Example sentences of "when it [was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bessarabia , a part of historic Moldavia between the Prut and Dniester rivers , came under Romanian rather than Soviet control from 1918 up to 1940 and again from 1941 to 1944 , when it was incorporated into the USSR together with other Moldavian territories as a constituent republic . |
| 2 | That and other systems sales accounted for a whacking 50% of SunExpress revenues last year when it was getting off the ground , with end user sales pegged at just 35% . |
| 3 | Also facing the green at the entrance to the church is the old forge , worked by many generations of the same family of blacksmiths till the 1970s when it was converted to a bus shelter . |
| 4 | Despite much rebuilding and the need for dogged perseverance by Holroyd Smith and his supporters , his conduit line although equipped with primitive electrical apparatus , handled everything Blackpool 's crowds and the sea could throw at it until 1899 , when it was converted to the cheaper overhead line method now used . |
| 5 | The first definite report of women taking the side of the men comes in early August , when it was announced at the quarterly general meeting of the Edinburgh Typographical Society that in the office of Neill & Co , 51 " female compositors had intimated their intention of tendering notices on Friday 5 August " alongside the men . |
| 6 | It wo n't surprise you to hear that I 'm not the first to recognise the beauty of this region of South Wales — it was officially recognised in 1956 when it was designated as the very first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Britain . |
| 7 | There has n't been duty on books since 1860 , when it was seen as a tax on knowledge . |
| 8 | The Baath was no overnight creation , but went back to the 1940s when it was conceived by the Syrian duo , Salahuddin Bitar and Michel Aflaq , who later fostered branches in a number of Arab states . |
| 9 | The ridge survived until a storm in 1910 , when it was breached in the middle , thus causing the harbour to revert to its former double spit state . |
| 10 | Gaskell was actively involved with the firm until the 1870s , after which he remained a director until November 1890 , when it was absorbed into the United Alkali Co . |
| 11 | Lane 's Star continued till 1831 when it was absorbed by the Albion . |
| 12 | The pressure of the streets was to be of decisive importance in the liberal revolution of 1820 , when it was organized by the secret societies . |
| 13 | At Christchurch , proposals to replace the Gothic station of 1877 had been made at the time of the First World War and again in the 1930s , but it was not demolished until the 1950s , when it was replaced by a modern station more successful than most . |
| 14 | Frustration over the PLA 's victory and the serious economic situation led to anti-communist rioting and general strikes causing the government to resign on June 4 when it was replaced by a coalition " government of national stability " . |
| 15 | After the war the whistle recommenced until around 1965 , when it was replaced by an electric siren ( still in use today ) which calls the men at start and finish times only , from the canteen roof . |
| 16 | The last elections to the National Assembly were held in 1972 ; the Assembly term was routinely extended , most recently in November 1989 , when it was extended until the end of 1994 . |
| 17 | Port Salut first appeared in 1873 , when it was created by an order of Trappist monks . |
| 18 | The Easton Farm Park is a private working farm and museum , the original farm itself dating from the 1870s , when it was built as a model dairy farm by the Duke of Hamilton . |
| 19 | This is the Castello di Vicchiomaggio , the origins of which go way , way back to 957 A.D. , when it was built by the Longobards . |
| 20 | Hotspur hung back from him , and let him gather himself , waited , indeed , for him to make the first assay , and put it by when it was made with the utmost care and forbearance . |
| 21 | The invasion never came and the tower was left to decay until 1850 when it was renovated by the Royal Engineers and occupied by artillerymen from Leith until 1869 . |
| 22 | This ‘ Annunciation ’ stayed in the church until 1944 , when it was sent to a restoration workshop in the Bohemian forest . |
| 23 | The High Authority , however , survived as a distinct body until 1965 when it was merged with the other supranational executives . |
| 24 | It only became a god in Hellenistic times when it was worshipped under the name ‘ Aion ’ , but that signified a sacred , eternal time which was very different from ordinary time , chronos . |
| 25 | It was combined with the similar but larger Maine-Anjou in the 1960s to form the Rouge de l'Ouest , and then virtually lost its separate identity in 1970 when it was crossed with the MRY and the German Red Pied ( itself a composite ) to become part of the combined group known as the Pie Rouge des Plaines in northern Brittany , in which the MRY is dominant . |
| 26 | This structure survived a further three decades , until 1961 , when it was subsumed by the General Practice Division ; and although the Building Surveyors Panel of the General Practice Committee gave evidence of their dissatisfaction with the syllabus structure to the Eve Committee in 1967 , it was not until 1973 that a Building Surveying Division re-emerged as an identifiable entity . |
| 27 | The financial circumstances of the college also appear to have improved since 1988 when it was forced into an underfunded merger with Bedford College , and the state of the building does not seem to require the sum of £10.5 million originally put to the Commissioners . |
| 28 | It was sold at auction for a derisory sum by Josef II in 1782 and from 1792 until 1934 , when it was bought by the State , it was in the Strahov Monastery . |
| 29 | A landmark in the history of Drummonds occurred on 12 January 1924 when it was bought by the Royal Bank for £958,400 . |
| 30 | Car 127 was a similar snow plough , based at Fleetwood depot , where it survived until 1960 , when it was restored for the 75th Anniversary and re-numbered 2 , its Company number . |