Example sentences of "in [adj] [Wh adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The real explosion in calls , particularly from isolated people , happened in 1977–8 when Switchboard began to advertise in local papers and Tom Robinson put the phone number on the single sleeve of ‘ Glad To Be Gay ’ . |
| 2 | As David Griffiths ( 1970 ) points out , these two élite factions had not met since the notorious Bonnington Conference in 1948 when war between two views of drama educators was openly declared . |
| 3 | In 1986 when Shin Beth murdered two Arab terrorist suspects they had taken into custody there was some local outcry but in the end the agency was protected by the government . |
| 4 | One such chance came in 1986 when coffee prices ( exports ) went up and oil prices ( imports ) went down . |
| 5 | The London Boroughs had last been contested in 1986 when Labour won exactly half of all the seats and a small plurality in votes cast — see Table 1 . |
| 6 | The cotton weavers of Lancashire made a similar point in 1799 when claiming that piece rates had been more than halved since 1792 . |
| 7 | According to the Confederation of British Industry , in 1980 when unemployment was at the same level as now , around 5% of firms were reporting skill shortages ; the equivalent figure in 1990 was around 25% . |
| 8 | The language of Alexander 's speech was no more radical than that which Nicholas I had used in 1842 when defending the ineffectual Law on Obligated Peasants . |
| 9 | And a wise precaution in 1979 when conducting business in the USA . |
| 10 | Eventually when the public are fed up and lodge a sufficient number of protests , governments will take action , and action was taken in 1991 when Parliament passed an Act called ‘ The Property Misdescriptions Act ’ . |
| 11 | But the CIAE lost its lustre in 1991 when renovation of Navy Pier forced the fair to relocate to bland Donnelley Hall , a remote site south of the Loop . |
| 12 | According to market researcher Datamonitor , 3 million people cut up their credit cards in 1991 when standing charges were introduced . |
| 13 | A study of nearly 2,500 sixth formers , conducted by Dr Anne Charlton of the Cancer Research Campaign , found that one in five smoked at colleges where smoking was not permitted , compared with one in three where smoking was allowed . |
| 14 | The station was first created in 1960 when community leaders took specific steps to try and improve the quality of life in the community . |
| 15 | The general question of Unionist attitudes to Labour was highlighted at the Special Party Conference in 1917 where Law came under a strong attack . |
| 16 | One of the first things to catch the visitor 's eye when starting down from the castle esplanade is a cannonball lodged in the wall of a house , believed to have been fired from the castle at Holyroodhouse in 1745 when anti-Jacobite forces on the Castle Rock were at odds with Prince Charles Edward at the lower end of the town . |
| 17 | IN 1916 when evening classes began in Russian it was intended that they should serve the commercial interests of the people of Nottingham . |
| 18 | It stood them in good stead again in 1976 when drought caused many villages to be supplied with stand pipes . |
| 19 | The same requirements will determine how successful exporters will be in 1992 when attempting to increase market share in the European Community . |
| 20 | In fact in 1981 when GDP at current prices was 254bn , M3 was 85bn , giving a velocity of 3.0 . |
| 21 | This is very much in the Vega/Suicide tradition : in 1978 when Suicide supported The Clash on their UK tour , there were incredible scenes of carnage as the band were attacked by meathead Clash fans with bottles and fireworks . |
| 22 | This is very much in the Vega/Suicide tradition : in 1978 when Suicide supported The Clash on their UK tour , there were incredible scenes of carnage as the band were attacked by meathead Clash fans with bottles and fireworks . |
| 23 | Made and presented by Mr. F. Wood in 1958 when Secretary of Artisan 's Club . |
| 24 | The complementary nature of the urban and rural economies did not , however , prevent tensions between town and country , as in 1471 when discontent in Essex at the low prices paid for food by the Londoners led men from the county to join the attack on London by the Lancastrian leader Fauconberg ( 40 , p.218 ) . |
| 25 | On the other hand , in 1966 when manufacturing employment turned down , so did total employment . |
| 26 | Their sense of tradition is also very strong and instead of dying out in 1951 when enthusiasm was beginning to wane a little , it was revitalised when Stanley Robshaw took it in hand and set it firmly on its feet again . |
| 27 | Again Pieter Breughel in 1552 when travelling from Antwerp to Rome drew the Alps and used these in later paintings . |
| 28 | They did the same in 430 when trouble was brewing between the two Roman generals , Aëtius and Boniface , and in 433 they supported Galla Placidia against Aëtius . |
| 29 | COME SEE THE PARADISE is a story of epic scope , beginning in 1936 when union activist Jack McGurn ( Dennis Quaid ) flees New York and finds a temporary job as projectionist at a Japanese cinema in Los Angeles owned by the traditionally minded paterfamilias Mr Kawamura ( Sab Shimono ) . |
| 30 | It was at the BAFTA awards ceremony at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London in 1989 when press photographers , seeing the drunken state he was in , decided to keep close to catch the inevitable explosion on film when it came . |