Example sentences of "[num] [noun sg] when [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the cells were in the log phase of development ( day 6 ) there were 21% of the cells in S phase with 9% in G 2 phase compared with 10% in S phase with 1.55% in G 2 phase when the culture was reaching confluency by day 10 ( Fig 2B ) . |
| 2 | Particularly important in showing that the MTFS was serious was the 1981 budget when the Chancellor increased taxes by £5 billion , or 2 per cent of GNP , to protect his PSBR . |
| 3 | There was one instance when the tanker had left and we were low on fuel that we radioed in to say we were coming home . |
| 4 | To ensure that all the pleats lie at one level when the blind is raised , the top pleat section should be slightly deeper than those below it in order to cover the front of the batten and to allow for the depth of lath and rings which accumulate at the top of the blind when it is raised . |
| 5 | It does n't help your orientation one bit when the land is indistinguishable from the sky , nor indeed when you 're not quite sure whether you 've left the land yet . |
| 6 | Some banks , colleagues , offer twenty five pound when the student first opens an account . |
| 7 | However , argon , being a gas , is at zero concentration when the rock solidifies from the molten state , so the amount of argon produced is measured . |
| 8 | She had been halfway through wallpapering one room when the pull of the sun had grown too strong to resist a second longer . |
| 9 | THERE was one point when the hair on the back of my head began to lift . |
| 10 | Newton was playing for ADS Graphics in a Wirral Sunday League Division One match when the offence allegedly took place . |
| 11 | Our official town doctor Rozanov , himself an accoucheur , declared quite positively that on one occasion when a patient in labour was screaming and calling on the name of the Almighty , a free-thinking sally fired off like a pistol-shot by Mrs Virginsky struck such fear into the patient that delivery was greatly accelerated . |
| 12 | When was there one occasion when a government of any colour was imposed upon England against the wishes of three out of every four English voters ? |
| 13 | The context of a bus timetable does increase the number of possible ways the question might be done ; on one occasion when a member of the research team gave the test informally to a class , one pupil said he had found his answer ( several hours ) by adding up the intervals between all of the stops . |
| 14 | Anton repeatedly tries to speak to him but , on the one occasion when the phone gets picked up , Courtney yells ‘ He 's asleep ! ’ and slams it down again . |
| 15 | Surprisingly , given the folk image of policemen , on the one occasion when the field-worker accompanied some policemen on court duty , the men expressed a preference for ‘ fair ’ judges and actually criticized what they thought was the excessive penalty imposed by a ‘ hard ’ judge for the offence of throwing an empty can ( FN 9/3/87 , p. 10 ) . |
| 16 | ‘ On one occasion when the girl was recovering in bed from ‘ flu , and was weak , the defendant came into her room and started to take off his clothes . |
| 17 | She quoted him : on one occasion when the Princess had waved him away , pleading a cold , he had breathed back at her , ‘ It would be a privilege to catch a cold of yours . ’ |
| 18 | I admit that the vast majority of contributors are women , but this is one occasion when the article I 'm thinking of could only be written by a man . |
| 19 | LAST night 's meeting at Southwell was abandoned after just one race when the course became waterlogged following torrential rain . |
| 20 | 3.6 INSURANCE WHEN THE HOME IS BEING SOLD |
| 21 | We had a 3.15 PM start , and we 'd only played one hole when the end of the world looked as though it had come and we had to shelter in the R&A tent . |
| 22 | Nationally the war did lead to one innovation when the government created an imaginative attempt to cope with teacher shortage in the Emergency Training Service , which trained teachers without academic qualifications after national service . |
| 23 | Why did no one care when the owl lost his voice ? |
| 24 | Neither side should be afraid to instruct more than one doctor when the plaintiff suffers multiple injuries giving rise to a variety of symptoms . |
| 25 | He had held the post only since a December 1990 congress when the party had been declared independent of the CPSU [ see p. 37920 ] . |