Example sentences of "when [noun] be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT has taken a year for the new formula to be agreed — at a time when ITN was coping with a budget squeeze in the wake of the crippling cost of covering the Gulf War . |
| 2 | In a time when birthrates are decreasing in many countries , it creates fear . |
| 3 | Henry III died in November 1272 , when Edward was campaigning in Sicily but he returned and , at the age of 33 , became King Edward I , and although it was his wish to finally liberate Jerusalem from the Moslem Saracens , he became involved in England , Wales and Scotland . |
| 4 | Later that year , when Beltrami was acting for McGuinness in another matter , McGuinness admitted his involvement at Ayr — information that Mr Beltrami was unable to divulge because of the confidentiality of the client-solicitor relationship . |
| 5 | Undoubtedly however the days of wine and roses came in the season of 1990–91 when Pat was riding for Noel Furlong and Andy Geraghty . |
| 6 | He was one of those arrested in June , when Richard was moving towards the throne , and this was apparently accompanied by some more or less official seizure of his temporalities . |
| 7 | He was one of those arrested in June , when Richard was moving towards the throne , and this was apparently accompanied by some more or less official seizure of his temporalities . |
| 8 | I sent back a tirade of bitter invective , written during a long , lonely evening when Richard was dining in college : did she think that because I had given up working for my degree I was necessarily isolated from intelligent thought ? |
| 9 | There were times when Ken was enjoying himself-with Dame Edith and with the part . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've just reached the moment when Susanna is getting into the bath — could n't you have chosen another time to visit ? |
| 11 | ‘ You know when Simon was talking to you yesterday , in the arcades ? ’ he asked her . |
| 12 | In early March 1322 , when Lancaster was retreating through the north midlands before the royal army , Holland crossed over to Edward . |
| 13 | In the year 1254 , when Laurence was residing at Halling , we find him exchanging letters with the Archbishop of Canterbury , dated and addressed from his Palace at Halling . |
| 14 | Do you know I ca n't remember the date , early part of March , early part of March , erm what she says at the moment is that er someone else from the college is going to Leicester next Wednesday when Helen 's going to Cardiff and this girl is then going to Cardiff when Helen should be going to Leicester , so Helen says , and she wants to look at the same subjects as what Helen does so Helen says that they 're gon na sort of go to the different colleges and compare notes when they come back from it so she might need n't want to go to Leicester |
| 15 | and I know la well some time when retirement was looking on the on the horizon I was saying to him you 're not alone but , you know , you 've got ta be looking towards being on your own because of course |
| 16 | At about the time when Becquerel was working on the radiation from uranium , G. T. Beatson , a surgeon in Glasgow , observed that the inoperable breast cancers of three patients underwent regression after he had removed their ovaries . |
| 17 | ‘ It must have been difficult for you , hiding Egan when Place was living with his sister . ’ |
| 18 | Ian Adamson , one of the keenest Protestant Gaelic speakers , who inherited his interest from a Gaelic-speaking great-grandmother from western Scotland , claims that in the 19th century , when Catholics were turning from Gaelic to English , Protestants helped to keep the language alive . |
| 19 | ‘ You kind of know when things are coming to an end . |
| 20 | You see when committees are meeting at two o'clock usually have a much shorter agenda than this committee discussion but to enable to this committee and to do its job properly , I would think we 'd be looking where possible to be able to discuss items properly and to get start at a reasonable time like we do . |
| 21 | I think you have to look after people both at work and when they retire and we inflation-proofed our pension scheme during the whole of that pretty dreadful time when inflation was running at over twenty per cent . |
| 22 | The new grants were attacked by the National Union of Students as another cut in living standards when inflation was running at 7.7 per cent and housing costs , according to estimates from the committee of vice-chancellors and principals , had increased by 8.6 per cent . |
| 23 | They want the Government to step in to safeguard the hospital 's future , at a time when staff are pushing for a multi million pound redevelopment of the site . |
| 24 | One autumn night , when Liz was preparing for Oxford and Cambridge entrance , Shirley had come home at ten from the Harpers ' , flushed from sexual excitement and from running through the cold streets under the yellowing smoke-scented suburban trees , her body on fire , and had found Liz still sitting where she had left her , two hours earlier , at the kitchen table , staring at the pale-green wall , as though in a catatonic trance . |
| 25 | They did the same in 430 when trouble was brewing between the two Roman generals , Aëtius and Boniface , and in 433 they supported Galla Placidia against Aëtius . |
| 26 | ‘ Back in nineteen forty-four when Claudia was working on her thesis , I understood intellectually ’ — he says the word with a certain fastidiousness — ‘ what she was saying about the Masai , but as a man who knew the country and the natives , or thought I did , I could n't really accept it . |
| 27 | Just one more thing that may have been mentioned yesterday when Jess was going through the legal and underwriting session , this applies to both Covermaster and living assurance . |
| 28 | Perhaps it can be said that , when people are searching for meaning , they are at the beginning of a journey , not at the end of it . |
| 29 | As anyone will tell you , it 's easy to go over the limit , especially at this time of year when people are preparing for Christmas and buying presents . |
| 30 | But final-stage rockets had misfired before , and at a time when people were whispering about a change of prime Minister and the shake-out that would bring , the very last thing Sladen must want was to be caught up in a brawl between Number 10 , the Foreign Office , Defence and the secret services . |