Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] when it " in BNC.

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1 The use of sage , whether for medicinal or culinary purposes , dated back in Europe at least several centuries B.C. when it was listed in Theophrastus " writings on plants .
2 Partners in the south coast firm of Hook Harris & Co , which hit the headlines two months ago when it entered into an individual voluntary arrangement with its creditors , have bought the two main practices from the joint supervisors of the IVA .
3 RISC watcher Andrew Allison remembered FRISC as a merchant chip attempt and says he laughed at Micron months ago when it announced the subsidiary because it did n't have the resources or market presence to pull off a new proprietary architecture .
4 It is thought that in January the Bank sold pounds nine months forward when it was engaged in the task of restraining the pound 's advance .
5 The last thing I wanted was for some motorist to hit one of my owls just when it was establishing itself .
6 All their special , you know , relics and that and they put them all in the cellars so when it was bombed , all the precio all the treasures and that were kept .
7 It cuts well , and splits beautifully , an burns even when it is green ; and it is a fast grower .
8 However , words need not always have a consistent meaning attributed to them : the context may show that the same word bears two different senses even when it is repeated in the same section .
9 Even the boring days outside when it 's raining and you 've finished the paper and you do n't know how you 'll last till bedtime are days to savour , compared to drying up in a cell .
10 MOST of Ravenna 's history and its art treasures revolve around the years 402-476AD when it was capital of the Western Roman Empire .
11 A few weeks later when it came to the 1985 Budget , Nigel set himself the same goal .
12 He was joined by Peter Sheppard a few years later when it became apparent that so much information was potentially available from flight recorders that it needed another man to help interpret all the data .
13 The Bank of Scotland had frozen the overdraft of Monktonhall Mineworkers Ltd some weeks ago when it emerged that debts of about £1.7 million had accrued .
14 As one said , what Easton has , unlike many areas , is ‘ ordinary civil policing ’ ( FN 16/11/87 , p. 6 ) , so that there is a continuity with policing in Easton before the current troubles began : ‘ I was in Easton years ago when it was the old station , though basically policing at Easton has n't changed from when I was here years ago .
15 The two companies had sought to have withdrawn undertakings given to the MMC 15 years ago when it last investigated their grip on cross-Channel routes .
16 ACT was a computer bureau and systems house until five years ago when it started selling an American machine called the ADDS .
17 The ‘ Romance ’ from The Gadfly became , of course , a popular favourite a few years ago when it was used as the theme for the TV series Reilly : Ace of Spies , but as played here by the Chicago Sinfonietta under Paul Freeman it 's altogether drier ad more reticent — no comparison at all with the recording by the USSR Cinema SO under Emin Khachaturian on CfP which glows with warmth and stylish authenticity .
18 The Methodists first established a chapel for worship in 1828 , in a small building later converted into the Oddfellows Hall , and so named until a couple of years ago when it became a private residence .
19 Indeed , there was a period about three years ago when it looked as though even 35mm slides might have found a match with the introduction of devices like the VideoShow system which project the image on the computer 's screen directly onto a conventional viewing screen .
20 Oddly enough , I had been interested in it three or four years ago when it was on the market prior to being bought by the lady who sold it to me .
21 There were problems a few years ago when it first started with th the initial contract which was was won by the the County 's own direct service organization and now it seems we 're having a repeat of of those problems .
22 Because of the side-effects associated with carbenoxolone , interest was revived in liquorice extracts particularly when it was found that despite the removal of glycyrrhizic acid , liquorice retained antiulcer activity .
23 And they got a huge boost hours later when it was revealed that the president had made a spectacular recovery in the polls .
24 In November 1984 the UKCC addressed the professions directly when it published and circulated the second edition of the Code .
25 The same car registered just a week or two later in January will be worth several hundred pounds more when it 's time to trade it in .
26 But it did not , at any rate for the peasantry , which on the whole refused to turn itself into a flourishing class of commercial farmers even when it had the chance to do so .
27 The personalized nature of disputes caused litigants to pursue all possible legal strategies even when it would have been more rational to compromise .
28 The current popular level of application of smoke vents to some 3–5% of the floor area does seem low for the fire loads and rate of growth of fire , likely to be experienced in high-bay warehouses particularly when it is borne in mind that unless similar automatic ingress vent areas are provided at low level the effective ceiling vent areas might well be halved !
29 In May , 1991 , the Digital Information Group 's Software Industry Bulletin reported that SelecTronics expects to report a ‘ significant loss ’ for its financial year ended 31 March and that it is restructuring its business so that it manufactures handheld devices only when it has firm orders from its distribution channels .
30 You may well notice at first that your dog scratches persistently when it is infected , in spite of being told to stop doing so .
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