Example sentences of "[noun sg] when [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Protection from the wind is not only useful during the winter , but also during the early spring when young plant growth is emerging . |
| 2 | The refusal was associated with another decision by Seaton Valley UDC to allow Leech to make representations at a suitable time in the future when overall development was being considered . |
| 3 | THIS MAY or may not turn out to be the winter when serious numbers of British skiiers forsake the Alps for the Rockies . |
| 4 | God 's Gift Mine , it was recognised , lay conveniently near to the Brigham smelters enabling ore deliveries to be maintained throughout the winter months whereas the other ores " further distant , can not be brought to the said smelting house , but in the sumer only … you may therefore consider how farr forth those Mynes soe farr distant may bee sett upon with good strength in sumer and what number of kibbles will weekly be gotten and towards winter when that will faile , to drive those pickmen from there to work in Gods gift , if the winter shall not hinder untill we may be furnished either out of Germainie or our own Nation with a sufficient number of pickmen to man all the works thoroughly & withall to consider whether the Myne of Gods Gift be not so plentifull as some other new Stolnes ( G. Stollen — tunnel , adit etc. ) or head ( possibly a forerunner of our word " heading " ) may be driven thereby to gitt the like weekly pportion ( proportion ) as hath formerly been gotten there . " |
| 5 | In this day and age , a few walkers find pleasing footpaths leading through this quiet old village , which was once very much a self-supporting community when access to the world outside the dale was difficult , especially in a hard winter when few travellers braved the snow-blocked lanes between the hills . |
| 6 | It dates from the time of the Civil War when many registers were not properly kept ; thus , under the year 1647 the vicar of Hooton Pagnell ( Yorks. ) wrote in his register : |
| 7 | The building of new prisons and the improvement of old ones were low priorities in the aftermath of the world war when scarce resources were concentrated upon houses , schools , hospitals and roads . |
| 8 | Most naturalists of my age just enjoyed wildlife of every kind and did not see the need for conservation until after the war when modern methods of farming made enormous changes in the countryside . |
| 9 | His family had owned considerable estates in the East , lost after the First World War when raging inflation destroyed his grandfather 's estate . |
| 10 | So far as I am aware , no writer on Ultra has noted the comparison between the Coventry affair and an episode in the First World War when secret intelligence was apparently neglected in order to protect the source . |
| 11 | There were moments during the war when popular hostility to ‘ profiteering ’ came close to providing a mass basis for pacifist politics . |
| 12 | In the schools , French became a compulsory language at the very moment when Arab nationalists were enjoying the linguistic triumph of Arabic over the Turkish of the now broken Ottoman Empire , a victory which had important political implications for the concept of Arab unity . |
| 13 | Given the Community 's capacity to help other European countries — not only the successful ones who now wish to join , and are already beginning to apply , but the east European countries , with all their problems — it is extraordinary and perverse to suggest that there should be greater disunity in the Community at the very moment when greater aid and support is called for . |
| 14 | The point of that scene , and of this whole great play , is to examine the strange moment when great people just do n't have it any more . |
| 15 | She could not believe that Pat was ready to go off now , at this thrilling moment when fabulous happenings seemed imminent . |
| 16 | There was a strong case for saving Thoresby for the nation , but unfortunately its future came into question just at the moment when all thoughts were focused on Brodsworth , near Doncaster , another Victorian house with an even more complete set of contents . |
| 17 | Hirschman 's explanation , influenced by the radical Brazilian economist , Antonio Barros de Castro , lay in the fortunate coincidence for Brazil of the 1983 devaluation with the moment when prior investments in heavy industry and infrastructure planned by the military government in the 1970s came to fruition ( Lowenthal , 1987 ) . |
| 18 | It was no accident that medical misogyny , with its powerful definitions of moral and immoral female behaviour , reached a peak at precisely the moment when middle-class women were beginning to challenge the hegemony of the male professions . |
| 19 | Over such key issues as the European Common Market he had followed a prudent , unadventurous course , only moving to endorse membership at the last moment when political circumstances seemed so to dictate . |
| 20 | Given the size of the motion-picture audience it was inevitable that political authorities would become involved in some regulation of the industry even if it was only to be a question of safety and fire regulations , but what made the movies even more into a public issue was that they became a mass activity precisely at the moment when political parties and social agencies were more concerned than ever before with how the masses could be accommodated within cities . |
| 21 | He had arrived at the precise moment when another twist in the plot of a murder weekend was unravelling itself . |
| 22 | This is the moment when bad theology enters , not — notice this carefully — as a reason for doubt but as a rationale for the doubting which has already been going on . |
| 23 | The example of Alain Robbe-Grillet , who acknowledges a debt to Joyce as well as to Sartre and Gide , offered from the late 1950s onwards a renewed incentive to experiment , at a moment when British writers might have felt themselves particularly distanced from modernism . |
| 24 | Far from being the moment when British trade unionism all but collapsed , the General Strike — even though there were other factors at play — sounded a warning to employers that trade unions would resist further wage incursions and that the cost of too muscular an industrial policy could be high . |
| 25 | The Soviet Writers ' Congress is consequently a symbol of the global politico-cultural developments of the time , a moment when cultural production was publicly recognized as a powerful weapon to combat an increasingly dangerous fascist threat . |
| 26 | Schools tend to abandon reading guidance too soon , on the assumption that there is a moment when most pupils can read . |
| 27 | A princess , unknown to all about her , she awaited the moment when these bruises would reveal her true heritage . |
| 28 | The European Council declared that " at a moment when these Republics express democratically and peacefully their will to accede to full sovereignty , the Community and its member states wish to open with them , in a spirit of co-operation , a dialogue regarding the development of their mutual relationship " . |
| 29 | There is one particularly hilarious moment when three people meet in an alley and one tries to sell the other two a cervical smear in a bottle allegedly from the great Madonna herself . |
| 30 | ‘ Because that intense pleasure which procreation gives is the moment when human beings shed their humanity and become as the animals , mindless , sniffing , licking , grunting , copulating … |