Example sentences of "[det] [adj] [noun] when [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She bit her lip , remembering that awful time when the news had come that he had lost his life in the fire that had demolished his holiday hotel — and how the tragedy , for her , had turned into a nightmare . |
| 2 | From that revelatory moment when the box of white paper is opened until the moment of exposure the exchange of light onto receptive surface has begun . |
| 3 | The Semai ethic of sharing mandates that aid be given when it is needed ( with the expectation , to be sure , that it will be reciprocated by someone at some later date when the giver is in need ) , but any accounting or direct reciprocation is unacceptable . |
| 4 | For the few brief minutes when the shelling ceased the scene before us looked very peaceful . |
| 5 | It 's also somewhat perverse to complain about a few innocent posts when the top of Ben Nevis is a lofty scrapyard . |
| 6 | The rule 's important , but it should come from a need of the child rather than be imposed at some arbitrary time when the teacher thinks that all the children are ready for that rule . |
| 7 | Her husband ( and his old friend ) McKnight Kauffer , had just died and Eliot speculated about the question of " what might have been " in anyone 's life — that crucial moment when a life is changed . |
| 8 | Nonetheless , the fact remains that even this frog is dependent upon rains arriving at some time and its active life is , in reality , condensed to that brief moment when the desert is wet . |
| 9 | There is n't that sudden moment when the music stops and you look into one another 's eyes for the first time , or whatever . |
| 10 | The word originally denoted the many single days when the labourer might break from his toil to go to mass and celebrate a saint in other , mundane ways ; as , in the dull prose of the twentieth century , on a bank holiday . |
| 11 | In a way , the fat lady doctor turned sex on to its head and in those prepermissive days when no woman appeared on screen showing more than a couple of inches of cleavage , it was enough . |
| 12 | But Llewellyn 's retainers with Twiston-Davies and Tim Forster , plus attractive rides for David Nicholson and Nick Gaselee , make those dark days when the phone never rang seem a long way off . |
| 13 | In those long years when the war had taken priority , Dr Tariq had rethought the detail of the programme . |
| 14 | Demidenko ( Hyperion ) is also highly individual , not to say idiosyncratic , even if his penchant for the mildly unexpected will not be to everyone 's taste , and Katin 's sensitivity and rare gift for sustaining a seamless melodic line ( Olympia ) is let down slightly by his converse reluctance to immerse himself in those many passages when the note-rate increases alarmingly . |
| 15 | A grey day in a cold April , one of those winter's-end days when the land looks exhausted and worn and it seems like all the colour is gone from the world . |
| 16 | Such moments happened mostly during the ungodly first hours of a new day , those breathless hours when a soul sighs away from a dying body . |
| 17 | I mention him in particular because he understood that opera concerns those ecstatic moments when a man or a woman has to use a means of expression other than the spoken word . |
| 18 | It was one of those rare moments when the clamour of war receded , the smoke cleared and a wise man could take stock of the situation quickly , accurately , and with some hope of certainty . |
| 19 | On those rare days when the weather has run out of rain and the sun has driven away the clouds , the wrong packed lunch can be just as disastrous . |
| 20 | Duncan enjoyed the moment of take-off , that split second when the bird starts to fly as it comes free of the land . |
| 21 | In that particular year when the research was carried out there were 2,000 boys in government training centres and one girl . |
| 22 | Outside the building there were skirmishes among several thousand protesters when a minority attempted to protect the East German flag , which was hauled down by other demonstrators and replaced with the hammer and compass emblem cut out . |
| 23 | A There are several key stages when the bill could be in the news : during the second reading debate , committee stage and report stage/third reading . |
| 24 | It could offer opportunities for embarrassing independent lords , as Alphonse Jourdain of Toulouse showed when he assisted the rebellious inhabitants of Montpellier against William VI ; but his own financial losses when the right to take tallage or forced loans from Toulouse escaped his grasp in 1147 , outweighed any advantage elsewhere . |
| 25 | Options may also be granted at any other time when the Committee considers exceptional circumstances exist which justify the grant of options . |
| 26 | I made for the hotel 's main building with several other reporters when a man with an assault rifle appeared and said : ‘ Hit the floor . ’ |
| 27 | Such fins are similar , in principle , to those of a whole group of primitive bony fish that were living in that remote period when the move to land was first made . |
| 28 | That 's when the contractual restrictions are lifted from those involved on that traumatic day when the ball was mysteriously changed at lunch . |