Example sentences of "in [adj] when the [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | The demonstrations had some effect , however , notably in 1935 when the new Unemployment Assistance Board scales were withdrawn . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | One was in 1969 when the original firm of Cadbury merged with Schweppes , a merger that changed the whole character of the company . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This was written in 1824 when the prodigious composer was only 15 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | However , the Berbera facility and Soviet access to Somalian ports , airfields and shore installations was lost in 1977 when the Soviet Union eventually sided with Ethiopia in the Somali-Ethiopian conflict . |
| 19 | The growth of interventionism during the 1960s and 1970s was consolidated by a procedural change introduced in 1977 when the Supreme Court Rule Committee created a specific new remedy of judicial review . |
| 20 | This year , 25,000 pensioners , sick and disabled and others have received no increase whatever in their weekly benefit , which was frozen in 1987 when the Prime Minister was pushing through the Fowler cuts . |
| 21 | The dispute over the freehold ownership of the common began in 1987 when the present claimant to ownership , Mr Michael Farrow , and his company the Historical Records Agency , bought the lordship of the manor from the Earl of Carnarvon for £4,200 . |
| 22 | Mitterrand , a staunch defender of French culture , may be a reluctant participant at the event , although his original objections must have melted back in 1987 when the American company said that with this , the fourth of its parks ( there are two in the United States and one outside Tokyo ) , it would create 12,000 jobs … |
| 23 | Doubtful tuning here and there is also a reservation to be found in Nilsson 's Four Last Songs , recorded in 1970 when the Swedish soprano was more or less in pristine form . |
| 24 | Will the Chancellor have a word with his Chief Secretary and tell him the facts of life , which are that the burden of taxation is much higher than it was in 1970 when the Labour party was in office ? |
| 25 | It was a Royal year in 1900 when the then Prince of Wales ( who would become King Edward VII ) won with Ambush II . |
| 26 | The first example of equipment redeployment came in 1982 when the then director ( Cyril Bleasdale ) , faced with a serious downturn on Great Western sub-sector services out of Paddington , decided to move ten HSTs to the Midland main line so that a badly needed improvement could be implemented on this potentially profitable and much neglected route . |
| 27 | He was at the garden party on Guy Fawkes Night in 1938 when the honourable member for Stockton , Harold Macmillan , burnt Chamberlain in effigy , and he earned the thanks of Bob Boothby later the same evening when he happened upon him making love to Macmillan 's wife against a turkey-oak tree — and went deaf and blind . |
| 28 | It was Pulled down in 1939 when the Central Government built Avenida do Mar . |
| 29 | And they had fought for their country in 1939 when the Irish Republic remained neutral which was , after all , just what one could expect of rebels who had taken advantage of Britain 's involvement in the First World War to stage the 1916 Easter Rising . |
| 30 | Mr Heath , 47 , earned £3 million in 1989 when the international share dealing business was turning in record profits but ‘ a disagreement about strategic policy ’ has led to him giving up his directorships at the City 's oldest merchant banking group . |