Example sentences of "when [noun] [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lamb is the Easter dish , just about everywhere , and — like geese at Christmas — it has something to do with when sheep fail to practise safe sex . |
| 2 | That was when Billy paused to take liquid refreshment |
| 3 | The thirty-year rundown of the Great Central Railway terminus at Marylebone ( a prelude to seemingly inevitable total closure ) , was dramatically slammed into reverse gear on 30 April when BR admitted blossoming Chiltern Line services could not possibly be handled by Paddington , Euston , or even handed over to London Transport . |
| 4 | Abrams , Oliver L. North and Alan D. Fiers , head of the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) Central American Task Force in 1984-88 , composed the inner circle of a " Restricted Interagency Group " which co-ordinated US activities in central America in 1985-86 , a period when Congress had banned military aid to the rebels . |
| 5 | During this period the European Communities exerted pressure by warning that any military intervention would entail the cancellation of EC credits and assistance to Yugoslavia , as had happened in the early 1980s when Turkey had declared martial law [ see pp. 30541-55 ] . |
| 6 | There have been many times in history when Christianity has faced extreme difficulty . |