Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] when a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | IT 'S a heartbreaking moment when a great sportsman finally decides to quit the arena he has graced for so long . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I revised my estimate of the Mother that evening when an elderly man arrived , one of whose arms was in a sling . |
| 11 | But Maria 's presence actually begs a question since it 's the sole moment when a startling presence swoops out of the mix . |
| 12 | This enables the history of a process model to be tracked easily along with the exact period when a particular model was active . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This class distinction was taken even further early in the 19th century when a new rule allowed entrants to compete by proxy — skilled archers could shoot on their behalf — which allowed the gentry to be involved , and even to win , without the need to be competent with the bow and arrow . |
| 18 | Ballymoney grabbed the winner five minutes from full time when a deep cross from Neill found substitute Millar who headed into an empty Cookstown net . |
| 19 | Blaise Cendrars , the writer , saw Modigliani let fall a twenty-franc note one evening when a well-known pauper came in to sit at the next table . |
| 20 | Didcot took the lead in the twenty fifth minute when a fine ball by Holden sent Trevor Mason through , and as the keeper came up to try and narrow the angle , Mason squeezed it through his legs . |
| 21 | Things , however , came to a head one day when a veterinary surgeon on his rounds , in a regulation Volvo estate , was alarmed to see Noddy tearing towards him on the wrong side of the road , in hot pursuit of a Transit van . |
| 22 | The effect is generally noted in the first week when a gradual reduction in the frequency of wetting is noted . |
| 23 | The reality of this ignorance was brought home to me one lunchtime when a fellow patient , learning of my condition , asked with a look of horror whether I thought he had cancer . |
| 24 | This can be one time when a young writer has to compromise on some immediate ambitions in order to progress on to the next stage of securing a record deal or having artists cover his or her songs . |
| 25 | In the United Kingdom there is no breathing space , no fallow time when a local party can sit back and not worry about politics . |
| 26 | German striker Bierhoff gave Ascoli , fourth in the Italian Second Division , the lead in the ninth minute when a superb run and curling shot from outside the area beat Alan Knight . |
| 27 | From the opening piteous pleas with shaking hands as the dancers sink to the floor in the depths of their sorrow , the choreographic pattern of the overall rhythm is seen to swell in size and intensity as the music does until there comes the gleam of hope , a quiet moment when a child-like figure dances in wonder at the ways in which she can explore not only the space in which she moves , but also the ways in which she shapes each part of her body into an ever flowing design . |
| 28 | PATIENTS were stranded in their beds as a torrent of flood water swept through a North Wales hospital last night when a freak rain storm brought havoc to parts of North Wales . |
| 29 | The first major legal challenge over community care assessments is likely to emerge next month when a 22-year-old man with learning difficulties goes to the High Court . |
| 30 | The story began last summer when a 42-year-old man who could n't talk and could barely move his fingers was admitted to the medical center . |