Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] when a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This would involve , for example , preserving existing access opportunities even when an area of land was being sold off as surplus to the supplier 's requirement , ’ the response states . |
| 2 | Firms will be expected to provide accounting information to their successors even when a fee dispute is still outstanding , and firms undertaking additional work will normally be expected to notify the incumbent . |
| 3 | It is refreshingly easy to overcome initial fears , however , if you are prepared to enter into the debate , and not allow yourself to take comments or criticisms personally when a student peers at you agog for carrying out what they see as an archaic approach . |
| 4 | Kyle of Lochalsh is the next port of call , and the way to it from Plockton returns to the T-junction at Duirinish , turns along its main street and skirts the next village of Drumbuie , scene of a great hullabaloo two decades ago when a proposal to construct an oilrig installation off-shore was repulsed by spirited opposition , a home subsequently being found for it on an uninhabited shore of Loch Kishorn . |
| 5 | We do have this process where we can edge-glue the broken pieces so when a piece is broken and a previous glazier put in a piece of lead we can edge bond instead |
| 6 | Such a step is unusual and is taken by a director of public prosecutions only when a case has exceptional political or other implications . |
| 7 | It was only just getting over the shock 21 years later when an apparition sauntered past St Paul ‘ s School and round the corner of Gartocher Road into Shettleston Road . |
| 8 | Arsenal have always been Thomas 's first choice , but talks between the clubs broke down acrimoniously two weeks ago when a £2.5 million offer was rejected . |
| 9 | West Mercia police are checking for possible links between the Telford incident and another close by a few weeks ago when a horse was slashed . |
| 10 | Albert Ablett recalled the occasion over sixty years ago when a girl very rashly walked on to the malting floor when the piece-walker was not about : |
| 11 | Veronica Sive 's interest in photography began at university , 10 years ago when a friend suggested she ‘ look carefully through the lens , it 's a new world out there ’ . |
| 12 | Harry Enfield discovered opera a few years ago when a friend gave him a disc of highlights from ‘ La Traviata ’ . |
| 13 | You no doubt heard about the raid on a Venezuelan freighter outside Amsterdam a couple of years ago when a gang impersonating the harbour police impounded over a million pounds worth of acapulco gold ? ’ |
| 14 | Around 370 million years old , it was once a tropical sea-bed yet it was only placed on the tourist map nine years ago when a TV crew flew over it by chance . |
| 15 | Organic superconductivity came to light only four years ago when a group led by Denis Jerome of the Universite Paris-Sud at Orsay and Klaus Bechgaard from the H.C . |
| 16 | But Dublin was long ago and far away ; the city she had known had changed irrevocably on that Easter Monday three years ago when a handful of men , including her husband Dermot , had walked out to do battle with the might of the British Empire . |
| 17 | The coroner 's court heard that Private Donald Macaulay , 20 , of Mossley Hill , Liverpool , was killed nearly three years ago when a landmine blew up a Land Rover on a deserted country road in Mayobridge , near Newry , County Down . |
| 18 | The race was created 21 years ago when a psychologist , propping up the Gannochy bar , laid a £1 bet that no member of the University ‘ could , without mechanical assistance , do the return trip of five and a half miles from the Gannochy to the top of Dumyat [ 418metres ] in less than an hour . ’ |
| 19 | But the alarm was only raised 30 hours later when a hotelier phoned to ask why their reservations had not been taken up . |
| 20 | They were gifted a goal six minutes later when a John Clark free-kick was touched on by Ferguson and Paddy Connolly nipped in through the static Celtic defence to lift the ball over Pat Bonner . |
| 21 | However , this option , quite aside from the misgivings his lordship was bound to have as regards gossip travelling , entailed my having to rely on unknown quantities just when a mistake could prove most costly . |
| 22 | The accord tried to establish standards to protect basic rights even when a government declared a state of emergency . |
| 23 | Castleford were one of the clubs fined two seasons ago when an outbreak of brawling at several matches led to the League imposing new , stiffer penalties . |
| 24 | Depressive symptoms are interpreted as abnormal ‘ care-eliciting behaviour ’ — behaviour intended to bring important others closer when a person perceives himself deficient in the receipt of care . |
| 25 | There is no obstacle at all except a respect for logical consistency to weighing facts justly when a mistake can cost money but refusing to extend the same standards to the historicity of Bible narrative , or to shutting one 's eyes to the use of Einstein 's relativity in work on the atom bomb while publicly denouncing the theory as Jewish science or bourgeois idealism . |
| 26 | He was still recuperating at home a few nights later when a rustling from the rafters above his bed proved to be yet another python which had entered the village and was lying in wait . |