Example sentences of "when it was [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it was transferred last year with it went pilot line supremo on a three-year secondment . |
| 2 | Dr Bob Woodward and his brother John became interested in the pavement when it was uncovered some years ago . |
| 3 | China denounced the plan when it was announced last October , and threatened dire consequences if Mr Patten refused to back down . |
| 4 | The jobs of men were threatened when it was announced last year that the Ladas Drive facility would be replaced by a £250 , fire station at Carryduff . |
| 5 | Problems have arisen despite this year 's cash for the NHS appearing , when it was announced last November , to allow for real growth for the first time in years , even after taking into account inevitable pressures such as the rising number of elderly people . |
| 6 | The discovery that oriented bars and edges were the trigger features for neurons in the visual cortex was enormously exciting when it was made thirty years ago , but Levick followed up their discovery and found that there are orientation selective neurons in rabbit retina as well as the directionally selective ones shown in Figure 4 . |
| 7 | INVESTORS who piled into North West Water when it was floated three years ago are on the crest of a wave . |
| 8 | Of the 16 funds that made up our Global Strategy umbrella fund when it was launched five years ago , no less than four have come first in their respective sectors over this period , according to Finstat . |
| 9 | The Criminal Justice Act was hailed as a far-reaching piece of legislature when it was launched last October . |
| 10 | Die Hard 's action sequences won rave reviews when it was released four years ago . |
| 11 | Ileana Cotrubas is not of that ilk , and many of her devotees must have been shocked when it was disclosed last weekend that her Covent Garden recital with Geoffrey Parsons on Thursday evening was to be her farewell British appearance . |
| 12 | . And nine times out of ten when I ask the congregation whether your church is bigger now than it was when it was founded nine times out of ten the congregation say , it is smaller now than when it was founded . |
| 13 | I have lived in Grey Street for over 30 years and we have never had a bus service in all that time , so when it was introduced last year everyone was delighted . |
| 14 | Retailers say Pentland Crown , the Scottish-bred variety which increased farmers ' yields by up to 20 per cent when it was introduced 30 years ago , bruises too easily and goes black . |
| 15 | If that is the case , when Brent council was at its most extreme , when it was spending enormous sums of ratepayers ' money and destroying services , why , at every turn , did the hon. Gentleman 's party support the Labour party through thick and thin ? |