Example sentences of "when [art] [noun sg] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In London , in 1934 when the knowledge of the power of the atom was a dream in very few minds , ’ Dr Tariq said , ‘ there was a Hungarian refugee . |
| 2 | Dr Mann took up the post of organist and choir master at Beverley at a time when the music at the Minster was at a fairly low ebb . |
| 3 | Certainly , within time , group equilibrium or balance will return , but there are many occasions when the cost of the group 's disequilibrium is greater than the cost of not removing that member . |
| 4 | It was said of him that he was preparing his Easter sermon early one Easter Day when the significance of the resurrection dawned on him . |
| 5 | It may be no coincidence that the occasion of this shift in distribution was also the time when the devaluation of the gold had become serious . |
| 6 | That 's when the man with the gun shoots the tiger . ’ |
| 7 | It may be the case rather generally that male fieldworkers find it difficult to gain access to a domestic setting particularly if they are visiting women during the day when the man of the house is at work . |
| 8 | There have been five occasions when the Man of the Match award went to a player on the losing side : David Houghton of Zimbabwe has been the unfortunate soul to be on the losing team twice . |
| 9 | In winter , when the level in the canal would tend to be some three inches higher , then some water did splash over the sides of the tanks , but never at any time was the water emptied from the tanks to enable hauling to proceed.9 ; On this basis alone the lift must be judged to have been a technical success . |
| 10 | The Second period is that which starts from the beginning of life and reaches onward to the time when the law of the survival of the fittest with its ruthlessness could no longer serve the aspirations towards increasing happiness that were beginning to creep into the dawning consciousness of primitive man . |
| 11 | This programme will not be transmitted until 8.30am on Sunday , January 10 , 1993 , when the reflection on the Christmas and Epiphany messages , which the script highlights , will seem more appropriate than on a wet November evening . |
| 12 | It is hoped that the first phase of the project will have been completed by 1991 when the excavation of the village will have been finished and at least three properties will have been totally reconstructed . |
| 13 | Certainly night is a more solemn period than day , when the withdrawal of the sun 's influence enforces a caesura to activity . |
| 14 | For some while , the trip has had uncomfortable similarities to the Soviet leader 's visit to China last May , when the presence of the man who incarnates reform in the Communist world served as a combustible in the ‘ Peking Spring ’ that was to be forcibly suppressed a fortnight later . |
| 15 | But pigeons must possess some other compass sense as well as the sun , because they can navigate correctly on overcast days , when the position of the sun is invisible . |
| 16 | A second turn may be made ( ideally ) when the centre of the heap has dropped to about 29°C . |
| 17 | The main disadvantages of an instantaneous water heater compared with storage systems is that the flow of water is often slower and , in the winter when the water in the mains is colder , the hot water will be less hot . |
| 18 | THE end of mortgage interest tax relief came a step closer this week when the Chancellor of the Exchequer — while retaining the existing interest relief ceiling of £30,000 — announced that from next year , the rate at which relief is given will be cut from 25 to 20 per cent . |
| 19 | It 's a time when the Chancellor of the Exchequer must put Britain first and the Prime Minister 's private prejudices and the good of the Tory party second . |
| 20 | In Madrid , the rebels ' objective since July 1936 , the end came on 27 March , when the chief of the Republican Army of the Centre surrendered to the leader of the Nationalist forces on the Madrid front , General Espinosa de los Monteros . |
| 21 | The signal to pump is when the back of the board is being lifted by a wave . |
| 22 | He says : ‘ There are times when the enormity of the challenge makes you want to pull a blanket over your head . |
| 23 | The more chauvinistic among us might place the marker in the calendar for 4th August of the same year when Great Britain entered the war against the central powers , or two years later at dawn on the 1st July 1916 , when the opening of the Battle of the Somme destroyed the lives or the illusions of a generation of British youth . |
| 24 | I have never heard of anybody , apart from people who may hope to get good jobs in these bogus new regional authorities , who , thrilled by a weird kind of socialist local patriotism , longs for the day when the flag of the East Midland Region is raised over the Great Roundabout of Retford , or the parliament of the West Midland Region holds its inaugural meeting at Telford New Town . |
| 25 | Paying off the mortgage created difficulties when the income from the farm declined during the bad times , which was more often than not , when prices fell for our sheep , cattle and produce . |
| 26 | For example , one can calculate the probability that the universe is expanding at nearly the same rate in all different directions at a time when the density of the universe has its present value . |
| 27 | Well only just to really , actually all Mr Mr has er said , and just one other bit of information , the time when the Chairman of the council extended the invitation to sixth formers , looking for alternative entertainment for the sixth formers of school , after they sat through a full council , I took them over to the er archivists er department , and we saw the paper restor , sorry , should n't say paper restorer , manuscript restorer at work , and these sixth formers , already knew of the existence , one of them asked to see the records of parish , because he knew they were there , and I mean , I think this is wonderful , that the sixth formers already , er children are being taught about the ar the records , and they will want to be sure that we kept them , and I think it 's our moral duty to keep er , the records of the past for future generations . |
| 28 | The long-term plans could be revised on an informal basis by the chief executive of the organisation , using intuition and experience to know when the outlook for the organisation has changed sufficiently to require him or her to update the plans . |
| 29 | However , this statement precedes the Glorious Revolution of 1688 , since when the doctrine of the supremacy of Parliament has developed its modern meaning . |
| 30 | It 's hardly surprising that there 's an increase in racist attacks and murders when the message from the top is that immigrants are criminals . |