Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun] when [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their running was impeded by the mass of men coming out of the main doors and scattering in all directions , and heads down , they made their way between them to the back of the Naafi and into the rest room , which was empty ; and they were just in the process of taking off their wet top coats when the supervisor came in , saying , ‘ Oh , I 'm in luck ; I was about to send to the hut for help . |
| 2 | We feel that we have largely succeeded in these aims , but more of that later , as I would like to take you back to the early nineteenth century when the object of our association was first mooted . |
| 3 | It was especially popular in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries when the whole of fashionable society decamped from London to Bath once a year to take the waters and to see and be seen . |
| 4 | On the way to Eric 's first hiding place there had been an uncomfortable few minutes when the doctor 's car , in spite of its prominently displayed red cross , had been stopped by a carabinieri patrol . |
| 5 | Town and canton rose in importance after the early thirteenth century when the bridging of the Schollenen gorge opened up the Cotthard . |
| 6 | Champagne became established as a political unit in the early eleventh century when the house of Vermandois united the counties of Troyes and Meaux . |
| 7 | The implication is that the parish boundaries were already there in the early Saxon period when the dyke was built . |
| 8 | ‘ Except for a brief half hour when the sun came through . |
| 9 | It was one of those gorgeous early mornings when the sun has just risen but it 's still dark enough to see the brightest stars . |
| 10 | It is possible to illustrate this by selecting at random two occasions when the field-worker accompanied policemen in their vehicles and cataloguing the calls they attended . |
| 11 | We are able to calculate the population for the late 17th century when a census was taken throughout Kent to enumerate the various religious bodies i.e. the number of Conformists , Catholics and Nonconformists , the return for Hailing showing 60 Conformists , no Catholics or Nonconformists , so allowing this figure was for adults only and allowing an average of 40 children for 60 adults this gives us a total of 100 . |
| 12 | Just the way you once wished it could when you were regretting the good old days when a man could keep his unsuitable mistress hidden away , knowing she 'd be there waiting upon his pleasure , whenever he felt the urge and could spare the time to see her . |
| 13 | Pindar pleads with Arkesilas for one of these nobles who is out of favour , a ‘ pollarded oak-tree ’ — cp. the tyrant 's maxim about ‘ pruning the tallest poppies ’ on p. 51 ; and in the late sixth century when the balance of strength was the other way , Arkesilas III had been forced out of the country to Samos . |
| 14 | Usher relied on bore holes and tanks although even those proved inadequate one year when the school had to be closed for three months because of the shortage of water . |
| 15 | But whatever its degree of visibility , class conflict was never far from the surface of day-to-day social relationships when the village was an occupational community . |
| 16 | Sainz had to pacify angry paying spectators when the Kershope leg was cancelled after a medical emergency in the crowd had delayed the timing and left drivers without spotlights . |
| 17 | They are offered an initial hour-long session when a counsellor assesses their needs . |
| 18 | I recall the occasional sunny day when the stone wall became warm with a welcome heat , and the talk was lightened by a dry humour and saving bursts of laughter . |
| 19 | The littoral was well integrated into the market economy even before the beginning of British rule , and it was families from this area who were able to gain wealth through trade and other capitalist ventures when the cash economy expanded inland in the nineteenth century . |
| 20 | In respect of these geophysical conditions there are increased chances of misfortune occurring on certain unfavourable days when the functioning of human responses is affected . |
| 21 | After the harmless blue day when the sky |
| 22 | Loretta regarded the room as a refuge from the outside world and , in spite of her discoveries , she was fast asleep next morning when the buzzer on the entryphone sounded in the hall a floor below . |
| 23 | There have been occasions over the past 30 years when the attendance in this House for my speeches has not been quite as large as it is today . |
| 24 | The little history of the period that has survived is an invaluable asset , but there are great dangers in using archaeological data to elucidate chronologically-based historical problems when the span of as little as a generation is so crucial . |
| 25 | The quality of translation here , with its simpering rhythms and bathetic language , proves that in this matter the major publishers have moved on hardly at all from the bad old days when the employment of unskilled amateurs or stilted romantics in translation work marred the English publication of some of the great accounts of European mountaineering . |
| 26 | In the summertime , on bright warm days when the sun was high in the sky , Endill would help her weed and tend the vegetables . |
| 27 | However , this Government have frozen , deliberately , purchase grants even in the past three years when the Minister has had funds at his disposal . |