Example sentences of "when in [adj] [pron] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | When in 1974 I was flattered by an invitation to make a T V appearance as the Dimbleby lecturer , I accepted without hesitation . |
| 2 | The intended beneficiary of this dynastic coup was Osred ( II ) , the son of King Alhred by Osgifu , Aelfwald 's sister , a youth of no more than 19 at the time , who reigned for a year but then fell a victim to further shifts of allegiance when in 789 he was taken prisoner , deprived of his kingdom , tonsured at York and expelled , and Aethelred , son of Aethelwald , resumed royal power ( ASC D , s.a. 788 , 789 ) . |
| 3 | When in 1777 there were minor tremors in Manchester , he observed — not without a certain satisfaction — ‘ There is no divine visitation which is likely to have so general an influence upon sinners as an earthquake . ’ |
| 4 | When in 1982 it was decided that all lending records should be computerised , wholesale book withdrawals took place in order to rationalise the stock throughout the Westminster system . |
| 5 | In private he got on very well with Lloyd George , but he never hid his doubts ; in 1917 he told Unionists that Lloyd George was a man who has the defects of his qualities " , and told his audience that he was saying no more than he had told the Prime Minister to his face ; when in 1920 he was told that Unionists would rather hear him attack Lloyd George than defend him , he told this story to the Prime Minister too . |
| 6 | When in 1988 he was entrusted with the job of getting a development programme among local Chinese off the ground , sceptics said it would be a lost cause — Hong Kong rugby hardly boasted a Chinese team at the time . |
| 7 | The continuity was then broken when in 1977 he was approached by a head-hunter and asked if he was interested in working in the communications industry , or Fleet Street — ‘ a contradiction in terms ’ , he said — and found himself working under Duke Hussey as commercial director at Times Newspapers , becoming general manager of the Sunday Times . |
| 8 | When in 1947 he was invited to join the Dixielanders one of his fellow musicians was Wally Fawkes , the Daily Mail column-breaker and cartoonist , who came out to Camberwell once a week to attend Minton 's illustration classes . |