Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adj] when [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In December the Economic Planning Board announced further measures to attract foreign investors in preparation for 1992 when the South Korean stock market was to be opened to foreigners . |
| 2 | The rateable value reflects annual rental values for 1973 when the last valuation of business properties was carried out . |
| 3 | The group fell apart in the spring of 1990 when the Balts began to stay away from the ‘ foreign ’ Soviet parliament , while Russia 's democrats squabbled among themselves . |
| 4 | Another is the Great Orange Riot of 1971 when an Italian team , playing Spain in Cagliari , but tactlessly , without any Cagliarian representatives , was chased off the pitch by Outspan-wielding Sconvols . |
| 5 | As the 1976 national elections approached the Democrats were still smarting from the humiliations of 1972 when a badly divided party had nominated George McGovern and seen him overwhelmed by a landslide victory for Richard Nixon . |
| 6 | Unlike the era of the Plaza Accord in 1985 when the surplus with the US was the main agenda , criticism is flaring not only from Washington but also from other nations . |
| 7 | But he supported Meopham in 1332 when the other prelates appealed to the Roman curia . |
| 8 | There was almost a tragedy in 1905 when a major fire broke out one night in the early hours of the morning while 44 boys in the boys ' dormitories were asleep . |
| 9 | Another document , Ireland Today , published by the Republican Education Department in 1969 when the civil rights movement was already an established fact , gives further evidence on republican strategy : |
| 10 | The Commission was only beginning to get into its stride in 1970 when a new government was returned which was pledged to the abolition of the commission on the grounds that it ‘ had no place in a free society ’ . |
| 11 | An old friend of President George Bush , Tower was a senator for Texas for 24 years and chaired the Armed Services Committee from 1981 to 1985 , but suffered humiliation in 1989 when the Senate rejected his nomination as Defence Secretary [ see pp. 36515-16 ] . |
| 12 | There has not been such a bad outcome for the professionals since the American election of 1948 when the pollsters confidently predicted a clear victory for Dewey . |
| 13 | Bradstreet again served as governor until May of 1692 when the governor appointed under the new royal charter arrived . |
| 14 | So they have designed , in conjunction with some colleagues at the Energy Research Unit of the Open University a heat pump using natural gas , which produces a COP of 2.8 when the outdoor temperature falls to zero degrees and a COP of 4 in outdoor temperatures of 10 degrees . |
| 15 | In the morning we visit the Visitor Centre at Killiecrankie , site of the famous battle of 1689 when the first shots were fired in the Jacobite cause . |
| 16 | The final nail in Laker 's coffin came in the winter of 1981 when the big transatlantic carriers , including British Airways , cut their fares to match Laker 's . |
| 17 | Indeed , dead fetal tissue did not become a subject of contention until 1988 when the first results of treatment of people with Parkinson 's disease using fetal adrenal glands were announced . |
| 18 | And Mr Samson had a lucky escape in 1990 when a van ploughed into the side of his car . |
| 19 | Brazil 's component exports increased rapidly in the late 1980s , only to fall sharply as buyers shifted their purchases to other developing countries in 1990 when the Cruzado became overvalued ( Karmokolias , 1990 ) . |
| 20 | The threat of invasion too continued into more modern times , for the occupants of the Hall fled to York in great panic in 1779 when the battle of Flamborough Head took place and the Americans under John Paul Jones won a decisive victory . |
| 21 | This is the county boundary , new since a revision in 1974 when the valleys of Garsdale and Dentdale , hitherto giving allegiance to Yorkshire , were decreed to be henceforth attached to the new county of Cumbria . |
| 22 | Its name is associated with the site of the battle in 1388 when the men of Glarus defeated a greatly superior Austrian army and so regained their independent liberties . |
| 23 | In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries continental Europe gradually changed to a 1 January system , but it was not adopted in England until 1751/2 when the day after 31 December 1751 became 1 January 1752 , rather than remaining 1 January 1751 . |
| 24 | He left the Independent in a huff in 1991 when the staff of its Sunday edition , of which he was the editor , was merged with the staff of the daily . |
| 25 | Two years on , Pool have built on their deserved promotion of last year , banishing all fears of a relegation rebound , their fate in 1968–69 when the club last enjoyed life beyond the bottom division . |
| 26 | Alexander assumed the throne of Montenegro in 1918 when the French government , in league with the Serbian , refused to allow the old man to go back to Montenegro after his wartime exile in France . |
| 27 | Manorial records in general concerned themselves solely with the head tenants ; the name of an undertenant might occur only incidentally , as at Long Crendon in 1535 when the vicar of Thame was presented for letting two tenements by indenture for ten years to William Byrte , from whom , in fact , he had purchased them a few years previously . |
| 28 | They gained a permanent home in 1961 when the groundsman 's hut became vacant . |
| 29 | But his bravery was called into question in 1967 when an ex-tory MP queried whether the MC was genuine or a fiction invented by the publisher . |
| 30 | Arthurton 's innings was interrupted for 30 minutes after lunch on 117 when a tropical summer storm rained hailstones as big as cricket balls on the pitch . |