Example sentences of "of [noun] when [pos pn] " in BNC.

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1 HUNGARY 'S ruling Socialist Workers Party took a big step yesterday towards the complete abandonment of Communism when its president , Rezso Nyers , sketched out the contours of a new socialist movement capable of contesting next year 's free elections , the first in Eastern Europe for 40 years .
2 The crook was given a reference but ran out of luck when his new bosses caught him fiddling £60 million .
3 He had taken up a woman 's role , and in the most feminine way taken up the nursing of Sien when his own mental and physical health were at a low ebb .
4 We therefore tend to be circumspect and protective , particularly of course when our dealings involve some threat to the fragile security of the other person 's composure or self-esteem , or our own ( for further discussion see Brown and Levinson 1978 ; Widdowson 1984a : Paper 7 ) .
5 And er I 've been there all my life and that 's and that 'll be eighty seven years old come May and er I 've just worked on the farm all my days and er then of course when my people died I just er stayed myself , and then lived with other people here and there , just to help them .
6 question , issue three C two and three er we say that in relation to two as a matter of have categorize this as a question of law we say it probably categories a question of fact because if they 're right in there analysis of law and article eighty directive , all it means is , is that there is no market outside and that the restriction is insignificant if that being so one would answer the question , is not capable as a matter of pure law of infringing article eighty five , but in the light of the discussion yesterday afternoon of course when my learned friend comes to apply for this strike out , we may have difficulty in contesting that provision it 's not , not er , a , a major part of our case that we , we would have to re-consider it and , and I did ask your Lordship erm if your Lordship would minded to find otherwise not to block out at least the possibility of application for leave to amend and of course we 'd have to make , have to consider whether we could make a proper case out of it on what we do
7 And it has to be said that most of us are likely to have some kind of experience when our ego is deflated ; and that can often have a beneficial not a negative effect .
8 The next two owners were wealthy Shrewsbury drapers , each of whom lost a great deal of money when their London connections went bankrupt and were forced to sell again .
9 I came into a bit of money when my grandmother died and I decided to put it to good use . ’
10 Well , he thought , they 'll have plenty of action when my Inspector gets here .
11 It told how an empire of six hundred miles wide and nearly three thousand miles long , so big the Incas called it Tahuantinsuyo , the Four Quarters of the Earth , had been engaged in a fratricidal war of succession when its miserable future was planned by two uneducated adventurers , Francisco Pizarro and Diego de Almagro , and by a priest , Father Hernando de Luque .
12 Mr Redmond had been looking after the woodyard where he worked while his employer was on a cruise to restore his health , and Sarah told Anne that her father had been given fifty pounds as a mark of appreciation when his employer returned .
13 This point apparently passed unnoticed , and the practice was never mentioned again in the review , nor was any acknowledgement of it included in the final report despite protestations by the Head of Department when its contents were being negotiated .
14 But however we label this stage , it is clear that many , if not most , women experience a quite severe sense of loss when their children leave home .
15 This year the company is disposing of the subsidiary at a consideration of £2.1m when its net assets are also £1.8m .
16 Later Hooker was to be an inspiration to the Tractarians , an anchor which held many of them within the Church of England when their friends departed for Rome ; Keble , in editing Hooker 's works , described him as ‘ the chief human instrument in the salutary interference of Divine providence ’ in the affairs of the English Church .
17 Why only yesterday I was cutting a piece of wood when my saw went straight through my shoes .
18 According to Hesiod , in the ‘ good old days ’ before the lordship of Zeus when his father Kronos was king , there was a Golden Age .
19 Both of them were quite happy to push her out in her pram and she was often the centre of attention when their friends visited .
20 Like the discount market this provides individual banks with an outlet for surplus funds and a source of borrowing when their reserves are low .
21 Brief Ecstasy ( 1937 ) , for example , is a powerful drama centring on a woman who has married her professor and abandoned work for a life ‘ sitting all day knitting jumpers for my husband ’ , who is then thrown into a whirlpool of desire when her one-time lover arrives at the marital home .
22 Areas including social security and protection of social rights of the workers and protection of workers when their contract has been terminated , are left to be decided by a unanimous vote .
23 An Imperial Fist thinks and plans his every deed meticulously , even in the crucible of combat when our spilt blood hardens like cinnabar , thanks be to Larraman 's Organ .
24 The 15 other boys in his class are having their heads shaved so that Mark will not be out of place when his hair falls out during his treatment .
25 Julie , 28 , was on an overland trek of Africa when her parents were told she had disappeared .
26 We have suffered from the same thing as the other two er Abalance have said today of money being used from our surplus to provide for redundancy and erm i it 's been exacerbated by money being available from the people who are made , made redundant , going to the company and swelling their balance sheets , while all the cost side of it comes out of the pension fund and that has caused a lot of ill-feeling particularly from the older pensioners who have seen years of inflation when their pensions were not made up to the same extent .
27 Farmers shall be heavily fined for accidental seepage of silage when our pollution inspectors ( take you out , take you out , in the slurry with the hinge unlocked ) .
28 Charlotte was gazing at its aimless explosion of colour when her hostess returned , still smiling broadly , and extended a hand in formal greeting .
29 has been looking after her younger brothers and sisters since they were made wards of court when their parents were sent back to India .
30 has been looking after her younger brothers and sisters since they were made wards of court when their parents were sent back to India .
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