Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] when it [vb past] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of Ray 's cows were grazing in another field when it happened but those he lost were his most valuable . |
| 2 | Richmond bureau was prompted into this action when it felt that it was losing advice workers because of the tensions involved in the work and because insufficient support was given to alleviate it . |
| 3 | The TUC ignored this assumption when it denied that the marriage bar was a sex issue , insisting that it was an employment question , caused entirely by the pressures arising from male unemployment . |
| 4 | The Roslavl' Party report for 15 March hinted at the reason for this order when it revealed that peasants were of the view that the volost' authorities were imbued with self-seeking ( shkurnichestvo ) ; Soviet Russia was turning into a ‘ purely bourgeois republic ’ . |
| 5 | The pro-Palestinian faction of the National Front expressed this view when it asserted that Zionism was an empire ‘ which menaces the whole world ’ ; Zionism was ‘ an iceberg of hidden power of which the bandit state of Israel is only the cruel tip … |
| 6 | Rupert Murdoch 's mass circulation tabloid stooped to a new level of vicious scaremongering when it seemed that Neil Kinnock might just succeed in leading Labour back into government . |
| 7 | The rock was in just three pieces when it arrived and needed to be hammered into the correct sizes for the set-up . |
| 8 | The Beveridge Report referred to both of these consequences when it argued that social security benefits should be of subsistence level only , allowing the individual , if he so wished , to make his own provision for higher benefits through voluntary insurance — which should also be positively encouraged by the government through tax allowances . |
| 9 | The Proceedings of the Royal Society completely overlooked Lear 's beautiful Parrots when it decided that , ‘ The so-called Century of Birds from the Himalaya Mountains ’ was ‘ by far the most accurately illustrated work on foreign ornithology that had been issued up to that period . ’ |
| 10 | But the cynical depravity of this outrage — placing a bomb that would inevitably cause massive damage to a national health service hospital and was intended to kill medical staff when it exploded and which , only by great good fortune , did not cause many more deaths and injuries — must surely mark one of the lowest points in the IRA 's inglorious history . |
| 11 | Mr Brazauskas , 60 , was head of Lithuania 's Communist Party when it rebelled and split with Moscow in 1989 . |
| 12 | The Declaration undoubtedly broke new constitutional ground when it stated that " the raising or keeping of a standing army within this kingdom in time of peace unless it be with the consent of Parliament is against the law " ; the Militia Acts of 1661 and 1662 had invested control of the armed forces in the hands of the monarch alone with no suggestion that Parliamentary consent was needed to maintain an army in peace time . |