Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun] when [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can continue debating their demise , while we wait for the day when European taxpayers rather than farmers finally call the day on the common agricultural policy . |
| 2 | The fishing villages only come alive for the season when frantic fleets of boats fill their harbours to the brim . |
| 3 | Frost pockets , i.e. places where frost remains during the day when other parts of the garden have thawed , should be avoided , also soil where water stands in winter , but these are all qualifications applicable to general planting . |
| 4 | In situations where public transport arrangements can not be adjusted to suit the needs of the staff , then it might be worth considering the provision of health authority transport , especially during the hours when public services are greatly reduced . |
| 5 | This was clearly the case in Soviet relations with Egypt , which became the USSR 's most important ally in the Middle East after the mid-1950s when Western governments refused to finance the Aswan Dam . |
| 6 | Most naturalists of my age just enjoyed wildlife of every kind and did not see the need for conservation until after the war when modern methods of farming made enormous changes in the countryside . |
| 7 | Part of our reaction to that situation has been negative , especially the behaviourist interlude that sought to define out of existence many of the issues that confront us , but for the most part the approach has been a steady accumulation of experimental data in anticipation of the day when meaningful theories could be developed . |
| 8 | Certainly it is noteworthy that it was 1377 , a year of good harvest , which marked the start of the period when real wages remained high . |
| 9 | The exclusion of certain clergy is less easy to justify ( a relic of the time when religious disputes were at the heart of national affairs ) , as is the exclusion of 18- to 20-year-olds : when the voting age was lowered in 1969 , the age of eligibility for candidature was not . |
| 10 | These will aim to eliminate non-strategic nuclear weapons from Europe , and to reduce the strategic weapons possessed by the US , the former Soviet Union , Britain , France and China — a vital step towards the day when individual nations ' possession of nuclear deterrents ceases to be necessary . |
| 11 | Their views are readily recognizable in a world where the fuss about the Turin Shroud has reminded us of a time when high hopes and claims of miracle were commonly attached to pieces of the true cross or heads of John the Baptist , where much Christian literature promises believers great success in life if only they have enough faith in God , and where men and women of political power still try to have God and his Church on their side , and to use their authority to enhance their own . |
| 12 | The research work will contribute to debates on landscape conservation policy during a period when agricultural priorities and existing policies are being progressively questioned from a variety of quarters . |
| 13 | Hirschman 's explanation , influenced by the radical Brazilian economist , Antonio Barros de Castro , lay in the fortunate coincidence for Brazil of the 1983 devaluation with the moment when prior investments in heavy industry and infrastructure planned by the military government in the 1970s came to fruition ( Lowenthal , 1987 ) . |
| 14 | There is a culture of amateurism that survives from the days when scholarly gentlemen with private incomes were glad to have their articles published without payment . |
| 15 | Athletics , too , had moved away from the days when black sportsmen in the USA were forbidden to compete against whites . |
| 16 | The damper song This comes from the time when old fires had dampers attached to control the fire . |
| 17 | Although this can lead to frustration for car drivers — especially in the summer when large queues build up — it helps limit the environmental damage to this very special area . |
| 18 | The interaction between SENSS teachers and class teachers as they work together with the class and as they exchange information is a great improvement on the situation which pertained in the days when remedial groups were withdrawn and then returned to class with a total absence or communication . |
| 19 | Considered an essential item of diet in the days when hazardous voyages to the islands were made by the Ness men in their open sailing 'sgothan , these days it was sought after as more of a delicacy , in spite of its rather revolting appearance when cured . |
| 20 | The flight panel was designed in the days when American firms used to write the names of the instruments on bits of paper , put them in a hat , draw them out one-by-one and fill in the holes . |
| 21 | The ample panel ‘ was designed in the days when American firms used to write the name of the instruments on bits of paper , uput them in a hat , draw them out one-by-one and fill in the holes ’ . |
| 22 | They inhabit a world emerging from a period when human beings are said to have lived for hundreds of years . |
| 23 | But in the meantime , in a week when Irish singles appear to have been released by the crateload , the ‘ Uncertain ’ EP is the real trophy . |
| 24 | The answer is never in doubt , and neatly topical in a week when American voters showed their preference for small-town boys over city slickers . |
| 25 | He believed in the legacy left from the industrial North and still felt the pain from an era when entire generations existed purely around the workings of the local mill , an age typified by Wakes week , where entire towns would holiday together in Blackpool . |
| 26 | Whether their instructions were followed to the letter is , of course , a different matter ; they do , however , come from an era when short cuts and convenience were frowned upon and considered synonyms for dirtiness and sloppiness . |
| 27 | Banned or not , strikes will happen , for the population is beyond the stage when harsh words will cow it into submissiveness . |
| 28 | Ever since the days when Hawaiian nobles played out tribal and sexual politics in the ocean , surfers have been the beneficiaries of a semiotic hyperinflation conferring the virtues of naturalness , freedom , potency , on the simple juxtaposition of a man and a board and a wave . |
| 29 | Thieves probably benefited from a certain popular tolerance which dated back to the time when individual thefts of cattle were a legitimate means of pursuing a dispute . |
| 30 | The British connection dated back to the time when Jacobite refugees settled here in the eighteenth century , but it was after Wellington 's victories in the region early in the 1800s that it became serious . |