Example sentences of "[is] when the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 That 's when the likes of us drop orf , yer know .
2 Erm when the when that 's when the sun 's directly
3 It 's when the teachers think this is a boring , mundane , difficult thing to do , then that tends to be put over to the children and of course the disaster is that the children will believe it , and it if the children will believe it then we grow up in a highly technological society producing very few technologists or scientists .
4 It 's when the teachers think this is a boring , mundane , difficult thing to do , then that tends to be put over to the children and of course the disaster is that the children will believe it , and it if the children will believe it then we grow up in a highly technological society producing very few technologists or scientists .
5 That 's when the name is chosen .
6 It 's when the vomit comes out your mouth that does it is n't it ?
7 That 's when the fur really flies , ’ he explains , his hands mimicking flying fur .
8 That 's when the jokes about the missing bit started , for ring doughnuts look just like traditional ones with a bit taken out of the middle .
9 Gloucester have never won at the Recreation Ground … the league champions look invincible … but that 's when the Kingsholm men are at their best … when nobody gives them a hope …
10 Well there was a , there was a debate or something and that 's when the committee
11 Ten thirty , that 's when the Mayoress will open it .
12 And it 's only when the child is two or three , or beginning to talk or whatever , that 's when the mums come around .
13 And when they 're all together , that that 's when the problem is .
14 So that 's when the D two would have been after lunch , yeah .
15 When they asked me why I did n't have a British passport that 's when the immigration problems started .
16 And that 's when the railways I thought , nineteen fifty five to nineteen sixty , there were a great surge forward .
17 It 's when the foot 's twisted round , it wo n't stay square .
18 Afterwards , looking back , Sara knew that if she were asked she would put a circle round this evening , this particular point in time , and say , " That 's when the heartache began , " a tiny little pain to begin with , no more than a tremor of consciousness , the veriest pinprick .
19 Normally , she preferred to stay over at Antonia 's when the occasion arose .
20 But when one of the little blue aliens made some John Travolta-style dance moves , indulged in a comic face-pulling session with Walken , then gave him five , that 's when the film lost them .
21 That 's when the Press will really start having a field day . ’
22 That 's when the public turned against me .
23 That 's when the idea of an escape tunnel came to me .
24 Well that went to the secretary of the sectional council , and that 's when the negotiating machinery of negotiation started .
25 That 's when the course will actually finish .
26 That 's when the engine seized solid because there was no oil in the engine .
27 ‘ No , it 's when the government pays you not to grow crops in the fields . ’
28 That 's when the man with the gun shoots the tiger . ’
29 Well actually I think your quite right , but I think the problem is that the older reader reads it for escapism and enjoyment , its , its fun , but I think the younger reader reads it and thinks that 's what life is should be like and that 's when the trouble starts .
30 The armchair sailors shifted guiltily in their armchairs , and that 's when the trouble started .
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