Example sentences of "[adj] when a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It always seems funny when a Rottweiler guards for the first time , barking loudly , usually backing off , not quite sure if he is doing the right thing . |
| 2 | It appears a smuggling plan went wrong when a lorry driver went on holiday . |
| 3 | But things begin to go wrong when a dinosaur expert , played by Irish-born New Zealand actor Sam Neill , and his girlfriend , played by Laura Dern , arrive on the scene . |
| 4 | If LIFESPAN does not find the QAO log file it will create another when a QAO log is actioned for the module . |
| 5 | The effect is similar when a District Health Authority pays a private hospital to perform operations on NHS patients . |
| 6 | The main advantage is that no ACT is payable when a company issues additional shares to a shareholder in lieu of a cash dividend . |
| 7 | The extra plasmids may appear simply because of the normal instability of the genetic material of the blood cell : cutting out large chunks of DNA is routine when a blood cell makes antibody genes . |
| 8 | AT LEAST two people were killed and 80 injured when a car bomb exploded in the heart of the City of London last night in a suspected IRA attack timed to detract from the Tory General Election victory celebrations . |
| 9 | This power is extremely useful when a supervision order is made in respect of a very young child who can not be expected to present himself for examination . |
| 10 | That , however , could be catered for with appropriate wording and we should then feel more confident when a UK aircraft crashed abroad . |
| 11 | Five Turkish sailors were killed and 18 were injured on Oct. 1 when a US aircraft carrier , the Saratoga , accidentally fired two missiles during a North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) exercise in the Aegean , one of which hit a Turkish destroyer , the Muavenet . |
| 12 | My horse went down a couple of times when we were riding along a shallow river The hooves must 've turned up the mud at the bottom and I 'm sorry but no amount of expert preparation can help you keep cool when a 500lb horse goes down on you . |
| 13 | This roused the Ruffians from their lethargy and they were unlucky not to be level when a Sharman shot was deflected on to a post . |
| 14 | Dilution viscometers are most convenient when a concentration series is to be measured . |
| 15 | Ian Murdoch of the receivers , KPMG Peat Marwick , said : ‘ It is always satisfying when a quality company is saved and particularly when it is sold to the management who built it up . ’ |
| 16 | In later years , after the oil fields were established , he was to be even busier when a helicopter pad was built in Unst . |
| 17 | It 's a touch disappointing when a Windows product comes on one disk , especially one that costs as much as Financial Controller — you rather get used to having eight or ten high density disks to feed into you machine . |
| 18 | She broke her shoulder as a human cannonball on Noel Edmonds ' ill-fated ‘ Late , Late Breakfast Show ’ , and she had no sooner recovered from that when a car accident delayed the venture for another two years ! |
| 19 | She was critical but stable in Middlesbrough General Hospital last night after being left for dead when a Ford Cortina crashed into parked vehicles in Berwick Hills , Middlesbrough , on Sunday . |