Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the time when the " in BNC.

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1 The growth characteristics of the bones are laid down at the time when the pattern is specified and the elements are very small and this early specification will control growth for many years ( Chapter 10 ) .
2 The aircraft , a well used Boeing 707/436 , had spent much of its life on the trunk routes of BOAC and it had accumulated about 47 000 flying hours up to the time when the crack was discovered .
3 According to the editorial already quoted , " it was generally inferred , up to the time when the Congress assembled , that the honour of the Presidency would be conferred upon a deaf person . "
4 To obscure more recent failure , it was possible to dip back into the time when the championship-winning sides flowed .
5 Perhaps it can be traced even deeper in the past — we can go back to the time when the woman first attracted the man whose child she will later bear , or to the onset of her menstruation , when her body signalled its readiness for pregnancy .
6 Rug-making in the Balkans can be traced back to the time when the peninsula was under the control of the Turkish empire .
7 We know very precisely the age at the top of the coral when it was uplifted and died and what we 've done is counted these bands back through hundreds of years , back to the time when the coral first started growing and that was in the year fifteen eighty three .
8 Jean-Claude 's went back to the time when the region was awash with oceans of rye , Otto 's to the time when the Demoiselles Tatin were still alive .
9 You could n't go back to the time when the great art critics like Bernard Berenson and Herbert Read reigned supreme , even if you wanted to .
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