Example sentences of "when it [was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | when it were made like the sawdust , some of that had got on our |
| 2 | When it was pointing at the far corner of the floor , it emitted a stream of high-pitched bleeps . |
| 3 | The meeting was timely because Hamish Kidd , a Cambridge chemical engineer who had spent a long period in general management consultancy with P-E Consulting Group , had developed systems to introduce executive search into P-E when it was sanctioned as an allowable technique by the Management Consultants Association ( MCA ) . |
| 4 | Even when it was defined as the ability to change or control the behaviour of others they felt it was inappropriate . |
| 5 | On 6th June , 1857 he introduced the Public Offices Extension Bill , and it was given a Second Reading on 30th June , the day that he reported the judges ' decisions , when it was referred to a Select Committee . |
| 6 | The doctrine of abstract ideas stems from a concern with what , when it was debated in the Middle Ages , was called ‘ the problem of universals ’ . |
| 7 | The doctrine of abstract ideas stems from a concern with what , when it was debated in the Middle Ages , was called ‘ the problem of universals ’ . |
| 8 | I reviewed this 1935 recording of the Slavonic Dances when it was reissued on the BBC 's Vintage Collection label ( 12/89 — nla ) . |
| 9 | Football fans and businessmen in the area showed a lively interest in the table when it was advertised in the small ads of a local newspaper at the weekend . |
| 10 | A UN military observer , Colonel Walter van Dijk , who was with the convoy when it was stopped at a police and army barricade in Serbia yesterday , said the fate of the convoy had been ‘ resolved at the highest level ’ . |
| 11 | The book casued a stir when it was serialised in a Sunday newspaper … with new revelations about Gazza 's problems off the field , including an eating disorder . |
| 12 | It is thought that in January the Bank sold pounds nine months forward when it was engaged in the task of restraining the pound 's advance . |
| 13 | Labour frontbencher Jack Straw and Tory Jim Lester were in an armour-plated Land-Rover when it was hit by a boulder . |
| 14 | A family of three in a taxi escaped uninjured when it was hit by a diesel train at another crossing only half-a-mile away towards Sleights in 1988 . |
| 15 | A STOLEN caravan was stripped of over £2,000 worth of property when it was stored at an East Durham farm , a court heard yesterday . |
| 16 | The UN does not mind too much : it is determined not to repeat the mistakes made in Angola when it was landed with an inadequate mandate and impossible timetable . |
| 17 | In which hotel was Mrs Thatcher staying when it was bombed by the IRA ? |
| 18 | When I tried to discover just what was really meant when it was said of a particular girl that she had been " married " in this sense seven times before she was nineteen , I was told that if a girl was seen to be cooking a meal for a man this was evidence that she was " married " to him . |
| 19 | take you back in this first talk about the art of film erm to the very early days , and these are difficult I think for us to imagine because we 're so used today to sound films , of all the effects in , in the theatres , we 're used to the great stars , we 're used to the big subjects , and yet the film began in the smallest possible way , it began really as a sideshow , it began as a hobby for a group of people , sometimes they would be French , sometimes they would be British , sometimes American , the early pioneers , whose main interest was to produce a camera , which would look like a still camera and yet somehow would manage to produce a picture which moved when it was projected on a screen . |
| 20 | For example , when it was discovered in the 1970s that male workers in America and Costa Rica had been made permanently sterile by a pesticide called dibromochloropropane , the substance was banned . |
| 21 | However , the recovery plan 's future , and that of the ruling coalition government , was placed in serious doubt when it was opposed by the Christian Democratic Party ( PDC ) , the holder of the majority of seats in the Legislative Assembly . |
| 22 | ‘ I could do with a cup of tea , Lydia , ’ she smiled and when it was placed on the table before her , she wrapped both hands round it in a gesture which seemed natural , here in her mother 's kitchen . |
| 23 | The sides of the arch were destroyed in the Middle Ages when it was incorporated in the fortifications . |
| 24 | When we had all assembled for the first plenary session to approve the agenda , I was all ready with my dissenting speech when it was announced by the Secretary General that the additional items would be included in the agenda if the other matters already there were completed in time to consider additional ones . |
| 25 | When it was announced by the State Department on 17 October that military equipment , including light bombers , was being supplied for the armed forces both of France and of the Associated States , it was a distinction without a difference because in practice it was the French who were in control : even if Bao Dai was insistent that the French officers who were to train the soldiers of the Vietnamese national army should be responsible directly to him rather than to the French High Command . |
| 26 | However , this failed to secure unequivocal backing when it was presented to a joint session of the Presidential and Federation Councils on Aug. 30-31 . |
| 27 | Only when it was made into a glitzy film by Steven Spielberg did it become widely read and talked about outside feminist circles . |
| 28 | David MacLehose , director of the Confederation of British Industry in Scotland , said a fall in unemployment was always welcome , especially when it was matched with the highest increase in notified vacancies at job centres for two years . |
| 29 | After 8 April the aluminium returned to tapwater when a mains burst : sludge was found at the bottom of a glass of water but when it was sent to the authority for analysis it was discarded as ‘ too sludgy ’ . |
| 30 | ANEW portrait of Jesse Jackson , showing him as a blond , blue-eyed white man , attracted more than aesthetic interest when it was displayed on a Washington street corner last Wednesday . |