Example sentences of "in [adj] when [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thomas Gaisford , who later became Dean of Christchurch , Oxford , was only four years old in 1770 when the great cedar tree was planted which still stands on the hillside walk behind the house . |
| 2 | One strange chapter in this story came to be written at Geneva in 1986 when a difficult problem of ceiling division in conference was overcome by Iran 's proposal that Iraq be freed from the discipline of a quota , enabling it to produce as much as it chose . |
| 3 | The last public challenge to the DVR 's policies failed in 1986 when an elected volunteer worker from the Dart Valley Railway Association was blocked from becoming a Director by the Board . |
| 4 | Moves towards healing in that context were made in 1986 when The United Church of Canada apologised to the Native people and confessed that they had ignored the wisdom and riches of their spiritual traditions . |
| 5 | The demonstrations had some effect , however , notably in 1935 when the new Unemployment Assistance Board scales were withdrawn . |
| 6 | Their fame began innocently enough in 1893 when an enterprising baron founded a lottery to pay for the Rio de Janeiro zoo . |
| 7 | But in 1921 the King 's personal physician , Lord Dawson , stunned his profession alike and delighted the press by praising the morality of family limitation and warning Church leaders that they risked losing a whole generation by their unrealistic pronouncements ; an example followed in 1925 when the next King 's physician , Sir H. Rolliston , Regius Professor of Physick at Cambridge , became president of a new family-planning clinic . |
| 8 | Warburg , whose scholarly tradition was transferred to London in 1933 when the entire library was moved there , has provided a link between London and Hamburg which shows every sign of strengthening over the coming years . |
| 9 | With such tourist pulling potential it was only a matter of time before the line of sections of it would hum again to wheel flange above fishplate … and so it proved in 1972 when a narrow gauge scheme was hatched to open 5.5. miles of trackbed between Pant ( Merthyr Tydfil ) and Torpantau . |
| 10 | It will be Ballymena 's first trip to Brandywell since that infamous day in 1972 when a United bus was subjected to an arson attack . |
| 11 | The decision brought to an end a case which had begun in 1979 when a female student filed a complaint over the exclusion with New Jersey civil rights officials . |
| 12 | The feelings of the young hon. Member for Gedling ( Mr. Mitchell ) about the way in which local government has broken up were expressed subjectively and I suspect that he will not agree with me when I say that they seemed to date from about 1979 — and we know what happened in 1979 when the hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) was first elected . |
| 13 | People always protest against new forms of taxation , and in this case they will protest now when it is threatened , and again next year when half is imposed and half is threatened , and again in 1995 when the full effect is felt on fuel bills . |
| 14 | The real beginnings , however , were made in 1969 when a central cataloguing institute was set up in Rome , which became the present Istituto centrale per il catalogo e la documentazione ( ICCD ) when the Minstero per i Beni Culturali was founded . |
| 15 | One was in 1969 when the original firm of Cadbury merged with Schweppes , a merger that changed the whole character of the company . |
| 16 | Phil was again unlucky with injuries in 1990–91 when a fractured rib in November reduced his contribution to modest proportions , but his distinguished career already assures him a permanent place in the Palace annals . |
| 17 | One has only to think of the way in which the Shah of Persia reinforced his position by claiming direct descent from the Achaemenids of the third century BC , to give depth to a genealogy that in fact started with his father — a Cossack officer — assuming the throne in 1920 when the previous dynasty collapsed ( see Avery , 1965 ) ; or the use in Britain of the ‘ historical ’ roots of the Royal Family to support such current political structures as the House of Lords . |
| 18 | First , BR curtailed the production line of the obsolete overcomplicated Class 56 Co-Cos in 1984 when the 135th example emerged from BREL Crewe . |
| 19 | Work began in 1975 when a small test-reactor at Ispra , near Milan , was switched by the Italian government to work on safety . |
| 20 | Though this point of view is not a new one , it took on increased importance in 1975 when the Labour government obtained a loan from the International Monetary Fund which was conditional upon a reduction of the level of public expenditure . |
| 21 | The unquestioning enthusiasm for the thermonuclear programme [ among certain scientists ] looks to me very much like the enthusiasm that many Germans felt in 1917 when the German government declared unrestricted submarine warfare . |
| 22 | A third group were followers of Karadjordje , who fled in 1813 when the first revolt was crushed . |
| 23 | The Boulting obsession with the silver screen began on a wet day in 1921 when the eight year old twins went with nanny for their first trip to the cinema |
| 24 | Alexander assumed the throne of Montenegro in 1918 when the French government , in league with the Serbian , refused to allow the old man to go back to Montenegro after his wartime exile in France . |
| 25 | The ultimate embarrassment came in 1976 when the prime Minister announced the establishment of a Royal Commission to make a general inquiry into the law and practice relating to the provision of legal services in England , Wales and Northern Ireland . |
| 26 | In 1884 when the primary survey of England was nearing completion , much of it mapped on the one-inch scale , he transferred G. Barrow , C. T. Clough , J. R. Dakyns , W. Gunn and H. Miller from northern England to the Scottish staff . |
| 27 | A bottle of this wine was opened at Reid 's Hotel in 1950 when the British community gave a dinner in honour of Sir Winston Churchill 's visit . |
| 28 | This was written in 1824 when the prodigious composer was only 15 . |
| 29 | They were doomed from the day — admittedly belated — in 2007 when the European Community 's economic and monetary union ( EMU ) became reality and its 29 currencies merged in the ecu . |
| 30 | His Congo campaign achieved its preliminary aim in 1908 when the Free State was handed over to Belgium , and thereafter had some success in pressing the latter to adopt specific reforms , despite the reluctance of the British and French governments to antagonize Belgium , on whose friendship their European policies depended . |