Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adj] when a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Janet Rogers will become the acting Treasurer until the Annual General Meeting in March 1980 when a new Treasurer will be elected . |
| 2 | In the worst IRA attack on civilians for five years , eight Protestant workers were killed and five injured on Jan. 17 when a massive bomb destroyed their van at Teebane Cross . |
| 3 | Ian Gow , Conservative member of Parliament for Eastbourne since 1974 , was killed on July 30 when an Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) bomb exploded underneath his car as he was preparing to leave his home in the village of Hankham , near Eastbourne in Sussex . |
| 4 | The United States space programme suffered a serious setback in May 1991 when a congressional committee voted to reduce to $100,000,000 in the current fiscal year the projected $2,000 million budget for the Freedom space station , the construction of which was crucial to further manned missions to the moon and one to Mars , which President George Bush stated should be achieved by 2019 , the 50th anniversary of the first Apollo moon landing . |
| 5 | A total of 223 people were killed on May 26 when an Austrian Lauda Air Boeing 767-300 , on its way from Bangkok to Vienna , crashed over Suphan Buri province in north-western Thailand . |
| 6 | The Constituent Assembly itself was to be dissolved on July 5 when a new constitution was to be published . |
| 7 | There is a listed monument to the north of the parish , an obelisk erected in 1799 to commemorate December 1795 when a huge meteorite , weighing approximately 56 lbs , fell on that spot near Wold Cottage Farm . |
| 8 | One person was killed and six injured in Athens on July 14 when an anti-tank rocket narrowly missed Finance Minister Ioannis Paleokrassas ; the November 17 group claimed responsibility for the attack , which took place in Constitution Square , central Athens . |
| 9 | The Spanish Civil War began in July 1936 when a Moorish legion invaded southern Spain in support of General Franco 's attempt to overthrow the socialist-dominated Spanish Republican government . |
| 10 | A general meeting was called for December 1990 when a new constitution was to be adopted . |
| 11 | The first signs of the new eruption were seen on 23 March 1902 when a rambling party were making an ascent of the volcano . |
| 12 | The first of what promised to be a long series of show trials of former senior officials of the ousted Ceausescu regime ended on Feb. 2 when a military tribunal in Bucharest found Emil Bobu , Manea Manescu , Ion Dinca and Tudor Postelnicu guilty of " co-authorship of genocide " in connection with the killing of demonstrators in Timisoara , Bucharest and elsewhere at the start of the December 1989 revolution [ see pp. 37104-05 ] . |
| 13 | At least 31 people were killed on Oct. 26 when an armed group numbering about 20 attacked a fishing village near the Cap Skirring tourist area , 600 km south of Dakar . |
| 14 | The charges arose from events on Feb. 18 when a peaceful rally ended in violence [ see p. 38753 ] . |
| 15 | Fierce protest in the town of Batna , 300 km south-east of Algiers , was triggered on Feb. 4 when a local imam was sentenced to three months ' imprisonment for public order offences . |
| 16 | No further serious clashes were reported until March 25 when a 90-minute battle in the suburbs of Ashrafieh , Sin el-Fil , Saloumi and Dora , killed 11 people . |
| 17 | Fifteen years of one-party rule ended formally on Nov. 30 when a new Constitution came into effect which provided for multiparty democracy and a free-market economy . |
| 18 | The term ‘ monetary sector ’ dates from August 1981 when a new set of monetary control provisions were introduced . |
| 19 | South Africa ended 21 years of isolation from international cricket on Nov. 8 when a national team received a rapturous welcome on its arrival in India for a series of three one-day matches [ see p. 38318 for readmission to International Cricket Conference ] . |
| 20 | On March 28 , 1989 , Pérez and President Virgilio Barco Vargas of Colombia met on the Urena border bridge and agreed to set up a permanent commission , chaired by former Spanish Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez González , to look into their marine border dispute , which last erupted in August 1987 when a Colombian warship sailed into the Gulf of Venezuela ( known by Colombia as the Gulf of Guajira--see p. 35757 ) . |
| 21 | Violent confrontations had taken place in Satu Mare on March 15 when Hungarians had attempted to celebrate Hungarian National Day , and in Tirgu Mures on March 16 when a Hungarian-owned pharmacy had allegedly refused to serve Romanians . |
| 22 | The situation altered abruptly on 9 March 1945 when a Japanese putsch liquidated the whole French administration and military power overnight . |
| 23 | Under United States pressure following the murder of three US nuns by the security forces , the junta appointed Duarte as President in December 1980 [ see p. 30685 ] ; he stood down in April 1982 when an interim administration succeeded the civilian-military junta . |
| 24 | Another summit meeting was not possible until June 1961 when a new President , John F Kennedy , met Khruschev in Vienna . |