Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun sg] when the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we all know , it is a matter of only a few weeks before the joyous day when the boot will be on the other foot and the right hon. Gentleman will be sitting on the Opposition Front Bench making speeches on timetable motions . |
| 2 | These windy periods are interspersed with breaks from 4 to 8 days when regular sea breezes blow into the gulf at force 2 to 3 , with the odd day when the wind fails . |
| 3 | It was the historic moment when the rule of the people , the idea of democracy , was seen as the only legitimate form of government and as the key to sweeping away the rule of individual despots and arrogant oligarchies , and when articulate voices were not afraid to proclaim their faith in the virtues and good judgement of the people as a whole . |
| 4 | Sec. , crafty devil , was in the right place at the right time when the service train arrived at Deeside Halt , and had a footplate ride on ‘ Foxcote Manor ’ on the run round . |
| 5 | But then came the awful night when the Station Master was waiting for Peter in the station yard . |
| 6 | Suddenly swamped by exhaustion , she slumped back against the cushions and closed her eyes , reliving the awful moment when the car had slid into the snowdrift . |
| 7 | The only disturbance to its surface happened in the nineteenth century when the architect Gilbert Scott took up the edges in order to install a heating system . |
| 8 | A number of churches here survived the Turkish occupation , but were lost in the nineteenth century when the capital of the newly independent Greece was re-organised and planned on broad lines . |
| 9 | The conceit of the ‘ found document ’ , discovered , preserved , and presented to the public by an ‘ editor ’ was a justification no longer necessary in the nineteenth century when the novel was firmly established as a genre . |
| 10 | S. Nicodemus is the oldest of this group of churches but was excessively restored and altered in the nineteenth century when the campanile was built . |
| 11 | At that period of the nineteenth century when the discipline of anthropology was coming into being , material culture studies represented the very core of this emergent social science ( e.g. Haddon 1895 ; Tylor 1881 ) . |
| 12 | Mr Cross had chosen the ideal spot for his photography some three days earlier and the picture he wanted could only be taken during the ten days around the longest day when the sun came through a gap in the hills . |
| 13 | The occupational structure of the village was very different from what it had been just before the Civil War when the parish register entries had briefly given men 's occupations ; between 1636 and 1639 Thurmaston 's register noted 8 labourers , 5 shepherds , 3 husbandmen , 2 innkeepers , 2 masons , 2 male servants , a carpenter , a miller , 1 curate , a weaver , a tailor , a shearman , a spinner and a mole catcher . |
| 14 | Hygienists spoke of the need to grasp the actual moment when the nerve centres of life were poisoned through hereditary influence or degenerate living . |
| 15 | The paucity of dog-whelks amid a plentiful food supply on the Conwy mussel beds may reflect low salinities in the early spring when the egg capsules are laid ( Crothers , 1985 ) . |
| 16 | Moving on automatic pilot , she forced herself to tidy up the make-up room , washing sponges and organising the cosmetics she 'd need the following evening when the play had its first-night performance . |
| 17 | We went in and we paid seven pounds for me and my mum to get in , we did n't pay for the kids cos if they know they 're gon na sit on your lap , they get in there for nothing , but once we get in there we give them their own chair anyway , providing you go in like it 's not in the first week , the following week when the show is quieter and not so many people going |
| 18 | The situation had been compounded during the elections in the previous month when the Nationalist had taken seventy-three seats out of a total of one hundred and five , and out of those , forty-two of those elected were in jail for various offences related to their opposition of the British presence in Ireland . |
| 19 | The exceptional moment when the spirit of Brahms materialised came at the beginning of the andante where Pauline Dowse 's cello solo evoked the inner stillness of the composer — all moonlight , warmth and swaying tree tops . |
| 20 | Dr Buchanan has shown this to have been the case with the Bath Turnpike Trust where it had become crucial by the end of the eighteenth century when the share of the landed interest had dropped below 10 per cent . |
| 21 | That chance will come in the late spring when the winner will be invited to select a book from a range of 100 Faber titles ( 99 books will contain cheques for £10,000 and one book will contain a cheque for £1m ) . |
| 22 | It has miraculously survived to the present day when the hunt has become a social ritual , demanding special dress and even to the ‘ blooding ’ of the tyro , an obvious piece of symbolism . |
| 23 | The opening episode of ‘ The Daleks ’ , ‘ The Dead Planet ’ premiers the use of Inlay in Doctor Who for one of the most historic shots in the programme 's history — the awesome moment when the Doctor , Ian , Barbara and Susan first look down at the glittering towers of the Dalek city , gleaming , some miles distant , in the rays of the setting sun . |
| 24 | Add this figure to 622 — the year of Mohammed 's flight from Mecca to Medina — and the result is the Gregorian year when the rug was made . |
| 25 | There is no doubt that the removal of the child by this mother was done precipitately at the very time when the child 's future care was already under consideration by the Ontario court . |
| 26 | The rule in Rylands v. Fletcher thus ceases to be available at the very moment when the plaintiff needs it . |
| 27 | The appearance of History and Class Consciousness at the height of the Modernist movement suggests the degree to which history was being totalized by Lukács at the very moment when the process of detotalization had already begun — even in the aporetic possibilities of his own writings . |
| 28 | What message has the minister to give to the five hundred and five employees of Barclays Bank in London whose new year began with receipt of a redundancy notice at the very moment when the bank 's new chief executive was having his pay doubled to seven hundred and thirty seven thousand pounds a year . |
| 29 | THE RUC were given a let-off in the eighth minute when the home side were awarded a penalty , but player manager Jim Scott 's kick was saved by keeper Matthews . |
| 30 | And finally , social citizenship rights , on a range from ‘ the right to a modicum of economic wealth and security ’ to ‘ the right to share to the full in the social heritage and to live the life of a civilized being according to the standards prevailing in society ’ were won in the twentieth century , especially in the post-war period when the welfare state was extended so that all were guaranteed education , health care and a ‘ safety net ’ of financial provision through what was then ‘ national assistance ’ . |