Example sentences of "[noun pl] when it [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 So , next Tuesday and Wednesday , Christie 's in Amsterdam expects a full turnout of buyers when it sells 28,000 pieces of Chinese porcelain from a burnt-out junk shipwrecked around 1690 off Con Dao Island , Vietnam .
2 The Commission imposed a four-year supervision order in August 1990 against the West German company Advanced Nuclear Fuels GmbH for serious violations of safety regulations when it transported 130 kg of enriched uranium through Luxembourg in what purported to be empty containers .
3 An area of mystery is rational to God , but faith must suspend judgement and not press human reason to answer questions when it has insufficient information .
4 The new Holiday Inn at King 's Cross , London , will also have a Landis & Gyr system , controlling energy , fire and security systems and elevators when it opens next year .
5 Time itself is finite — a government will not devote it to passing less desirable and more controversial laws when it has better things to do with its time .
6 It hardly seemed to augur well for the firm 's chances when it goes head-to head with the likes of Brown Boveri ASEA or GEC Alsthom .
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