Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun] when [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we all know , it is a matter of only a few weeks before the joyous day when the boot will be on the other foot and the right hon. Gentleman will be sitting on the Opposition Front Bench making speeches on timetable motions . |
| 2 | These windy periods are interspersed with breaks from 4 to 8 days when regular sea breezes blow into the gulf at force 2 to 3 , with the odd day when the wind fails . |
| 3 | About a year later one of the boys met an old lady who lived not far from the pond and they were discussing the strange happenings when the lady said , ‘ I can tell you a bit about it , ’ and she then proceeded to tell them about the crazy motorcyclist . |
| 4 | It was the historic moment when the rule of the people , the idea of democracy , was seen as the only legitimate form of government and as the key to sweeping away the rule of individual despots and arrogant oligarchies , and when articulate voices were not afraid to proclaim their faith in the virtues and good judgement of the people as a whole . |
| 5 | Sec. , crafty devil , was in the right place at the right time when the service train arrived at Deeside Halt , and had a footplate ride on ‘ Foxcote Manor ’ on the run round . |
| 6 | But then came the awful night when the Station Master was waiting for Peter in the station yard . |
| 7 | Suddenly swamped by exhaustion , she slumped back against the cushions and closed her eyes , reliving the awful moment when the car had slid into the snowdrift . |
| 8 | The failure is said to have its origins in the second half of the nineteenth century when a number of changes were taking place in the structure of British domestic banking , and in the nature of corporate ownership . |
| 9 | Booth 's survey also had an influence on a similar movement in the United States , though its roots go back to the middle of the nineteenth century when a number of small surveys on the " dangerous classes " were undertaken . |
| 10 | The only disturbance to its surface happened in the nineteenth century when the architect Gilbert Scott took up the edges in order to install a heating system . |
| 11 | A number of churches here survived the Turkish occupation , but were lost in the nineteenth century when the capital of the newly independent Greece was re-organised and planned on broad lines . |
| 12 | The conceit of the ‘ found document ’ , discovered , preserved , and presented to the public by an ‘ editor ’ was a justification no longer necessary in the nineteenth century when the novel was firmly established as a genre . |
| 13 | S. Nicodemus is the oldest of this group of churches but was excessively restored and altered in the nineteenth century when the campanile was built . |
| 14 | At that period of the nineteenth century when the discipline of anthropology was coming into being , material culture studies represented the very core of this emergent social science ( e.g. Haddon 1895 ; Tylor 1881 ) . |
| 15 | The Paul Jones and the emotional somersaults when the music stopped and they came face to face for the very first time . |
| 16 | Mr Cross had chosen the ideal spot for his photography some three days earlier and the picture he wanted could only be taken during the ten days around the longest day when the sun came through a gap in the hills . |
| 17 | In th i in the old days when a firm would come along and pack everything , then they said that , and that was quite true , that they would pack everything and then they would be responsible if damage was done . |
| 18 | One PC complained at length to a sergeant that the ‘ ground ’ where they both worked had become much quieter ; he looked back with nostalgia to the old days when the ground was much ‘ harder ’ and ‘ you could literally be strolling past a pub and a bloke would come staggering out with a knife in his back … ’ |
| 19 | Therefore , arbitrage can lead to the sale or purchase of very large blocks of shares , irrespective of the price , in the few minutes when the delivery price is determined . |
| 20 | One day Tony gets up to watch and witnesses one of the few times when the sun travels across a blue , cloudless sky . |
| 21 | While this does not appear to be such an earth shattering decision , it is one of the few occasions when a coroner 's action has been criticised . |
| 22 | On the few occasions when the wind was not blowing a gale , the fog descended like a shroud . |
| 23 | It is significant that one of the few occasions when the author of Ancrene Wisse hints at the contemplative experience occurs in his account of the behaviour appropriate at the Mass : ( After the kiss of peace in the Mass , when the priest communicates , forget the world , be completely out of the body , and with burning love embrace your Beloved who has come down from heaven to your heart 's bower , and hold Him fast until He has granted you all that you ask . ) |
| 24 | It has remained in the temple ever since , and is blown three times on the anniversary of the death of Sigismund as a solemn reminder of the dark days when the Empire was ravaged by Orcs and Altdorf was almost destroyed . |
| 25 | The occupational structure of the village was very different from what it had been just before the Civil War when the parish register entries had briefly given men 's occupations ; between 1636 and 1639 Thurmaston 's register noted 8 labourers , 5 shepherds , 3 husbandmen , 2 innkeepers , 2 masons , 2 male servants , a carpenter , a miller , 1 curate , a weaver , a tailor , a shearman , a spinner and a mole catcher . |
| 26 | Of the six occasions when the government 's continuation in office has depended on the votes of an opposition party , five have lasted less than 30 months . |
| 27 | Hygienists spoke of the need to grasp the actual moment when the nerve centres of life were poisoned through hereditary influence or degenerate living . |
| 28 | The paucity of dog-whelks amid a plentiful food supply on the Conwy mussel beds may reflect low salinities in the early spring when the egg capsules are laid ( Crothers , 1985 ) . |
| 29 | It is perhaps not surprising , therefore that from the early days when the state became involved in the education of the masses one of the principal aims of the curriculum enunciated by successive Presidents of the Board of Education , Ministers of Education and Secretaries of State for Education has been that of the preparation for citizenship . |
| 30 | So she did it in the early morning before the Men came , or in the warm evenings when the Zoo gates were shut . |