Example sentences of "when the first [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the eighteenth century when the first Industrial Revolution was born , the home was a place of work for both sexes , in farmwork , handicrafts and textiles . |
| 2 | From the dawn of consciousness until August 6 1945 , man had to live with the prospect of his death as an individual ; since the day when the first atomic bomb outshone the sun over Hiroshima , he has had to live with the prospect of his extinction as a species . ’ |
| 3 | In the first place it is noticeable that the great theme of his two Councils was the same as that of the Roman Council of 1059 , when the first effective legislation on clerical celibacy was initiated : it almost seems as if this subject had matured in his mind since that date ; certainly his early Deploratio virginitatis male amissae suggests that he may have had cause for thought on this subject . |
| 4 | Much has changed since 1989 when the first annual Art Show was organised to help members of the prestigious Art Dealers ' Association of America cash in on a booming art market . |
| 5 | Ideas about the structure of glass date back 50 years or more to when the first diffuse X-ray scattering measurements on the material were being made a by B. E. Warren and others . |
| 6 | The first breakthrough came during the 1960s when the first all-electronic phototypesetting equipment appeared . |
| 7 | An ecological minority made its appearance in France around 1970 , when the first 900-MWe PWR power stations were being built at Fessenheim . |
| 8 | Not many of them were in evidence yesterday , when the first proper snap of autumn was in the air . |
| 9 | In 1801 , when the first national census was taken , the population of England and Wales was recorded at 8·9 millions . |
| 10 | All of this was so very different from the earlier period of Hebrew history when the first recorded occasion of a circumcision had as its central active character the woman Zipporah , and it puts in context the biblical passage , written at the time of the exile , with which this essay opened : Jerusalem , allegorized as a female in needy relation to her Lord and depicted as cleansed of her blood by the intervention of a male deity . |
| 11 | It was not until 1924 that he turned to the measurement of human electrical potentials , and delayed publication until 1929 , when the first recorded electro-encephalogram ( of his young son ) appeared in Archiv Forschung Psychiatrie . |
| 12 | Back in 1945 , when the first experimental fluoridation projects got under way in Grand Rapids , Michigan , and Newburgh , New York , it was envisaged that drinking about 1 litre of fluoridated water a day would provide 1 milligram of fluoride . |
| 13 | These centred on personal power and wealth and were manifest in Nigeria , for example , by 1966 when the first military coup was staged . |