Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] when [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its leaders had retained a distance from the perceived excesses of militancy that began to surface and gain momentum after 1917 when opposition to the war mounted and hopeful eyes turned to Russia ( for good accounts of this period see Cole 1969 and Miliband 1973 ) . |
| 2 | Such conflict became increasingly likely after 1920 when unemployment rose as British trade failed to recover to its pre-war level . |
| 3 | Apart from a brief period after 1964 when prescription charges were removed , these charges have remained ever since and been increased regularly . |
| 4 | Furthermore , in the period after 1944 when selection for secondary schools through the 11 + examination predominated , girls ' 11 + performances were weighted differently to boys ' performances so that girls achieved fewer places than their examination results indicated , and boys achieved more places than their results merited . |
| 5 | During the summer of 1943 when wartime industrial production in the USA was nearing its peak , a wave of absenteeism swept through women working in key areas of the US war effort to the extent that the FBI were called in to investigate whether some elaborate form of Axis sabotage was afoot . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , the Treasurer suggested that the worst was probably over , and that the recession would not be as deep as that of 1982/83 when GDP had declined for four consecutive quarters and both inflation and unemployment had exceeded 10 per cent . |
| 7 | He retired from active service at the end of the war but was recalled in the early summer of 1648 when Parliament found itself facing a serious mutiny in the fleet . |
| 8 | Significant moves have been made towards introducing such a requirement in the near future , however , and it would be prudent to take account of these when planning your return . |
| 9 | This is an imaginary trip during the summer of 1957 when steam still ruled on British Rail metals . |
| 10 | LORD Spencer 's death might have served to remind this country of the dread winter of 1978/1979 when rubbish was uncollected in the streets , the fire brigades were on strike , hospitals were picketed by auxiliary workers who demanded to approve all surgical operations , housewives fought each other over a cauliflower leaf and the dead lay unburied in every churchyard . |
| 11 | In the summer of 1973 when Pursuit was on its way to the printers , the BBC sent me to Washington to cover the Senate Watergate hearings . |
| 12 | Johnny was a Canadian hush pilot before the war and was fortunate to survive the trough of despair in the spring and early summer of 1942 when survival chances were at their lowest ( see graph on page 85 ) . |
| 13 | The output of goods and services declined sharply in the fourth quarter ; preliminary estimates suggested that gross national product ( GNP ) in the quarter fell at an annual rate of 2.1 per cent ( after adjustments for inflation and seasonal factors ) , the sharpest fall since the third quarter of 1982 when GNP fell at an annual rate of 3.2 per cent . |
| 14 | Overuse can lead to pollution , declining groundwater levels and , eventually , to trouble of one sort or another ; internecine feuds were reported in southern Spain in the summer of 1983 when river levels were at an all-time low . |
| 15 | It is important to apply for these when acting for a seller , as soon as you know your client 's title number . |
| 16 | The real explosion in calls , particularly from isolated people , happened in 1977–8 when Switchboard began to advertise in local papers and Tom Robinson put the phone number on the single sleeve of ‘ Glad To Be Gay ’ . |
| 17 | As David Griffiths ( 1970 ) points out , these two élite factions had not met since the notorious Bonnington Conference in 1948 when war between two views of drama educators was openly declared . |
| 18 | In 1986 when Shin Beth murdered two Arab terrorist suspects they had taken into custody there was some local outcry but in the end the agency was protected by the government . |
| 19 | One such chance came in 1986 when coffee prices ( exports ) went up and oil prices ( imports ) went down . |
| 20 | The London Boroughs had last been contested in 1986 when Labour won exactly half of all the seats and a small plurality in votes cast — see Table 1 . |
| 21 | The cotton weavers of Lancashire made a similar point in 1799 when claiming that piece rates had been more than halved since 1792 . |
| 22 | While the process of evolving an all-new and unique Bentley coupe began as early as 1984 with the commissioning of design studies and quarter-scale models , work did not begin in earnest until 1986 when experience from the Turbo R and other developments was available . |
| 23 | According to the Confederation of British Industry , in 1980 when unemployment was at the same level as now , around 5% of firms were reporting skill shortages ; the equivalent figure in 1990 was around 25% . |
| 24 | Despite this somewhat unstable basis the Company did quite well until 1630 when trade was dislocated by a famine in Gujerat , and in the next few years its legal position was undermined because Charles I allowed the Courteen family — whose interests in the West Indies had suffered because he had given away their rights in certain islands inadvertently — to trade with India without any regard for the Company 's charter . |
| 25 | The language of Alexander 's speech was no more radical than that which Nicholas I had used in 1842 when defending the ineffectual Law on Obligated Peasants . |
| 26 | And a wise precaution in 1979 when conducting business in the USA . |
| 27 | Eventually when the public are fed up and lodge a sufficient number of protests , governments will take action , and action was taken in 1991 when Parliament passed an Act called ‘ The Property Misdescriptions Act ’ . |
| 28 | But the CIAE lost its lustre in 1991 when renovation of Navy Pier forced the fair to relocate to bland Donnelley Hall , a remote site south of the Loop . |
| 29 | According to market researcher Datamonitor , 3 million people cut up their credit cards in 1991 when standing charges were introduced . |
| 30 | Swiftly a ‘ marriage bar ’ was introduced , though its application does not appear to have been universal in the civil service until 1894 when government typists ( hitherto an ‘ unestablished ’ all-female grade ) obtained permanent , pensionable ‘ established ’ status by agreeing to a rule requiring automatic resignation on marriage . |