Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adj] when [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The United Kingdom 's largest privatization to date , the sale of the electricity supply industry in England and Wales , was completed on March 12 when stock exchange dealings began following flotation of the generating companies , National Power and PowerGen . |
| 2 | The pensions controversy began on Jan. 7 when Congress , recalled from its summer break , upheld a Supreme Court ruling in favour of a 1992 increase in pensions of 147 per cent ( instead of the government 's 54 ) . |
| 3 | He won an initial victory in 1386 , but his cosmopolitan army was no match for Sultan Murad I when battle was joined at Kosovo Polje on Vidovdan ( St Vitus ' Day ) , 1389 . |
| 4 | The amateur record of 68 was set in the Monthly Medal of May 1986 when Club member Michael Orris broke the Club and his own previous record of 69 set in October 1983 . |
| 5 | The agreement followed a NATO meeting in London on July 5-6 when member countries redefined the organization 's strategies and goals , and NATO committed itself to a limitation of the size of Germany 's armed forces [ see pp. 37599-600 ] . |
| 6 | Two lifeboats called to blazing ammunition ship Eastbourne and Shoreham lifeboats were launched on 24 February 1991 when fire swept through the 400-ton motor vessel Breydon Merchant some 12 miles SW of Newhaven . |
| 7 | In the UK , and up to December 1984 when grant levels were reduced , investment grants have been a considerable incentive towards first-time conversion of moorlands and rough grasslands in the LFAs . |
| 8 | After a second incident on Sept. 21 when depth charges were fired at an intruder in the Stockholm archipelago , Bildt claimed on Sept. 22 that Russian submarines had violated Sweden 's territorial waters and had been pursued , but this was denied by Russia on Sept. 23 . |
| 9 | Her outstanding efforts will be rewarded on May 5 when HRH Prince Philip presents her with a certificate at a special ceremony in St. |
| 10 | The talks broke down on July 28 when Silajdzic unilaterally rejected the proposed EC plan involving the cantonization of Bosnia-Hercegovina [ see p. 38832 ] . |
| 11 | There was an even larger turnout on May 14 when funeral marches for Kang were held in the capital and elsewhere . |
| 12 | The Guinness Book of Records confirms the fastest example of co-operative production on 30 January 1974 when wool was sheared , dyed in Selkirk , carded and spun in Galashiels , and knitted and finished in Hawick , with a sheep-to-wearer time of 4 hours 35 minutes . |
| 13 | The OECD stated in late 1983 that acid rain damage represents 3 to 5% of the European Community Gross National Product — or between £33 billion and £44 billion per year while the first joint step to combat air pollution in the European Community came in March 1984 when Environment Ministers agreed that new industrial plants could not be built without authorization relating to specific limits for industrial emissions . |
| 14 | In March 1917 when news of the Russian revolution reached Paris , Modi went running to find his writer friend Ilya Ehrenburg , embraced him and began ‘ screeching enthusiastically ’ , so that Ehrenburg could barely make out what he was saying . |
| 15 | They failed also , it is said , to have regard to the violent incident on 23 November 1991 when violence was used and also failed to have regard to the fact that the mother had refused an offer to be accommodated with her children in the foster home . |
| 16 | Barnett 's account of the Cabinet meeting of 1 February shows that matters had improved little in the command and control post of the British system of government since that awful day at Chequers in November 1974 when gloom descended : |
| 17 | After Aoun 's capture of Dbayeh , there was little heavy fighting until Feb. 10 when Army units launched attacks on LF bases near Jounieh port and in the Kesrouan mountains . |
| 18 | The long legal wrangle over the settlement of former King Constantine 's property rights and tax dues ended on Oct. 7 when parliament ratified an agreement between the government and the deposed monarch . |
| 19 | He made his debut for Palace on 27 October 1923 when Palace won 1–0 at Bradford City but he really came to the fore when an injury to Bob Greener left a vacancy in the half-back line for the 3rd Replay with Notts County at Villa Park , in Palace 's longest ever Cup-tie in February 1924 . |
| 20 | It had a peak of over 31,000 contracts on 5 October 1990 when sterling joined the ERM , the announcement of which had been delayed until the main London cash markets closed . |
| 21 | A total of 87 people , many of them immigrants from central America , died in the early hours of March 25 when fire swept through the unlicensed Happy Land social club in a slum district of the Bronx , in New York City . |
| 22 | On October 28 he ran a 2:12:17 pb in Chicago following 2:14:50 on August 12 when second to Suleiman Nyambui in Moscow . |
| 23 | Base rates have fallen three per cent since Black Wednesday on September 16 when sterling crashed out of the European Exchange Rate mechanism . |
| 24 | It was seen more as a patriotic form of national self-expression than as a pro-nazi organization and hence was not closed down in September 1939 when war was declared . |
| 25 | The ‘ First Gentleman of Europe ’ was a phrase used of George IV when Prince Regent . |
| 26 | Some indication of how successful Mining Awareness 's campaign to spread information had been was provided on 21 March 1989 when Gold EIA was founded . |
| 27 | A further step towards the creation of an Inuit homeland had been taken on April 27 when government and Inuit negotiators announced that they had initialled the Nunavut Political Accord . |
| 28 | Police appealed to shopkeepers in area who might have sold items to two men with Liverpool accents in week before and after April 27 when couple disappeared . |