Example sentences of "when first [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such advice is becoming as offensive , ignorant and out of touch as it was when first uttered by the right hon. Member for Chingford ( Mr. Tebbit ) many years ago . |
| 2 | When first seen at the homoeopathic clinic , he was just able to get around with one tripod . |
| 3 | Seven three consecutive patients ( 40 men , 33 women ) with active inflammatory bowel disease ( median age 32.5 years ; ranges 14–81 ) were included in the study at admission or when first seen in the outpatient clinic . |
| 4 | Coming from the western Pacific Ocean , it appears to be fished from fairly deep water as it usually swims ‘ tail light ’ when first received into aquarium life . |
| 5 | The employee 's affidavit was already in existence and the copy when first received by the defendants was not privileged . |
| 6 | But customers were no longer quite as wide-eyed as they had been when first faced by all this merchandise . |
| 7 | None of the disapplications and modifications now permissible under Sections 17 , 18 and 19 of the Act were in the Bill when first presented to Parliament . |
| 8 | When first developed in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries , it was designed — so it could be argued — to neutralize music 's potential political power , bracket off its critical threat in a ‘ utopian ’ enclave and confine negation to individual statement . |
| 9 | When first manufactured in the 1930's , it was the ultimate in luxury air travel . |
| 10 | High factor sunscreens are essential to prevent a typical British skin burning when first exposed to the sun . |
| 11 | High factor sunscreens wo n't stop you turning brown , but will prevent your skin from burning when first exposed to the sun , allowing it slowly to acclimatise and produce its own natural protection and colour . |
| 12 | It can be said to be the wind rustling through the trees , when first heard as the Tsarevich climbs over the wall to find his Princess . |
| 13 | The to used before the infinitive was very clearly a preposition when first employed in this function ; in fact , it governed the dative case of the infinitive . |
| 14 | Patient M17 had the epidemic strain of P cepacia in his sputum when first referred to the Manchester adult CF clinic from the Liverpool CF clinic . |
| 15 | To help achieve this , the proposed Trust would aim to give all patients a date for admission to hospital when first placed on the waiting list . ’ |
| 16 | Its action should be stiff enough to cast accurately and not to ‘ give ’ too much when striking , but it should still retain enough of its shock-absorber effect to cushion the resistance of a slab-sided bream when first struck into . |
| 17 | Something like 80 per cent of proposed courses were turned down when first submitted in the late 1960s . |
| 18 | Some of these seem very strange , and many people feel , when first confronted with examples like the last three , that they are odd , unlikely , or just downright wrong . |
| 19 | This book was the cause of considerable controversy when first published in the United Kingdom last year . |
| 20 | The RHS Encyclopedia of Gardening , published last year , sold through even more copies in its first season than its companion volume , The RHS Gardener 's Encyclopedia of Plants & Flowers , did when first published in 1989 — but the latter title actually generated over £1.1m turnover during the six-month period . |
| 21 | When first reviewed in Issue 62 , Escape From the Planet of the Robot Monsters received 68% . |
| 22 | Turrican 2 : The Final Fight received 96% and a Gold Medal accolade when first reviewed in Issue 70 . |
| 23 | This legend forms the basis of a compelling play by the modern Serbian writer Borislav Mihajlović , which achieved a notable success when first produced in Novi Sad in the early 1960s . |
| 24 | They can be quite confusing when first practised as a result of what Alexander called debauched kinaesthesia . |
| 25 | FOUR toilets ? he said , when first shown over the house . |
| 26 | Julius Caesar is to some extent a case apart , being not only one of his most successful operas when first performed in 1724 , but also the most frequently revived this century , recently even having the dubious distinction of being given the ‘ Peter Sellars ’ treatment on television . |
| 27 | The wart-biter is so called because when first described by the Swedish naturalist Linnaeus , it was used by his native peasants to bite off their warts . |
| 28 | Dexter was surprised that the TV presenter revealed her true feelings towards Nicola so quickly : most people in his experience , when first interviewed by the police , tried to hide extremes of love or hate . |
| 29 | When first introduced into Europe in the 14th century , sugar was reverently referred to as ‘ white gold ’ , and commanded a market price equal to that of silver . |