Example sentences of "when the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , some can only be appreciated as metaphors with hindsight , as it were ; it is only when the figurative meaning is pointed out that the path from the literal to metaphorical meaning becomes traceable . |
| 2 | I can not give a reliable date as to when the Metropolitan police report in the case of the first matters will be available , but I have no reason to suppose that it is not being prosecuted with all celerity by the dedicated team that the Commissioner has made available . |
| 3 | One of the former Scotland manager 's old teams , Airdrie , visit Somerset Park today — on a day when the Premier Division clubs have no matches as Scotland play on Wednesday — lying third in the First Division and keen to maintain form which has helped them overcome an uncertain beginning . |
| 4 | It is only when the fibre-rich food leaves the stomach that it starts passing through the body at a faster pace , giving the well-documented health benefits . |
| 5 | If the husband elects that his " new " home is to be treated as his main residence , then the disposal to the wife of the former matrimonial home ( or his interest in it ) will give rise to a charge to capital gains tax ; this will be on the gain accruing in respect of the period from when the matrimonial home ceased to be his main residence until the date of the court order or date of agreement between the parties . |
| 6 | In 1969 , when the Chilean Communist party opted to announce their own presidential candidate in order to force a decision from the other parties in the popular Unity coalition about whom to support , their nominee was Pablo Neruda . |
| 7 | All this was happening at a time when the Canadian Northern Railway was creating , in effect , a third transcontinental railway , built on much more economical lines than the exceptionally expensive and high-quality GTP . |
| 8 | But persistent exposure to the same paper-type at least three times a week for a whole year may well have some effect , particularly if it is a preelection year when the political temperature usually rises . |
| 9 | The analysis of local politics became instead an analysis of ‘ urban ’ politics , a change given academic respectability towards the end of the 1970s , when the Political Studies Association changed the name of its Local Politics Group to the Urban Politics Group . |
| 10 | Apocalypse Now appeared at a time when the political climate in America was shifting to the right , resulting in Reagan 's victory in the 1980 presidential elections . |
| 11 | At a time when the political parties have all released bulky documents stuffed full of environmentally-friendly policies , when any washing powder that ca n't say it 's CFC-free and untested on animals and made from biodegradable phosphates is likely to be left on the supermarket shelf , golf 's ‘ green ’ credentials seem pretty strong . |
| 12 | Now they were seeping into the consciousness of people within a milieu which , rejecting straight left politics , was searching for a route out of a hippy enclave at a time when the political temperature was rising . |
| 13 | So why do we need to formalize these arrangements , why rock the boat at time when the political climate is ? |
| 14 | Such inherent problems tend to be discounted , ignored , or even interpreted in a favorable light at times when the political system appears to be successfully meeting the demands and expectations of the populace . |
| 15 | This particularly subtle quiver of the leg to express newly aroused emotion was first noticed in Ashton 's The Two Pigeons when the Young Girl and her friends pretend to strut around like pigeons . |
| 16 | There was a time when the young eyes were slow , |
| 17 | John Morgan , 64 , who was her driver in 1988 when the young township activist was killed , told the Johannesburg Sunday Times that she had ordered him to remove the body from her Soweto home and ‘ dump the dog ’ . |
| 18 | I want to have this man drive me in his car all night long , for us never to arrive anywhere … but if we should then let the gates swing silently open , let there be a long gravel drive , let it be like when the young master comes home from school . |
| 19 | They are most readily shown at the times when the young are hatching and again when they are fledging . |
| 20 | Their damage to cereals is mainly in the spring when the young rabbits are most numerous , but they are not often credited for the plus side of their food intake . |
| 21 | There are , in fact , times when the young will actually appear to be bigger than their mother . |
| 22 | That was the year when the young Linford Christie won gold in the European Indoor Championships . |
| 23 | Weekends and weekday evenings were the most difficult to manage ; times when the young people were unoccupied . |
| 24 | Most attacks on stock occur in the autumn , when the young mink disperse to find their own territories , and in the spring , when males wander in search of females . |
| 25 | Seb was out harrowing one of his own fields when the young stable-hand came and told him of Christian 's arrival . |
| 26 | The number repatriated in this way has amounted to tens of thousands annually since 1980 , when the present rules were instituted — a figure not too far from that of the boat people whom Britain and Hong Kong governments expect to send home to Vietnam . |
| 27 | The number repatriated in this way has amounted to tens of thousands annually since 1980 , when the present rules were instituted — a figure not too far from that of the boat people whom Britain and Hong Kong governments expect to send home to Vietnam . |
| 28 | The dispute over the freehold ownership of the common began in 1987 when the present claimant to ownership , Mr Michael Farrow , and his company the Historical Records Agency , bought the lordship of the manor from the Earl of Carnarvon for £4,200 . |
| 29 | It is only when the present position has been assessed and the future intentions stated that members of the organisation can effectively plan towards the achievement of purposeful goal-directed activity . |
| 30 | Hope then made what was to be his last appeal to the House of Commons for a Gothic Foreign Office , as he was to be out of Parliament from May 1859 until 1865 , when the present building was being built . |