Example sentences of "[coord] when it became [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The local authority contend the correct date is when the demand for payment was served or when it became operative . |
| 2 | Glynn 's fax duly arrived and when it became apparent that the wiring was beyond the skills of a cack-handed caveman they promptly offered to collect the guitar ( I only live in Aberdeen ! ) , modify it and return it within a few working days . |
| 3 | From there , if and when it became possible , he would be taken to the castle at Soragna where the Principessa Meli Lupi was prepared to take him on in the guise of a gardener — a refugee who had been rendered deaf and dumb in the bombing of Milan . |
| 4 | Unlike the Mitcham Order , the 1902 Bill did not pass through Parliament unscathed and when it became effective as an Act , on 31 July 1902 , many sections had been deleted , largely because of the very narrow roads named in Carshalton . |
| 5 | Council put the central heating in when we got advanced in years and when it became necessary in the doctor 's opinion for me to have central heating because I had a heart complaint . |
| 6 | He waited for him to answer and when it became obvious that he could n't the older man voiced what he hoped was true . |
| 7 | Each cell had its own stimulus requirements and when it became active this said something about the nature of the event or object in its own part of the visual field . |
| 8 | Hoping that the male was not equally precocious proved vain , and when it became evident that the eggs had hatched I moved the male from the 18″ tank they had been sharing , and allowed the female to brood in isolation . |
| 9 | And when it became clear that the Earl would have no sons , it became a marriage which aroused high expectations — expectations which were disappointed when the King took Cornwall for himself . |
| 10 | He knew how to get a product that was decent and rather unexciting on to the shop floor , but when it became necessary to add more to that product and to innovate in design terms , he did n't know how to go about it . |
| 11 | General practitioners were enticed to join the fundholding scheme by the promise of new freedoms in their gatekeeping role , but when it became apparent that their potential to destabilise the system threatened other aspects of the reforms regional health authorities were told to ‘ manage the market ’ to ensure that the stability of hospitals was not threatened . |
| 12 | But when it became clear that the disagreement was becoming a hot issue , they gave way … only to find they 'd misinterpreted the producer 's fractured English . |
| 13 | I was not in the least keen , but when it became clear to me that my intervention would be frowned upon only slightly by my television clients , added to the fact that I had established good relations with George Elvin , the ACTT 's general secretary , it seemed to me that there might be some sense in intervening . |
| 14 | Hanne and Jens always hoped that Svend would join them on their farm , but when it became clear that his interests lay in constructional engineering they gladly supported him , despite their disappointment and the sacrifices they had to make . ’ |
| 15 | Staff at Middlesbrough General Hospital at first tried to induce labour on January 31 but when it became clear Mrs Busuttil , now of West Drayton , London , was not in labour they discontinued their efforts . |