Example sentences of "when the [noun sg] was on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed shocking that he should feel he had a right to complain about being woken up when the country was on the verge of civil war . |
| 2 | Similar formality was observed when the court was on the move . |
| 3 | It was one of Chapman 's rules that even when the ball was on the other side of the field , a player must always be anticipating the next move . |
| 4 | This ‘ RG ’ equipment ( see Appendix 3 ) sent a beam of' invisible infra-red light from an Aldis-type lamp , the signal being visible only when the beam was on the little black box camera-sized receiver with a screen which , when the beam was intercepted , showed a green spot against speckle of' green pin-pricks of infra-red light from the stars . |
| 5 | As he 'd told Alison , spitting and scratching were nothing new but that was mainly when the car was on the road . |
| 6 | It can not be mere coincidence that the abandonment of paternalism came about when the party was on the cusp of a new generation of leaders . |