Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adj] when a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Mr Samson had a lucky escape in 1990 when a van ploughed into the side of his car . |
| 2 | According to the official hagiography , Lei Feng was a soldier in Shenyang , the capital of Liaoning province , who died at his post in 1962 when a washing pole fell on his head . |
| 3 | The 1905 Convention was considered at the Sixth Session of the Conference in 1924 when a Protocol was agreed permitting accession by States not represented in 1905 and some further work was set in hand which led to the publication in 1929 of a proposed revised Convention . |
| 4 | The biggest example had been the General Strike of 1926 when a settlement was negotiated with Churchill . |
| 5 | Things had come to a head in 1990 when a release extenxded a shut-down by several days at a cost of £250,000. a CAT , involving a wide cross-section of disciplines , was set up and reviewed incidents from 1987 onwards . |
| 6 | Ojomoh , by now the South West England Under-21 decathlon champion , developed into a formidable rugby forward and had just joined Bath in 1989 when a letter from the Home Office threatened to wreck his life . |
| 7 | The same thing happened in Strasbourg in 1114 when a mob feared clerical lenience towards a heretic and took matters into their own hands . |
| 8 | There was the occasion in 1979 when a valve malfunctioned and was ingeniously fixed up with a handy piece of angle iron . |
| 9 | They had been children together at the village school in the ‘ fifties , staying at home whenever their parents needed them , finishing with the whole business of education at twelve when a wage might be earned . |
| 10 | All I knew was that North Yemen was on the south western coast of the Arabian peninsula , that the language was Arabic and that the country had been closed to the West until 1962 when a revolution overthrew the ruling Imamate . |
| 11 | The next national issue to take the form of open public discontent was in the summer of 1987 when a group of about 700 Crimean Tatars staged an unprecedented demonstration in Red Square . |
| 12 | In Andrew Allan 's book of memoirs he relates how he was standing in the lobby of the New York Hotel Algonquin in the summer of 1947 when a man came up to him and said ‘ I 'm Robert Service and I think I recognise you . |
| 13 | One of the most infamous of all football riots took place in Glasgow in 1909 when a crowd of around 6,000 invaded the pitch at full time . |
| 14 | Werner Reichert , of Egremont Road , Whitehaven , joined the Company in 1950 when a number of skilled German weavers were recruited and is now only one of two left . |
| 15 | One of the earlier manifestations of pressurisation hazards was the Comet 1 accident near Rome in 1954 when a fatigue crack was found to have propagated from a cut-out in the top of the fuselage designed to accommodate the automatic direction finder aerial system . |
| 16 | A number of deaf people , including children , lost their lives during air raids by German warplanes on the British mainland , including a family of eight when a bomb scored a direct hit on their dug-out . |