Example sentences of "[adj] when a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | All I knew was that North Yemen was on the south western coast of the Arabian peninsula , that the language was Arabic and that the country had been closed to the West until 1962 when a revolution overthrew the ruling Imamate . |
| 32 | It was saved in 1962 when a group of enthusiasts , led by Dean Hughes , formed a committee to organise the event . |
| 33 | According to the official hagiography , Lei Feng was a soldier in Shenyang , the capital of Liaoning province , who died at his post in 1962 when a washing pole fell on his head . |
| 34 | Werner Reichert , of Egremont Road , Whitehaven , joined the Company in 1950 when a number of skilled German weavers were recruited and is now only one of two left . |
| 35 | This account was first identified as long ago as 1981 when a ledger was found during a raid on the house of masonic boss Licio Gelli . |
| 36 | ‘ Our Association was formed in November 1981 when a group of concerned people got together at a public meeting in Llandrindod Wells . |
| 37 | In the case of unregistered title , a search at HM Land Charges Registry against both the husband and the wife should be made , whilst a Form 94A Search is appropriate in the case of registered land ( except in the case of Precedent 41 when a Form 94C Search is appropriate . |
| 38 | One of the most infamous of all football riots took place in Glasgow in 1909 when a crowd of around 6,000 invaded the pitch at full time . |
| 39 | The friction which has always existed between the two camps was made worse in the early 1970s when a number of colleges of art , some of them of considerable distinction , were swallowed up by polytechnics . |
| 40 | The sinking was forgotten until 1977 when a M. Pearn sent a press-cutting recording the event to the Gosport Museum . |
| 41 | It was worked by various tenants until the 1730s when a number of owners culminated with the well-known family of Painswick clothiers , the Packers . |
| 42 | In everyday practice — and CSM does work every day and not just on those when a practolol or a benoxaprofen blows up in its face — this leads to an informality of conduct of business which was carefully cultivated by the late Sir Derrick Dunlop from the earliest days of the Committee on Safety of Drugs , CSM 's forebear . |
| 43 | This was accomplished on June 25 when a law was also approved creating the new National Civil Police ( PNC ) , recruits to which would be trained in the newly established Academy of Public Security ( ASP ) , set up with US and Spanish advice , and to which demobilized FMNL members were eligible to apply . |
| 44 | On April 21 , Bosnian president Alija Izetbegovic rejected the resignation of Jure Pelivan as Prime Minister ( submitted on April 6 when a state of emergency was imposed in Sarajevo ) , appointing him as Prime Minister-designate to a radically restructured future government . |
| 45 | Lancaster Hole was found in 1949 when a caver sitting having his lunch on a still sunny day noticed the grass nearby waving and stirring as though a wind were moving it . |
| 46 | This had begun in 1958 when a Boundary Commission had been appointed to consider piecemeal structural reform in various parts of the country . |
| 47 | The service ended in 1958 when a sea plane crashed into the sea between Lisbon and Madeira . |
| 48 | So in 1818 when a doctor called Herbert was told of a young man living on the island of Fetlar in the Shetland Islands off the north of Scotland who had been deaf and blind from birth , he hastened to see this object of curiosity for himself . |
| 49 | And I can only have been about nine when a schoolfriend proudly showed snaps of her mother fancy-dressed as ‘ No-one loves a fairy when she 's 40 ’ . |
| 50 | No more were found until 1961 when a party from the Soviet Union discovered two fragments of a broken nickel-iron meteorite lying in a glacial moraine near Lazarev Base . |
| 51 | From an aerial view one can still trace the travellers ' ways it had in 1245 when a market grant was made . |
| 52 | They expressed surprise at the figures I produced , and they were to be even more surprised in 1973 when a survey far more extensive than mine gave the number as 1,737,000 . |
| 53 | The privileged position of statutory undertakers was further reduced in 1973 when a code of practice was agreed between departments and commended by the appropriate ministers to statutory undertakers . |
| 54 | Life began to change at 16 when a shop asked Cindy to model for a fashion show . |
| 55 | Clancy Fernando was killed in Colombo on Nov. 16 when a suicide bomber , believed to be a member of the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE ) , activated a bomb by crashing his motorcycle into the admiral 's car . |
| 56 | The young man , who is now 23 years old , was only 16 when a car ploughed into him and a couple of friends as they walked home from a party . |
| 57 | The co-operative ideal dates back to 1844 when a group of Lancashire businessmen — the ‘ Rochdale pioneers ’ — decided to work together , or ‘ co-operate ’ . |
| 58 | In 1960 , Arnold Palmer birdied the hole to win but the following year took a duffer 's six to lose ; Hubert Green missed a putt of three feet to tie in 1978 ; Ed Sneed wilted in 1979 , taking a bogey five when a par would have won ; Greg Norman needed a par to tie with Nicklaus in 1986 but succumbed to a blocked second shot ; Larry Mize birdied the hole in 1987 to force a play-off with Severiano Ballesteros and Norman , which Mize won . |
| 59 | A coup attempt was launched in the early hours of Oct. 13 when a group of soldiers unsuccessfully attacked an arsenal close to N'Djamena airport . |
| 60 | In September the DPP decided not to bring corporate manslaughter charges against British Rail after four people died in October 1987 when a river bridge at Glanrhyd , Dyfed , Wales , over which a train was travelling despite a red flood alert , collapsed . |