Example sentences of "when it [vb past] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The £12m , which continues to rise , compares with the £17½m paid by the company in expenses when it raised £250m in its stock market flotation last year . |
| 2 | The £12m , which continues to rise , compares with the £17½m paid by the company in expenses when it raised £250m in its stock market flotation last year . |
| 3 | The Oxford Regional Health Authority is admitting it may have been over optimistic when it estimated income from the sale of land . |
| 4 | IRELAND 'S South Donegal Railway Restoration Society received a major boost in its efforts to reopen part of the County Donegal Railways Joint Committee 's narrow gauge system when it took possession of two of the railway 's few surviving passenger vehicles . |
| 5 | Such measures constituted the present Government 's heritage , when it took office in 1979 . |
| 6 | All in all , the people 's party may not have played quite the ace it thought it had when it chose Smith as its leader . |
| 7 | That was Courtaulds ' buoyant message to the market when it launched Tencel on the latest stage of its pioneering journey in December . |
| 8 | This was the conclusion of the Policy Planning Staff which , when it began work in February 1949 , certainly had enough circumstantial evidence to prompt such a conclusion . |
| 9 | The statio was closed to BR trains when it became part of Tyne & Wear Metro system . |
| 10 | When it met officials from the Department of Trade and Industry last year to urge that areas of the seabed close to the coastline and islands of Wales be withdrawn from the licensing round it was only partially successful . |
| 11 | The plane was en route from Dublin to Biggin Hill , when it developed problems over Wiltshire . |
| 12 | The plane was en route from Dublin to Biggin Hill , when it developed problems over Wiltshire . |
| 13 | He had signed a three-year contract but that was technically breached by Coca-Cola , when it merged Columbia with Tri-Star , under Tri-Star 's head . |
| 14 | He shares the profits with publisher John Brown , who worked for Virgin Publishing when it signed Viz in 1984 . |
| 15 | He went on to criticize the Holy Office for acting as judge and jury when it condemned theologians without giving them an opportunity to know what they were accused of , or of responding . |
| 16 | Meanwhile the country loses control over vital assets , as Mexico did when it exchanged shares in one of its biggest manufacturing companies — Grupo Alfa , against a reduction of several hundred million dollars in its debts . |
| 17 | MICHELIN , the world 's largest tyre maker , which sounded a warning of the depths of recession when it plunged £527m into the red last year , yesterday surprised the market with an operating profit throughout 1991 . |
| 18 | When it came time to actually record the chosen composite solo , each note was checked over what seemed like millions of times . |
| 19 | When it came time for him to be knighted by Henry I in Rouen , he set off for Normandy with a crowd of these young men about him . |
| 20 | NEWARTHILL , the McAlpine family 's private construction group yesterday joined the sector 's casualties when it announced losses for 1991 totalling £72.2m . |
| 21 | This can not have been the intention of Parliament when it prevented drivers from contracting out of their liability to a passenger . |
| 22 | There were thirty-two plays in the Wakefield cycle , or Towneley cycle as it was also known when it formed part of the library of Towneley Hall in Burnley . |
| 23 | A FREEZE in the annual grant to the Royal Scottish National Orchestra was announced yesterday by the Scottish Arts Council when it released details of grants totalling almost £20 million for 1993-94 . |
| 24 | This consequence was caused by London Weekend Television when it revealed that a juror in an official secrets case was a former member of the SAS , and by " The Guardian " when it published details of information discovered by police when they " vetted " a jury which was trying some anarchists . |
| 25 | The Court of Appeal has on this basis refused an interim injunction against " Private Eye " when it published details of convictions which had been " spent " under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act ( see below , p60 ) . |
| 26 | Nicaragua become the 28th state recognising Taiwan when it re-established relations on Nov. 6 , having switched recognition to China in 1985 . |
| 27 | The UK Sunday Express newspaper of March 29 reported that the Chinese government had compiled a " blacklist " of several hundred Hong Kong residents who had been targeted for arrest by China when it resumed sovereignty of the colony in 1997 . |
| 28 | Similarly , Amiel de Baux held office under the French crown , and was serving in the royal army when it entered Aquitaine in 1371 . |
| 29 | Sixty nuclear opposition groups from all over the country supported the Union of Concerned Scientists when it presented evidence at official hearings about weaknesses in the emergency cooling systems designed to stop a reactor overheating . |
| 30 | Cadbury , which declined to comment on speculation , recently acquired the Gigi brand name when it bought Crush from Procter&Gamble , but it is understood it would be reluctant to pay much more than £150million for the Perrier business . |