Example sentences of "[was/were] when the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The record of the health service is improving dramatically and waiting lists are now very much shorter than they were when the Government first took office . |
| 2 | Luce was about to ask a second time where they were when the door was opened by a plump , middle-aged woman wearing a neat black dress . |
| 3 | If they are witnesses to fact , you will need to know where they were when the accident occurred and how good their line of sight was . |
| 4 | But inquire where they were when the news of Margaret Thatcher 's resignation as Prime Minister came through and most will gaze at you blankly . |
| 5 | Edible things tended to crumble when packaged and someone was going to have to remember where they all were when the time came to unpack them . |
| 6 | During the whole time I was anorexic , there is only one reference in my diary to feeling cold , and that was when the school heating system failed . |
| 7 | In fact , about the only contact Edward ever had with other people 's flesh was when the school maids , and then their friends from round about , began to share their sexual favours with him . |
| 8 | The next I knew was when the boy came for me and told me that there were two dead bodies in the Little Vestry . |
| 9 | That was when the subject was first introduced to Alton 's further education curriculum for adults , and it 's really taken off . |
| 10 | ‘ That was when the order went out : Be nice to Diana . ’ |
| 11 | This school was to be subjected to a number of air raid attacks , but the greatest loss the school suffered was when the Allen Homes were totally destroyed in 1942 . |
| 12 | The time to worry was when the noise of the doodle-bug overhead stopped , for then it was going to fall . |
| 13 | The only time that he wished he had n't been quite so deeply involved in the skin trade was when the past came to visit . |
| 14 | Guinness has maintained this tradition , believing that making a contribution to the society in which it prospers is as important today as it was when the company was founded . |
| 15 | ‘ It was when the friend of the family , Donald Templeton , the trusted and valued doctor who attended both Farr and his wife , came to call that the plans of the man who came to be known as the Wimbledon poisoner came badly unstuck . |
| 16 | Time was when the South West would be filled with Gloucester boys … only two Paul Holford and Dave Sims made it on Saturday and there was nothing they could do in the first half to stop the north from taking control … a try from Jim Mallinder gave them a 13-6 lead at half-time … |
| 17 | That was when the plan of running away had begun to formulate itself in her mind . |
| 18 | The other incident was when the Home Office investigated files on Clinton 's time at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar . |
| 19 | Contrary to Labour 's claims , the report said the proportion of national income spent on education is almost the same now ( 5.1 per cent ) as it was when the Conservatives came to power in 1979 ( 5.2 per cent ) . |
| 20 | And that was when the university was very much on the British Council circuit . |
| 21 | Some water came up and hit my bum , and that was when the phone went . |
| 22 | This was when the Maya civilisation was at its height , during what archaeologists call the Classic period . |
| 23 | That was when the realization hit me . |
| 24 | so you would actually be talking to economists , lawyers and accountants , and very often you had a feeling that the first time they had come together to talk to each other was when the CNAA arrived . |
| 25 | One of the things that really annoyed us in the Ministry was when the Publisher 's representative used to go straight into the Minister 's office and dictate letters which the Minister then signed . |
| 26 | His worst time was when the S.S. Oarsman , sailing from Rotterdam to Great Yarmouth , was lost at see with all hands in 1932 . |
| 27 | ‘ I laughed my head off there , ’ she says and the only black cloud was when the apartment was burgled and she had most of her jewellery stolen . |
| 28 | ‘ Your Grace , is it true that the first you heard of the news was when the porter from Godstowe arrived here ? ’ |
| 29 | So it was when the Germans over-ran Holland in 1940 and within three days had rounded up large numbers of Jews — the Dutch population records which included religious affiliation were put to sinister use , promptly and efficiently even without the aid of modern technology . |
| 30 | That was when the drink began to matter . |