Example sentences of "when the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1969 , when the Chilean Communist party opted to announce their own presidential candidate in order to force a decision from the other parties in the popular Unity coalition about whom to support , their nominee was Pablo Neruda . |
| 2 | All this was happening at a time when the Canadian Northern Railway was creating , in effect , a third transcontinental railway , built on much more economical lines than the exceptionally expensive and high-quality GTP . |
| 3 | This led to the usual talk of dismissing coach Luis Gradin , the man in charge throughout this period of successive defeats , but he will stay on at least until the end of the year when the present Argentine RU committee changes . |
| 4 | the first flow of nourishment in and from the mother 's body , evoking a moment when the emerging sexual drive is still closely linked to — propped on — the life-and-death urgency of the feeding instinct . |
| 5 | Is not that in marked contrast to the events of 25 years ago this very day , as reported by The Times , when the then Economic Affairs Minister warned the Confederation of British Industry that if it breached the inflation-wage restraint , there would be a prices and incomes policy ? |
| 6 | In 1967 , when the then Communist government declared Albania an atheist state , all religious buildings were put to other use or closed . |
| 7 | The dam project was originally conceived in 1977 , when the then communist regimes signed an agreement to share power from it . |
| 8 | A reaction against the occupation by the British began to develop after an incident in December 1813 when the then British commander , Major-General Gordon , condemned to death a British soldier for insubordination and the murder of a sergeant . |
| 9 | The Heffernan intervention occurred back in ‘ 86 when the then 22-year-old McGilligan found himself plucked from virtual obscurity and thrust into the international limelight — yes , international ! |
| 10 | At a time when the largest nuclear power in the world is in the process of disintegration into separate republics , when that massive nuclear arsenal is under some central control of the remaining central authorities , and when our keen concern is to ensure that that security is real , it seems absolutely unthinkable that we should not have our own protection and the ultimate assurance of an independent deterrent . |
| 11 | Their use increased considerably from the 1880s when the familiar skeletal iron-framed hay barn with a curved corrugated-iron roof began to appear in all parts of the country . |
| 12 | Again although there will be occasions when the bare lexical item will suffice to indicate meaning , when the context or the convergence of knowledge of those concerned will provide the specificity required , it will generally need to be supplemented by the addition of elements which give the word a more precise conceptual focus . |
| 13 | One of the main reasons for the popularity of withdrawal , especially prior to World War I , was its cheapness ; sheaths cost an average of 2/ to 3/ a dozen , during a period when the average weekly wage of a labourer did not rise above 20/ a week . |
| 14 | In an era when the average gross weekly wage was about £10 this made them very expensive props indeed . |
| 15 | They have a solidity and permanence , important qualities when the general academic publishing world is beset by closures and mergers . |
| 16 | It culminated in May 1953 when the General severed links between the RPF and its deputies , and began to wind up the Rassemblement . |
| 17 | The weakness caused by the bifurcated character of the Alliance was demonstrated in the autumn of 1986 when the separate Liberal and SDP Conferences passed incompatible resolutions on defence policy : the split damaged the Alliance rating in the opinion polls . |
| 18 | The game at Rangers ' ground could begin to dominate Shearer 's thinking at a time when the only other striker available to Roxburgh , Hearts ' John Robertson , is carrying an injury from Saturday 's win over Falkirk . |
| 19 | A few mono copies of the album with the deleted cuts did make it out of the factory but no stereo version was believed to have been pressed until early this year , when the only known copy was advertised for auction by Strider Records of New York . |
| 20 | THE organisers of the Harp Masters men 's hockey tournament exhaled a sigh of relief last night when the only visiting team — Glasgow Western — scraped into the quarter-final stage with a hard fought 2-1 win over section two side Collegians at Blaris . |
| 21 | Moreover , the ‘ transition to democracy ’ has occurred at exactly the time when the international economic crisis was making its presence felt with greatest intensity . |
| 22 | The first change occurred in 1976 when the International Monetary Fund imposed reductions on public expenditure , and the second with the election of the first Thatcher government in 1979 . |
| 23 | The Khmers Rouges ran Kampuchea for three years until 1978 , when the invading Vietnamese put them to flight . |
| 24 | Although there were no significant differences in the global left ventricular ejection fractions whether patients were treated early or in the third hour , when the global left ventricular ejection fraction measured in these patients was plotted against time and a regression analysis performed , the delay in treatment was significantly related to the global ejection fraction , i.e. the longer the delay to treatment the lower the global ejection fraction . |
| 25 | The Captain intended to make his attack at one-thirty when the fewest possible people would be out in the open . |
| 26 | Among the first private trolley operators on BR were Rightline Caterers of Rhyl , seen here working 17.40 chester–Rhyl service on a very cold 25 February 1986 , when the well–known instant coffee , common to both private and public sectors , was extremely welcome . |
| 27 | In the event , few new Irish peerages have been created since 1800 , and no election has been held since 1922 when the Irish Free State came into being . |
| 28 | It probably dates back only to 1984 when the Democratic presidential nominee , Walter Mondale , promised to raise taxes on Americans to curb the US budget deficit and was promptly beaten by Ronald Reagan . |
| 29 | In a year when the Democratic presidential nominee may well be someone who golfs at whites-only club and is willing to throw the switch of the electric chair , Lenora Fulani 's appeal will continue to grow . |
| 30 | After 1930 when the concerted intellectual endeavour came to an end , the work of individual participants ceased to be of any theoretical interest . |