Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] when a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even as mild a personality as Norman Bentwich was inclined to utter strong words when an entire Kindertransport was held up by Schonfeld because it was scheduled to depart from Germany on the Sabbath . |
| 2 | She ran as though she was wearing high heels when a terrible flop on her last visit to Britain , having been made hot favourite for the 1,000 Guineas won by Sayyedati . |
| 3 | She ran as though she was wearing high heels when a terrible flop on her last visit to Britain , having been made hot favourite for the 1,000 Guineas won by Sayyedati . |
| 4 | There is The Times front page of 16 November 1976 , on which I announce that ‘ the Lebanese civil war — or at least that stage of the conflict that cost … almost 40,000 lives — came to an end this morning when a Syrian army , 6,000 strong and accompanied by hundreds of tanks and heavy armoured vehicles , occupied the entire city of Beirut . ’ |
| 5 | Tower play : The Beautiful People in Baywatch ( Saturday , UTV , 5.40pm ) find themselves in the centre of a hostage drama this week when an escaped prisoner holds Summer and Stephanie . |
| 6 | A HINT of Liverpool 's long lost glamour as Britain 's premier passenger port will return this autumn when a Ukrainian liner will operate several cruises from the Mersey — the first cruise ship to do so for 16 years . |
| 7 | Interest in what has become an indispensable means of communicating in the 1990s was not sparked until early this century when a modernised version of Bain 's brainchild was used to send newspaper photographs . |
| 8 | They did not , however , appear to have sole rights at Tilberthwaite for there was an annoyance this year when a small company working on the Baron 's land , encroached onto Coniston ground , and illegally mined ore rightfully allowed to Taylor & Co . |
| 9 | Newall was arrested in August this year when a Royal Navy frigate intercepted his yacht off Gibraltar — an operation that cost an estimated £250,000 . |
| 10 | IT 'S a heartbreaking moment when a great sportsman finally decides to quit the arena he has graced for so long . |
| 11 | That day in early November when a warm sun was turning the autumn trees to gold , they entered the park by Grosvenor Gate and passed a group of young chimneysweeps in the Ring playing pitch-and-toss . |
| 12 | Mammalian meiotic chromosome preparation has progressed considerably since the early days when a good squash preparation was the best that could be achieved . |
| 13 | In fact although the chemical structure of polymers , to be discussed below , does affect physical properties considerably it is not of prime importance for determination of the mechanical properties when a particular state is being considered . |
| 14 | These requirements are bound to conflict on your limited acres , particularly in spring and early summer when a large proportion of your land is laid up for hay or in arable crops . |
| 15 | South Africa was marred by the fatal accident to Tom Pryce when a marshal ran across the track : a memorable moment when a dead man 's car kept running down the straight . |
| 16 | I revised my estimate of the Mother that evening when an elderly man arrived , one of whose arms was in a sling . |
| 17 | But Maria 's presence actually begs a question since it 's the sole moment when a startling presence swoops out of the mix . |
| 18 | This enables the history of a process model to be tracked easily along with the exact period when a particular model was active . |
| 19 | Her cleverness , as always , is in the timing , her feeling for identifying the exact moment when a certain slice of the past will have most resonance in the present . |
| 20 | You never knew these days when a casual remark was going to provide the justification for someone stalking you with an automatic rifle . |
| 21 | Appreciation of the ways in which the various shapes are related enables the teacher to ask further leading questions when a suitable opening presents itself in a child 's play ( e.g. commenting on the way the flat slabs will go together to make a staircase of three steps — ‘ What would we need to make the next step ? ’ ) . |
| 22 | We found , however , that these patterns are modified at later stages when a new domain of Krox-20 emerges in r3 ( Fig. 3i , j , i' , j' ) . |
| 23 | It is therefore still important to examine the role of Ac-ASA in any in vitro experiment desiend to test the mechanism of action of 5-ASA and to bear in mind the differential absorption of these drugs when an intact cell system is used . |
| 24 | Consequently there was little they could do early that night when a mammoth sea caught them dangerously broached-to , but the buoyancy of Mae West life jackets wedged in the bow and stern kept the waterlogged canoe afloat till the storm eased around midnight — some 24 hours after it blew up . |
| 25 | There are many times when a heart-shaped design can be ideal — for example , you could make a Valentine 's Day card with some very small red roses and their leaves , plus a small amount of asparagus fern to soften the outlines . |
| 26 | Many times when a much-loved pet falls sick we think first of diseases and infections , when the real cause is simple chemical poisoning of a completely accidental nature . |
| 27 | Halling had to wait until the 1939–45 war when a military bridge was erected and a road laid down and for a few years the people of Wouldham and Halling were able to move freely between the villages , which was a great asset to the people of Wouldham who used the bridge to get to work on this side of the river , but it was certainly the death knell of the ferry . |
| 28 | It was a raw morning in late November when a small group of members met at the Free Trade Hall for a rehearsal of the Halle Orchestra . |
| 29 | A further complication arose in late November when a sharp rise in the Danube 's flow ( up to three times the normal rate ) caused severe flooding and extensive damage to the dam site . |
| 30 | Cookstown sprung into life after this and although they played some flowing football they just could not penetrate a resolute Ballymoney defence until that is the 40th minute when a bad blunder from the Ballymoney goalkeeper Merchant presented Alan Shaw with a simple tap in from only five yards . |