Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] when [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One recent example of this was when a scientist reported , what was known as cold fusion . |
| 2 | This was when the need to live together came not from the older generation , but from the child 's own family . |
| 3 | Astronomical computations show that the first day of the two calendars agreed in the year 2773 BC , and it has been concluded that this was when the Sothic calendar was introduced . |
| 4 | This was when the people living on the Georgia coast in the southeast corner of the United States began growing and eating maize . |
| 5 | This was when the Maya civilisation was at its height , during what archaeologists call the Classic period . |
| 6 | Before 1800 he had installed gas apparatus to light the factory and the first public appearance of gas lighting was in 1802. this was when the outside of the Soho Manufactory was illuminated for the Peace of Amiens . |
| 7 | This was when the cobbler praised , ‘ … |
| 8 | Edible things tended to crumble when packaged and someone was going to have to remember where they all were when the time came to unpack them . |
| 9 | The year 1966 was when the number of people paying a TV licence for the first time exceeded the number paying a radio licence . |
| 10 | The first was when a fish got stuck inside the heater compartment . |
| 11 | The best was when the both men . |
| 12 | When Dot was asleep was when the dreams came with limbless , fingerless , thumbless , faceless men marching through her head . |
| 13 | But that was when a typical PC cost well over $1,000 . |
| 14 | But that was when a shadow suddenly fell across the doorway . |
| 15 | But doctors did notice that the epidemics usually happened in the hot months of the year ; and that was when the miasmic smells from primitive or non-existent sewerage were at their worst . |
| 16 | ‘ That was when the acting bug really bit me , ’ he habitually recounted . |
| 17 | That was when the subject was first introduced to Alton 's further education curriculum for adults , and it 's really taken off . |
| 18 | That was when the telephone rang . |
| 19 | During the whole time I was anorexic , there is only one reference in my diary to feeling cold , and that was when the school heating system failed . |
| 20 | ‘ That was when the order went out : Be nice to Diana . ’ |
| 21 | But that was when the duchess was part of the charmed inner circle of royals , with an extensive staff to help her carry out official duties . |
| 22 | That was when the world had turned to silver . |
| 23 | Only one thing she drew the line at and that was when the prostitution took up bairns . |
| 24 | That was when the watchers would have to be at their best . |
| 25 | The arrangement was to wait until after six because that was when the cheap rate started . |
| 26 | And that was when the nightmares had started . |
| 27 | That was when the drink began to matter . |
| 28 | That was when the evil had grown . |
| 29 | That was when the terror had taken a grip on her . |
| 30 | That was when the plan of running away had begun to formulate itself in her mind . |