Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] when [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What transpires around 30 March when the Sun in Aries makes a disagreeable aspect to the revolutionary and unpredictable planet Uranus will , it seems , cut you to the quick , and make you realise that there are certain individuals who will never be on your wavelength . |
| 2 | As the task force made its slow way towards the Falklands exclusion zone , hostilities began in earnest on 2 May when a torpedo from a British nuclear-powered submarine sank the Argentine cruiser , General Belgrano , with the loss of 360 lives ; it was a highly suspicious episode , since the Belgrano appeared to be leaving the exclusion zone and heading back to Argentina at the time . |
| 3 | The East region committee and supporters were thrilled in early January when the extent of team support for a field Officer reached the target for the first year . |
| 4 | Leave onion sets until the end of March or early April when the soil should be warmer . |
| 5 | The game , against Nottingham Forest , was arranged the previous October when the player was guaranteed £350 , although the target was set at £500 . |
| 6 | This fear of a new apocalypse began in deep secrecy the previous August when the fall-out from what could only be a Russian atomic test was detected . |
| 7 | Prune all the stems back to within about 4in of the ground in mid to late March when the sap is rising . |
| 8 | This was abandoned as papist in the 1600s , says food historian , Ann Wilson , but was retained on Good Friday when the cross was at its greatest significance . |
| 9 | The real loss of life occurred on the evening of 4 December when a group of insurgents , accompanied by a crowd who had apparently come along to watch events , was fired on during a panic reaction on the part of the soldiers . |
| 10 | The issue of German military involvement abroad became slightly blurred in late April when a total of 750 Bundeswehr troops were sent to Iran to build camps for Kurdish refugees [ see pp. 38127-28 ] . |
| 11 | The Hastings £20m scheme was celebrated by a successful ‘ Gala Day ’ on 27 April when unlimited travel over the line for only £1 was available and more formally on 6 May when the Queen Mother ( Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports ) travelled over the line in the Royal Train . |
| 12 | This meant a full programme on the afternoon of Saturday 27th February when the competition was held at the Galleon Sports Centre in Kilmarnock . |
| 13 | Despite the fact that he was unable to begin the part of Sifare until 1 December when the singer arrived in Milan — only 25 days before the first scheduled performance — the première nevertheless took place , as planned , on 26 December , and the opera received another 21 performances that season . |
| 14 | The Gardeners ' Roadshow scheduled for 12th May , due to a prior engagement in the hall , will now take place on 25th May when a panel of experts will be in attendance . |
| 15 | The Gardeners ' Roadshow scheduled for 12th May , due to a prior engagement in the hall , will now take place on 25th May when a panel of experts will be in attendance . |
| 16 | Discussion lasted from 12 to 17 November , apart from 13 November when the pope made a ceremonial offering of his tiara for the benefit of the poor . |
| 17 | It finally became apparent on 1 October when the day-to day control of Hampton Court and the other Historic Royal Palaces changed hands , from the civil servants to a group of commercial managers . |
| 18 | However , attempts have been made to make up for this by the development of other devices such as question time , ten-minute rule bills and the practice of asking wide-ranging questions each Thursday when the business for the following week is announced . |
| 19 | These reached their hight on 9 December when a convoy of three cars with motorcycle outriders arrived at the entrance to the Royal College of Physicians in Queen Street , Edinburgh . |
| 20 | The celebrations were repeated on 9 August when the King was finally crowned . |
| 21 | The club , in Normanby Road , and its stand have been the scene of a series of unexplained fires , the latest being last Friday when the stand was gutted for the second time . |
| 22 | By next May when the league and cup medals are being handed out , Celtic will have gone five years without a trophy . |
| 23 | The leak was first discovered last December when the Challenger 's engines were test-fired in preparation for Challenger 's first , and the space shuttle programme 's sixth flight . |
| 24 | A more serious challenge to the text , however , came from a ‘ higher authority ’ — which could only mean the pope — on 24 November when the Secretary of State asked that explicit mention be made of Pius XI 's and Pius XII 's doctrine on marriage , which would not only condemn all forms of artificial contraception ( at this point , before Humanae Vitae , such a ban was not a foregone conclusion ) , but would also subordinate conjugal love to the procreation of children as the purpose of marriage . |
| 25 | Nesad Causevic , a policeman , was changing shift last November when a grenade blew up a few metres from his car . |
| 26 | The disgraced soldier was then dragged back into the glare of publicity last November when the Attorney General successfully challenged her sentence as ‘ unduly lenient ’ . |
| 27 | These efforts were rewarded last November when the USAF Museum at Dayton , Ohio , agreed to make its last C-121 available to NASMA on an ‘ as is , where is ’ basis . |
| 28 | He could have quit last Wednesday when the party 's national executive rejected by a 21-3 vote his demands for a referendum and a rethink on the Maastricht treaty . |
| 29 | The emphasis on map and compass skills comes in the wake of a near disaster last August when a group of 14 children and their young leader were airlifted to safety after being lost for two days east of Dalwhinnie in the Highlands . |
| 30 | Every week since last September when the chat show season began Mark and his band — Eugene Glenn , Brian Skeffington , Ciara Harrison and Hugh Faloona are the others — have waited in the wings in case a guest celebrity did n't turn up . |