Example sentences of "[noun] of a [noun] when [art] " in BNC.

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1 Louisa had been skidding unsteadily about the ice for the best part of an hour when a carriage came round the rear drive of the Hall and , after a moment 's debate , Edwin Frere sprang down to give a helping hand to his well-muffled wife .
2 I have many happy memories of a time when the world was innocent as were most of us .
3 Nevertheless , the year 1961 , in which Molly Sheavyn and Mark Frame assumed office , is historically very significant for it marks the beginning of an era when the BDDA was no longer tun by part-time volunteers from their homes , but became an organisation with its own office and full-time paid staff .
4 The exact truth as to material fact ceases to be of importance in art — it is a student 's style — the style of a period when the mind is serene and unawakened to the tragical mysteries of life . ’
5 A sodium azide-based gas generator inflates the bag with nitrogen in a fraction of a second when a sensor detects a sudden deceleration .
6 And in the vineries built against a south facing wall are peach trees … the last remnants of an era when every large house expected to grow its own peaches , grapes and figs .
7 The Garlands , and their shop with the rooms over , were out of period , relics of a time when the business and management of the town had been in the hands of a few prosperous traders .
8 Dressed in the multicoloured jacket of his company ‘ team , ’ exhausted Daryn Swords said : ‘ I thought it was a hell of a day when the first rate rise came .
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