Example sentences of "when a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ferns , club mosses and gymnosperms continued the tree-like growth of the Devonian period , when a moderate climate became warmer , and this dense foliage locked up the carbon as our present coal deposits , thus increasing even further the oxygen content of the atmosphere . |
| 2 | April in this country is frequently a month when a prudent golfer will wear at least one more sweater than in January . |
| 3 | German striker Bierhoff gave Ascoli , fourth in the Italian Second Division , the lead in the ninth minute when a superb run and curling shot from outside the area beat Alan Knight . |
| 4 | With such tourist pulling potential it was only a matter of time before the line of sections of it would hum again to wheel flange above fishplate … and so it proved in 1972 when a narrow gauge scheme was hatched to open 5.5. miles of trackbed between Pant ( Merthyr Tydfil ) and Torpantau . |
| 5 | If we take the trouble to make a permanent magnet we would like to have access to the magnetic flux so let us look at the more practical case ( Fig. 3.11(b) ) when a narrow gap is cut into the magnet . |
| 6 | A further complication arose in late November when a sharp rise in the Danube 's flow ( up to three times the normal rate ) caused severe flooding and extensive damage to the dam site . |
| 7 | This superstition harks back to when a drunken trooper inadvertently cursed the Mauthe Dhoog , only to be struck dumb and die three days later , a fan referred to by Sir Walter Scott in his Lay of the Last Minstrel : |
| 8 | An example is when a drunken student takes a flashing yellow light from a road excavation , puts it into his bedroom , wakes up to discover it there , and decides to keep it . |
| 9 | Gone are the days when a hand-painted sign advertising a ‘ Real working farm experience ’ meant the townie parents paid £10 and got to look at an old plough while their children cuddled a fat , flop-eared rabbit . |
| 10 | That is a very much better arrangement than that which pertained more than 10 years ago , when a state-controlled monopoly was only too ready to disconnect customers without agreeing such arrangements . |
| 11 | A three-year boycott of the area 's tourist attractions , called to draw attention to the low number of blacks employed in the industry , ended in May when a bi-racial group suggested an ambitious solution . |
| 12 | You never knew these days when a casual remark was going to provide the justification for someone stalking you with an automatic rifle . |
| 13 | Edward Pearce on when a first-class generalist meets a grubby technician |
| 14 | The years 1926-41 were a period of an unprecedentedly rapid rate of industrialisation and modernisation ; but this involved a severe disruption of part of the economy , particularly in the early 1930s , when a major dislocation in the market for food and consumer goods resulted in famine in important areas . |
| 15 | At a time when a major trend in large businesses , particularly those operating across national boundaries , is towards decentralisation and the management of the whole as a set of , for example , ‘ core competencies ’ , with very light control at the centre , it would be surprising if companies rushed to put significant resources into global information management . |
| 16 | There was almost a tragedy in 1905 when a major fire broke out one night in the early hours of the morning while 44 boys in the boys ' dormitories were asleep . |
| 17 | Official recognition of the need for gaol reform dates back to 1919 , when a major report by the Indian Jails Committee heralded a change in government pronouncements about the aims of imprisonment , renouncing the retributive philosophy which had been enshrined in police and legislation since the report of Lord Macauley 's prison Disciplinary Committee in 1838 . |
| 18 | The extent of the protest will be seen on Saturday , when a major demonstration and rally in Dundee is planned to support the 340 dismissed Timex workers . |
| 19 | And it all began in 1890 when a successful businessman , who could not dance a step , presented four ordinary little girls from Manchester in a pantomime at the Prince of Wales Theatre , Liverpool . |
| 20 | A member of parliament unable to gratify a constituent 's wish for a cadetship for his son had to explain that failure , and if age did not intervene as a barrier to future prospects , the politician would be expected to indicate when a successful outcome might be anticipated . |
| 21 | Do the Bank want to go back to a time when a male official could not get married until he was earning £150 per annum and by the time he was earning that sum he was past having an interest in marriage . |
| 22 | A breakthrough occurred accidentally in 1967 , when a sad-looking triticale plant at one of CIMMYT 's nurseries was fertilised by pollen blowing from some nearby wheat breeding plots . |
| 23 | So when I was confronted by the station warrant officer ( SWO ) in my very best turnout I was somewhat aggrieved at his tirade about my flouting regulations when a strange apparition approached , an airman acting as the station Postman . |
| 24 | This can be one time when a young writer has to compromise on some immediate ambitions in order to progress on to the next stage of securing a record deal or having artists cover his or her songs . |
| 25 | There is , therefore , something of a gap in the information available until 1741 , when a young man of fifteen years named John Leacock arrived from London where his father , who was a weaver , had died . |
| 26 | Quincx Roirbak was taken back twenty years , to a time when a young student had asked him questions with the same expression of need for reassurance . |
| 27 | This is often seen when a young horse is introduced to something new , such as a brightly coloured jump . |
| 28 | The constitution was to take effect in early July , when a general election date would be set . |
| 29 | This was to find some authoritative expression during the war years themselves and more especially in the years after 1945 , when a general election resulted in the return of the first Labour government with a clear working majority in the House of Commons . |
| 30 | Since unemployment started rising nationally in March 1990 , 997,500 people have joined the dole queue and that figure is set to pass one million next month , when a General Election could be weeks away . |