Example sentences of "when it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brewin was sold to management by Scandinavian Bank for about £6 million last year , when it made pre-tax profits of £1.4 million on turnover of £14.4 million . |
| 2 | Public interest research group New Consumer added more pressure in March when it launched Changing Corporate Values , a revealing survey of 128 UK suppliers of consumer goods and services . |
| 3 | , they , remember last , end of last winter when it got mild after the cold spell , they were building their nests and then we got all that cold weather again , all the , all the fledglings were dead . |
| 4 | Well we travelled through the night mostly , we got to erm no we got to no-man 's land that 's when it got bad . |
| 5 | A CRANE caused traffic chaos in Belfast yesterday when it got stuck under a bridge . |
| 6 | ‘ ( 1 ) … in relation to an institution in respect of which a payment falls to be made under section 58(1) above any reference in this Act to a depositor 's protected deposit is a reference to the total liability of the institution to him immediately before the time when it becomes insolvent , limited to a maximum of £20,000 , in respect of the principal amounts of and accrued interest on sterling deposits made with United Kingdom offices of the institution . |
| 7 | I do n't like the idea of great numbers getting together , that 's when it becomes dangerous |
| 8 | For corporation tax purposes , a dividend is treated as paid on the date when it becomes due and payable ( s 834(1) , Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 ) . |
| 9 | The offer will be priced next month when it becomes clear what percentage of the Treasury 's stake will be sold . |
| 10 | Management board chairman Hans-Olaf Henkel said that transfer reduced its extraordinary loss to $562m last year when it had extraordinary expenditure of $1,134m . |
| 11 | Management board chairman Hans-Olaf Henkel said that transfer reduced its extraordinary loss to $562m last year when it had extraordinary expenditure of $1,134m . |
| 12 | Housing had been the responsibility of the Urban Renewal Authority ( URA ) since the early 1970s when it achieved independent recognition through federal legislation . |
| 13 | It was an excellent vehicle for an emerging West European voice on defence issues as distinct from a NATO position in order ( with France still outside NATO ) to establish some kind of common ground at a time when it seemed possible that the two superpowers might actually manage to reach an agreement on levels of nuclear armaments that might not take Western European interests into account . |
| 14 | From the beginning of 1984 when it seemed probable that Lord Hailsham would soon resign as Lord Chancellor , Sir John was widely discussed as his probable successor in the Thatcher cabinet . |
| 15 | But they were withdrawn immediately after the election , when it seemed likely that interest rates would fall , and succeeded by bonds offering a lower return . |
| 16 | ‘ This was blown out of the water by the Supreme Court in 1990 , when it said Irish unity is a constitutional imperative . |
| 17 | In this article Peter J. Clarke , Manager , International Trade Services , AIB , traces the history surrounding the Letter of Credit from just after the First World War , when it reigned supreme , to the present day . |
| 18 | We 'll ask Linda this time , when it says good plans , sell , require , retain . |
| 19 | and he says to them , the thing is when it goes wrong |
| 20 | By the late 1920s when it became possible to send cars away to Hendon for a thorough overhaul , they were all in really tired condition . |
| 21 | Furthermore , in common with other non-Catholic teachers , they considered that at times when it became essential to redeploy teachers , it would be non-Catholics that would be first in line for re-deployment . |
| 22 | This continued , although developing and maturing , until 1972 , when it became lost in the emergence of new youth cults and fashions . |
| 23 | Only about one-third of the state sector secondary school teachers questioned by the University of Sheffield team for the Elton Committee reported that in their school corporal punishment had not been in use prior to 1987 when it became illegal . |
| 24 | After the meeting of the Cabinet held that same Sunday evening , when it became apparent that agreement could not be reached on the economy package , MacDonald , on his way to the palace , told Sir Ernest Harvey , the Deputy Governor of the Bank of England : ‘ I am off to the Palace to throw in my hand . ' |
| 25 | Trouble flared a few days before MacQuillan 's death , when it became apparent the inventor was in effect conducting an auction and the price of buying the securely patented new carton had shot alarmingly high . |
| 26 | Morrison South was the subject of our most disappointing decision of the year when it became apparent that our continuing effort to sell homes from a few geographically diverse sites in southern California into a very weak market was proving too expensive a strategy . |
| 27 | The only exception was in war periods when it became customary to meet part of the additional spending through borrowing . |
| 28 | This area had been the subject of a number of plans and initiatives since 1973 , when it became evident that the docks and dock-related activities were set to close and/or move downstream to Tilbury and elsewhere . |
| 29 | Competitive tendering in the NHS actually declined between 1980 and 1983 when it became mandatory . |
| 30 | This has been Guyana 's flag since 1966 when it became independent from Britain . |