Example sentences of "[noun] when it [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Reputedly in poor condition when it surfaced last year ‘ glossed and cleaned up ’ was one description the painting has been consigned from the Wernher Collection at Luton Hoo , Bedfordshire .
2 The VPC may make an announcement on the proposal when it meets next Thursday .
3 Bristol Crown Court has heard how Mrs Lorraine Hurkett , 26 , and her daughters Sharon , four , and Lisa , two , died after being struck by Flook 's Vauxhall Nova when it jumped red lights .
4 So , next Tuesday and Wednesday , Christie 's in Amsterdam expects a full turnout of buyers when it sells 28,000 pieces of Chinese porcelain from a burnt-out junk shipwrecked around 1690 off Con Dao Island , Vietnam .
5 And if it was n't , My goodness it was a job when it come wet weather and it maybe be lying flat and it all had to be set up , and we had stooks for days .
6 Conversely , Habitat flew in the face of expert opinion when it introduced pack-flat furniture on to the American market .
7 Gradually , all was revealed that is , people , including the authorities and the KGB , realized that the Odd-Bod Greek who had spent all those years collecting the ‘ rubbish ’ that no-one needed had in fact made a collection that was now worth a great deal of money , and it reached a point when it became awkward living in Moscow with the collection .
8 Toyota plans to make them at Georgetown when it doubles annual car output from 200,000 to 400,000 in the next few years .
9 The Commission imposed a four-year supervision order in August 1990 against the West German company Advanced Nuclear Fuels GmbH for serious violations of safety regulations when it transported 130 kg of enriched uranium through Luxembourg in what purported to be empty containers .
10 Sainsbury won much publicity when it appointed former Friends of the Earth director Jonathan Porritt to be its environmental policy adviser .
11 There are plenty of occasions when the High Court exercises a supervisory jurisdiction over tribunals or bodies whose procedures allow for a more relaxed approach to the rules of evidence , but this does not detract from the fact that the High Court is performing the functions of the High Court when it exercises this jurisdiction .
12 An area of mystery is rational to God , but faith must suspend judgement and not press human reason to answer questions when it has insufficient information .
13 " The history of the Russian people " , wrote Shchapov from prison a month later , " fills our heart with the belief and the hope that sooner or later a time must come for the Russian people when it acquires political self-consciousness and , as a result , political self-government " .
14 The right of reply privilege does not merely protect responses to criticisms made in Parliament , of course : it is a privilege of general application , arising from the legitimate interest of individuals in protecting their reputations , and it is shared by the media when it facilitates that interest .
15 Sandvik broke new woodworking ground when it introduced that Sandvik XT range of saws last year .
16 The new Holiday Inn at King 's Cross , London , will also have a Landis & Gyr system , controlling energy , fire and security systems and elevators when it opens next year .
17 ( a ) The welfare principle Under s1(1) of the Act the child 's welfare must be the court 's paramount consideration when it determines any question relating to a child 's upbringing .
18 It is hoped that Rambert will be one of the first companies to appear at the Festival Theatre when it opens next year , by which time Christopher Bruce will have taken over as artistic director of the company with which he used to be a leading dancer and choreographer .
19 The BMA 's understanding when it left last Wednesday 's talks , he said , was that that no longer applied .
20 The use of a mode register reduces the number of operation codes required , but it does not eliminate the problem of an instruction being given operands of one format when it expects another format .
21 Time itself is finite — a government will not devote it to passing less desirable and more controversial laws when it has better things to do with its time .
22 It hardly seemed to augur well for the firm 's chances when it goes head-to head with the likes of Brown Boveri ASEA or GEC Alsthom .
23 Number seven ‘ Owain Glyndwr ’ is currently undergoing overhaul and No 8 ‘ Llewellyn ’ is the next for treatment when it finishes this season 's services .
24 However , in August Saudi Arabia dealt the government a severe blow when it established diplomatic relations with the mainland .
25 Well they did n't know and they to it were towing Julie 's car and the tow belt snapped , and of course when it jerked this car forward it cut the petrol off .
26 DEC quit looking for an Alpha RISC second source when it became apparent foundries were n't willing to make the kind of investment needed without knowing whether the thing was really going to take off , says Electronic News .
27 The latest version of DataClub — version 3.0 — has just been announced by Novell , which acquired the technology when it bought International Business Software Inc a year ago .
28 In this respect Ferguson thought that the Warner Bros film was a good indication of what could be achieved by Hollywood when it tackled social problems honestly and he summed it up by returning to one of his favourite points about Hollywood that ‘ even half a loaf on the national stomach is at least nourishment taken in ’ .
29 She said the Edinburgh summit had been a tense time for the family when it seemed all Mr Garel-Jones ' work on Maastricht could have come to nothing .
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