Example sentences of "when [noun sg] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , his co-chairman Lord Owen , appointed by the European Community , warned that peace talks could not go on forever , saying there would come a time when action had to be taken by the international community . |
| 2 | The completion date for the purchase of the land or the date when rent starts to be payable by the tenant is triggered by the issue of the certificate of practical completion of the building being bought or leased . |
| 3 | THE COURAGE of Essex man and woman will be tested later this year when bungee-jumping comes to Colchester . |
| 4 | Up until that moment when shyness got to you , everything was happening naturally , with enchantment , with beauty , but with no thought of what consequences there might be . ’ |
| 5 | They are spurred by a marked sense of vocation : they are of the generation which grew up after the war when pollution came to be popularly identified as a serious problem needing urgent attention . |
| 6 | John Major , the Foreign Secretary , said in another BBC interview that nothing had changed since the EC Madrid summit last June : Britain would become a full member of the European Monetary System ( EMS ) when inflation fell to ‘ the approximate rate ’ of European competitors , and when France and Italy abolished exchange controls . |
| 7 | This remarkable phenomenon was mildly reminiscent or 1983 , when Octopus came to the market and acquired a ‘ concept stock ’ valuation , i.e. one that was well clear of current market realities . |
| 8 | We point this out because in order to consider the latter issue we will discuss experiments using both written and spoken presentation , even though we restricted our discussion of when processing begins to spoken language , where a relatively clear picture has emerged . |
| 9 | Matey thought unkindly that Mrs Darrell rather liked the idea of becoming Lady Cochrane when Stair went to his last rest , which at the rate he was living might not be long . |
| 10 | HOPES of a rapid economic recovery were dealt another blow yesterday when unemployment rose to 2.7m for the first time in almost five years . |
| 11 | The alert , the first of its kind in the city , was cancelled the following day , when ozone fell to tolerable levels . |
| 12 | For people with a profound hearing loss there are bound to be times when speechreading seems to be very hard going , but even in the dark you are still on the way if your aim is clear and your courage bright . |
| 13 | There was even a British-built bass called the Wyman , which became the Stinger IV when production moved to Italy . |
| 14 | It is only when politics leads to destructive conflict that we need to ask whether we should contain it . |