Example sentences of "been [vb pp] when the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some protestors demonstrated against her Dresden visit ; wartime bitterness had earlier been aroused when the Queen Mother on May 31 unveiled a statue in London to Sir Arthur " Bomber " Harris , wartime head of Bomber Command , and when German plans were disclosed ( but subsequently cancelled ) to commemorate officially on Oct. 5 the 50th anniversary of the development of the V2 rocket technology on the island Oie off Peenemünde on the Baltic coast . |
| 2 | Vincent Piedboeuf , computer systems project leader for the international organisation , revealed that vital research into the disease had been halted when the computer became overloaded and crashed and said EORTC had been saddled with a gigantic phone bill . |
| 3 | The Manet had been painted when the painter was in England in 1867 , and had some things in common with his portrait of Zola . |
| 4 | I can only wonder at the fish that would have been caught when the river had fully fined down . |
| 5 | It had been caught when the zip was closed . |
| 6 | No real harm will be done should you get it wrong first time , but you will have to start from the beginning again and , depending on how much of the software has been installed when the error occurs , things can get rather complicated . |
| 7 | No real harm will be done should you get it wrong first time , but you will have to start from the beginning again and , depending on how much of the software has been installed when the error occurs , things can get rather complicated . |
| 8 | At the High Court siting at Perth , he admitted the crimes , which had been committed when the sisters were aged between six and 15 . |
| 9 | The Tour chief was concerned that negative headlines had been carried when the golf of David Gilford , the tournament winner , and the joint runners-up , Jamie Spence and Stephen Ames , should have been the news . |
| 10 | One of the first things that had been done when the police arrived at the house was to examine all windows and doors for signs of forcible entry . |
| 11 | I am advised that doctors at the Queen Elizabeth II hospital have confirmed that Carley could not have been transferred when the hospital test results showed that she had meningitis and the test results were available within one hour of Carley 's admission . |
| 12 | In his report , Coleman suggested that the ‘ prodigious loss of horses was due to expert advice not having been sought when the outbreak started ’ . |
| 13 | Are n't you going to claim that the spider must have been disturbed when the undergrowth was cleared and so it was all my fault ? ’ |
| 14 | The conservative resurgence had not been anticipated when the congress had twice been brought forward from early 1991 . |
| 15 | If only there remained some sort of plan of the former layout ; but it could hardly have been anticipated when the conversion was begun that a modern miller would be the buyer , who proposed to grind not corn but electricity . |
| 16 | The News International ban was just the type of dispute that must have been envisaged when the Code was drawn up . |
| 17 | The contract for the sale of goods was voidable not void , and had not been avoided when the goods were delivered . |
| 18 | Rock salt is the land equivalent of sea salt , having been deposited when the sea covered the area in a previous age . |
| 19 | In those circumstances , the point had clearly been reached when the court should be prepared , in W. 's own interests , to overrule her refusal to consent to treatment , and we therefore ordered that she should be treated at the appropriate London unit . |
| 20 | An association with ‘ urgency ’ has been found when the child passes urine frequently and with great urgency , often not reaching the lavatory in time ( Berg et al . |
| 21 | The weapon , a kitchen knife which probably came from Miller 's End , had been found when the police dragged the pond . |
| 22 | Thucydides was right ( ii.7 and ML , p. 173 ) to imply that in the west , sides had already been taken when the war broke out . |
| 23 | The process happens a precise number of days after flowering , and , if this has not occurred or been finished when the fruit is harvested , it will not ripen a jot more , whatever a street vendor swears . |
| 24 | The body of the murdered oriental had been discovered when the Prophet 's private suite had been forcibly entered and searched . |
| 25 | The technique had n't been discovered when the crime was committed . |
| 26 | The answer was ‘ no ’ , roughly speaking , unless one knew not only the machine code but , most importantly , what the highest level language in question was , and the one from which the binary code had been obtained when the program ran . |
| 27 | Only where rigid frame kites are used , for example the Box , Cody or more recent Dunford Flying Machine , have any really practical results been obtained when the camera has been an integral part . |
| 28 | The desk drawers , as Wickham assured Rain later that morning , had been unlocked when the police went to his room on Friday and had remained unlocked . |
| 29 | Since the whole edition was of only one thousand copies and only a small number had been circulated when the suppression was ordered , this is obviously a rare book and one that is likely to be costly unless the seller is ignorant of its history . |