Example sentences of "[adj] when the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cover lends a hint of what we suspect will follow : tanks rolling in to end the siege of the Palace of Justice in November 1985 when the occupying guerillas , 12 judges and many civilians were killed . |
| 2 | Relations between the two countries improved in 1985 when the Chinese Foreign Minister visited Indonesia for the commemorative Afro-Asian Conference in Bandung ; later that year a memorandum of understanding on the resumption of direct trade links was signed [ see p. 34235 ] . |
| 3 | The limit had been imposed on Jan. 22 when the controversial withdrawal of high-denomination banknotes was announced . |
| 4 | The Welsh club were leading 2-1 when the original tie at St James Park was abandoned following floodlight failure five minutes from time . |
| 5 | Anon she was not placed in the royal vault ; rather the opportunity was taken to put her in the Villiers vault in 1776 when the neighbouring Percy vault was opened for the reception of the remains of the First Duchess of Northumberland . |
| 6 | Warburg , whose scholarly tradition was transferred to London in 1933 when the entire library was moved there , has provided a link between London and Hamburg which shows every sign of strengthening over the coming years . |
| 7 | So if Mains ' lean face did begin to take on a grey and grim hue it probably began in 1972 when the All Black selectors began shuffling around their fullbacks , with Mains conspicuously absent . |
| 8 | Tietmeyer was expected to succeed Schlesinger in 1993 when the latter reached retirement age . |
| 9 | But Holly and eight hundred with him had a roof over their Kitchen , and there would be a roof over Hut 2 when the freezing night came . |
| 10 | 2 When the only survivor from the American Air Force raft got back to Florida , he was interviewed by excited press reporters . |
| 11 | The committee 's decision was endorsed on Oct. 2 when the full Senate voted by 90 to nine to confirm Souter 's appointment . |
| 12 | A genuine improvement rather than the cosmetic change of renaming took place in Pocklington during the century after 1780 when the old timber , mud and thatch buildings were gradually replaced by newer homes , shops and public buildings that were constructed of brick and roofed with pantiles or slates . |
| 13 | Now Noel Kehoe senior is preparing a new group of youngsters for another shot at the Fred Daly on September 12 when the first leg of the final against Clandeboye will commence at City of Derry . |
| 14 | The effect of the torrential rain on Sept. 10-12 — the heaviest since 1907 — was exacerbated on Sept. 12 when the swollen Han River demolished a 100-metre embankment in western Seoul and inundated vast areas of residential and agricultural land . |
| 15 | Robert Kerr caused outrage in the mid-1860s by suggesting that the doctrine of three bedrooms ( stipulated in the 1840s when the blue books revealed a high incidence of incest ) should be abandoned ; but , though the moral problems did not of course vanish , his view came to be increasingly shared . |
| 16 | She had been only nineteen when the Second World War ended , and by the start of the nineties was the elder statesman in a cabinet which included several who had still been in nappies in 1945 . |
| 17 | He served as architectural tutor to King George III when the latter was Prince of Wales and designed the State Coach in which one day the current Prince of Wales will ride from the Abbey as King Charles III . |
| 18 | Given that Batch 3 courses are still to start — candidates will first enrol for them in the summer of 1992 — it looks as if the number of candidates involved in advanced courses in any one year is going to exceed 30,000 when the steady stage is eventually reached for the new system — and that the number of Higher National Unit enrolments per year will approach 200,000 . |
| 19 | A fresh , if unpromising , avenue of negotiation was opened on April 7 when the Prime Minister of Thailand , Chatichai Choonhaven , proposed that his Japanese counterpart , Toshiki Kaifu , host a meeting in Tokyo between Sihanouk and Hun Sen . |
| 20 | The position of the President-elect Fr Jean-Bertrand Aristide was bolstered on Jan. 7 when the Haitian army crushed an attempted coup d'etat led by Roger Lafontant . |
| 21 | The protracted search for a new chairman for the Republican National Committee ( RNC ) — the party 's leading position — ended on Jan. 7 when the presidential press secretary , Marlin Fitzwater , announced that Agriculture Secretary Clayton Yeutter had been chosen for the post by President George Bush . |
| 22 | Relocation is expected to be complete by March 1995 when the existing Warren Spring site in Stevenage will be taken over by Glaxo . |
| 23 | People always protest against new forms of taxation , and in this case they will protest now when it is threatened , and again next year when half is imposed and half is threatened , and again in 1995 when the full effect is felt on fuel bills . |
| 24 | Mr Thornton said : ‘ Our aim is to have something for the golfing world to see in July 1995 when the Open Championship is staged at St Andrews . ’ |
| 25 | Tentative proposals in ( 2 ) above were overtaken in May 1991 when the above Directive came into force whereby under Article 5 the River Almond was identified as a ‘ sensitive area ’ and ‘ waste water shall be subject to more stringent treatment than secondary treatment by 31 December 1998 for all discharges from agglomerations of more than 10000 p.e . ’ |
| 26 | Matters came to a head on 19 June 1991 when the local authority decided to remove the four children for assessment on 26 June , whereupon the foster mother required that they be removed immediately . |
| 27 | A further milestone in the SCOTVEC system was reached in May 1991 when the White Paper Access and opportunity was published . |
| 28 | A further important step towards normalization occurred at the CPV 's seventh congress in June 1991 when the long-serving Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach , a leading opponent of a pro-Chinese foreign policy , was removed from the politburo ( being replaced in his ministerial capacity in August ) . |
| 29 | The exchange facility finally ended on Thursday 28th March 1991 when the last British Rail train hauled by a Class 47 diesel locomotive entered the Trench Yard to collect MOD rail wagons . |
| 30 | The madrigal substantially appeared in England only in the 1580s when the English mania for the Italian reached its height — for instance , in the poetry of Spenser and Philip Sidney . |