Example sentences of "[prep] the past when " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the past when I used to get less money in my wage packet I used to start crying at once . |
| 2 | They pointed to cases in the past when underwriters had incurred huge losses by moving into an unfamiliar area of business . |
| 3 | They pointed to cases in the past when underwriters had incurred huge losses by moving into an unfamiliar area of business . |
| 4 | ‘ This is attractive for when the variable premium goes many farmers will look at early lamb production , which has not been profitable enough in the past when the cost of spongeing was included . |
| 5 | In the past when we identified forms of pollution , we have shown our capacity to act effectively . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't need that kind of restriction on my playing , and I 've done it loads of times in the past when recording , always having to think , ‘ Well , I ca n't play the F£ there ; I 'll have to go down and play it there . ’ |
| 7 | All that can be said is that Labour has lost elections in the past when the press was more favourable than it now is . |
| 8 | The former Wales RU stand-off has played there with great success in the past when Tait was injured . |
| 9 | There have been many periods in the past when the degree of concentration has been significantly large ( Table 4. 1 ) and when such degrees of concentration have generated calls for inquiries . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Species and genetic change , fixation of atmospheric N 2 , and nitrogen deposition may have facilitated plant response to CO 2 in the past when concentrations rose more slowly or with a greater relaxation time between change than today , but data are lacking . |
| 13 | We had erm no we we actually had done that we have given questionnaires out as programmes we actually asked people to I mean it 'll be interest to see how many people fill it in this evening but there is a built in resistance by some people to actually fill in any sort of questionnaire er and in the past when we 've actually done that I think the response 's has n't been that that brilliant . |
| 14 | This has not always been the case in the past when antiquaries have often blindly accepted accounts as offering established facts and forcing an interpretation of their discoveries to fit . |
| 15 | At any rate it had been so in the past when Elmwood had been a private school . |
| 16 | Is it possible to pin-point turning-points in the past when ( a ) one period becomes significantly different from another ( " periodisation " ) or ( b ) decisions are made by individuals which significantly affect the outcome of some future event ? |
| 17 | The question then arises : Was there a time in the past when all the galaxies were on top of each other and the density of the universe was infinite ? |
| 18 | In deciding whether or not the conditions exist for the issuing of conditions , the chief of police may take into account such factors as disturbances that have arisen in the past when the same organisation processed on a previous occasion . |
| 19 | The 1987 SORP did not elaborate but notable examples have occurred in the past when high-rise council flats have been demolished relatively soon after construction : local authorities have decided that housing revenue accounts could not and should not bear the burden of extinguishing the associated debt in the year of demolition . |
| 20 | Life has always been on a razor-edge of survival and it is surely important to understand those moments in the past when the organic world seemed closer than usual to obliteration . |
| 21 | There were times in the past when projects for Scottish independence seemed to involve things like passport checks and a customs post on the border between Berwick and the Solway Firth . |
| 22 | it 's not one that will inspire me with erm with , with great kind of nationalistic fervour as might have happened in the past when , when you look at nationalistic movements , so erm presumably we 're looking at a range of behaviour which goes from extreme fanatical group membership to relatively weak identification with a group but really does n't to anything else but saying you know if you ask me what I 'll say I was British . |
| 23 | In the past when they 've gone up , under the conservatives , we welcomed that thus slashing fourteen per cent , money out of the market and as they said , two million pounds against eight hundred thousand . |
| 24 | Now there are occasions where members legitimately need to attend committees to speak to something in which they have an interest but the difficulty is , that in the past when we had permanent chairman , a member who wanted to attend the meeting had to ask the permission of that permanent chairman and there are occasions when that permanent chairman thought , well , there is no need for that member to attend and he has said no . |
| 25 | I seemed to recall that in the past when we 'd met we 'd got on reasonably well , so I assumed that it must have been something that Jennifer had told you that had turned you against me , or , failing that , that you were just embarrassed at having to work with your sister 's ex-fiancé . ’ |
| 26 | In the past when any of her casual boyfriends had tried to deepen the relationship , having discovered early that laughter and gentle ridicule were the things most men 's egos could n't stand , she 'd resorted to clowning . |
| 27 | Labour leader Coun John Williams accused Coun Richmond of hypocrisy and said in the past when Labour had debated South Africa the Tories had said it had no relevance for Darlington . |
| 28 | ‘ There have been a number of occasions in the past when stories have appeared in the press saying what the figures are going to be in one or two days ’ time … but when someone quotes exactly the figure which is going to come out the next day it is hard to believe they just made an inspired guess . |
| 29 | That recipe may have been appropriate in the past when personal consumption was largely met from the output of labour-intensive British industries . |
| 30 | I 've been up there buying things for him in the past when he was er operating the taxi and he had n't time to go himself . |