Example sentences of "[adj] when a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They peaked in 1985 when a record 191,000 petitions for divorce were filed . |
| 2 | The saga began in 1985 when a report by the Property Services Agency ( which maintains Crown property ) highlighted the serious corrosion of the spire . |
| 3 | The grand alliance of OSI became public in May 1985 when a meeting of 20 computer companies , dominated by US rivals of IBM , met in conference and established the Corporation for Open Systems . |
| 4 | This was still the practice by the 1830s when a tide of emigrants left Europe for Australia , New Zealand and California . |
| 5 | Interest was awakened for some when a TV programme about Archbishop Robert Runcie showed him with his cell group . |
| 6 | Thus in 1802 when a group of spahis called on the Serbs to join them in resisting the dayis very few Serbs responded . |
| 7 | The history of a castle on this site dates back to 1231 when a stone castle , or more likely a fortified manor was built by Robert de Tattershall . |
| 8 | Both in 1780 when a divergence between metropolitan radicals and Wyvill 's gentry in the county associations was evident and in 1793–4 with the calling of a British and then an English Convention , the contradictory potentialities of the convention were part of the substance of debate amongst participants . |
| 9 | Banbury had a completely new suburb significantly called Newland added to the older town between 1250 and 1285 , only a little over a hundred years after it had been first founded , a mark of its success , while Eynsham , also in Oxfordshire , has a neat rectangular block of properties , bisected by Newland Street which dates from 1215 when a charter was acquired for an extension . |
| 10 | This protracted crisis began on 17 March 1808 when a mob of soldiers , peasants , and palace grooms forced Charles IV to dismiss Godoy , found hiding in terror in a rolled-up carpet ; two days later another mob forced Charles IV to abdicate in favour of his son , the Prince of Asturias who became Ferdinand VII . |
| 11 | The protests followed an incident on Oct. 30 when a bomb from a US F18 fighter aircraft was accidentally dropped on the USS Reeves , sailing off Diego Garcia in the Chagos Archipelago . |
| 12 | The round table held its 16th and final session on March 12 when a draft constitution was discussed . |
| 13 | The 1905 Convention was considered at the Sixth Session of the Conference in 1924 when a Protocol was agreed permitting accession by States not represented in 1905 and some further work was set in hand which led to the publication in 1929 of a proposed revised Convention . |
| 14 | The fatal accident occurred on 5th December 1898 when a fall of earth trapped George Robinson against a tipping wagon , breaking his back . |
| 15 | It was a pursuit which , with savage irony , took her across Lawrence Road , scene of her last attack in December 1991 when a youth punched her hard in the face . |
| 16 | He had surgery in April 1991 when a growth was removed . |
| 17 | The miners ' action , based on demands for higher wages , better conditions and changes in the national political leadership , only came to an end on May 10 when a decree was issued transferring the control of the mines in the Russian Federation to the RFSFR government [ see p. 38204 ] . |
| 18 | The US Senate also approved the treaty on Oct. 10 when a motion was passed that the ratification should not be construed as tacit US acceptance of the Soviet annexation of the Baltic states of Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania . |
| 19 | The proportion of one parent families living ‘ on the margins of poverty ’ has increased since 1979 when a half of all one parent families had incomes below 140 per cent of sb . |
| 20 | There was the occasion in 1979 when a valve malfunctioned and was ingeniously fixed up with a handy piece of angle iron . |
| 21 | A tribute to the Punks and Anti-Nazi campaigners who battled hard on 29th June 1979 when a group of National Front members invaded a rave at Acklam Hall , Ladbroke Grove , West London . |
| 22 | Were , I wonder , those same cries heard in the West Country back in 1969 when a 13-year-old made his Minor Counties debut for Somerset IIs ? |
| 23 | It drove a scoop wheel of 28 foot diameter which could raise 25 tons of water a minute , and was used until 1940 when a diesel engine and centrifugal pump replaced it , until the station was closed in 1980 . |
| 24 | They are the latest development in an initiative which began in 1975 when a group of industry representatives launched the Site Management Education and Training Scheme . |
| 25 | Other vulnerable lakes endure episodes of acidity in which pH drops below 5.6 when a rainstorm or snowmelt flushes acid , sulphate or aluminium into the catchment . |
| 26 | He was jailed for four years at the High Court , Edinburgh in July 1992 when a jury found him guilty of indecently assaulting an 18-year-old boy he met in St Andrews Bus Station , Edinburgh . |
| 27 | And some have been blown off the face of the earth in massive bomb attacks such as Teebane in Co Tyrone where seven workmen perished in January 1992 when a land mine exploded under their bus . |
| 28 | This decision was followed in 1988 in Atkinson v Dancer ( 1988 ) STC 758 when a farmer sold nine of his 89 acres . |
| 29 | It began in 1976 when a team of three educationists was appointed . |
| 30 | Belgium announced a freeze on loans to Zaïre on May 25 , 1990 , following Belgian press reports that some 50 students died on May 11 when a unit of the presidential guard suppressed anti-government demonstrations at Lubumbashi University in the south of the country . |