Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] when a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the next century or so , the county was relatively free of French harassment , but the situation worsened considerably after 1360 when a French fleet burnt Winchelsea and followed this up with a regular series of raids on the coast . |
| 2 | Another is the Great Orange Riot of 1971 when an Italian team , playing Spain in Cagliari , but tactlessly , without any Cagliarian representatives , was chased off the pitch by Outspan-wielding Sconvols . |
| 3 | The weary DHSS staff of respectable old Oxford were relieved of certain unpleasant duties in the early autumn of 1982 when a 200-strong squad of police mopped up unsuspecting itinerants said to have defrauded the welfare state by allegedly drawing social security for rent when they were sleeping rough . |
| 4 | He was put down early in 1986 at the age of eighteen when an incurable heart condition was diagnosed . |
| 5 | One strange chapter in this story came to be written at Geneva in 1986 when a difficult problem of ceiling division in conference was overcome by Iran 's proposal that Iraq be freed from the discipline of a quota , enabling it to produce as much as it chose . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Their fame began innocently enough in 1893 when an enterprising baron founded a lottery to pay for the Rio de Janeiro zoo . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It will be Ballymena 's first trip to Brandywell since that infamous day in 1972 when a United bus was subjected to an arson attack . |
| 10 | However , the College of Arms remained in charge of the obsequies of royal funerals until 1751 when a private undertaker , a Mr Harcourt , supplied and organized the funeral of Frederick , Prince of Wales . |
| 11 | The decision brought to an end a case which had begun in 1979 when a female student filed a complaint over the exclusion with New Jersey civil rights officials . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Phil was again unlucky with injuries in 1990–91 when a fractured rib in November reduced his contribution to modest proportions , but his distinguished career already assures him a permanent place in the Palace annals . |
| 14 | Work began in 1975 when a small test-reactor at Ispra , near Milan , was switched by the Italian government to work on safety . |
| 15 | The grant-aid earned under the new Regulations was adequate but it was not generous and although class programmes were extended to new centres and programmes expanded in existing branches , the costs of provision also increased and the District required overdraft facilities until 1950 when a small surplus was secured . |
| 16 | The well-equipped organ has two manuals and was built by T. Hopkins and Sons of York who installed it in 1910 ; the air was pumped by hand until 1950 when an electric blower was installed . |
| 17 | This is the last bond to be actively redeemed until 1957 when a minor flurry of interest in activating redemption might have been responsible for some bond buying-in activity , although the Club waited until 1983 for the total buying-in to take place . |
| 18 | A school for 150 children was built on the green , and remained in use until 1914 when a new school was built in Beverley Road . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Australia had been a whaling country until 1978 when an official enquiry , which was supported by all political parties , concluded that the public wished to see an end to whaling . |
| 21 | Karajan had pitched camp with Legge and the Philharmonia in 1949 when a generous grant from the Maharaja of Mysore had stabilized the orchestra 's finances and opened up the possibility , in collaboration with EMI , of extensive recording , not only of the classic repertory but of works that caught Karajan 's and Legge 's fancy : Balakirev 's First Symphony , Roussel 's Fourth Symphony , the still formidably difficult Music for Strings , Percussion , and Celesta by Bartók , and some English music , too . |
| 22 | The Commission was only beginning to get into its stride in 1970 when a new government was returned which was pledged to the abolition of the commission on the grounds that it ‘ had no place in a free society ’ . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | She continued : " We failed you in 1938 when a disastrous policy of appeasement allowed Hitler to extinguish your independence . |
| 25 | And it all began in 1890 when a successful businessman , who could not dance a step , presented four ordinary little girls from Manchester in a pantomime at the Prince of Wales Theatre , Liverpool . |
| 26 | I forgot all about Svetlana until 1989 when a remarkable coincidence brought us together again . |
| 27 | Attention was first drawn to them in 1988 when a 17-year-old resident complained she had been held in continuous confinement for seven weeks and forcibly injected with a sedative . |
| 28 | It was in use until 1968 when a new school was built . |
| 29 | He continued to box until 1910 when a deteriorating eye condition signalled the end of his active career . |
| 30 | The scientists were being cautious and so were the civil servants ; this meant that British politicians could happily continue to struggle over familiar issues until 1988 when a devastating drought enabled scientists in the USA to get the ear of the Senate and pour into it a story sufficiently sensational to alarm the rest of the Western world . |