Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] when [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was especially popular in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries when the whole of fashionable society decamped from London to Bath once a year to take the waters and to see and be seen . |
| 2 | One day Tony gets up to watch and witnesses one of the few times when the sun travels across a blue , cloudless sky . |
| 3 | Mr Davies yesterday offered to re-run the contest under the party 's 1985 rules when the matter was decided at the party 's general management committee by delegates elected by wards and the trade unions . |
| 4 | Therefore , arbitrage can lead to the sale or purchase of very large blocks of shares , irrespective of the price , in the few minutes when the delivery price is determined . |
| 5 | On the way to Eric 's first hiding place there had been an uncomfortable few minutes when the doctor 's car , in spite of its prominently displayed red cross , had been stopped by a carabinieri patrol . |
| 6 | She must have been asleep for some hours when the sound of her opening bedroom door penetrated her dreams and brought her instantly awake . |
| 7 | She had drifted off , and had been fast asleep for some hours when the sound of someone 's keeping their finger pressed on her doorbell roused her from a deep sleep . |
| 8 | They had been afloat only a few hours when a seaman shouted down the hatch . |
| 9 | When a sergeant congratulated one section on the improvement in the language in the guard room over the last few hours when the field-worker had been present , one constable shouted , ‘ Fucking good job too , Sir ’ ( FN 2/2/87 , p. 6 ) , and the occupational culture of the station soon reasserted its typical forms of expression , which are widespread in all police forces and occupational cultures that are predominantly masculine and working class . |
| 10 | Brian Currie 's proposed amendment , that the PCD move in stages towards openness beginning with more comprehensive reporting — and taking further steps when the Institute has experience of how the reporting works in practice , received strong support . |
| 11 | Police were still clearing the hotel and nearby homes when the bomb , abandoned in a Volvo car , partly exploded at 1.20am . |
| 12 | If the UK for example , purchases foreign currencies when the Fund 's holdings of sterling are 75 per cent of the UK quota , then drawings equivalent to 25 per cent of UK quota are available without restriction . |
| 13 | They 'd only taken a few steps when a man gave an appreciative wolf whistle . |
| 14 | We had only gone a few steps when a voice called out from across the street . |
| 15 | But whatever its degree of visibility , class conflict was never far from the surface of day-to-day social relationships when the village was an occupational community . |
| 16 | Except ride round on a horse and pen a few articles when the mood took her . |
| 17 | The people chosen will be acknowledged generally as the senior members of the party and there will be few surprises when the Cabinet is announced . |
| 18 | Examples were given of machinery overturning on land undermined by badger workings ; a horse and rider both suffering broken bones when the horse put a foot through the roof of a badger tunnel ; a nine-month-old calf breaking its neck when it fell into a sett ; a young lamb trapped in a sett ; extensive damage to spring grazing pastures by badgers grubbing for worms ; wheat crops flattened and eaten or soiled by badgers ; and numerous examples of TB in dairy herds close to large badger populations known to be infected with TB . |
| 19 | There have been occasions over the past 30 years when the attendance in this House for my speeches has not been quite as large as it is today . |
| 20 | In th i in the old days when a firm would come along and pack everything , then they said that , and that was quite true , that they would pack everything and then they would be responsible if damage was done . |
| 21 | Just the way you once wished it could when you were regretting the good old days when a man could keep his unsuitable mistress hidden away , knowing she 'd be there waiting upon his pleasure , whenever he felt the urge and could spare the time to see her . |
| 22 | The quality of translation here , with its simpering rhythms and bathetic language , proves that in this matter the major publishers have moved on hardly at all from the bad old days when the employment of unskilled amateurs or stilted romantics in translation work marred the English publication of some of the great accounts of European mountaineering . |
| 23 | One PC complained at length to a sergeant that the ‘ ground ’ where they both worked had become much quieter ; he looked back with nostalgia to the old days when the ground was much ‘ harder ’ and ‘ you could literally be strolling past a pub and a bloke would come staggering out with a knife in his back … ’ |
| 24 | Some days when the city heat was too oppressive they drove out into the wild Andalucían countryside , high up into the hills where the air was sweet and pure . |
| 25 | There followed a few years when the situation looked bright . |
| 26 | What happens during the first few days when a resident comes to live in a Home ? |
| 27 | Notices warning of the dangers of thin ice were put up in the last few days when the lake froze over . |
| 28 | There are few days when the weather is so unpleasant that it is impossible to walk ; and even on a rainy day there are often periods when the rain stops . |
| 29 | Todays toil to lower the level of the brook takes a bitmore than one man and his dog , but the necessary speed of the work means thispiece of Georgian architecture will be hidden once more in a few days when the brook 's allowed to flow through here again . |
| 30 | In a way , the fat lady doctor turned sex on to its head and in those prepermissive days when no woman appeared on screen showing more than a couple of inches of cleavage , it was enough . |