Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] when [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 However , there seems little reason for limiting the offence to cases involving children under 14 when the general age of consent to sexual activity stands at 16 .
2 A genuine improvement rather than the cosmetic change of renaming took place in Pocklington during the century after 1780 when the old timber , mud and thatch buildings were gradually replaced by newer homes , shops and public buildings that were constructed of brick and roofed with pantiles or slates .
3 We must now go back to about 1920 when the whole subject could be described as pretty well bogged down .
4 The reinforced waves reflected by all the small crystallites produce diffraction rings , or haloes , which are sharply defined for highly crystalline materials and become increasingly diffuse when the amorphous content is high .
5 Mujaheddin attacks on Kabul in October 1989 killed and injured many people including at least 30 when a surface-to-surface missile struck a bus shelter in a busy shopping district of old Kabul on Oct. 10 .
6 The Parquet had existed , he thought , since at least 1883 when a reforming Minister of Justice had unearthed in his office some Arabic translations of parts of the French Code Napoleon and promulgated them as the new Egyptian legal system .
7 For anyone retiring in the next few years , there are special rules if they were over 16 when the national insurance system began in 1948 .
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