Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [conj] when [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ordinary citizens tolerated corruption when times were good and when the government rewarded them with cheap food , services and petrol . |
| 2 | The pearls were artificial and when the string broke they got scattered and lost and forgotten about . |
| 3 | The 9.43–10.12 question appeared in this test context also , and fewer pupils were successful than when the question was asked directly , probably because the information required had first to be selected by the pupils from all the figures given in the timetables . |
| 4 | The drug was most effective when fluid absorption was low or when the intestine was secreting , as is apparent in Figure 2 , in which the change in fluid transport evoked by hexamethonium or lidocaine is plotted versus the rate of net fluid transport recorded before giving the drug . |
| 5 | Then , when I remarked it was strange that when a person was in trouble , one forgot at once any little grudge one had against them , so that bearing grudges must be only skin-deep , my friend disagreed : she thought the change of heart was because one was willing to be magnanimous when at advantage , having the upper hand . |
| 6 | The Court was of the opinion that section 133 did not apply to the activation of the suspended sentence , as it was clear that when a sentencer activated a suspended sentence he did not ‘ impose ’ the sentence for the purpose of section 133 . |
| 7 | became a wealthy farmer and owned several large farms throughout the county ; as an agriculturalist , his reputation was such that when the government of the day commissioned a report on the state of agriculture in the county , he took a leading part in its preparation . |
| 8 | Perhaps it was inevitable that when the Auditing Practices Board was set up in 1991 in the ashes of the old Auditing Practices Committee , Mr Morrison 's name should spring to mind as its first chairman . |
| 9 | So it was natural that when a group of Australian promoters decided to stage a concert in aid of anti-drug charities the musical Minogue sisters leapt at the opportunity to combine fun with some serious fund raising . |