Example sentences of "when [noun] 's [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1857 when Agassiz 's Essay on Classification appeared , as an introduction to a never-completed work on the natural history of the USA , it was already difficult to believe that Noah 's flood had really been a world-wide catastrophe with animals surviving two by two ; indeed Agassiz 's work on ice ages had involved reinterpretation of data that seemed evidence of the Flood . |
| 2 | ‘ At a time when Scotland 's supply of quality players is limited , McCoist can make this tie less of a banana skin than it looks , ’ said Roxburgh , who freely admits he would rather his team were playing Germany , Italy or the Netherlands . |
| 3 | Both appeared to be insuperable problems until the evening when Clarissa 's change of plan for the sixth or seventh time put a pattern into perspective . |
| 4 | By contrast , the present day is seen as a time when people 's sense of duty and responsibility is much weaker , so that they are less prepared to acknowledge obligation or to take responsibility for kin . |
| 5 | Pereira 's defeat had been widely predicted following the rout of his nominally Marxist African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde ( PAICV ) in the first multiparty legislative elections , on Jan. 13 , when Monteiro 's Movement for Democracy ( MPD ) won 56 of the 79 seats in the National People 's Assembly [ see p. 37948 ] . |
| 6 | In contrast to 1956 , when Khruschev 's call for reform in the East had soon led to a Soviet clampdown , Gorbachev 's desire for change included an acceptance of political pluralism . |