Example sentences of "[adj] when [noun sg] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | You were warned about this when fundholding was first mooted , and again when your obsession with waiting lists surfaced , but no one seems to listen . |
| 2 | National Savings were particularly competitive in the 1980's when emphasis was placed on raising government funds from this source , largely because it relieved the need somewhat to borrow from the banking system which created credit and therefore inflationary conditions , and because of the fear that government borrowing in the long-term capital markets would tend to ‘ crowd-out ’ industrial and commercial companies from that market , and impede their ability to raise funds for capital investment and long-term growth . |
| 3 | Many of the victims were in poor health and , in some cases , had been incarcerated by the police on the assumption that they were drunk when in fact they were suffering from diseases which were life-threatening when treatment was withheld . |
| 4 | While this system may have been satisfactory when inflation was negligible , it has been seen as more of a disadvantage in recent years . |
| 5 | That was fine when manpower was cheap and farming was labour intensive , when families worked in the fields man and boy . |
| 6 | ‘ It was better when Mam was alive . |
| 7 | In the nineteenth century such ice-houses tended to become redundant when ice was imported to this country from Norway and North America throughout the year . |
| 8 | Alured was named to the high court of justice to try the king , attended the first meeting on 8 January , attended the first sitting on 20 January , was present when sentence was pronounced , and signed the king 's death warrant . |
| 9 | Potter was named to the high court of justice to try the king , commenced sitting 10 January 1649 , was present when sentence was pronounced , and signed the king 's death-warrant . |
| 10 | He was present when sentence was pronounced against the king , and signed the death-warrant . |
| 11 | The rule is that any decision may be cited to a court provided that it is reported by a member of the Bar who was present when judgment was delivered . |
| 12 | This policy was later reversed in the 1970's when procurement was transferred to a department within the Ministry of Defence . |
| 13 | Coal 's advantage still held good when account was taken of the cost of fitting flue gas desulphurisation equipment , said Mr. Clarke . |
| 14 | Close on line monitoring of the effects of interferon on viral replication revealed that in several patients HBeAg and HBV-DNA serum values decreased continuously and were almost negative when treatment was stopped ( week 24 ) at which point a relapse occurred . |
| 15 | But no latent inhibition was evident when conditioning was assessed in context B. |
| 16 | Evenings were beautiful when work was finished and the sun had gone . |
| 17 | If that sounds nauseatingly juvenile , it had a certain aptness in the Fifties when marriage was for many an institution for recreating one 's childhood and centering life once more on the nursery . |
| 18 | IN THE LATE Fifties when news-gathering was still a soft-hat and trenchcoat job , Helen Mason became a reporter with the Daily Record . |
| 19 | Although Kraemer and Roberts ( 1984 ) were able to demonstrate an apparent loss of latent inhibition over a long retention interval using chocolate milk as the CS , no effect was apparent when saccharin was used . |
| 20 | Jonadab Oaks was at his most impressive when organisation was needed . |
| 21 | This was significantly more common when dysphagia was the reason for referral ( 65.9% v 35.3% , p<0.01 ) . |
| 22 | In keeping with other studies of this nature , a manometric abnormality was significantly more common when dysphagia was the reason for referral . |
| 23 | It was always the same when trade was booming at the local wharves , and as the convoys of horsecarts and lorries lined up along Cotton Lane so the cafe became even fuller . |
| 24 | However , the relationship between symptoms and support was stronger when adversity was higher , disproving their expectation that support was important independently of adversity . |
| 25 | We were equally disappointed when cohabitation was not effected . |
| 26 | The nuclear industry asked why all this was necessary when monitoring was already carried out by the CEGB itself , as well as by government departments . |
| 27 | ‘ The estate was mortgaged up to the hilt in the thirties when farming was n't paying . |
| 28 | Wrangham 's results show that party-size was largest when food was most abundant . |
| 29 | Parental control , relating to restrictions and rules for behaviour , was judged to be low when supervision was so negligent that the child was left more or less to do as she pleased . |
| 30 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that that means that since 1979 there has been a two thirds increase in capital spending compared with a cut of one third when Labour was in power ? |