Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least 159 people died in the worst ferry disaster in Scandinavian history when the 10,500-ton Danish-operated Scandinavian Star caught fire in the North Sea on the night of April 7 . |
| 2 | Heineken on Friday recalled three million bottles of Export Lager in eight countries when splinters were found in a drink at an Amsterdam brewery during a routine check . |
| 3 | Matthew Barbrooke restored Lowestoft 's lead when heading home Paul Mobbs 's cross , but they were denied their first win in eight matches when Gary Taylor made it 3–3 on 74 minutes . |
| 4 | There has never been a time in economic history when comparative advantage was less static . |
| 5 | Find some t , time in each day when you are idle , do n't structure every single part of the twenty four hours , some time when you 're going to sort of be , do nothing . |
| 6 | He wants to breath new fire into the cause of aggressive free market Conservatism at the point in political history when it is being discredited and there is a muddled attempt to return to consensual government . |
| 7 | Brother and sister were not therefore reunited until later in that year when they lived at Windy Brow , Keswick — ‘ We find our own food . |
| 8 | By now he was used to spending longer and longer periods alone , yet in that moment when she walked away he always experienced a brief sense of loss that made him want to rush after her and beg her not to go . |
| 9 | Peter Brook ( 1968 ) , the legendary director of the Royal Shakespeare Company , has suggested that the magic of the theatre lies in that moment when fiction and life somehow blend together . |
| 10 | We were not starved of new westerns in that era when great old stars were playing aged gunfighters and movie squabbled with movie on the ideological terrain laid out by the war in Vietnam . |
| 11 | Hunter completed his hat-trick in 74 minutes when O'Hare failed to hold a Burrows cross and the ball fell invitingly for him . |
| 12 | The Romans and Danes had settlements here too and the village became permanent in Norman times when William the Conqueror 's brother Robert , Count of Mortain , built a manor house . |
| 13 | But the best day of all was in high summer when the sky was a deep blue spattered with shoals of small flat-bottomed clouds and the sun turned the flowers and leaves in hedgerow and field into a giddy mosaic . |
| 14 | Whenever you drive the route , try it again in another season when it will appear completely different . |
| 15 | Secondly , because it marks the moment in French history when , following the " February days " , ideological positions crystallized around the themes of a fascist seizure of state versus a unified leftwing defence of democracy . |
| 16 | These modem developments contrast with the situation earlier in this century when for example there was no bridge between Benbecula and North and South Uist , and crossings had to be made across the beach at low tide . |
| 17 | It is undoubtedly true that in this period when new political lordships and principalities were replacing the Carolingian empire , and Europe was recovering from external attacks , the church was far more an upholder than a hammer of kings and other rulers . |
| 18 | Unfortunately no division lists survive for the Commons for the years 1691 – 5 , and there are strong grounds for believing ( as will be discussed later ) that it was precisely in this period when party lines became most blurred . |
| 19 | A similar situation was happening in nearby Tewkesbury when , in 1865 , Samuel Healing opened his large steam-powered Borough Mills in Quay Street . |
| 20 | Rupert Murdoch told the annual meeting in Adelaide : ‘ This may well be the first year in some years when our earnings do not show their customary increase . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It reminds me of the worst period in German history when members of certain institutions are held collectively responsible for what we now know was a misguided security doctrine , ’ Gen Schwanitz said . |
| 22 | It reigned almost without limit in primitive times when property was still very scanty , and it already shows itself in the nursery almost before property has given up its primal , anal form … . |
| 23 | There has been no time in British history when this has ever occurred , although from time to time insurrectionary events , such as the Jacobite risings and Chartism , have appeared to threaten the Establishment . |
| 24 | I am reminded of a short verse written in Roman times when even then they a new the nature of doctors . |
| 25 | I think fashions have changed but I think people 's attitude 's have n't really changed , people have always been striving to improve their , their appearance , even like in Roman times when they used coal and , and |
| 26 | The Roberts ' garden reaches a peak of colour in early May when the yellow flowers of the laburnum contrast with the violet-blue flowers of the Clematis alpina , tumbling through its branches . |
| 27 | The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader , His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso , the 14th Dalai Lama , visited Australia in early May when he held talks with Prime Minister Paul Keating . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , another source of tension in southern Lebanon was eased in early September when the rival Shia militias Amal and Hezbollah signed a ceasefire agreement . |
| 29 | A crisis within the Labour Party was precipitated in early September when the National Executive refused to endorse William Mellor , editor of Tribune and secretary of the Labour Unity campaign committee , as Parliamentary candidate for Stockport . |
| 30 | The East region committee and supporters were thrilled in early January when the extent of team support for a field Officer reached the target for the first year . |