Example sentences of "when the first [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In the eighteenth century when the first Industrial Revolution was born , the home was a place of work for both sexes , in farmwork , handicrafts and textiles . |
| 2 | From the dawn of consciousness until August 6 1945 , man had to live with the prospect of his death as an individual ; since the day when the first atomic bomb outshone the sun over Hiroshima , he has had to live with the prospect of his extinction as a species . ’ |
| 3 | In the first place it is noticeable that the great theme of his two Councils was the same as that of the Roman Council of 1059 , when the first effective legislation on clerical celibacy was initiated : it almost seems as if this subject had matured in his mind since that date ; certainly his early Deploratio virginitatis male amissae suggests that he may have had cause for thought on this subject . |
| 4 | THE Army 's firepower gets a major boost this week when the first new self-propelled field gun for 30 years enters service . |
| 5 | It was increasingly polished during the reign of Louis XIV when the first professional dancers took over from the courtiers after the founding of the Académie Royale de Danse within the Académie Royale de Musique ( 1672 ) . |
| 6 | Much has changed since 1989 when the first annual Art Show was organised to help members of the prestigious Art Dealers ' Association of America cash in on a booming art market . |
| 7 | Ideas about the structure of glass date back 50 years or more to when the first diffuse X-ray scattering measurements on the material were being made a by B. E. Warren and others . |
| 8 | GLASNOST reached Twickenham yesterday when the first Soviet national side to visit Britain startled the Rugby Football Union by inviting their hosts to tour the Soviet Union next year . |
| 9 | The first breakthrough came during the 1960s when the first all-electronic phototypesetting equipment appeared . |
| 10 | An ecological minority made its appearance in France around 1970 , when the first 900-MWe PWR power stations were being built at Fessenheim . |
| 11 | It was during the Middle Minoan II period , when the first large temples were raised , that the greatest developments in pottery took place . |
| 12 | Grand Prix racing existed long before the formation of the World Championship in 1950 , and goes back to 1906 when the first French Grand Prix was run . |
| 13 | Not many of them were in evidence yesterday , when the first proper snap of autumn was in the air . |
| 14 | In 1801 , when the first national census was taken , the population of England and Wales was recorded at 8·9 millions . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , evidence of either using tools or eating meat does not appear among the fossils until almost two million years later than that indicated when the first upright hominid skeleton was discovered in fossil form . |
| 16 | All the planning , training , and pre-production work began to culminate in early December 1968 when the first filmed scenes were completed aboard the USS Yorktown , playing the role of the Japanese carrier Akagi , cruising off the California coast . |
| 17 | All of this was so very different from the earlier period of Hebrew history when the first recorded occasion of a circumcision had as its central active character the woman Zipporah , and it puts in context the biblical passage , written at the time of the exile , with which this essay opened : Jerusalem , allegorized as a female in needy relation to her Lord and depicted as cleansed of her blood by the intervention of a male deity . |
| 18 | It was not until 1924 that he turned to the measurement of human electrical potentials , and delayed publication until 1929 , when the first recorded electro-encephalogram ( of his young son ) appeared in Archiv Forschung Psychiatrie . |
| 19 | Back in 1945 , when the first experimental fluoridation projects got under way in Grand Rapids , Michigan , and Newburgh , New York , it was envisaged that drinking about 1 litre of fluoridated water a day would provide 1 milligram of fluoride . |
| 20 | These centred on personal power and wealth and were manifest in Nigeria , for example , by 1966 when the first military coup was staged . |