Example sentences of "when the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I SAW YOUR GIRLFRIEND , ’ FLORA SAID WHEN THE EARLY-MORNING tea came round . |
| 2 | Thus , when the aesthetic ideas of Collingwood ( 1938 ) , which emphasized the ‘ artistic ’ , intellectual activity of the artists ' mind rather than manual , ‘ craft ’ activities , were introduced to education through the writings of Herbert Read ( 1943 ) a teaching strategy was already in place to exploit a progressive , child-centred philosophy . |
| 3 | The Prince — the RAC 's president — had to call its breakdown service when the 1902 Panhard Levassor broke down twice with clutch trouble in Brixton , south London . |
| 4 | Some , it was said , even put out silk weighed damp so that when the finished stockings were weighed dry they could claim a deficiency . |
| 5 | When the overall dimensions have a ratio exceeding 7:1 . |
| 6 | Dooling and Lachman tested memory for passages which were vague and metaphorical and consequently very difficult to interpret on one reading , particularly when the overall theme of the passage was unknown . |
| 7 | When the overall height is approximately right , retune the guitar and make any necessary fine adjustments for height and intonation with the saddle screws . |
| 8 | He also commented : ‘ It must be wondered why so many different guides have been produced , with so much duplication of effort , particularly when the overall impression is that they were prepared within libraries without reference to the needs of readers and without consultation or collaboration with the subject teachers . ’ |
| 9 | At first his wife never left him , since the doctors had told her that it was vital that he should find her there when he came out of his coma , and then when the immediate danger had passed she visited him three times a day and gave him his meals . |
| 10 | He was not going far , by no means as far as Longner , but far enough to be absent when the immediate danger threatened . |
| 11 | When the immediate formalities were over , he left Algeria for the last time , and flew back to Paris , where he shut himself away in the house at St-Cloud , seeing no one . |
| 12 | The ‘ labour movement ’ did not like it when the working man felt he could get on unaided . |
| 13 | When the working people in this country — whose only national newspaper , USA Today , reduces all its non-cold war international news to an eighth-of-a-page column called ‘ Elsewhere in the world ’ — begin to discuss the issues of international capitalist exploitation , it 's not surprising that the media portray the strike as some petty industrial dispute in the backwoods of the Appalachians . |
| 14 | When the Working Group 's names were announced the left-wing press accused Mr Baker and Mrs Rumbold of choosing political appointees to reflect the Prime Minister 's Conservative ideology . |
| 15 | What happens if I murder the member for Chesterfield West when the working party is actually sitting ? ’ |
| 16 | Even when the working party has produced its final report as for History , or made strong recommendations after wide consultation , as for modern foreign languages , the Secretary of State may well have a strong influence on the final version that becomes part of legislation . |
| 17 | When the working party was announced , it was claimed the membership had been loaded towards the landowning fraternity . |
| 18 | When the Equal Opportunities Commission , in its equality agenda , describes child care facilities as meagre in the extreme compared with the facilities that are available in the rest of Europe , when we know that the women in work to whom the Minister has referred are often forced into part-time work because of inadequate child care arrangements and when we bear in mind his entirely complacent answer , is not it a good thing that a Labour Government are coming who will ensure that child care provision is expanded ? |
| 19 | It 's a graveyard , but it 's very beautiful there , when the warm wind blows the leaves of the coconut trees . |
| 20 | Well , Herman Schrijver says he will hire a car when the warm weather comes and drive her down to lunch with me in the Green Belt … . |
| 21 | But when the average cost curve is falling the marginal cost curve lies below average cost . |
| 22 | The motivation for the project was : staff recognition of a need to evaluate whether children made any real progress in their written work between 1st year infants and 4th year juniors ; whether too much was expected too soon , and whether it is possible to decide an age when the average child could be expected to be competent in certain skills ; whether the language curriculum throughout the school was sufficiently broad in terms of coverage or whether there was unnecessary duplication ; whether the most able children were being stretched enough ; whether there was any justification for ‘ setting ’ across classes for certain kinds of work ; whether pooling teacher energy and resources on a common topic increased intra-staff awareness and co-operation , and co-operation and interest among children from different classes ; and finally , whether whole-school topic work appeared sufficiently worthwhile in terms of children 's learning experiences to warrant repetition at some future date . |
| 23 | A crack length of about 1 micron ( i.e. 10,000 Ångströms ) will therefore produce the theoretical stress at the crack tip when the average stress in the material is quite modest and for longer cracks the stress at the tip will be far higher . |
| 24 | As he makes clear , this is only of benefit when the average number of records that has overflowed from a track is two or more . |
| 25 | At Brighton , Dr Schramm speculated that neutrinos might all have been massless until quite late in the story , when the average energy of the neutrinos would have dropped below some threshold , making the three neutrinos develop their masses . |
| 26 | Effective sex education needs to be attuned to the realities of sexual behaviour when the average age at first intercourse is now between 16 and 17 ( Mant et al . |
| 27 | This is paid when the average market price falls below the basic price . |
| 28 | When the 850 patrons then rose en masse and made for the exits , the actors wondered what they 'd done wrong . |
| 29 | When the corresponding fraction of two different eluates , containing the same protein concentrations ( see Fig. 4A ) , were compared , the quantitative differences noticed in crude extracts were confirmed . |
| 30 | This shows a percentage decline since 1951 ( when the corresponding figure for boys was 29% , or 38% including direct grant schools ) ; during this period , there was a substantial increase in absolute numbers over the minimum leaving age in independent schools , but this was overshadowed by a much larger increase , proportionately as well as absolutely , in maintained schools . |