Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] when it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hokus Pokus fried brains when it came out — the level of skating was incredible for the time . |
| 2 | May 1989 brought a chance for the OCU to renew old glories when it created a formation team , the Green Marrows , to perform at the 40th Anniversary celebrations at Wyton . |
| 3 | Traditionally the practice has been to abandon old pits when it became uneconomic to go deeper , but to return to them when the price for clay improved or when a technical innovation made extraction cheaper . |
| 4 | Mr Sher Azam , convener of the meeting and president of the Bradford Council of Mosques , said the government had shown a ‘ total disregard ’ for British Muslims when it decided to go to war . |
| 5 | The praise bestowed on the adaptation of literary classics , the films of the foreign directors , and the role of Vidor always stressed the relative realism of these films compared with the standard product and was testimony to the extent to which the feature film had moved away from the era of social preoccupations when it had been felt that social preaching was the obvious subject-matter for Hollywood . |
| 6 | The Abbey National gave itsmembers a bonus in the form of 100 free shares when it became a public limited company in July . |
| 7 | The Conservative Party did not take up any definite stand on comprehensive schools when it came into office in 1979 . |
| 8 | ( It had been the practice for the climber to go to the top and give the fox a spin , but in 1984 the committee got cold feet when it found they might not be fully insured for the climber and a separate insurance would cost too much . |
| 9 | The Council was merely an umbrella organization for a large and expanding number of countryside and amenity organizations , but it became an invaluable integrator , particularly on the issue of National Parks when it set up its own Standing Committee . |
| 10 | US Senate armed services committee chairman Sam Nunn asked the Defence Department to conduct a further investigation , citing the statement in the ABC broadcast by Adml. ( retd ) William Crowe , former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff , that the Vincennes had been in Iranian waters when it fired the missile , not in international waters as previously claimed . |
| 11 | The former holder of four world titles scored two knockdowns but there were boos in the late rounds when it became apparent that Duran , 41 , would n't win by a knockout . |
| 12 | Even so , they were still the poor relations when it came to wearing tracksuits or ‘ sweats ’ as the Americans liked to call them . |
| 13 | The fuselage broke into three major sections when it separated at the wing leading edge and wing trailing edge and the wreckage came to a stop 625 feet short of the runway pavement . |
| 14 | During 1990 Hoylake withdrew its bid for BAT , partly because of problems encountered with the US regulatory authorities when it tried to arrange a buyer for BAT 's US insurance business . |
| 15 | But Ukraine , though it renounced nuclear weapons when it became independent in 1991 , is now hesitating to ratify START 1 and the Lisbon protocol , and to accede as a non-nuclear state to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT ) . |
| 16 | The Proceedings of the Royal Society completely overlooked Lear 's beautiful Parrots when it decided that , ‘ The so-called Century of Birds from the Himalaya Mountains ’ was ‘ by far the most accurately illustrated work on foreign ornithology that had been issued up to that period . ’ |
| 17 | Sixty nuclear opposition groups from all over the country supported the Union of Concerned Scientists when it presented evidence at official hearings about weaknesses in the emergency cooling systems designed to stop a reactor overheating . |
| 18 | Despite the fame of John Gay 's ballad opera , which broke all box-office records when it opened in 1728 , it is performed surprisingly rarely these days . |
| 19 | This week , at the International Timber Trade Organisation 's conference in Japan , Britain was supported by green groups when it suggested a labelling scheme for tropical hardwood so consumers could choose products manufactured from sustainable timber reserves . |
| 20 | None the less , this was a significant change from the days of the old CEB , which ( though hedged about by precise legal requirements on matters such as pricing ) had not been subject to government limits on finance ( choosing to raise its fixed-interest capital without government guarantee ) and had ignored ministerial requests when it felt they were unjustified ( being protected against the sanction acquired by the Minister in 1947 : the power of dismissal ) . |
| 21 | I thought it was a big chub and was surprised to see the red fins when it surfaced . |
| 22 | Then there 's ‘ Silver Milkboy ’ , which was the cause of a large number of red faces when it turned out to be female ! |
| 23 | They represented the spectrum of Christian conviction , East and West — though there was no one from the Eastern Orthodox Churches when it opened , and two Russian Orthodox clergy came shortly after the Council had got under way . |
| 24 | Giggling like a child , rueful self-mockery etched on every line of her face , she applauded when a shout went up , joined in the disappointed groans when it proved a false alarm , commiserated with a rather determined little girl who had wandered into her own area of search and who thought she should have found one by now , and , thoroughly amused , by herself as much as by others , she whole-heartedly entered into the spirit of the thing . |
| 25 | On Harry 's first day at play school , his mum was about to take him along to meet all the other kids when it started snowing outside . |
| 26 | It need not , however , have had the significance it acquired in tenth-century documents when it did come to express claims to a kingship of all Anglo-Saxons . |
| 27 | The reduction of the horse 's anxiety through movement and calm handling , not only solved the bit problem for that day but also prevented the horse from establishing an undesirable form of behaviour to present on other occasions when it felt anxious . |
| 28 | Normally , although his massive body dwarfed her own , he showed her consideration in his bed , but she knew from the rare occasions when it had happened before that drinking heavily coarsened his sexual appetites . |
| 29 | On those rare occasions when it slipped out accidentally , her rage was a clear indication of how deeply his carelessness pained her . |
| 30 | Country music was unquestionably one of the forerunners of rock'n'roll , and certainly one of its main constituents when it arrived in its recognised form . |