Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] when a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One suspects that the ‘ process ’ argument is sometimes deployed as a reserve justification when a mismatch between subject output and employment intake arises . |
| 2 | It was not a complete surprise when a minute later Travis , with Naylor leading the way , walked into her kitchen . |
| 3 | Mother Love Bone manage to talk quite movingly about the wasted death of Andrew Woods , Queensrÿche and Soundgarden make ten-second cameos about the Seattle scene , and Robert Plant and Aerosmith 's Joe Perry prove that you do n't have to act like a complete fuckwit when a camera 's around . |
| 4 | Mother Love Bone manage to talk quite movingly about the wasted death of Andrew Woods , Queensrÿche and Soundgarden make ten-second cameos about the Seattle scene , and Robert Plant and Aerosmith 's Joe Perry prove that you do n't have to act like a complete fuckwit when a camera 's around . |
| 5 | Such a strange thought when a moment ago she had fantasised so cheerfully of touching him ! |
| 6 | He was making an early morning cuppa in a back room when a milk float crashed through the shop 's brick wall and 12ft by 8ft window . |
| 7 | It was quite a different situation when a grandchild came into the grandparent 's home through the death or desertion of one or both parents . |
| 8 | The formula attains a high mark when a diversity of variables is woven into a unified design . |
| 9 | In May 1990 he suffered a broken leg when a car was allegedly driven into him near his home in Provanmill where he lived with his wife Rita , son Billy , 25 , and Arthur jun 's daughter Amanda , 13 , in converted council houses which have been nicknamed locally ‘ Southfork ’ . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , Ershad 's Jatiya Party suffered a serious blow when a court sentenced the former President to 10 years ' " rigorous imprisonment " [ see p. 38288 ] . |
| 11 | STUNNED Debbie Watson had a lucky escape when a 20-ton milk tanker careered into her cottage . |
| 12 | In central London , a middle-aged woman had a lucky escape when a 40ft tree crashed down on to an open-top bus on Victoria Embankment . |
| 13 | One girl had a lucky escape when a fence post narrowly missed her head . |
| 14 | Their lives take a startling turn when a friend is murdered in the local park . |
| 15 | A six-month-old baby girl had a miraculous escape when a firework exploded , and a fragment landed an inch from her eye in Seaforth . |
| 16 | ‘ The horse is too clever for its own good ! ’ is a frequent complaint when a horse evades or refuses to do what is expected of it . |
| 17 | There was a curious incident when a man from the British Council in Madrid came to see me . |
| 18 | The " alert " is sounded and a plane flies overhead every five minutes or so — the usual monotonous droning sound of the engines is heard and now and then the pop-pop of the guns and occasionally you feel the sensation of a slight earthquake when a bomb drops — |
| 19 | Both conclude that a supportive marital relationship ( and Quinton and Rutter would add ‘ past positive experience of schooling ’ ) act as a protective factor when a woman is facing marked social difficulties . |
| 20 | She was about to raise a leather-booted leg when a voice suddenly shouted behind her . |
| 21 | He 'd already turned a blind eye when a couple of his lorries got hi-jacked . |
| 22 | The Constable was walking along a busy thoroughfare when a crowd assembled owing to the breakdown of a motor car . |
| 23 | The Italians wanted to find out what happened inside a nuclear reactor when a pipe taking cooling water into the reactor burst . |
| 24 | It seems to even out in the long run , although sometimes one has to give a wry smile when a customer dithers over one of ‘ hers ’ and one of ‘ mine ’ — then chooses ‘ hers ’ . |
| 25 | It may seem a small point when a man is dead , but all other records have always given 17 June as the presumed date of death . |
| 26 | It may be that your man is loving and living with you in what seems like a peaceful landscape when a volcano on the horizon suddenly erupts . |
| 27 | A PLANE was turned into a makeshift surgery when a doctor was forced back to work early on a flight home from the sun . |
| 28 | Given the number of mergers that have happened over recent years , it 's becoming a rare event when a firm can celebrate its centenary with the same name it started out with . |
| 29 | The council does , however , bring a disciplinary case against a doctor who , having decided to practice a particular form of medicine or to carry out a particular procedure , does so in a way that can be shown to have been irresponsible , or unnecessarily hazardous to one or more patients , because the doctor has failed to exercise a proper standard of professional care ; the council also brings a disciplinary case when a doctor makes outrageous and false claims regarding the efficacy of a particular form of treatment . |
| 30 | It is difficult to test a potential cure when a disease is ill-defined . |