Example sentences of "when the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can remember when the first bit of tarmac was put on a road round here and that down here at Upton bypass and all |
| 2 | It was shortly after , during the Carboniferous period when the first reptiles appeared , that really massive tree-growth was achieved . |
| 3 | I have to avoid the last period on the second Friday in October , which is when the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist celebrates ‘ the rich goodness of God 's vegetables ’ . |
| 4 | Up until 1950 , when the first road was built into the town , the area depended on air transport for the main services into and out of the township . |
| 5 | By eight o'clock , when the first pair was due to tee off , the sun was well up in a clear sky . |
| 6 | The miraculous moment of transmutation , when lead turns into gold , as it were , can be proven to have taken place at the precise second when the first buyer hands over his American Express card to add the foreskin of the Infant Jesus or a mummified fish from the Miraculous Drought of Fishes to his collection . |
| 7 | Following in the footsteps of advertising agencies who gained great riches and new respectability when many became publicly quoted companies , public relations as a business " came of age " in the early 1980s when the first consultancy went public on the Unlisted Securities Market . |
| 8 | The pattern of two parallel systems of subject-based examinations ( that is , where passes in individual subjects could be achieved ) has persisted until 1988 , when the first examinations in the new CSE at 16+ were held . |
| 9 | Although it is certainly tempting to use reformulations of this kind as evidence that [ VSQ ] and [ QSV ] are variants of an underlying variable , used by speakers in spoken discourse much like successive realizations of pit as [ p ? ] and [ p ? t ] when the first realization is not heard clearly , such evidence can not consistently be relied upon without further qualification to define a set of syntactic variants . |
| 10 | Dating baked clay and burnt stone are perhaps the most interesting archaeological applications of TL , because these — in particular burnt flint — allow the dating of sites older than about ten thousand years , when the first pottery began to appear . |
| 11 | has n't any proper name like this cos these are private houses and estate are council houses but the built at top of was called the Old Plantation and the Old Plantation that 's when the first houses were built then of course when you er find the company first started which er Old Plantation is right opposite erm and when you came along past you then branched off to that 's all fields and you came down as far as and then you branched off to . |
| 12 | I mean all the Scottish and the Welsh , I always remember when when erm when the first houses , when we lived , when I lived with me mother , and in that house we lived in was a big estate erm near us and erm ever such a lot of Welsh people lived there and , I do n't know who it was , somebody wanted a place , could n't get anywhere and my mother went up there with you let all the Welsh people come here he s she said they run us down and that was years and years ago she said , nearly everybody on that estate 's Welsh ourselves . |
| 13 | And they gave thanks when the first buds appeared in spring . |
| 14 | Torches were already flaring on the castle walls when the first wagons carrying the dismantled mangonels rumbled across the drawbridge . |
| 15 | Now Noel Kehoe senior is preparing a new group of youngsters for another shot at the Fred Daly on September 12 when the first leg of the final against Clandeboye will commence at City of Derry . |
| 16 | Official diplomatic relations with Turkey were confirmed on Oct 22 , when the first consul-general presented his credentials . |
| 17 | Tension was high on the morning of April 10 when the first Spitfires arrived over the field . |
| 18 | A third group were followers of Karadjordje , who fled in 1813 when the first revolt was crushed . |
| 19 | The use of nursery rhyme , prayer , and the splitting of the poem in section V , confirm this ‘ authorlessness , , and the one time when the first person singular is employed , in section II , the reader senses a fear localized in the images used , more than in their beholder . |
| 20 | Although Miller stated that he had collected most of the information from well-known authors and always acknowledged them , there are instances when the first person indicated his own contributions . |
| 21 | The UK not only remained the second largest source , after the USA , for foreign direct investment , but increased in importance after 1979 when the first Thatcher government abandoned most controls on the foreign exchange of sterling currency . |
| 22 | He had shot one grouse and was aiming at a second when the first bird hit him in the face at 60mph , flinging him unconscious into the heather . |
| 23 | The first indication of how large or small the yield might be is when the first leaves and tendrils begin to appear , followed by embryo bunches of grapes . |
| 24 | In 1985 , when the first XT compatible machines made by other manufacturers appeared on the market , some had the bright idea of speeding up the clock to make the machine faster . |
| 25 | Train spotting had hardly become an attraction for the boys of the day when the first Easter excursion thundered through Balcombe Tunnel en route to Brighton . |
| 26 | You should enter the name of each of your students when the first test is received and maintain an ongoing record of the following information in respect of each test : — |
| 27 | A combative mood at the congress had been set at the very opening of proceedings when the first speaker in the debate on the agenda , Vladimir Bludov from Magadan in the Far East , had called for the entire politburo to resign . |
| 28 | A short ceremony to mark the move has been organised for 9am on Saturday morning when the first patient to cross the threshold of the new hospital will be handed a bouquet of flowers . |
| 29 | I replied that I had watched my television all day when the first man stepped on the moon . |
| 30 | Indeed , even by February 1989 when the first meetings with Jones took place , where Jones was claiming to see neutrons — a sure sign of fusion — Fleischmann and Pons were seeing only heat . |