Example sentences of "when a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a flash of lightning lit up the sky to the south we decided we 'd better go now ! |
| 2 | When a quarter of an hour had passed the Brigadier poked his head round the door , wondering if the Captain had gone off somewhere , it was so quiet . |
| 3 | But she suffered a setback when a bout of glandular fever looked like bringing her season to an abrupt halt . |
| 4 | When a clerk of the course comes out with a statement like this it seriously weakens the case of those , like myself , who would like to see transport allowances reintroduced . |
| 5 | When a flurry of snow lightly dusts the roads and pathways of the urban and suburban areas you can be sure that Baldersdale and the rest of the high Pennines will be thigh deep . |
| 6 | He once lost £80,000 when a tour of Japan was cancelled suddenly and he had to pay the cost of transporting the show 's equipment back to Britain out of his own pocket . |
| 7 | The curve in the middle shows what happens when a mixture of benzene and naphthalene is cooled . |
| 8 | Because of its scope , readers must not be surprised when a description of an industrial application switches , say , to a research application in fundamental physiology or pharmacology . |
| 9 | When a spill of asbestos occurred shortly before 3 a.m. on Tuesday 27 May , workers stopped work immediately . |
| 10 | But not so terribly easy when a folder of crime-fighting guidance is left propped against every front door . |
| 11 | Between 38 to 20 million years ago large sections of the present-day west coast were formed when a chunk of a long-vanished continent adhered to the coastline . |
| 12 | Within a few months these hopes were dashed when a majority of the Manchester committee insisted on recognising an American evangelical , the Rev. Fred Hemming , as an official agent to raise money for the anti-Garrisonian abolitionists in America although he only had the general support of Lewis Tappan and apparently regarded the Garrisonians and their British sympathisers as ‘ infidel abolitionists ’ . |
| 13 | What do you think the impact is on erm you know a community such as Flats when erm you know , when a majority of the people in the flats , are living on the poverty line , or below it ? |
| 14 | An example that pinpoints the problem was exposed when a map of all trees over 20 cm diameter at breast height in 2 sq km of the semi-deciduous forest of Barro Colorado Island was made . |
| 15 | The formula attains a high mark when a diversity of variables is woven into a unified design . |
| 16 | According to official accounts , Spartak Okopyan , 39 , was shot when a column of soldiers returned fire after coming under attack as it patrolled Stepanakert , now exclusively populated by Armenians . |
| 17 | The number of cases have more than tripled in a week , registering the highest increase since the 1975-76 epidemic — when a peak of 350 cases per 100,000 were recorded and 1,283 people died . |
| 18 | In psychological terms , when a speaker of one language learns a second there is a tendency to generalise some of the rules of the first language to the second language ; when these rules conflict with the correct rules for the second language there is interference , sometimes known as L1 interference or mother-tongue interference . |
| 19 | A senior Australian UN officer was wounded when a helicopter of the UN advance mission in Cambodia was hit by gunfire on Feb. 26 while flying over Khmer Rouge-controlled territory in Kompong Thom Province . |
| 20 | At the conclusion of the business Councillor Fraser chaired a Gardeners ' Roadshow when a panel of five experts answered a series of questions submitted prior to the meeting . |
| 21 | Councillor Fraser chaired a Gardeners ' Roadshow when a panel of experts answered a series of questions submitted prior to the meeting . |
| 22 | At the conclusion of the business Councillor Fraser chaired a Gardeners ' Roadshow when a panel of five experts answered a series of questions submitted prior to the meeting . |
| 23 | Councillor Fraser chaired a Gardeners ' Roadshow when a panel of experts answered a series of questions submitted prior to the meeting . |
| 24 | Precisely because relationships are so fragile , it 's in the planning stages , when a bundle of ideas and concepts are hammered out into a script , that the battle for a film is won or lost . |
| 25 | His command was very successful and included seeing the settlement through a near-famine when a plague of caterpillars ate most of the green food . |
| 26 | As far as omens go , when a man of the cloth has to sign on , things must be getting bad . |
| 27 | In table VII we analyse also the data for cancer occurring among young people in Seascale during 1984–90 , when a total of four cases occurred in those aged 0–24 years . |
| 28 | The release of prisoners of war by Iraq was officially described as completed when a total of 45 prisoners-of-war had been handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross ( 10 on March 4 , comprising six US personnel , three British and one Italian , and 35 on March 5 , comprising 15 US , nine British , nine Saudis , an Italian and a Kuwaiti , who were flown from Baghdad to Riyadh on March 6 ) . |
| 29 | The same people who backed Mr Rafsanjani 's economic reforms were soon complaining when a strand of hair appeared under a woman 's scarf . |
| 30 | The reaction shown in Scheme 2 was first observed when a sample of , in an ampoule under nitrogen , was being tested for a pinhole using a Tesla discharge ; the surface of the sample turned from black to brown . |