with the National Gallery is that , in the case of Yale , I 'm looking forward to the day when there 'll be other people interested in English art who will give paintings or money to the Center for British Art just because it is the Center for British Art , where they would n't do it if it was the Paul Mellon Center for British Art . |
| 23 | Helen is looking forward to the day when Jenny can also be treated but this ca n't be done until she stops growing . |
| 24 | Even though he was looking forward to the day when she moved on , he was already beginning to sense that her leaving would be something of a wrench . |
| 25 | But I 've been just as happy lying , through the long June evenings , on her mother 's grave , and looking forward to the moment when I can join Catherine there ! |
| 26 | The time and effort demanded of them may put a strain on their relationship with a partner , who may have been looking forward to the years when they could be alone again as a couple . |
| 27 | In retrospect , Labour 's leadership team miscalculated : they could have wrung more from a week when the party was so eagerly compliant . |
| 28 | Is it really necessary for you to have no claim if you are indeed made redundant or treated unjustly at the time when the contract finishes ? |
| 29 | The Second period is that which starts from the beginning of life and reaches onward to the time when the law of the survival of the fittest with its ruthlessness could no longer serve the aspirations towards increasing happiness that were beginning to creep into the dawning consciousness of primitive man . |
| 30 | The word ‘ plague ’ was used loosely in an era when medical knowledge was rudimentary . |