Example sentences of "of a [noun sg] [noun] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | Born in Leeds , England , in 1960 , tragedy soon struck the family when his father , a sports journalist , died of a heart attack when Clayton was six . |
| 2 | For a start he would drown , or if he did n't drown he would suffocate ; and most probably he would have died of a heart attack when he felt the great mouth gape for him . |
| 3 | These are comments about young people which were spoken with a tenor of near hatred at a meeting of a council committee when young people were n't even on the agenda . |
| 4 | A 26-YEAR-OLD Colchester man was cleared at Chelmsford Crown Court yesterday of a burglary charge when the prosecution offered no evidence against him . |
| 5 | The various factions of the Socialist Party of Chile ( Partido Socialista de Chile — PSCh ) entered the final phase of a reunification process when their leaders , Clodomiro Almeyda ( Marxist-Leninist faction ) and Jorge Arrate ( Renovators ) , together with a group within the United Popular Action Movement ( Movimiento de Acción Popular Unitaria — MAPU ) led by Oscar Guillermo Garretón , signed a document on Dec. 29 , 1989 , establishing a unified central committee to organize a " unity congress " . |
| 6 | I believe that , almost without exception , all the residents of Hurworth are opposed to this vandalism of a greenfield site when other areas are available and the effect on a much admired village can only be bad . |
| 7 | Her agent had all but ordered her in front of a firing squad when she had broken the news to him — it was fortunate that she had already pencilled a six-month-long break into her diary , intending to spend the time writing new material . |
| 8 | She had talked of a sex scene when she was on Wogan , but he assumed it would be something more romantic — a magnolia bud of a tit peeping from beneath bed linen as she held out her arms to her lover and the lights went down at the end of the play . |
| 9 | Indeed , the name of an associated , serious nutritional disease , Kwashiorkor , originates from Ghana , where it meant the sickness of a suckling child when the next one is conceived ( Williams , 1963 ) . |
| 10 | One day he saw them both through the window of a hotel bar when he was sitting on a bus in Shaftesbury Avenue . |
| 11 | Passing the crag rats who were climbing Cave Route Right Hand , I climbed my own bit of grade E6 over the tufa and out past the block of stone with a hole eroded through that is said by some to have been the lip of a water chute when the chasm was a cave . |
| 12 | Why endeavour to demystify the ‘ subtext ’ of a lager commercial when that supposed subtext could scarcely lie closer to the surface and is being forced on one 's attention the way a card-sharper forces a card ? |
| 13 | Mrs Linda Knott , 43 , was behind her husband Dennis , 54 , and other members of a coach party when she was struck . |
| 14 | This is the quickest method , and achieves the effect of a chest harness when placed under an upward load , as is desirable in a crevasse fall . |
| 15 | There are many ways for the authorities to avoid the embarrassment and inconvenience of a jury trial when press freedom is involved . |
| 16 | Charlie was sticking a fork into his third of a pork pie when he heard a knock on the door . |
| 17 | The bravery of a parent bird when defending its nest is remarkable , as is proved by this blacksmith plover 's display towards an intruding elephant . |
| 18 | ‘ As I recall , you were actually in the middle of a phone call when I arrived , ’ he said evenly . |
| 19 | His private sitting room on the second floor , a substantial , high-ceilinged chamber immediately shrank to the proportions of a toy theatre when he entered it . |
| 20 | ‘ It was something of a culture shock when I first went down there . |
| 21 | The words of the subsection also imply that the judges are intended by Parliament to act as a form of brake upon any over-eagerness on the part of a Home Secretary when exercising the power of release . |
| 22 | Any chance of a Government defeat when the white paper is debated in the Commons on Monday has now been averted with even the majority of hardcore rebels threatening to abstain rather than vote against the Government . |
| 23 | For me it is still a long haul towards fluency ( and the closer you get , the more tempting just to stop with what you have ) but that sense of a door opening when you reach the conversational level makes the effort of getting another language worthwhile . |
| 24 | Tragic six-day-old Natalie died of a brain haemorrhage when Alan slumped forward , squeezing her skull . |
| 25 | They were getting out of a stretch limo when we rolled up in our private bus . |
| 26 | EURO MP Stephen Hughes received a welcome worthy of a pop star when he visited a Darlington junior school . |
| 27 | The rumours were further fuelled by a general statement Conran had previously made about the responsibilities of a group chairman when talking to a journalist . |
| 28 | I mean , it did make me realize that for large parts of a drama lesson when the kids were supposed to be working on their own they were n't probably doing an awful lot . |
| 29 | An act is ‘ in furtherance ’ of a trade dispute when the doer genuinely believes it will assist the cause in support of which it is done : the House of Lords has emphatically rejected the addition of any requirement that the act be ‘ not too remote ’ or ‘ reasonably likely to succeed . ’ |
| 30 | De Pomiane was the first writer to propound such happenings as the fusion of egg yolks and olive oil in a mayonnaise , the sizzling of a potato chip when plunged into fat for deep-frying , in language so straightforward , so graphic , that even the least scientifically minded could grasp the principles instead of simply learning the rules . |