Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [adj] when a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | A coup attempt was launched in the early hours of Oct. 13 when a group of soldiers unsuccessfully attacked an arsenal close to N'Djamena airport . |
2 | It was a pursuit which , with savage irony , took her across Lawrence Road , scene of her last attack in December 1991 when a youth punched her hard in the face . |
3 | And some have been blown off the face of the earth in massive bomb attacks such as Teebane in Co Tyrone where seven workmen perished in January 1992 when a land mine exploded under their bus . |
4 | The grand alliance of OSI became public in May 1985 when a meeting of 20 computer companies , dominated by US rivals of IBM , met in conference and established the Corporation for Open Systems . |
5 | He was jailed for four years at the High Court , Edinburgh in July 1992 when a jury found him guilty of indecently assaulting an 18-year-old boy he met in St Andrews Bus Station , Edinburgh . |
6 | The big chance came in July 1955 when a by-election in the heart of Ashanti was caused by the death of its Cpp MP . |
7 | ‘ Our Association was formed in November 1981 when a group of concerned people got together at a public meeting in Llandrindod Wells . |
8 | In September the DPP decided not to bring corporate manslaughter charges against British Rail after four people died in October 1987 when a river bridge at Glanrhyd , Dyfed , Wales , over which a train was travelling despite a red flood alert , collapsed . |
9 | He had surgery in April 1991 when a growth was removed . |
10 | The round table held its 16th and final session on March 12 when a draft constitution was discussed . |
11 | The first clear evidence that the unrest in Kashmir had adversely affected bilateral relations came on Jan. 14 when a spokesman for the Pakistan Foreign Office expressed " deep concern over the deteriorating situation in the Indian-occupied Kashmir " . |
12 | The trouble began on Aug. 19 when a car from the motorcade of Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson — the leader of the Orthodox Jewish Lubavitcher sect — ran through a red traffic-light , went out of control and mounted the pavement . |
13 | Six soldiers were slightly injured on Aug. 15 when a grenade exploded near Nuoro in Sardinia . |
14 | At least 58 people died and more than 100 others were injured in Bangkok on Sept. 24 when a truck carrying two tanks of liquefied petroleum gas ( LPG ) crashed and exploded . |
15 | Belgium announced a freeze on loans to Zaïre on May 25 , 1990 , following Belgian press reports that some 50 students died on May 11 when a unit of the presidential guard suppressed anti-government demonstrations at Lubumbashi University in the south of the country . |
16 | The miners ' action , based on demands for higher wages , better conditions and changes in the national political leadership , only came to an end on May 10 when a decree was issued transferring the control of the mines in the Russian Federation to the RFSFR government [ see p. 38204 ] . |
17 | There had been several less serious explosions in or near Addis Ababa since the EPRDF takeover ; a number of residents of the Shagolle suburb had been killed on May 28 when a shell hit a munitions plant , and five people , including two EPRDF guards , were killed by gunmen at Addis Ababa University on May 31 . |
18 | Paolo Borsellino , the chief public prosecutor in the Sicilian city of Palermo , was killed on July 19 when a car bomb was detonated by remote control in a Palermo street . |
19 | The US Senate also approved the treaty on Oct. 10 when a motion was passed that the ratification should not be construed as tacit US acceptance of the Soviet annexation of the Baltic states of Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania . |
20 | The protests followed an incident on Oct. 30 when a bomb from a US F18 fighter aircraft was accidentally dropped on the USS Reeves , sailing off Diego Garcia in the Chagos Archipelago . |
21 | Clancy Fernando was killed in Colombo on Nov. 16 when a suicide bomber , believed to be a member of the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE ) , activated a bomb by crashing his motorcycle into the admiral 's car . |
22 | Between 30 and 50 people were killed or injured on Nov. 19 when a freight train was derailed outside Tehuacán , 200 km south-east of Mexico City , and crashed on to a roadway , crushing vehicles and houses . |
23 | Ahmad Hashika , a 26-year-old Palestinian , was killed in the Greek city of Patras on April 19 when a bomb he was carrying exploded in his hands . |
24 | On April 21 , Bosnian president Alija Izetbegovic rejected the resignation of Jure Pelivan as Prime Minister ( submitted on April 6 when a state of emergency was imposed in Sarajevo ) , appointing him as Prime Minister-designate to a radically restructured future government . |
25 | This was accomplished on June 25 when a law was also approved creating the new National Civil Police ( PNC ) , recruits to which would be trained in the newly established Academy of Public Security ( ASP ) , set up with US and Spanish advice , and to which demobilized FMNL members were eligible to apply . |