Example sentences of "when it [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the ordinary Panamanians who gave the general such a stinging defeat in May 's annulled elections were astonished that the US allowed the coup to collapse when it had 12,000 troops stationed around the canal . |
| 2 | It is also , more generally , the essence of what the Barclay Report ( 1982 ) was seeking when it characterized social care planning as one of the core roles in which community social workers should be engaged . |
| 3 | The BMA 's understanding when it left last Wednesday 's talks , he said , was that that no longer applied . |
| 4 | Sainsbury won much publicity when it appointed former Friends of the Earth director Jonathan Porritt to be its environmental policy adviser . |
| 5 | When it began three years ago , Anis used its own brand name . |
| 6 | What Dilys Powell missed when she described The Wicked Lady as a concatenation of ‘ the hoary , the tedious , the disagreeable , ’ as did other critics who saw Gainsborough 's films as a reassertion of an old escapist tendency in British cinema , was how much of an advance such films offered on everything of a similar sort that had gone before , and how they touched the sentiments of audiences who could no longer respond to stories of gallant endeavour quite as they could when it seemed that defeat was an imminent possibility . |
| 7 | She said the Edinburgh summit had been a tense time for the family when it seemed all Mr Garel-Jones ' work on Maastricht could have come to nothing . |
| 8 | DEC quit looking for an Alpha RISC second source when it became apparent foundries were n't willing to make the kind of investment needed without knowing whether the thing was really going to take off , says Electronic News . |
| 9 | Gradually , all was revealed that is , people , including the authorities and the KGB , realized that the Odd-Bod Greek who had spent all those years collecting the ‘ rubbish ’ that no-one needed had in fact made a collection that was now worth a great deal of money , and it reached a point when it became awkward living in Moscow with the collection . |
| 10 | When it became open house , more people were touched and inspired . |
| 11 | Staff at Middlesbrough General Hospital at first tried to induce labour on January 31 but when it became clear Mrs Busuttil , now of West Drayton , London , was not in labour they discontinued their efforts . |
| 12 | The basic problem for the Emperor was that while France needed Britain it was not at all clear to British statesmen that their country had any need of France — except when it suited British interests . |
| 13 | Racal proved this conclusively when it announced last spring that it was planning to sell off part of the Vodafone mobile telecoms operation . |
| 14 | ‘ The Michelangelo computer virus that received worldwide attention last year is expected to cause even fewer problems this Saturday than it did when it struck last year , a team of IBM researchers said ’ . |
| 15 | Twenty-four hours , the way her luck ran when it concerned this man . |
| 16 | The Commission imposed a four-year supervision order in August 1990 against the West German company Advanced Nuclear Fuels GmbH for serious violations of safety regulations when it transported 130 kg of enriched uranium through Luxembourg in what purported to be empty containers . |
| 17 | November : On Nov. 14 all 46 people on board an Alitalia DC9 died when it hit high ground while approaching Zurich airport in Switzerland . |
| 18 | The latest version of DataClub — version 3.0 — has just been announced by Novell , which acquired the technology when it bought International Business Software Inc a year ago . |
| 19 | Well they did n't know and they to it were towing Julie 's car and the tow belt snapped , and of course when it jerked this car forward it cut the petrol off . |
| 20 | However , in August Saudi Arabia dealt the government a severe blow when it established diplomatic relations with the mainland . |
| 21 | Taking the radical students ' ideals at face-value one might have expected them to see this incident as yet another example of oppression by a fascist regime and protest against it — after all , they protested enough when it used such methods against its own people . |
| 22 | Reputedly in poor condition when it surfaced last year ‘ glossed and cleaned up ’ was one description the painting has been consigned from the Wernher Collection at Luton Hoo , Bedfordshire . |
| 23 | The Ren & Stimpy Show , featuring possibly the most deranged comic duo in years , became an instant cult hit when it appeared last autumn in pilot form on cable channel Nickleodeon . |
| 24 | He dispatched a police patrol car , but when it arrived 16 minutes later the telephone was swinging on the end of its cord . |
| 25 | Sandvik broke new woodworking ground when it introduced that Sandvik XT range of saws last year . |
| 26 | Conversely , Habitat flew in the face of expert opinion when it introduced pack-flat furniture on to the American market . |
| 27 | Bristol Crown Court has heard how Mrs Lorraine Hurkett , 26 , and her daughters Sharon , four , and Lisa , two , died after being struck by Flook 's Vauxhall Nova when it jumped red lights . |
| 28 | The board had hoped that , when it lost statutory monopoly power to buy all milk in its area some time next year , it would retain 100 per cent loyalty from its dairy farmers . |
| 29 | In this respect Ferguson thought that the Warner Bros film was a good indication of what could be achieved by Hollywood when it tackled social problems honestly and he summed it up by returning to one of his favourite points about Hollywood that ‘ even half a loaf on the national stomach is at least nourishment taken in ’ . |