Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [Wh adv] a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interest was awakened for some when a TV programme about Archbishop Robert Runcie showed him with his cell group . |
| 2 | The police investigation was sparked off in 1991 when a Sheffield woman made a detailed statement to police alleging abuse by the Hanbys while she was in their care as a child . |
| 3 | It drove a scoop wheel of 28 foot diameter which could raise 25 tons of water a minute , and was used until 1940 when a diesel engine and centrifugal pump replaced it , until the station was closed in 1980 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A further example is contained in an edition of the Evening Standard in 1976 where a news item reported ‘ at least 20 people were killed and many more feared dead or severely injured ’ in a train crash in Holland . |
| 6 | This had begun in 1958 when a Boundary Commission had been appointed to consider piecemeal structural reform in various parts of the country . |
| 7 | The service ended in 1958 when a sea plane crashed into the sea between Lisbon and Madeira . |
| 8 | The sinking was forgotten until 1977 when a M. Pearn sent a press-cutting recording the event to the Gosport Museum . |
| 9 | Lancaster Hole was found in 1949 when a caver sitting having his lunch on a still sunny day noticed the grass nearby waving and stirring as though a wind were moving it . |
| 10 | From an aerial view one can still trace the travellers ' ways it had in 1245 when a market grant was made . |
| 11 | This underground showplace was unsuspected until 1923 when a Cambridge undergraduate named Long noticed a small aperture in the hillside and , upon investigation by crawling into it , soon found himself entering a more commodious passage which in turn led to a magnificent cavern drained by a dancing stream and liberally decorated with delicate stalactites and natural carvings . |
| 12 | It all started with a public meeting in 1989 when an action committee was set up . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The history of a castle on this site dates back to 1231 when a stone castle , or more likely a fortified manor was built by Robert de Tattershall . |
| 15 | Scare stories about Britain 's beaches have abounded since 1976 when an EEC directive laid down the acceptable limits of sewage pollution , the year Wessex Water set about turning the tide of increasingly dirty beaches . |