Example sentences of "[verb] in [adj] when [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the finer are those of the Palffy Palace ( 14/158 ) , designed in 1723 when the palace became the property of the von Fürstenburgs . |
| 2 | Much is sometimes made of the rivalries or jealousies fostered by these networks ; a ‘ revolution ’ occurred in 1974 when the person appointed to head the CNET , Jean-Pierre Souviron , was not , like his predecessors , the product of ENST but of another engineering ‘ grande école ’ — l'Ecole des Mines . |
| 3 | A further change occurred in 1804–5 when the firm 's style was altered to Rundell , Bridge & Rundell following the senior partner 's nephew , Edmond Waller Rundell ( 1768 ? –1857 ) , son of Maria Eliza Rundell [ q.v. ] , being admitted into the business . |
| 4 | The Collection 's first significant expansion occurred in 1966 when the University purchased the remarkable collection of the theatre historian , Dr Richard Southern . |
| 5 | A striking example of this occurred in 1989 when a decision of the Divisional Court interpreting immigration rules was considered by the Treasury Solicitor 's Department to be wrong and too advantageous to the prospective immigrant . |
| 6 | The Corps originated in 1859 when the Volunteer Movement was formed as a result of the panic over the threat of a French invasion . |
| 7 | That was true , Erika admitted : the July Plot in 1944 when a group of officers , aristocrats to a man , had tried to assassinate Hitler and been caught and hanged with piano wire — and filmed being hanged — and the film shown at Hitler 's headquarters as after dinner entertainment … . |
| 8 | It was saved in 1962 when a group of enthusiasts , led by Dean Hughes , formed a committee to organise the event . |
| 9 | New splits came in 1939 when the signing of the Soviet-German Pact and the outbreak of war created a major division in the American Socialist Workers ' Party . |
| 10 | The introduction he now regards as ‘ inevitable ’ came in 1965 when a friend — who happened to be chairman of the RSPCA 's Leeds branch — asked him if he liked animals . |
| 11 | The opportunity for unification came in 1859 when the Kingdom of Sardinia — the island of Sardinia itself , together with Piedmont , Savoy and territory around Nice — sided with France in a war against Austria . |
| 12 | The death sentence came in 1967 when a majority of members voted the British Phrenological Society into liquidation and most of its valuable library was given to University College , London , and to the University of Cambridge . |
| 13 | It was denied again in Sir John Eliot 's Case ( 1629 ) 3 St Tr 294 , a decision which , however , the Houses never accepted and which , after objections in 1641 and 1667 , they eventually rejected in 1668 when the House of Lords reversed the decision of 1629 and held that there could be no proceedings in respect of words said in Parliament . |
| 14 | A major change was made in 1980 when the policy of the Department of Health and Social Security in administering supplementary benefit was reduced to detailed secondary legislation , so that the supplementary benefit scheme is now as rooted in statutory provisions as the national insurance benefits . |
| 15 | Although the actual game has been going for over 65 years there was a slight change made in 1943 when the event became a charity match to raise funds for the specific purpose of the prevention of blindness . |
| 16 | The arrangement formalized a change made in 1975 when the ALP government of Gough Whitlam established the Order of Australia as an alternative award to those honours bestowed by the British monarch . |
| 17 | Limited gains were made in 1930 when the government agreed to make information available to sick women for whom pregnancy was deemed detrimental to health . |
| 18 | The same thing happened in 1984 when the province was denied a fixture against the Wallabies . |
| 19 | A similar attitude was shown in 1986 when the Law Lords stated that the Trustee Savings Bank and its assets belonged not to depositors but to the state , shortly before the Bank was floated on the Stock Exchange . |
| 20 | After a long campaign to set the record straight , including an investigation by a House of Lords committee , Salter was eventually vindicated in 1990 when the Department of Energy agreed to adjust the figures in its official literature . |
| 21 | The contempt proceedings began in 1987 when the Attorney-General , Sir Patrick Mayhew , alleged that the newspapers ' conduct in publishing material from Spycatcher , the memoirs of former MI5 officer Peter Wright , was intended , or was likely to , thwart the publication ban obtained by the Government in July 1986 against the Guardian and the Observer . |
| 22 | It began in 1756 when a fellow of the Royal Society called James Dodson had a problem . |
| 23 | It began in 1976 when a team of three educationists was appointed . |
| 24 | The saga began in 1985 when a report by the Property Services Agency ( which maintains Crown property ) highlighted the serious corrosion of the spire . |
| 25 | They are the latest development in an initiative which began in 1975 when a group of industry representatives launched the Site Management Education and Training Scheme . |
| 26 | The British Deaf Scout movement was born in 1910 when the Headmaster of the Royal Cross School , Preston , Mr. J.G. Shaw , was on a motor tour of Yorkshire during his July holiday , and got into severe difficulties at Skipton when his car ran off the road and broke down . |
| 27 | This was symbolized in 1908 when the World Sunday School Association held its sixth conference in Washington , under the presidency of F. B. Meyer , the Baptist who succeeded Newman Hall as minister of Christ Church , Westminster Bridge Road . |
| 28 | This became pronounced in 1949 when the College secured a long lease on two houses , 21 and 23 Cromwell Road , into one of which they moved the Senior and Junior Common Rooms , formerly housed in a hut in Queensgate . |
| 29 | The London SCCs originated in part from the Relief Committees established in 1899 by the School Board , and continued by the LCC until they were renamed in 1907 when the Council put into effect section ( 1a ) of the Education ( Provision of Meals ) Act 1906 , which called for the establishment of Canteen Committees . |
| 30 | The concessions granted to the League since 1929 were finally withdrawn in 1937 when the League representative on the National Executive was dismissed . |