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

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1 Other vulnerable lakes endure episodes of acidity in which pH drops below 5.6 when a rainstorm or snowmelt flushes acid , sulphate or aluminium into the catchment .
2 The difference between these conditions was striking : 154 passives were produced when the acted-upon was more animate and only 3 when the actor was more animate .
3 The young man , who is now 23 years old , was only 16 when a car ploughed into him and a couple of friends as they walked home from a party .
4 Werner Bischof died young : he was only 38 when the Jeep in which he and two companions were travelling plunged into a gorge in the Andes on May 16 1954 .
5 Janice was only 13 when the doctor first diagnosed her headaches as migraine .
6 That made me just seventeen when the War broke out . "
7 We were both still 16 when the doctor confirmed I was pregnant .
8 If you are under 60 when the advance is made your life is insured at no extra cost .
9 A If you are under 60 when the advance is made your life is insured at no extra cost .
10 And I can only have been about nine when a schoolfriend proudly showed snaps of her mother fancy-dressed as ‘ No-one loves a fairy when she 's 40 ’ .
11 This continued until about 1939 when the ceremony passed into history .
12 The manoeuvre was almost complete when the car started weaving across the road .
13 It was around six when the party broke up in disarray .
14 What you are aiming for is something like Fig. 9.3 where the pitch is reduced to around zero when the model is on its side , goes down to negative when inverted , back to zero when the helicopter is on its other side and finally back to normal .
15 One of the earliest documented encounters took place in AD 109 when a dolphin befriended a boy swimming offshore at the Roman settlement of Hippo in northern Africa , and thereafter returned day after day to play with other children , who slowly overcame their initial fear .
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