Example sentences of "when it [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company 's most profitable year was 1990 when it made $7,246,667 , compared to $4,058,160 in 1989 . |
| 2 | Rumour of the partnership , to be known as C&M Arts , spread through the art market last autumn , when it purchased Mark Rothko 's ‘ Brown , Black and Blue ’ ( 1958 ) for $1 million at Sotheby 's evening sale on 17 November . |
| 3 | in real terms and that there are 15,500 more police officers , whereas Labour left the police force under establishment by 7,000 when it left office . |
| 4 | Lee may have found all that a valuable lesson , but there were times when it seemed Marvin just had n't learned at all . |
| 5 | Unix System Labs says Computer Reseller News was ‘ looking way beyond its headlights — or ours ’ last week when it said USL may adopt all or part of the Open Software Foundation 's Mach 3 microkernel . |
| 6 | Candidates actually attend for an important examination in the afternoon when it took place in the morning ! |
| 7 | THE Clinton team had no real defence plans when it took office , beyond a vague determination to cut spending . |
| 8 | This Fire Brigade was to continue as a Local Volunteer Force until the 1939–45 war when it became part of the National Fire Service . |
| 9 | THE EAST LANCS Railway scored a double this summer when it granted power distributor NORWEB permission to lay a nest of six , 33Kv cables along a part of the ELR right-of-way , then secured a three-week contract to haul some of the materials by rail to and from the construction site . |
| 10 | Amdahl 's RISC project date back to 1990 when it inherited technology from the failed Key Computer Laboratories Inc ( UX No 309 ) . |
| 11 | The reason that Xerox finally wants out is not hard to divine : back in 1989 when it created Xerox Desktop Systems Inc , which marketed the Ventura Publisher product , it said that annual business was running at $40m . |
| 12 | France stresses that , because the European Council has the people with clout , it can propel the Community forwards — as in Brussels in 1988 , when it settled budget rows , and in Rome last October , when it gave the conference on EMU a mandate . |
| 13 | The US Federal Reserve prompted a fall in market interest rates to 8 ¼ per cent yesterday when it injected $2billion into the banking system . |
| 14 | The book created a sensation in the summer when it portrayed Diana trapped in a sham marriage . |
| 15 | The original village , first made an appearance in the public records in 1056 when it donated land for a monastery , but it was actually first formed in the foot hills in 641 by mountain folk escaping an invasion by the Rotaris . |
| 16 | First , because it is evident that many of the problems which the Authority identified in 1985 when it established PNP were centred as much on professional attitudes as professional expertise — attitudes to children , to curriculum , to teaching methods , to parents , to ethnic minority groups , to gender issues — and indeed we have picked up and reported the resilience of many of the attitudes which the Authority sought to change . |
| 17 | The mill then passed through the Webb family until around 1700 , when it changed hands and was mortgaged to John Fowler , a Stroud textile dealer . |
| 18 | The business carried on , despite the 1932 fire , until 1935 , when it changed hands , becoming the Stroud Flock Company and later known locally as Lipsey 's Flock Mill . |
| 19 | The problem emerged yesterday in the board 's report for 1988/9 when it paid record compensation of £69.4 million to 27,752 victims . |
| 20 | Jamaica has had this flag since 1962 when it gained independence from Britain . |
| 21 | The Lancet , smug from recent public health victories , captured the new mood of medical optimism in 1871 when it claimed success for the recent improvements in working-class habits . |
| 22 | Daiwa suspected that something was amiss only at the beginning of this year , when it uncovered evidence that attempts had been made to forge security depositary receipts . |
| 23 | In December 1927 , while he was in the midst of his darkness , and in june 1928 when he was better , the House of Commons rejected a proposal , carried by large majorities in the Church bodies , for a new prayer book , which was the old prayer book , from the age of King Charles II , modestly revised in a pastoral spirit long after the time when it needed revision . |
| 24 | The company does not have a sparkling financial story to tell — it lost £1.7m pre-tax on turnover of £12.5m in the year to September 30 , and its only profitable period in four years was the nine months to September 1991 , when it did £684,000 pre-tax on sales of £9.6m . |
| 25 | The swings had gone and the pier had been demolished ; a few years ago the Council had given permission for a café-and-restaurant to be built , but the place had only been open a month when it caught fire and was burned out ; the Fire Brigade could n't get to it , the promenade being too narrow for their vehicles . |
| 26 | Rainbow acquired the piece in July when it bought Microphar SA in Paris and its US distributor ProTech Marketing which marketed a version of the dongle as its Micro Memory Key . |
| 27 | Hanson made its first big UK acquisition in 1981 when it bought Berec , the maker of Ever Ready batteries . |
| 28 | ENDS magazine wrote in January 1988 , ‘ The government 's retreat in its interpretation of the 1980 EEC Directive on drinking water quality in the face of legal challenges by the European Commission turned into a rout this month when it withdrew permission for 48 water supplies to exceed the EEC limit . |
| 29 | Running a modern Western-style campaign promising " work " under the name " List 1 " ( Lista 1 ) , the Colorados responded to the serious reverse which the party suffered in the May municipal elections when it lost control of the capital , Asunción , to the populist Asunción For All coalition ( Apto ) [ see pp. 38189 ; 38285-86 ] . |