Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] when [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LIFEBOATMEN went into action this afternoon when a raft overturned and broke up during the annual Merseyside Police charity race on the Mersey . |
| 2 | The fears were repeated by Conservative back benchers in the Commons this afternoon when the defence secretary announced a number of measures , including the scrapping of a new nuclear missile for the R A F , the selling of of Rosyth and Devonport dockyards and a new role for the reserve forces . |
| 3 | A pool of close to £300,000 is expected this afternoon when the card looks anything but straightforward . |
| 4 | ‘ Except for a brief half hour when the sun came through . |
| 5 | On the window was a blue-and-red peacock she had stencilled there on a wet afternoon when the garden was blanked out with grey rain . |
| 6 | The region suffered a prolonged drought during this interval when the level of Lake Pátzcuaro fell by 4–5m ( ref. 15 ) and the basin may have been abandoned . |
| 7 | He was certainly born under an unlucky star , or , like Chesterton 's donkey , ‘ when fishes flew and forests walked and figs grew upon thorn , some moment when the moon was blood then , surely , I was born ! ’ |
| 8 | From that revelatory moment when the box of white paper is opened until the moment of exposure the exchange of light onto receptive surface has begun . |
| 9 | The House itself will take a decision on the matter later this evening when the Question will be put whether the Bill should or should not be considered in Committee of the whole House . |
| 10 | Mr Cross had chosen the ideal spot for his photography some three days earlier and the picture he wanted could only be taken during the ten days around the longest day when the sun came through a gap in the hills . |
| 11 | To Sarah he wrote that he would take her to Italy some day when the sun was shining . |
| 12 | And o on this day when the church celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit ! |
| 13 | It is the happiest of coincidences for them that on this day when the mind of thinking adults in this country is concentrated on whom not to vote for , the Masters opens at Augusta . |
| 14 | The boy was deliverying papers in Kingham village just before seven this morning when a man tried to drag him into a waiting estate car . |
| 15 | They appeared in court at Leominster in Herefordshire this morning when the case was adjourned for a week . |
| 16 | I share the hon. Gentleman 's views in the context of the six-week-old baby , just as I do in the context of the children in the school playground who were under threat this morning when the attack was made on the taxi driver . |
| 17 | A great surprise this morning when the postman delivered a Newey Topstitcher ! compliments of MKM . |
| 18 | CAMPAIGNING nuclear workers took their message to the top earlier this month when a party of 48 travelled to lobby MPs at Westminster . |
| 19 | The walks come as the International Whaling Committee is to meet at the end of this month when the whaling nations are expected to ask to have a ban on whaling lifted . |
| 20 | The International Accounting Standards Committee 's comparability and improvements project enters a crucial phase this month when the IASC Board considers the draft revised standards on inventories , research and development activities , and capitalisation of borrowing costs . |
| 21 | Terrorist action hit central London again this week when a firebomb , thought to have been planted by the IRA , exploded in Dillons , Trafalgar Square , early on Wednesday morning . |
| 22 | THE end of mortgage interest tax relief came a step closer this week when the Chancellor of the Exchequer — while retaining the existing interest relief ceiling of £30,000 — announced that from next year , the rate at which relief is given will be cut from 25 to 20 per cent . |
| 23 | A NEW tradition begins this week when the city of York holds its first annual St Nicholas Fayre . |
| 24 | But the best day of all was in high summer when the sky was a deep blue spattered with shoals of small flat-bottomed clouds and the sun turned the flowers and leaves in hedgerow and field into a giddy mosaic . |
| 25 | Elsewhere , however , known historical fords or bridge sites can be picked out every high summer when the crowfoot blooms — literally , living history . |
| 26 | None of these constraints , incidentally , had much to do with the novelty of women directors within their national traditions ; all four could point to predecessors , especially in the earlier part of this century when the film industry was being established . |
| 27 | But it fell into disrepair earlier this century when the water dried up . |
| 28 | Edmund Bogg , writing at the beginning of this century when the feast lasted several days , learnt from the vicar that the origins of ‘ burning owd Bartle ’ were lost in the mists of time , but the figure represented St Bartholomew . |
| 29 | Guy Fawkes Night will come a week early in that part of Skipton this weekend when the steam railway ignite a big bonfire and firework display . |
| 30 | FANS of vintage road and rail transport over the ages will be descending on Somerset this weekend when the West Somerset Railway stages its sixth annual Steam Fayre and Vintage Vehicle Rally at Bishops Lydeard station . |