Example sentences of "when the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the eighteenth century when the first Industrial Revolution was born , the home was a place of work for both sexes , in farmwork , handicrafts and textiles . |
| 2 | From the dawn of consciousness until August 6 1945 , man had to live with the prospect of his death as an individual ; since the day when the first atomic bomb outshone the sun over Hiroshima , he has had to live with the prospect of his extinction as a species . ’ |
| 3 | In the first place it is noticeable that the great theme of his two Councils was the same as that of the Roman Council of 1059 , when the first effective legislation on clerical celibacy was initiated : it almost seems as if this subject had matured in his mind since that date ; certainly his early Deploratio virginitatis male amissae suggests that he may have had cause for thought on this subject . |
| 4 | THE Army 's firepower gets a major boost this week when the first new self-propelled field gun for 30 years enters service . |
| 5 | It was increasingly polished during the reign of Louis XIV when the first professional dancers took over from the courtiers after the founding of the Académie Royale de Danse within the Académie Royale de Musique ( 1672 ) . |
| 6 | Much has changed since 1989 when the first annual Art Show was organised to help members of the prestigious Art Dealers ' Association of America cash in on a booming art market . |
| 7 | Ideas about the structure of glass date back 50 years or more to when the first diffuse X-ray scattering measurements on the material were being made a by B. E. Warren and others . |
| 8 | GLASNOST reached Twickenham yesterday when the first Soviet national side to visit Britain startled the Rugby Football Union by inviting their hosts to tour the Soviet Union next year . |
| 9 | The first breakthrough came during the 1960s when the first all-electronic phototypesetting equipment appeared . |
| 10 | An ecological minority made its appearance in France around 1970 , when the first 900-MWe PWR power stations were being built at Fessenheim . |
| 11 | It was during the Middle Minoan II period , when the first large temples were raised , that the greatest developments in pottery took place . |
| 12 | Grand Prix racing existed long before the formation of the World Championship in 1950 , and goes back to 1906 when the first French Grand Prix was run . |
| 13 | Not many of them were in evidence yesterday , when the first proper snap of autumn was in the air . |
| 14 | In 1801 , when the first national census was taken , the population of England and Wales was recorded at 8·9 millions . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , evidence of either using tools or eating meat does not appear among the fossils until almost two million years later than that indicated when the first upright hominid skeleton was discovered in fossil form . |
| 16 | All the planning , training , and pre-production work began to culminate in early December 1968 when the first filmed scenes were completed aboard the USS Yorktown , playing the role of the Japanese carrier Akagi , cruising off the California coast . |
| 17 | All of this was so very different from the earlier period of Hebrew history when the first recorded occasion of a circumcision had as its central active character the woman Zipporah , and it puts in context the biblical passage , written at the time of the exile , with which this essay opened : Jerusalem , allegorized as a female in needy relation to her Lord and depicted as cleansed of her blood by the intervention of a male deity . |
| 18 | It was not until 1924 that he turned to the measurement of human electrical potentials , and delayed publication until 1929 , when the first recorded electro-encephalogram ( of his young son ) appeared in Archiv Forschung Psychiatrie . |
| 19 | Back in 1945 , when the first experimental fluoridation projects got under way in Grand Rapids , Michigan , and Newburgh , New York , it was envisaged that drinking about 1 litre of fluoridated water a day would provide 1 milligram of fluoride . |
| 20 | These centred on personal power and wealth and were manifest in Nigeria , for example , by 1966 when the first military coup was staged . |
| 21 | In the spring of 1648 , when the Second Civil War broke out in accordance with this plan , many of the principal officers of the Parliamentary Army , furious at the King 's conduct in deceiving them and plunging the nation into an unnecessary war , solemnly undertook ‘ to call Charles Stuart , that man of blood , to an account for that blood he had shed , and mischief he had done to his utmost , against the Lord 's cause and people in these poor nations ’ . |
| 22 | In 1911 , when the second Moroccan crisis had shown how easily Europe might now be engulfed by war , it was discussed by parliament for the first time . |
| 23 | The situation that produced it was comparable to that which was to lead to a similar agreement between the returning Dutch and those who had proclaimed the Republic of Indonesia : in both cases neither side was prepared , there and then , for all-out war when the last British forces left Indonesia or when the Chinese armies in Tonkin were finally persuaded to leave . |
| 24 | The exchange facility finally ended on Thursday 28th March 1991 when the last British Rail train hauled by a Class 47 diesel locomotive entered the Trench Yard to collect MOD rail wagons . |
| 25 | Once common along the coast of Maine , New Brunswick and Nova Scotia and a prize catch for the local Indians , sea mink disappeared by 1874 , when the last known pelt was taken in the Bay of Fundy . |
| 26 | Strike action by Soviet miners , under way since March , came to an end on May 10 when the last big group of strikers returned to work in the Kuzbass coalfield . |
| 27 | CAMMELL Laird 's traditional link with the Royal Navy is set to end in six weeks ' time , when the last Laird-built vessel will leave the Birkenhead yard . |
| 28 | The U.K. government is hoping that the Directive will not be adopted by the Council of Ministers before 5 April , when the next Internal Market Council meets . |
| 29 | The voice of sport for the past quarter of a century will be approaching 71 when the next Olympic torch arrives in Atlanta in 1996 . |
| 30 | ‘ You never know when the next big story will break . ’ |