Example sentences of "[adj] when a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With such tourist pulling potential it was only a matter of time before the line of sections of it would hum again to wheel flange above fishplate … and so it proved in 1972 when a narrow gauge scheme was hatched to open 5.5. miles of trackbed between Pant ( Merthyr Tydfil ) and Torpantau . |
| 2 | It will be Ballymena 's first trip to Brandywell since that infamous day in 1972 when a United bus was subjected to an arson attack . |
| 3 | The first of what promised to be a long series of show trials of former senior officials of the ousted Ceausescu regime ended on Feb. 2 when a military tribunal in Bucharest found Emil Bobu , Manea Manescu , Ion Dinca and Tudor Postelnicu guilty of " co-authorship of genocide " in connection with the killing of demonstrators in Timisoara , Bucharest and elsewhere at the start of the December 1989 revolution [ see pp. 37104-05 ] . |
| 4 | Mujaheddin attacks on Kabul in October 1989 killed and injured many people including at least 30 when a surface-to-surface missile struck a bus shelter in a busy shopping district of old Kabul on Oct. 10 . |
| 5 | Fifteen years of one-party rule ended formally on Nov. 30 when a new Constitution came into effect which provided for multiparty democracy and a free-market economy . |
| 6 | Ian Gow , Conservative member of Parliament for Eastbourne since 1974 , was killed on July 30 when an Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) bomb exploded underneath his car as he was preparing to leave his home in the village of Hankham , near Eastbourne in Sussex . |
| 7 | However , the College of Arms remained in charge of the obsequies of royal funerals until 1751 when a private undertaker , a Mr Harcourt , supplied and organized the funeral of Frederick , Prince of Wales . |
| 8 | The United States space programme suffered a serious setback in May 1991 when a congressional committee voted to reduce to $100,000,000 in the current fiscal year the projected $2,000 million budget for the Freedom space station , the construction of which was crucial to further manned missions to the moon and one to Mars , which President George Bush stated should be achieved by 2019 , the 50th anniversary of the first Apollo moon landing . |
| 9 | At least 31 people were killed on Oct. 26 when an armed group numbering about 20 attacked a fishing village near the Cap Skirring tourist area , 600 km south of Dakar . |
| 10 | A total of 223 people were killed on May 26 when an Austrian Lauda Air Boeing 767-300 , on its way from Bangkok to Vienna , crashed over Suphan Buri province in north-western Thailand . |
| 11 | The decision brought to an end a case which had begun in 1979 when a female student filed a complaint over the exclusion with New Jersey civil rights officials . |
| 12 | Phil was again unlucky with injuries in 1990–91 when a fractured rib in November reduced his contribution to modest proportions , but his distinguished career already assures him a permanent place in the Palace annals . |
| 13 | The real beginnings , however , were made in 1969 when a central cataloguing institute was set up in Rome , which became the present Istituto centrale per il catalogo e la documentazione ( ICCD ) when the Minstero per i Beni Culturali was founded . |
| 14 | Work began in 1975 when a small test-reactor at Ispra , near Milan , was switched by the Italian government to work on safety . |
| 15 | This is the last bond to be actively redeemed until 1957 when a minor flurry of interest in activating redemption might have been responsible for some bond buying-in activity , although the Club waited until 1983 for the total buying-in to take place . |
| 16 | For the next century or so , the county was relatively free of French harassment , but the situation worsened considerably after 1360 when a French fleet burnt Winchelsea and followed this up with a regular series of raids on the coast . |
| 17 | Fierce protest in the town of Batna , 300 km south-east of Algiers , was triggered on Feb. 4 when a local imam was sentenced to three months ' imprisonment for public order offences . |
| 18 | The charges arose from events on Feb. 18 when a peaceful rally ended in violence [ see p. 38753 ] . |
| 19 | The grant-aid earned under the new Regulations was adequate but it was not generous and although class programmes were extended to new centres and programmes expanded in existing branches , the costs of provision also increased and the District required overdraft facilities until 1950 when a small surplus was secured . |
| 20 | The well-equipped organ has two manuals and was built by T. Hopkins and Sons of York who installed it in 1910 ; the air was pumped by hand until 1950 when an electric blower was installed . |
| 21 | In the worst IRA attack on civilians for five years , eight Protestant workers were killed and five injured on Jan. 17 when a massive bomb destroyed their van at Teebane Cross . |
| 22 | The term ‘ monetary sector ’ dates from August 1981 when a new set of monetary control provisions were introduced . |
| 23 | The Constituent Assembly itself was to be dissolved on July 5 when a new constitution was to be published . |
| 24 | It was created in good part by the situation in the 1970s when a poor match developed between the pressure to lend from donors , and the administrative ability of the borrowing countries to ‘ receive ’ . |
| 25 | The first signs of the new eruption were seen on 23 March 1902 when a rambling party were making an ascent of the volcano . |
| 26 | The Parquet had existed , he thought , since at least 1883 when a reforming Minister of Justice had unearthed in his office some Arabic translations of parts of the French Code Napoleon and promulgated them as the new Egyptian legal system . |
| 27 | This is a rare breed in the Massif Central , numbering only 400 by 1978 when a conservation programme was set up under the auspices of the Parc Naturel Régional des Volcans d'Auvergne . |
| 28 | Australia had been a whaling country until 1978 when an official enquiry , which was supported by all political parties , concluded that the public wished to see an end to whaling . |
| 29 | A school for 150 children was built on the green , and remained in use until 1914 when a new school was built in Beverley Road . |
| 30 | No further serious clashes were reported until March 25 when a 90-minute battle in the suburbs of Ashrafieh , Sin el-Fil , Saloumi and Dora , killed 11 people . |