Example sentences of "when it [vb past] [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | Sainsbury won much publicity when it appointed former Friends of the Earth director Jonathan Porritt to be its environmental policy adviser . |
| 3 | When it began three years ago , Anis used its own brand name . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | However , in August Saudi Arabia dealt the government a severe blow when it established diplomatic relations with the mainland . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He dispatched a police patrol car , but when it arrived 16 minutes later the telephone was swinging on the end of its cord . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |