Example sentences of "[art] [noun] have [adv] [verb] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | The times had simply passed when one could conquer France , conquer Belgium , conquer Holland , even conquer Eastern Europe , and say , ‘ This is the same as moving into Africa or moving into the Far East ’ . |
| 2 | The work had already begun when , late in the year , Pons first learned about Jones . |
| 3 | The days have long passed when the courts adopted a strict constructionist view of interpretation which required them to adopt the literal meaning of the language . |
| 4 | The moment had now arrived when , at the various levels of military command , that state of conflict began to become apparent . |
| 5 | The event had just started when a woman screamed . |
| 6 | Er , as I said the government has already accepted when we introduced the legislation last year in the criminal justice act on money laundering , that there are far wider er interests and fidrer fi far wider implications than there have been ever before and I think the government needs to do a little bit more to show that it is aware of international implications and the sheer scale of what we 're dealing with and er I touched earlier on the question of indemnity , er perhaps the minister could specifically address that point . |
| 7 | After a quick exchange of passes Bastin scored and the roar of the crowd had hardly subsided when the whistle signalled the end of the match . |
| 8 | The second group , of those — even including some Party members — who had previously been apathetic or negatively disposed towards the Party , thought that the time had now come when they could air their feelings . |
| 9 | Once the war between France and the Vietminh had begun , the time had obviously passed when American operational decisions such as this would affect the fortunes of either side . |
| 10 | The inexorable growth of specialization has meant that in many cases the concept of the discipline ‘ as a whole ’ is now largely historical , and the time has long gone when one person could command a general understanding of all its facets and branches . |