Example sentences of "when it [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slater echoed industry doubts about Intel 's commitment to the unsuccessful device , which Olivetti was going to use to build a workstation until the last minute when it scrapped the whole project in favour of DEC 's Alpha ( UX No 390 ) . |
| 2 | The Convention eventually came into force in September 1953 , when it received the necessary 10 ratifications . |
| 3 | The Squires Gate route to the Airport , which was operated by trams until October 1961 , when it became the first post-war route to change to bus operation , was latterly operated in the summer season by double and single-deck cars , running alternately to Cabin and Bispham . |
| 4 | At 20 he went to the New Musical Express , and edited it through the 1970s , when it became the bestselling rock mag in Britain , with a rich crop of young writers such as Julie Burchill , Tony Parsons , Danny Baker , Paul Morley and Charles Shaar Murray . |
| 5 | Roseburn Bridge originally dates from 1899 , when it carried the Caledonian Railway from Slateford to West Granton . |
| 6 | According to the RUC , a police car was on routine patrol in the town 's High Street when it spotted the suspicious van around 10.35 am parked outside the Halifax building society . |
| 7 | They passed it on 19th April when it obtained the Royal Assent and became law with the short title , The Public Offices Extension Act 1859 . |
| 8 | Vincent Canby in The New York Times felt that the film was often ‘ not terribly funny , at just those moments when it tries the hardest , and it sometimes wears its social concerns so blatantly that they look like warpaint ’ , but concluded that it ‘ is an important movie by one of our most interesting directors ’ . |
| 9 | In fact IBM says that it is pushing the MPTN technology as a standard as long ago as December 1991 when it submitted the underlying MPTN approach to the XNET workgroup of X/Open Co Ltd , which is still considering it . |
| 10 | The government broadly accepted the Report 's recommendations in July 1971 when it issued the long-awaited Circular 7/71 which also announced the prospect of some small expansion of art and design courses . |
| 11 | In July he saw his party make history when it won the first governorship conceded by the ruling party in 60 years . |