Example sentences of "[noun prp] when [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walter Sisulu himself , who as secretary-general of the ANC was more senior even than Nelson Mandela when the two were jailed for life in 1964 , served seven jail terms between 1953 and 1963 . |
| 2 | As with the hobbit-songs , behind all these there lies some story of a Sentence and a Great Escape , but an escape forever hindered by loving involvement with Middle-earth itself ; that is the root of the disagreement between Fangorn , Celeborn and Galadriel when the Ent half-voices his lament for the stocks and the stones . |
| 3 | His dilemma would have been similar , in some ways , to that which faced the coachman Jean Hornn when the latter finally came up to the town in the berline dormeuse and attempted to skirt it to avoid the encumbrances with which the road was choked ( see Part 1 ) . |
| 4 | The sturdily independent high tech sector had naught for the comfort of either major party in the run-up to today 's by-election in Newbury , Berkshire when the big guns from party headquarters showed up for photocalls during the build-up : Labour chose Vodafone Group Plc and tried to commiserate about the recession , only to be told that business had been going gangbusters for several months , the Tories went looking for green shoots at Micro Focus Plc , only to be told that the UK market was flat on its back , and that it was only foreign sales that were keeping the old Coboller busy . |
| 5 | Steve , 30 , was performing at the National Auditorium in Mexico when a female fan jumped on stage and attacked him . |
| 6 | Durham Greens will be joining a national CND demonstration against Trident when the first submarine is named at Barrow-in-Furness at the end of the month . |
| 7 | By 1640 , 100,000 planters had arrived in Ireland when the native population numbered only one million inhabitants . |
| 8 | A THICK pall of injustice will creep over Scotland when the legal aid system is reformed at the start of next month . |
| 9 | It is reassuring to know that Gallacher was one of the players chosen to represent Scotland when the national team played its first overseas international against France in May 1930 . |
| 10 | An equally spirited occasion was an all-ranks Christmas dinner in England when an unliked commanding officer of the battalion rashly made a speech of greeting in Welsh . |
| 11 | Back in England when the 4th Scots Guards had finished ski training and were waiting to put what they 'd learned into practice , Charles had by no means forgotten events on the nursery slopes of Chamonix . |
| 12 | In 1216 it was Eustace who commanded the fleet which ferried Philip 's son , Louis , across to England when the latter mounted his bid for the English throne . |
| 13 | Like himself , Alexander was a clerk who served the King , even following him to England when the late Scottish King had gone south to attend the coronation of Edward I. Corbett let him ramble on while the gambling group broke up amidst loud shouts and farewells , and a harassed servant brought Corbett a cloak . |
| 14 | Navarro , who had replaced the original M-19 presidential candidate Carlos Pizarro León-Gómez when the latter was assassinated in April [ see pp. 37371-72 ] , also rejected extradition . |
| 15 | In the early years of the CNAA it was almost impossible for a course in engineering to gain approval unless it was a sandwich course : ‘ there was a big argument within CNAA when the first courses on the university pattern started to emerge ’ . |
| 16 | It 's terribly suspicious , Reinhard , you being up in Denmark when the old fox flies away . |
| 17 | Wilfrid 's dealings with Aethelwealh were at about the time of Aethelwealh 's involvement in Kent in support of Eadric when a new southern Saxon hegemony extending from Wight into Kent could conceivably have challenged the existing political map of south-east England . |
| 18 | Beaverbrook reiterated this position to Berle when the two met on 21 July . |
| 19 | Padmore later became a central figure in the organisation of African students into nationalist movements , and later again he became a political advisor to Kwame Nkrumah when the latter founded the newly independent state of Ghana . |
| 20 | Kinkel , 55 , had worked under Genscher when the latter was Interior Minister , transferring with him to the Foreign Ministry in 1974 before moving to head the German intelligence service BND in 1979 . |
| 21 | EX BR Standard Class 4MT No 75029 the Green Knight at Cranmore when a restored telephone box received all the attention ! |
| 22 | As he was getting into the train , Jordi smiled and shrugged as he had done that night in Valladolid when the secret police had led him away . |
| 23 | Consequently there was much disappointment in Washington when the European Community was established in 1957 without Britain , and when the latter went her own way as leader of the looser and less ambitious European Free Trade Area . |
| 24 | Or one picked Washington when the better place was Los Angeles ? |
| 25 | The moneybags Blackburn boss had demanded £1.2million for Scott Sellars when the out-of-contract midfielder joined Leeds in July . |
| 26 | Not just Russia , but all the major European countries , committed themselves to banning non-Turkish warships from the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles when the Ottoman Empire was at peace . |
| 27 | GORAN Ivanisevic became the latest big-name casualty of the US Open at Flushing Meadow when the 11th seeded Croatian lost to Spaniard Carlos Costa . |
| 28 | GORAN Ivanisevic became the latest big-name casualty of the US Open at Flushing Meadow when the 11th seeded Croatian lost to Spaniard Carlos Costa . |
| 29 | That was the subject of the correspondence from Mr. Legras when the hon. Member for Sunderland , South ( Mr. Mullin ) tried to introduce his ten-minute Bill . |
| 30 | Simy Folds ( Fig. 44 ) was there by the seventh century , high up in Durham , and many places already existed in the uplands of Yorkshire when the new monastic ‘ colonisers ’ arrived . |