Example sentences of "when it [vb past] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was identified on the surveillance radar when it made its first position report and was cleared to continue to the BN non-directional beacon . |
| 2 | The saw stuck when it reached its own depth , but he kept on trying . |
| 3 | It is rare nowadays to find a research council able to live within its means and reasonably happy with its situation , but that is the impression that the Natural Environment Research Council ( NERC ) put over when it launched its annual report . |
| 4 | Rulers and governments might well be willing when it suited their own purposes to overlook the difficulties which precedence , titles and formal procedures in general so often caused . |
| 5 | Cromwell had thrown in his lot with the Levellers when it suited him two years before and so was regarded by them as no better than a mutineer himself when he turned against them . |
| 6 | The Times ( 15 August 1898 ) had given the broadest indication of the shock-waves produced by the push-bike when it delivered its editorial judgement on ‘ The Bicycle as a Social Force ’ , which bristled with otherwise unaccountable fears and allusions to deeper moving forces within society . |
| 7 | The scene for the election to the Constitutional Convention was formally set by the British Government when it published its White Paper " The Northern Ireland Constitution " ( see above page 8 ) which was almost immediately followed by the passing of the Northern Ireland Act 1974 on 17 July . |
| 8 | I am a Word Processor Operator as well as a keen knitter and so I ‘ borrowed ’ a little high-tech knowledge from that field to solve my problem when it reared its ugly head during my introduction to the knitting machine . |