Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [noun pl] when [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had gone about a hundred and fifty yards when a figure in blue combat gear loomed up and signalled them to stop . |
| 2 | Police were still clearing the hotel and nearby homes when the bomb , abandoned in a Volvo car , partly exploded at 1.20am . |
| 3 | It makes the actual work of ferreting uncomfortable and those days when the rainfall is persistent are neither comfortable nor the most sporting . |
| 4 | Lithuania 's cause was helped by some ropey Northern Ireland defending , and several occasions when the midfield dropped back too far , causing a traffic-jam in the last third of the pitch . |
| 5 | Since the only previous time when R had seen F was a casual incident when there was little occasion to remember him and bearing in mind the difficult lighting and other circumstances when the attack occurred the conviction was unsafe or unsatisfactory . |
| 6 | Belfast Sinn Fein councillor Joe Austin was with his brother-in-law and four children when a grenade was thrown through the front bedroom window of his home in Falls Road . |
| 7 | It can be inferred from speeches made by Yugoslav and Soviet spokesmen when the question of compulsory repatriation was subsequently debated at the United Nations that both governments were primarily intent on getting their nationals back within their power . |
| 8 | Remarkable results have been achieved with children from mainstream and special schools when the teaching of mathematics has been opened up in order to allow pupils to find their own strategies and solutions to problems . |