Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you end the contract for any reason during the trial period , you will be treated as having been dismissed on the date when your original job ended . |
| 2 | This helped the police , who had been demoralised in the past when , time and again , they would arrest terrorists only to find that they were released in government amnesties aimed , in vain , at regaining the trust of alienated Sikhs . |
| 3 | 18.2 Any such notice shall be in the English language and shall be considered to have been given at the time when actually delivered , sent by telefax or telex or in any other event within 14 ( fourteen ) days after it was mailed in the manner hereinbefore provided . |
| 4 | Traditionally the period of the Hundred Years War has been regarded as the time when the crown of France made great steps forward towards the achievement of a policy of centralisation begun under the Capetians some two centuries earlier . |
| 5 | I am reminded of the time when we were leaving Italy after a while in the Dolomites and spent all our Italian cash in the last café making a phone call , only to find that the café owner was adding a surcharge to the bill . |
| 6 | The totals had been disclosed at a time when local authorities and others were being subjected to curbs for alleged lack of efficiency . |
| 7 | But few critics are laughing at a time when ex-Klansman David Duke is able seriously to contend the governorship of Louisiana . |
| 8 | When Queenie talks about the increased expenditure on recreation from nineteen eighty to now , that 's quite right , there has been a huge increase in spending , and that 's because the Labour Council was committed to improving recreation facilities in the City , and it did n't continue the appalling record that the Conservative administration had had before of virtually no recreational facilities , it invested in recreation facilities — you listed them yourself — and of course those facilities have to be paid for and on when we have stood for election we 've always made it clear that we want to provide quality services , but of course that they have to be paid for , and so the second point that you then made was that , you know , our budget 's gone up beyond belief , well I mean this year it 's being cut by two million pounds , last year it was a standstill budget , and erm that has been done at a time when in fact Central Government has been transferring responsibilities from Central Government onto Local Government without increasing , indeed at the same time decreasing the amount of Central Government grant that 's gone to local councils . |
| 9 | It had , after all , been built at a time when the rooms were heated by coal fires tended by an army of minions and when a score of carefully composed hand-written minutes by the Department 's legendary eccentrics were adequate to control events which now required three divisions and a couple of under secretaries . |
| 10 | We are living at a time when everyone is forced to adopt a political position : one day it will become clear that 6 February 1934 marked a dividing point in literature as well as in politics . |
| 11 | Instead we are living in a time when we can watch a TV ad which tells us that cars which are way beyond the range of most people 's pockets are being ‘ handbuilt ( somewhere else ) by robots ’ . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ The car of elderly people is marginal to other government policies and we have services that are rooted in the past when social control was more important to care . ’ |
| 13 | By providing money for so-called buy-back operations , in which countries either bought their own commercial debts back from the banks at deeply discounted levels or , alternatively , simply used the money as collateral when negotiating low-interest bond deals , a number of countries had been able to reschedule their own external obligations on easier repayment terms than had been agreed at the time when they were made . |
| 14 | Barbara Adams , a US-born resident of Katmandu , said : " I am waiting for the day when owning a Tibetan carpet incurs the same disapproval as wearing a leopard skin coat . " |
| 15 | Mr Jones , the landlord of The Two Pheasants , was organising a chain of water carriers from the tap in his bar , and Albert Piggott , stomach pains forgotten , had trundled out an archaic fire-fighting contraption which had been kept in the vestry since the Second World War and had never been used since the time when a small incendiary bomb had set light to the tassels of the bell ropes , and an adjacent pile of copies of Stainer 's ‘ Crucifixion ’ , in 1942 . |
| 16 | Suppose that what is wanted is large-scale mapping of the city of Leeds , it is likely that snapshots of Ordnance Survey mapping will have been preserved far more frequently , for the practical purposes of town planners etc. , but they will have been preserved not in libraries but in planning offices , and will they have been preserved after the date when they were needed there ? |
| 17 | ‘ Some parents assume their daughters are going through a phase when the harsh reality is both bulimia and anorexia can lead to long-lasting damage . |
| 18 | It was the suit Sir Henry had been wearing on the morning when we first met him in Baker Street . |
| 19 | We are moving into a decade when caring is no longer an issue to be scoffed at . |
| 20 | We are moving into an era when frailty , fragility and powerlessness are simply not enough . |
| 21 | It has been portrayed as the era when rigid puritanism allied with moral hypocrisy , verbal and visual delicacy marched arm in arm with a flourishing pornography . |
| 22 | The payment of the year 's charge by a single payment , that is a lump sum payment , has always been linked to the date when recovery procedures can commence in order that lump sum payers are subject to the same recovery procedures as monthly instalment payers . |
| 23 | This period could be regarded as the time when our service began to emerge from a kind of amateur status to that of a more professional one . |
| 24 | In Shell UK v Lostock Garage Ltd [ 1976 ] 1 WLR 1187 Lord Denning MR explained what he thought was meant by the proposition that reasonableness is to be considered at the time when the contract is made : If the terms impose a restraint which is unreasonable in the sense that it may work unfairly in circumstances which may reasonably be anticipated , the courts will refuse to enforce the restraint : but it will not hold it to be unenforceable simply because it might work unfairly in certain exceptional circumstances outside the reasonable expectation of the parties at the time of making the agreement . |
| 25 | With few exceptions , most people would wish to have a holiday of at leapt two weeks in the summer period which for some may also be confined to the time when children are on holiday from school or when the local factory is closed . |
| 26 | Adults who prefer sex with animals may be returning to the stage when there was little distinction between humans and animals , and use an animal as a substitute for sexual relations with a parent . |
| 27 | Visiting museums , the zoo , stately homes and historic sites , can now be enjoyed during the week when they are less crowded . |
| 28 | It heralded a flood of Italian imitation such as might be expected of a period when English culture was particularly fascinated by everything Italian . |
| 29 | In no case except for circumstances outside our control , will your holiday be cancelled after the date when your Final Invoice is due for payment . |
| 30 | Such application may be made at the time when the order is made ; if not then applied for , the practice required , at least in some courts , is that the applicant should certify in writing that he has notified the other party of the intended application . |