Example sentences of "when a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Traditionally the practice has been to abandon old pits when it became uneconomic to go deeper , but to return to them when the price for clay improved or when a technical innovation made extraction cheaper . |
| 2 | But two days ago that appearent safety was threatened when a bogus health worker said she was making a four monthly check . |
| 3 | When a non-adherent surface is required Sterilin Petri dishes are employed ( Plasticware supplier : Hawfell ) . |
| 4 | He upended each of them in turn and allowed himself a grim little smile of satisfaction when a squirming scorpion tumbled from one of them . |
| 5 | We had a case last month — of course , I ca n't mention names — when a sixteen-year-old choir girl accused her vicar of rape . |
| 6 | The worry was how best to tell her father — he had set his heart on her following in his footsteps — when a coronary had spared them both . |
| 7 | Whether or not the decision was motivated by tenderness towards motorists is hard to tell , but there was certainly some logic in keeping offences of negligence out of the ‘ unlawful act ’ doctrine when a separate head of manslaughter by gross negligence already existed . |
| 8 | The court was told Smith 's crooked past came to light when a separate civil court action began . |
| 9 | See also p. 37906 for December 1990 European Council summit statement on Gulf crisis , when a separate declaration on the Middle East was also issued , reaffirming the European Council 's " long-standing commitment to a just and lasting solution " to the Arab-Israeli conflict and the Palestinian problem and reiterating its " support for the principle of convening , at an appropriate time , an international peace conference under the auspices of the UN " . ] |
| 10 | YOU recently mentioned con tricks well , I was waiting at Lime Street Station for my mother when a well-dressed man with a briefcase asked me for £1 . |
| 11 | But their lives are shattered when a nutty friend goes on a shooting spree , injuring Luna and killing Wren . |
| 12 | Still moving slowly , intending to make her way round to the back door , up to her room , collect her belongings , then leave the same way , she caught her breath when a stealthy hand caught hold of her arm . |
| 13 | The riots appear to have been precipitated by an apparently casual incident when a Meskhetian angrily tipped over a table of strawberries being sold by an Uzbek girl . |
| 14 | The left arm needs to be rotated more when a weak grip is used . |
| 15 | when a weak overlap occurs , place the index responsible in a ’ weak overlap ’ list ; |
| 16 | On this occasion , however , his calm appeared to have been ruffled by Dr Dunstaple 's words and he replied with a note of impatience in his voice : " If any evidence were needed it would be enough to see what happens when a weak saline solution is injected into the veins of a patient in the condition of collapse . |
| 17 | There was a time , early in their days at Cambridge , when a brilliant and handsome research student from Yale made a determined pitch for Robyn , and she had been rather dazzled and excited by the experience ( he wooed her with a heady mixture of the latest post Freudian theoretical jargon and devastatingly frank sexual propositions , so she was never quite sure whether it was Lacan 's symbolic phallus he was referring to or his own real one ) . |
| 18 | The expected backlash arrived this afternoon at Dixon Park when a brilliant display of attacking football against hapless Ballyclare Comrades produced six goals — four of them from David McCallan — enough to see them safely through to the last eight of the TNT Gold Cup . |
| 19 | This time he did n't miss , he shot past Stowell and United were on level terms , amazingly , they almost snatched the lead a minute later when a brilliant save by Stowell denied Simpson once again . |
| 20 | In the early hours of yesterday morning the Drumkeen Hotel at Upper Galwally , Belfast , was extensively damaged when a 200 lb car bomb went off in the car park . |
| 21 | The building was extensively damaged when a 200 lb car bomb went off in the car park . |
| 22 | I was looking around , seeing where to go , when a black man took my arm . |
| 23 | You know that when a black fella dies the whole family moves out of the house and goes walkabout . |
| 24 | The tinder merely required a spark , which was provided when a black youth became involved in an altercation with an officer over a parking ticket . |
| 25 | He said that he was still awake when a black and fearful figure appeared at the foot of his bed . |
| 26 | ‘ When a black kid does see a black athlete , such as myself , a role model if you like , that might be enough to spark a little interest and I thank that the more blacks that you see in tennis , it will promote black tennis further . ’ |
| 27 | When a black hole is created by gravitational collapse , it rapidly settles down to a stationary state that is characterized by only three parameters : the mass , the angular momentum , and the electric charge . |
| 28 | The logarithm of the number would be a measure of the amount of information that was irretrievably lost during the collapse through the event horizon when a black hole was created . |
| 29 | It also means that a very large amount of information about the body that has collapsed must be lost when a black hole is formed , because afterward all we can possibly measure about the body is its mass and rate of rotation . |
| 30 | This last was expressed in other words as willingness ‘ to see the ratio between profits and incomes preserved at a reasonable level by a tax which would become operative upon all industry when a certain figure was exceeded by profits as a whole ’ . |