Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [adj] when [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Police appealed to shopkeepers in area who might have sold items to two men with Liverpool accents in week before and after April 27 when couple disappeared . |
2 | A total of 87 people , many of them immigrants from central America , died in the early hours of March 25 when fire swept through the unlicensed Happy Land social club in a slum district of the Bronx , in New York City . |
3 | The amateur record of 68 was set in the Monthly Medal of May 1986 when Club member Michael Orris broke the Club and his own previous record of 69 set in October 1983 . |
4 | The ‘ First Gentleman of Europe ’ was a phrase used of George IV when Prince Regent . |
5 | The OECD stated in late 1983 that acid rain damage represents 3 to 5% of the European Community Gross National Product — or between £33 billion and £44 billion per year while the first joint step to combat air pollution in the European Community came in March 1984 when Environment Ministers agreed that new industrial plants could not be built without authorization relating to specific limits for industrial emissions . |
6 | In March 1917 when news of the Russian revolution reached Paris , Modi went running to find his writer friend Ilya Ehrenburg , embraced him and began ‘ screeching enthusiastically ’ , so that Ehrenburg could barely make out what he was saying . |
7 | Barnett 's account of the Cabinet meeting of 1 February shows that matters had improved little in the command and control post of the British system of government since that awful day at Chequers in November 1974 when gloom descended : |
8 | After Aoun 's capture of Dbayeh , there was little heavy fighting until Feb. 10 when Army units launched attacks on LF bases near Jounieh port and in the Kesrouan mountains . |
9 | It was seen more as a patriotic form of national self-expression than as a pro-nazi organization and hence was not closed down in September 1939 when war was declared . |
10 | The United Kingdom 's largest privatization to date , the sale of the electricity supply industry in England and Wales , was completed on March 12 when stock exchange dealings began following flotation of the generating companies , National Power and PowerGen . |
11 | The pensions controversy began on Jan. 7 when Congress , recalled from its summer break , upheld a Supreme Court ruling in favour of a 1992 increase in pensions of 147 per cent ( instead of the government 's 54 ) . |
12 | In the UK , and up to December 1984 when grant levels were reduced , investment grants have been a considerable incentive towards first-time conversion of moorlands and rough grasslands in the LFAs . |
13 | After a second incident on Sept. 21 when depth charges were fired at an intruder in the Stockholm archipelago , Bildt claimed on Sept. 22 that Russian submarines had violated Sweden 's territorial waters and had been pursued , but this was denied by Russia on Sept. 23 . |
14 | Her outstanding efforts will be rewarded on May 5 when HRH Prince Philip presents her with a certificate at a special ceremony in St. |
15 | There was an even larger turnout on May 14 when funeral marches for Kang were held in the capital and elsewhere . |
16 | The agreement followed a NATO meeting in London on July 5-6 when member countries redefined the organization 's strategies and goals , and NATO committed itself to a limitation of the size of Germany 's armed forces [ see pp. 37599-600 ] . |
17 | The talks broke down on July 28 when Silajdzic unilaterally rejected the proposed EC plan involving the cantonization of Bosnia-Hercegovina [ see p. 38832 ] . |
18 | The long legal wrangle over the settlement of former King Constantine 's property rights and tax dues ended on Oct. 7 when parliament ratified an agreement between the government and the deposed monarch . |
19 | Alternative is to include on day 9 when process is complete . |
20 | On October 28 he ran a 2:12:17 pb in Chicago following 2:14:50 on August 12 when second to Suleiman Nyambui in Moscow . |
21 | One example of this is on page 156 when Scout and Jem have discovered that Atticus is sitting outside the county Jail on one of his office chairs and as they cross the square to get nearer to him , four dusty cars come in from the Meridian highway , moving slowly in a line eventually stopping outside the Jail . |
22 | Base rates have fallen three per cent since Black Wednesday on September 16 when sterling crashed out of the European Exchange Rate mechanism . |
23 | A further step towards the creation of an Inuit homeland had been taken on April 27 when government and Inuit negotiators announced that they had initialled the Nunavut Political Accord . |