Example sentences of "[coord] when in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its grandiose modernization plan of the early 1980s was presented as its contribution to the ‘ struggle against unemployment ’ ( RENFE 1982m : 9 ) , and when in 1981 it negotiated with the unions an increase in staff of 7,000 , the chairman defended the agreement as ‘ an appropriate response to [ RENFE 's ] public service task ’ ( quoted in El País , 12 December 1981 ) . |
| 2 | There was opposition to a subsidy demand in 1523 , and when in 1525 Henry VIII and Cardinal Wolsey attempted to levy the so-called Amicable Grant , to finance a campaign against France , they faced serious resistance . |
| 3 | North himself then moved into water supply , buying in 1875 an old hulk to use as a tanker , and when in 1878 an English group founded the Water Company of Tarapacá in Iquique to bring water from Arica , he rented the carriage business and storage tanks on a service contract and ran it well . |
| 4 | And when in 1937 a questionnaire was distributed to authors about their attitude towards the Spanish Civil War , he sent the reply ( which he said that he never expected to be published ) that , " While I am naturally sympathetic I still feel convinced that it is best that at least a few men of letters remain silent " . |
| 5 | As an old friend of John Wilkes [ q.v. ] he seems to have been , if not an active radical , at least a passive sympathizer and when in 1768 action was taken against young Methodists he comments ‘ The V.C. |
| 6 | For although the Home Rule movement did for a time grow apace , with an ever increasing number of SNP candidates being elected to Parliament and , under the Callaghan administration , the old High School building on Calton Hill being refurbished to accommodate a Scottish debating-chamber ( the old one had become incorporated in the Law Courts ) , the idea of Home Rule made many of my countrymen uneasy ; less , I think , about financial disadvantages ( for oil revenue would have compensated for that ) than at the prospect of feuding between east and west , north and south , and , for some , the prospect of a semi-permanent Labour administration ; and when in 1979 a referendum of the whole Scottish nation was held , the votes in favour of Home Rule did not attain the clear 40 per cent majority on which the House of Commons had insisted . |
| 7 | To eliminate z , a dimensionless parameter per solvent molecule , is defined as which is the difference in energy between a solvent molecule when it is immersed in pure polymer and when in pure solvent . |
| 8 | And when in 1973 the Lord Chief Justice was asked to ‘ give some guidance upon the phrase ‘ cohabiting as man and wife ’ he swiftly handed back the poisoned cup , saying that the phrase was ‘ so well known that nothing I could say about it could possibly assist in its interpretation hereafter ’ . |
| 9 | But there was also a sense in which he despised fame even as he obtained it , and when in this year he described Mark Twain as a man who wanted success or reputation and yet at the same time " resented their violation of his integrity " , there can be little doubt that once again he was expressing his own feelings through the agency of another 's . |
| 10 | There was also a widespread attachment to the Book of Common Prayer burial service , and when in 1653 Barebone 's Parliament abolished church weddings , hundreds of couples refused to accept the new civil ceremony and continued to be married by the clergy . |
| 11 | And when in 1949 Wyndham Lewis completed his portrait of him , Eliot quietly paid Lewis £50 more than the agreed price . |
| 12 | Between 1944 and 1946 he contributed articles to the magazine , and when in 1946 Lehmann set up as a publisher , Vaughan initially accepted charge of design and production . |
| 13 | His malevolence towards Pound , his friend since their college days in Philadelphia , is extraordinary ; and when in 1920 he amplified this piece in the prologue to his Kora in Hell , Williams compounded the offence by quoting selectively from a private letter that Pound had written him . |
| 14 | And when in 1863 the Co-operative Wholesale Society was set up , it was on the basis that participating stores should contribute capital and share in the profits . |
| 15 | But when in one class he had taken the register and pronounced their names correctly , there had been some laughter from non-Indian children ( who were a minority in the class ) but floods of embarrassed giggles from Asian children , who seemed to prefer their names to be mispronounced in school . |
| 16 | But when in 1698 a new company finally won the trade in return for a loan of £2 million , Herne broke with Child and brought the ‘ old ’ company into the subscription so that it could continue in the trade . |
| 17 | When things are not right he can be almost static , but when in full flow his grace , elegance and timing have been beautiful to behold . |