Example sentences of "when [noun] 's [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , the afternoon when Twomey 's touch with the tea tray 's unfolding legs , successful for forty years , failed him , and teapot , Spode teacups , scones , sandwiches and blackcurrant jam crashed to the floor . |
| 2 | Kael joined the magazine in 1968 and remains there to this day , her tenure only briefly interrupted in 1978 when Paramount 's offer of a consulting job tempted her to Hollywood . |
| 3 | I said that I could not imagine being an atheist at any time before 1859 , when Darwin 's Origin of Species was published . |
| 4 | By 1857 when Agassiz 's Essay on Classification appeared , as an introduction to a never-completed work on the natural history of the USA , it was already difficult to believe that Noah 's flood had really been a world-wide catastrophe with animals surviving two by two ; indeed Agassiz 's work on ice ages had involved reinterpretation of data that seemed evidence of the Flood . |
| 5 | It is for these reasons that his approach seems the more fruitful of the two in understanding the situation in advanced capitalist societies during the last twenty or thirty years , when Adorno 's conception of artistic totality , mirror image of an increasingly global , oppressive industrial totality , presents a theoretical cul-de-sac ; when , by contrast , we are actually bombarded by an increasingly heterogeneous mix of musical methods and messages , often seemingly cut free from traditions and sources , shifted around at random ; when listeners do seem to some extent to have learned , gradually , new perceptual skills , through several decades of habituation , enabling more active comparison of styles , a greater variety of uses and a more ‘ ironic ’ relationship to the stream of musical products ; and when the main opportunities for critique and subversion lie not in head-on ‘ romantic ’ protest but in exploiting temporary spaces , in the cracks and at the margins , within the monolith itself . |
| 6 | ‘ At a time when Scotland 's supply of quality players is limited , McCoist can make this tie less of a banana skin than it looks , ’ said Roxburgh , who freely admits he would rather his team were playing Germany , Italy or the Netherlands . |
| 7 | The launch comes at a time when Rover 's share of the record UK car market is slipping . |
| 8 | So , in 1125 , when Clito 's violation of the Ypres fair peace provided an excuse , the burghers of Ghent sent to Bruges for support in pressing the claims of Thierry of Alsace . |
| 9 | Both appeared to be insuperable problems until the evening when Clarissa 's change of plan for the sixth or seventh time put a pattern into perspective . |
| 10 | By contrast , the present day is seen as a time when people 's sense of duty and responsibility is much weaker , so that they are less prepared to acknowledge obligation or to take responsibility for kin . |
| 11 | Days lost from 1987 to 1991 average 126 per 1,000 employees — a 70 per cent drop against the 1982–86 period , when Britain 's record for industrial strikes was among the worst in the Community . |
| 12 | The jobless question cropped up earlier this year when Darlington 's status as an intermediate development area prompted a public row between the two biggest rivals . |
| 13 | Pereira 's defeat had been widely predicted following the rout of his nominally Marxist African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde ( PAICV ) in the first multiparty legislative elections , on Jan. 13 , when Monteiro 's Movement for Democracy ( MPD ) won 56 of the 79 seats in the National People 's Assembly [ see p. 37948 ] . |
| 14 | At a time when America 's interest in British pop was at an all-time low , the label failed to produce one significant hit . |
| 15 | In contrast to 1956 , when Khruschev 's call for reform in the East had soon led to a Soviet clampdown , Gorbachev 's desire for change included an acceptance of political pluralism . |
| 16 | Similarly , the pre-First World War diction now creates moments of unintentional comedy , as when the figure of Christ says to John , ‘ You must play fair , ’ or when John 's plunge into the pool of faith is described as ‘ he took a header ’ . |
| 17 | There were complaints when Hitler 's speech to the Party ‘ old guard ’ in Munich on 8 November was not broadcast , for it was said that in the disappointment about the unfulfilled expectations from the Russian campaign many people ‘ had felt the need to hear the voice of the Führer again and to derive new strength from his words ’ . |
| 18 | Nick Cave surfaced at a time when post-punk 's handle on the workings of desire was diagrammatic and programmatic . |
| 19 | The Sino-Portuguese Joint Liaison Group , first convened in April 1988 [ see p. 36765 ] , held its fifth meeting in Lisbon , the Portuguese capital , on Aug. 1-2 , 1989 , when Macao 's participation in the International Maritime Organization and in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade were discussed . |