Example sentences of "[verb] be [adj] when [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember being present when a team of 100 was commissioned at the Anaheim Vineyard in California to plant a new church in the Los Angeles area . |
| 2 | For statement pairs containing a negative , sorting was faster when the two statements meant something different than it was when the two statements meant the same . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm told that he may still have been alive when the murderer , or murderers , hammered the shaft through his neck and into the floor of the hut . |
| 4 | Such a result may have been unthinkable when the competition began , but the Ukrainian side looked forlornly unmotivated in their 5–0 defeat by Benfica a fortnight ago and must now manage without midfielders Yuri Moroz and Sergei Zaets , plus the defender , Anatoli Bessmertnyi — all suspended . |
| 5 | Assad was reported to have been disappointed when a meeting of the Damascus Declaration signatories scheduled for March in Qatar had been postponed until May . |
| 6 | I remember one Monday morning , just after we went into the Boys ' School , he came into Standard One and brought with him , from our class , Jim Weeks , who had been absent when the registers were called . |
| 7 | Retrospective radiological review showed that this lesion had been present when an initial diagnosis of coeliac disease had been made 12 months previously and a detailed description of the natural history of the lymphoma during this period was thus available . |
| 8 | It would be interesting to learn who had been present when the fastidious Miss Easterbrook had had her accident with the tea . |
| 9 | It had been Fei Yen 's idea to have a midnight picnic and Tsu Ma had been delighted when the two girls had come to them with blankets and a basket , interrupting their talk . |
| 10 | Duncan had been asleep when the policeman burst into the room to give him the news that Leeming had been found . |
| 11 | His fascination with anything to do with space and spaceflight bordered upon obsession and he had been horrified when The New Hope had been blown out of the sky by the Seven . |
| 12 | Hampstead had already brought her sharply into his mind — that had been obvious when the name had leapt into view on our arrival . |
| 13 | The requirement against memory ‘ bundling ’ had been important when the EC first looked at the complaints back in 1977 ; but in the period 1977–84 memory prices dropped so steeply as to make the point relatively trivial . |
| 14 | Women had rarely previously been members of Friendly Societies , the extent of their ill-health had been unknown when the Act was framed , and administrators were unprepared for it . |
| 15 | At first she had been surprised when a flask and a chunk of bread had been tossed down to her that first night , until she had remembered that de Raimes did not want her dead just yet . |
| 16 | She well knew Richard Sharpe 's reluctance to dance , which was why she had been surprised when the message came from the Prince of Orange 's headquarters informing her that Lieutenant-Colonel Sharpe would be attending His Royal Highness at the Duchess of Richmond 's ball , in anticipation of which His Royal Highness took pleasure in enclosing a ticket for Madame la Vicomtesse de Seleglise . |
| 17 | She had always imagined drug-pushing to be a male-dominated business and had been surprised when the prim-looking blonde in a navy blue duffel coat had approached her . |
| 18 | Once you have added the segment to your program , you can use it to edit program line " nnnn " with the command : PROCE(nnnn) The editing functions previously described are available when the line editing procedure is used . |
| 19 | Models of the item being marketed are useful when the product being sold is too large or bulky to be physically displayed . |
| 20 | The inclusion of such trading lags makes the arbitrage risky , as the mispricing at the time the arbitrage position is established is unknown when the decision to trade is taken . |