Example sentences of "[art] [adj] when [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His Jewish mother had narrowly escaped from Romania in the 19305 when the local Iron Guard goon squad began slaughtering Jews with a barbarity which sickened even their Nazi German allies . |
| 2 | This was still the practice by the 1830s when a tide of emigrants left Europe for Australia , New Zealand and California . |
| 3 | Neither made a significant provision before 1820 , and their rivalry still persisted in the 1830s when the government began at last to assist them with grants . |
| 4 | Taken together with the replacement of the solid , load-bearing external walls by rows of brick piers flanking narrower infill panels , this development allowed the area of window relative to wall to increase to a maximum in the 1900s when the façades of mills became more glass than brick . |
| 5 | It began to break down by the 1790s when the pressure of a growing population and insufficient work meant that over a fifth of the labour force was virtually permanently unemployed . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The post , erected in the 1840s when the area was drained , shows the land has sunk some 13ft-14ft — an ominous decline in view of forecasts that global warming may cause the nearby sea to rise . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A little further on , the small compact settlement of Lea Yeat ( Gate ) is reached , its tranquillity disturbed only in the 1870s when the railway was being constructed across the hillside above . |
| 10 | But its real take-off period was the 1870S when the introduction of a new cooling apparatus and the addition of chemical preservatives to the milk enabled it to be transported very long distances while remaining fresh . |
| 11 | That Commandos and other Special Forces of World War II were superb light infantry , is a fact all too often forgotten in the fashion of the 1970s when every political cut-throat wants to be called a ‘ commando ’ . |
| 12 | It was created in good part by the situation in the 1970s when a poor match developed between the pressure to lend from donors , and the administrative ability of the borrowing countries to ‘ receive ’ . |
| 13 | It all started in the 1970s when the Cambridge University Computer Laboratory designed a network called the Cambridge Ring . |
| 14 | It is , however , correct that these percentages were at their highest in the 1970s when the number of strikers was also at its highest . |
| 15 | During the détente years of the 1970s when the USSR appeared as a revisionist power in the Third World its interest in neutralisation slackened . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The appointment of Fyfe to Warrington in 1921 was , however , the exception rather than the rule in the 1920s when the majority of missioners appointed or holding the posts were clergymen or hearing persons . |
| 18 | Their use increased considerably from the 1880s when the familiar skeletal iron-framed hay barn with a curved corrugated-iron roof began to appear in all parts of the country . |
| 19 | This process began in the 1770s when the Leeds and Liverpool Canal , eventually to be the most important link , commenced its 127-mile journey via Wigan and Burnley and on through Skipton to Shipley , linking there in 1774 to the Bradford Canal . |
| 20 | His assertion that postwar socialist realism has much to learn from the bourgeois tradition of critical realism marks paradoxically a return to the spirit of the intellectual climate in France in the 1930s when a general belief in the coincidence between the movement of history , socialism and realism led to a fruitful collaboration between the socialist realist writers of the French communist party , such as Aragon and Nizan , and sympathetic fellow-travellers such as Bloch , Malraux and Gide . |
| 21 | The Incident happened in the 1930s when a Hartlepool couple were jailed for attacking a shop owner who 'd remonstrated with them for drinking out of the vinegar bottle . |
| 22 | Commercial use finally ceased in the 1930s when the machinery was removed and the domestic conversion carried out . |
| 23 | However , managed floating also was adopted in the 1930s when the gold standard was abandoned in the severe economic conditions of the time . |
| 24 | On the Labour side , these members were the products of the 1930s when the main issue in politics was insufficiency . |
| 25 | Many of them grew up during the student revolution of the 1960s when an extraordinary hostility to wealth , power and respectability came to dominate a generation . |
| 26 | It happened in Italy in the 1960s when the Communist Party had between 38 and 40 per cent for the entire decade . |
| 27 | Imports continued into the 1950s and the black-and-whites began to spread to other parts of the country , continuing to spread and increase during the 1960s when the national herd as a whole was decreasing . |
| 28 | The Central North Side had strongly organised if partial representation since the 1960s when the Mexican War Streets area began to experience small scale renovation . |
| 29 | The first breakthrough came during the 1960s when the first all-electronic phototypesetting equipment appeared . |
| 30 | As Hood notes , however , they came into ‘ high fashion in the 1940s and again in the 1960s when the Fulton Committee endorsed the idea of government growth outside Whitehall by ‘ hiving-off ’ units from civil service departments to non-departmental bodies ' ( 1981 , p. 100 ) . |