Example sentences of "[noun sg] when a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told me to watch for a seaman with one leg and to let him know the moment when a man like that appeared . |
| 2 | In every sense it was a fantastic day , right from the moment when a photographer of the Bristol Evening Post had arrived , almost at dawn it seemed , to record my departure from Bristol . |
| 3 | It came as a shock , not just to the students but also to some of the older members of staff , such as Charles Mahoney , who belonged to an era when a member of staff would even vet the colours to be used before a student began to paint . |
| 4 | Er under the Government proposals , if the other two non-elected elements on the authority combined and then elected one of their number as chairman , perhaps at a meeting when a couple of the local authority representatives could n't be present , then the local authority members would in effect be in a minority . |
| 5 | This was meant to be the happy day when a group of volunteers from Berkeley , brought 40 children from the war in Bosnia , to the safety of Gloucestershire . |
| 6 | They were released the following day when a crowd of 4000 people gathered outside the police station . |
| 7 | Ten miles away the Welney Wildfowl Refuge is famous for its floodlit sessions at dusk when a multitude of birds return to feed . |
| 8 | St Albans went into the lead in the 23rd minute when a cross from ex-Dragon Jimmy King was headed home by Brett . |
| 9 | It was after midnight when a set of headlights appeared behind them , flooding the interior of the car with light . |
| 10 | Protestant Donna Elizabeth Wilson , 30 , died on Saturday night when a gang of up to 10 men burst into her flat in the Annadale area of south Belfast , wielding baseball bats and pickaxe handles . |
| 11 | Robbie and the dog had just returned from their stroll and she was about to lock up and go below for the night when a sound from the towpath caught her attention . |
| 12 | CAMPAIGNING nuclear workers took their message to the top earlier this month when a party of 48 travelled to lobby MPs at Westminster . |
| 13 | The biggest march was in Quimper on the Brittany coast , where up to 10,000 people gathered for a silent protest which remained calm until the late afternoon when a handful of people began throwing stones and tear gas bombs . |
| 14 | ‘ Any expenses incurred by the local authority under this section , together with interest from the date when a demand for the expenses is served until payment , may … be recovered by them , by action or summarily as a civil debt , from the person having control of the house … |
| 15 | The phrase ‘ together with interest from the date when a demand for the expenses is served until payment ’ in section 10(3) shows that interest runs only from the date of the demand and , by implication , not from the date when the cause of action arose . |
| 16 | Predictions from these tables will let you down once or twice a year when a session of light wind invades for a few days . |
| 17 | But in a year when a degree from the Muhammad Ali school of bragging seems essential if a new band are to create a stir , Suede 's boastful assumptions are being taken seriously . |
| 18 | Andrew Dobbs , who was twenty seven and from Gloucester , died at Amsterdam airport last year when a bag of cocaine burst in his stomach . |
| 19 | He suggested the time of day and the season of the year when a painter of taste would be most satisfied by the sun 's position , the colours and the shadows . |
| 20 | The failure is said to have its origins in the second half of the nineteenth century when a number of changes were taking place in the structure of British domestic banking , and in the nature of corporate ownership . |
| 21 | Booth 's survey also had an influence on a similar movement in the United States , though its roots go back to the middle of the nineteenth century when a number of small surveys on the " dangerous classes " were undertaken . |
| 22 | The tradition comes from the end of the 19th century when a succession of designers and craftsmen discoverd the Cotswolds for the first time . |
| 23 | A long search ensued for similar formulae in terms of radicals ( that is , formulae involving unc and the coefficients of the given equation ) for the roots of equations of higher degree , but none appeared until the 16th Century when a formula for the cubic was found by the Italian Niccolo Fontana ( more commonly known as Tartaglia , " the stammerer " , because of a speech impediment brought about by injury in childhood ) . |
| 24 | However , their good work at this stage was undone 11 minutes from time when a slip by veteran defender David Narey was enough to wrap up the points for the visitors . |
| 25 | THERE was a time when a shower of rain produced a sea of plastic coated folk . |
| 26 | There was a time when a discussion of children 's literature or children 's reading implied a discussion of ‘ good ’ books — and ‘ good ’ books implied fiction , indeed , the ‘ classics ’ of literature . |
| 27 | The ability to manage people is the more necessary at a time when a number of different lay ministries are being encouraged and developed for the conduct of worship . |
| 28 | Cowles postulated that the sequence thus observed in space was equivalent to that observed in time when a section of lake was filled in and converted to dry land . |
| 29 | ‘ The crash happened at a time when a lot of people would have been in their homes . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ The crash happened at a time when a lot of people would have been in their homes watching TV . |