Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adj] when [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the meeting was only a few hours old when the news broke that Winnie Mandela would face serious charges arising out of the murder in January 1989 of 14 year old activist , Stompie Moeketsi Seipei . |
| 2 | Christopher and Matthew Key were just four months old when the accident happened . |
| 3 | The tropical rainforest tree pictured on the front of the leaflet was at least 400 years old when a chainsaw cut it down . |
| 4 | She had been only 13 years old when the event occurred that shattered her world . |
| 5 | Philip Arbuthnot was three years old when the Peace was signed that divided Ireland . |
| 6 | Reich , born in 1897 , was thirty-two years old when the first part of The Sexual Revolution was published in 1929 ; Freud was already sixty-four years old when the notion of the death instincts first appeared in Beyond the Pleasure Principle in 1920 . |
| 7 | When we , the hearers and readers of the narrative , and Abraham , are told by God that he will have a son by Sarah , we learn that Abraham will be a hundred years old when the child is born and Sarah is already ninety ( 17.17 ) . |
| 8 | Brian , their youngest child , was born in Rugby in England and was four years old when the couple decided to move to Northern Ireland . |
| 9 | A child 's first lessons occur when she or he is 6 or 7 years old when the ruwang gathers a group of boys and girls together to teach them ta'kwakomena ( consciousness , will , responsibility ) , or basically social morality . |
| 10 | Provincial assemblies met thereafter always with clerical proctors present when a subsidy to the king was at issue and sometimes when it was not . |
| 11 | Second , there are often two different passives available when a sentence has a sequence noun + adjective following the verb ; for instance , the fourth example of the previous set can be linked either to ( 4 ) or to ( 5 ) : ( 4 ) the packages registered were sent by our lawyer ( 5 ) the packages were sent registered by our lawyer It is intuitively obvious that ( 4 ) corresponds to the postnominal attributive interpretation of ( 3 ) ( c ) , but ( 5 ) to the other intensional pattern introduced here . |
| 12 | In a later experiment , Albin found that brain injury could be five times greater when the damage was accompanied by a blood alcohol level of 200 micrograms per decilitre , twice the legal limit in the US . |
| 13 | If the records popular when the University first opened are recognisable to us , it 's only because they have recently enjoyed their third or fourth revival in the charts . |
| 14 | Er well only two er and Skerrymor but I was er three year because it was called a rock station or a relieving station was a big island the island of Rhona seven miles long when the sea was n't near the tower at all but er and Skerrymor the sea was battering round the towers all the time . |