Example sentences of "[adj] was when [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One recent example of this was when a scientist reported , what was known as cold fusion . |
| 2 | This was when the cobbler praised , ‘ … |
| 3 | This was when the need to live together came not from the older generation , but from the child 's own family . |
| 4 | The year 1966 was when the number of people paying a TV licence for the first time exceeded the number paying a radio licence . |
| 5 | But that was when a shadow suddenly fell across the doorway . |
| 6 | And that was when the university was very much on the British Council circuit . |
| 7 | That was when the drink began to matter . |
| 8 | That was when the realization hit me . |
| 9 | That was when the idea lodged itself in her . |
| 10 | That was when the idea came to her . |
| 11 | Someone complimented me on my beautiful baby , and I suppose that was when the idea came into my head . |
| 12 | That was when the telephone rang . |
| 13 | Some water came up and hit my bum , and that was when the phone went . |
| 14 | ‘ That was when the order went out : Be nice to Diana . ’ |
| 15 | That was when the bravado and drink and adrenalin took me further than I might have wanted to go . |
| 16 | But that was when the duchess was part of the charmed inner circle of royals , with an extensive staff to help her carry out official duties . |
| 17 | That was when the plan of running away had begun to formulate itself in her mind . |
| 18 | During the whole time I was anorexic , there is only one reference in my diary to feeling cold , and that was when the school heating system failed . |
| 19 | That was when the subject was first introduced to Alton 's further education curriculum for adults , and it 's really taken off . |
| 20 | That was when the terror had taken a grip on her . |
| 21 | That was when the soldier hit Ivan with a tyre lever . |
| 22 | That was when the world had turned to silver . |
| 23 | That was when the evil had grown . |
| 24 | That was when the car hit the boy . ’ |
| 25 | Only one thing she drew the line at and that was when the prostitution took up bairns . |
| 26 | But that was when the atmosphere subtly altered . |
| 27 | The only time things went a bit quiet was when a couple of Eladeldi came in and sniffed around , on patrol , because all gatherings on the plat are at their sufferance , public or private . |
| 28 | One of the most amusing was when a group calling itself the Renewable Energy Generating Board drove on to the proposed reactor site and installed a miniature array of ten-foot-high wind turbines . |