Example sentences of "[vb pp] in [adj] when [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the finer are those of the Palffy Palace ( 14/158 ) , designed in 1723 when the palace became the property of the von Fürstenburgs . |
| 2 | The Corps originated in 1859 when the Volunteer Movement was formed as a result of the panic over the threat of a French invasion . |
| 3 | It was saved in 1962 when a group of enthusiasts , led by Dean Hughes , formed a committee to organise the event . |
| 4 | A major change was made in 1980 when the policy of the Department of Health and Social Security in administering supplementary benefit was reduced to detailed secondary legislation , so that the supplementary benefit scheme is now as rooted in statutory provisions as the national insurance benefits . |
| 5 | Although the actual game has been going for over 65 years there was a slight change made in 1943 when the event became a charity match to raise funds for the specific purpose of the prevention of blindness . |
| 6 | The arrangement formalized a change made in 1975 when the ALP government of Gough Whitlam established the Order of Australia as an alternative award to those honours bestowed by the British monarch . |
| 7 | Limited gains were made in 1930 when the government agreed to make information available to sick women for whom pregnancy was deemed detrimental to health . |
| 8 | A similar attitude was shown in 1986 when the Law Lords stated that the Trustee Savings Bank and its assets belonged not to depositors but to the state , shortly before the Bank was floated on the Stock Exchange . |
| 9 | After a long campaign to set the record straight , including an investigation by a House of Lords committee , Salter was eventually vindicated in 1990 when the Department of Energy agreed to adjust the figures in its official literature . |
| 10 | The British Deaf Scout movement was born in 1910 when the Headmaster of the Royal Cross School , Preston , Mr. J.G. Shaw , was on a motor tour of Yorkshire during his July holiday , and got into severe difficulties at Skipton when his car ran off the road and broke down . |
| 11 | This was symbolized in 1908 when the World Sunday School Association held its sixth conference in Washington , under the presidency of F. B. Meyer , the Baptist who succeeded Newman Hall as minister of Christ Church , Westminster Bridge Road . |
| 12 | This became pronounced in 1949 when the College secured a long lease on two houses , 21 and 23 Cromwell Road , into one of which they moved the Senior and Junior Common Rooms , formerly housed in a hut in Queensgate . |
| 13 | The London SCCs originated in part from the Relief Committees established in 1899 by the School Board , and continued by the LCC until they were renamed in 1907 when the Council put into effect section ( 1a ) of the Education ( Provision of Meals ) Act 1906 , which called for the establishment of Canteen Committees . |
| 14 | The concessions granted to the League since 1929 were finally withdrawn in 1937 when the League representative on the National Executive was dismissed . |
| 15 | The cry of " Wilkes and Liberty " had first been heard in 1763 when the publisher of the anti-Government North Briton had been imprisoned after the issue of a general warrant . |
| 16 | This charge was highlighted in mid-1990 when the government announced the establishment of a review committee to examine the possibility of constitutional reform prior to the 1991 general election [ see pp. 37882-83 ] . |
| 17 | The privileged position of statutory undertakers was further reduced in 1973 when a code of practice was agreed between departments and commended by the appropriate ministers to statutory undertakers . |
| 18 | Lancaster Hole was found in 1949 when a caver sitting having his lunch on a still sunny day noticed the grass nearby waving and stirring as though a wind were moving it . |
| 19 | He had been investigated in 1983 when a child complained that the trained social worker had sexually assaulted him . |
| 20 | That problem was remedied in 1805 when the completion of the Grand Junction Canal , 93 miles long , even avoided use of the narrow and circuitous Oxford Canal and took an astonishing 131 miles off the journey . |
| 21 | Manufacture finally ceased in 1960 when the site became the home of Rooksmoor Mills Ltd , suppliers of high quality furniture and related products . |
| 22 | At Rosario the role of the station in civic pride was confirmed in 1925 when the foundation stone for a new station was laid to commemorate the bicentennial of the founding of the city . |
| 23 | Over the years these monastic institutions acquired a particular expertise in the embalming of bodies , an example of their handiwork being discovered in 1969 when the coffin of Archbishop Godfrey de Ludham ( d. 1265 ) was opened in York Minster . |
| 24 | The cotton industry was virtually destroyed in 1968 when the bollworm and tobacco budworm became resistant to all available insecticides . |
| 25 | The tradition ended in 1828 when the bull woman apparently burnt her clothes of office and joined the Methodist church . |
| 26 | The service ended in 1958 when a sea plane crashed into the sea between Lisbon and Madeira . |
| 27 | This had begun in 1958 when a Boundary Commission had been appointed to consider piecemeal structural reform in various parts of the country . |