Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] when an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another is the Great Orange Riot of 1971 when an Italian team , playing Spain in Cagliari , but tactlessly , without any Cagliarian representatives , was chased off the pitch by Outspan-wielding Sconvols . |
| 2 | He was put down early in 1986 at the age of eighteen when an incurable heart condition was diagnosed . |
| 3 | The last public challenge to the DVR 's policies failed in 1986 when an elected volunteer worker from the Dart Valley Railway Association was blocked from becoming a Director by the Board . |
| 4 | Their fame began innocently enough in 1893 when an enterprising baron founded a lottery to pay for the Rio de Janeiro zoo . |
| 5 | But the inherent danger in adopting the confrontational approach was illustrated in 1980 when an undercover SAS officer was brutally gunned down by IRA killers as he stormed a Belfast hide-out . |
| 6 | The well-equipped organ has two manuals and was built by T. Hopkins and Sons of York who installed it in 1910 ; the air was pumped by hand until 1950 when an electric blower was installed . |
| 7 | Australia had been a whaling country until 1978 when an official enquiry , which was supported by all political parties , concluded that the public wished to see an end to whaling . |
| 8 | This question arose in the Strauss case in 1958 when an M.P. , taking up a matter on behalf of a constituent , made certain allegations against the Electricity Board . |
| 9 | It all started with a public meeting in 1989 when an action committee was set up . |
| 10 | But his bravery was called into question in 1967 when an ex-tory MP queried whether the MC was genuine or a fiction invented by the publisher . |
| 11 | Scare stories about Britain 's beaches have abounded since 1976 when an EEC directive laid down the acceptable limits of sewage pollution , the year Wessex Water set about turning the tide of increasingly dirty beaches . |