Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [adj] when [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Bradstreet again served as governor until May of 1692 when the governor appointed under the new royal charter arrived .
2 In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries continental Europe gradually changed to a 1 January system , but it was not adopted in England until 1751/2 when the day after 31 December 1751 became 1 January 1752 , rather than remaining 1 January 1751 .
3 Manorial records in general concerned themselves solely with the head tenants ; the name of an undertenant might occur only incidentally , as at Long Crendon in 1535 when the vicar of Thame was presented for letting two tenements by indenture for ten years to William Byrte , from whom , in fact , he had purchased them a few years previously .
4 Ojomoh , by now the South West England Under-21 decathlon champion , developed into a formidable rugby forward and had just joined Bath in 1989 when a letter from the Home Office threatened to wreck his life .
5 The same thing happened in Strasbourg in 1114 when a mob feared clerical lenience towards a heretic and took matters into their own hands .
6 Divorce figures have been growing steadily in the UK since 1971 when the Divorce Reform Act 1969 came into force .
7 Exiled abroad for opposing the 1964 military coup , Prestes returned to Brazil from Moscow in 1979 when the ban on opposition parties was lifted .
8 Hastings will be the fourth Scot to captain the Lions since the Second World War in succession to the late Arthur Smith in South Africa in 1962 ; Mike Campbell-Lamerton in New Zealand in 1966 and Finlay Calder in Australia in 1989 when the combination of a Scotland captain and coach ended triumphant .
9 A further step was taken at Birmingham in 1930 when the Conference instructed the National Administrative Council : to reconstruct the ILP Parliamentary Group on the basis of acceptance of the policy of the ILP as laid down by decisions of Annual Conference and as interpreted by the NAC. and to limit endorsements of future ILP Parliamentary candidates to nominees who accept this basis .
10 In the talk , first Mr Preshous ( Principal of the Bishop 's Castle ommunity College ) recalled how they came to Bishop 's Castle in 1973 when the Borough was celebrating Charter Year marking the 400th anniversary of the granting of the Borough Charter .
11 Although not a new phenomenon abroad , occurrences of listeria were relatively rare in Britain until 1989 when the number of cases rose to an estimated 800 , one third of which were pregnant women .
12 The miracle has been performed by the Archbishop of Naples since 1389 when the phial mysteriously first appeared .
13 One of the most infamous of all football riots took place in Glasgow in 1909 when a crowd of around 6,000 invaded the pitch at full time .
14 His dismissal as " number two " in the party hierarchy was described as part of the PS policy of " renewal and openness " in a communiqué issued by the executive committee , itself created by Collin in 1989 when the PS was restructured , in a bid to secure his and Diouf 's position against opposition from within the party [ see p. 36519 ] .
15 The first visions to distort this mirage had appeared on the southern border of Lebanon or from the sea off Beirut in 1946 when the Covenant was barely three years old .
16 They include Willem de Ridder 's ‘ European Mail-Order Warehouse/Fluxshop ’ ( 1964–65 ) ; Ben Vautier 's ‘ Living Sculpture ’ , originally constructed for a Fluxus festival in London in 1962 when the artist inhabited a gallery window for fifteen days ; and a Flux-Labyrinth , a tactile obstacle course originally created in Berlin in 1976 .
17 One of the earlier manifestations of pressurisation hazards was the Comet 1 accident near Rome in 1954 when a fatigue crack was found to have propagated from a cut-out in the top of the fuselage designed to accommodate the automatic direction finder aerial system .
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