Example sentences of "[be] [adj] when [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Both Celie and Ponyboy are fourteen when the books start and both books follow their main characters through the most eventful periods of their lives , expressing the main characters ' outlook on life , their feelings and most importantly , their own personal tragedies and joys .
2 Campese will be 32 when the Wallabies lay their crown on the line in South Africa and coach Bob Dwyer is beginning to believe in miracles .
3 The period under review is 1975-84 when the investigator was a lay member of the Council ; a critical period , it includes the Merrison Report , the subsequent Medical Act and reform of the Council , as well as the implementation of EEC directions .
4 The angular velocity ( d8/dt ) is zero when the motor is stationary and equal to 1000 x ( 1 ) x 2n = 262 radians per second when the motor is running at 1000 steps per second .
5 For example , if COUNT is 200 when the motor is running at 500 steps per second and 1 /4 step of ignition advance is required , then FIRE is set to 150 .
6 Ponyboy , the main character , is 14 when the book starts , he narrates the story , as he is writing it down in essay form .
7 Mellor was 30 when the voters of Putney in West London elected him their Tory MP in 1979 — the election that swept Margaret Thatcher to power .
8 Grandfather , the youngest son of Count Nikolai Denknetzeyan , was nineteen when the revolution broke out .
9 Club member Harry Porter ( born 1902 ) was six when the course opened and he remembers dimly walking the first hole with the crowd .
10 The same principle applies to the highest key on any track ; as the highest key on track 06 was 298 when the file was created , a record with the key 299 belongs logically to track 07 , whether it is stored on that track already or has not yet been added .
11 I suppose I was ten when the school said I could n't see .
12 I suppose I was ten when the school said I could n't see .
13 She was thirty-five when the machines wore her out .
14 Viktor was twelve when the war ended and by that time he had forgotten how to cry .
15 ‘ I was 20 when the change came , ’ he recalls .
16 He was 20 when the Thatcher government came to power .
17 She was thirty-three when the baby was born .
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