Example sentences of "[adj] when a [adj] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | With such tourist pulling potential it was only a matter of time before the line of sections of it would hum again to wheel flange above fishplate … and so it proved in 1972 when a narrow gauge scheme was hatched to open 5.5. miles of trackbed between Pant ( Merthyr Tydfil ) and Torpantau . |
2 | Ian Gow , Conservative member of Parliament for Eastbourne since 1974 , was killed on July 30 when an Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) bomb exploded underneath his car as he was preparing to leave his home in the village of Hankham , near Eastbourne in Sussex . |
3 | A total of 223 people were killed on May 26 when an Austrian Lauda Air Boeing 767-300 , on its way from Bangkok to Vienna , crashed over Suphan Buri province in north-western Thailand . |
4 | The real beginnings , however , were made in 1969 when a central cataloguing institute was set up in Rome , which became the present Istituto centrale per il catalogo e la documentazione ( ICCD ) when the Minstero per i Beni Culturali was founded . |
5 | Stephen 's big break came in 1984 when a young Manchester band by the name of The Smiths turned up to record a single , Heaven Knows I 'm Miserable Now . |
6 | The previous defeat by the United States came in 1950 when a powerful England side were beaten 1–0 in Bela Horizonte , Brazil . |
7 | A.C. Ladd sank his tee shot on the 330-yard 17th — a record held until 1928 when a 340-yard tee shot was holed at Stoneham , Hants . |
8 | Tension was further heightened on May 6 when a young Macedonian soldier was killed by shots from the crowd ( reportedly from a Croatian policeman ) when tens of thousands of Croatians demonstrated outside naval headquarters in the coastal town of Split in protest at a continuing army blockade of Kijevo . |
9 | Arthurton 's innings was interrupted for 30 minutes after lunch on 117 when a tropical summer storm rained hailstones as big as cricket balls on the pitch . |
10 | Yet a significant event occurs in 1730 when a labouring class poet moves toward the centre of contemporary culture , eventually to be seen as a candidate for the laureateship . |
11 | But the inherent danger in adopting the confrontational approach was illustrated in 1980 when an undercover SAS officer was brutally gunned down by IRA killers as he stormed a Belfast hide-out . |
12 | The last public challenge to the DVR 's policies failed in 1986 when an elected volunteer worker from the Dart Valley Railway Association was blocked from becoming a Director by the Board . |
13 | He was put down early in 1986 at the age of eighteen when an incurable heart condition was diagnosed . |
14 | In Tesco Supermarkets Ltd v Nattrass , a shop manager of a large supermarket chain with considerable managerial powers , was held to be " another person " , thereby allowing the company to escape liability for a breach of the TDA 1968 when a misleading price offer was displayed due to his failure to check it . |
15 | He continued to box until 1910 when a deteriorating eye condition signalled the end of his active career . |