Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] when he [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Around one quarter of Rodin 's work was unpublished when he died and the casts and moulds became the property of the Musée Rodin which also inherited property rights and ‘ Le droit moral ’ , the right under French law to defend an artist 's reputation . |
| 2 | The prophet was right when he said that without a vision the people perish . |
| 3 | I do not want to rely on quotations from Nye Bevan , but he was right when he said that we were a country built on coal . |
| 4 | I begin to think , though , that Robert Sheldrake was right when he said that the farm work — and in their case they 'll probably get plenty — would be their bread and butter , and the small animals their jam . |
| 5 | Nature may be beautiful but there is little doubt that Darwin was right when he observed that only the fittest survive . |
| 6 | If Darwin was right when he argued that there is no fundamental discontinuity between man and the higher mammals in their mental faculties , and we accept , as surely we must , the general validity of the Darwinian theory of evolution and the connectedness of species , then where does morality come in ? |
| 7 | Is it that Einstein was right when he suggested that quantum mechanics was simply a mathematically-convenient calculational device , which masks a deeper theory based on locality in space time ? |
| 8 | The spokesman , Rafi Horowitz , was wrong when he said that Palestinians could not claim their lands because they were citizens of a country at war with Israel . |
| 9 | Christina gave up and was relieved when he announced that he was going to bed . |
| 10 | Everybody around me was slagging of Newsome and it was hilarious when he score and the Cop were shouting his name ‘ al la Shearer ’ . |
| 11 | Mr Davies was ecstatic when he heard that he had won the car in the special Peugeot Golf Monthly prize draw . |
| 12 | No doubt George Dempster was correct when he wrote that ‘ the true spirit of our constitution ought to make it criminal in a member of Parliament to offer any constituent the smallest personal favour ’ , but such an opinion was at variance with the facts of eighteenth and early nineteenth-century life . |
| 13 | He recalled that he was overjoyed when he heard that Walter Luff was staying on until 1954 , thus providing him with the chance that he needed . |