Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [adj] [noun] when the " in BNC.

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1 The open air theme , eventually to become epitomized by visions of Woodstock and the Rolling Stones performing live in Hyde Park , was itself a throwback from Kerouac 's On the Road : because the road became the central symbol of his disciples ' lives — hitting it in search of new horizons when the local scene became dull .
2 He became a lecturer in German in the newly created Department of Modern Languages when the Royal College received its charter as a University in 1967 .
3 That was on the Friday evening and by Monday I had put the whole thing out of my head and into the category of satisfying memories when the boy came in with Duke on the lead .
4 In October–November 1962 the world seemed on the brink of nuclear war when the United States suddenly discovered that the USSR was trying to position medium-range missiles in Cuba .
5 New German money flocked to buy jewels , silver and objets de vertu touched with the lustre of German history when the treasures superfluous to requirements of the Fürsts von Thurn und Taxis came under the hammer in Geneva on 17 November .
6 The Bank is also influential in the gilt-edged market as it administers the issue of new bonds when the government wishes to borrow money .
7 All of this was so very different from the earlier period of Hebrew history when the first recorded occasion of a circumcision had as its central active character the woman Zipporah , and it puts in context the biblical passage , written at the time of the exile , with which this essay opened : Jerusalem , allegorized as a female in needy relation to her Lord and depicted as cleansed of her blood by the intervention of a male deity .
8 They were in the fifth field near a copse of native trees when the incident occurred .
9 A discussion of this initiative was undoubtedly on the agenda of Soviet-DRA talks when the DRA Foreign Minister , Dost , visited Moscow in mid March 1980 .
10 The difference in the enthalpy of base pair stacking between the least exothermic ( A-U on U-A ) and most exothermic interaction ( G-C on C-G ) within mixed sequences amounts to 35.7 kJ mol -1 , and is rationalised on the basis of the difference in charge distribution within the G-C and A-T base pairs , and consequently the magnitude of dipole-dipole interactions when the base pairs are stacked together [ 21 ] .
11 It was another sign of changing times when the British from 1967 began to embark upon more joint defence procurement programmes with the Europeans — notably the multinational collaborative effort which produced the Tornado fighter-bomber .
12 There will never be more than a stray shower ; the waves will never be more than three feet high , with a scattering of white horses when the breeze runs into double figures .
13 A bit-pattern index can extend the use of serial files when the number of attributes is limited , but a break-even point will occur somewhere between 20 000 and 100000 records , depending on record size , number of possible attributes and the complexity of Boolean conditions required .
14 Why , then , the attack of cold feet when the programme was in the can and the billing in the Radio Times ?
15 Lack of dynamic testing can mean that for some independent software vendors less than 20% of their application code is relevant , which can lead to any number of unforeseen problems when the application is run under different environments .
16 Lack of dynamic testing can mean that for some independent software vendors less than 20% of their application code is relevant , which can lead to any number of unforeseen problems when the application is run under different environments .
17 Figures 7.1 — 7.3 show histogram distributions for the total number of derived word-paths when the input utterances are matched against the lexicon .
18 Figures 6.4 — 6.6 show histogram distributions for the total number of derived word-strings when the input utterances are matched against the lexicon .
19 SWISS skier Franz Heinzer bids to complete a hat-trick of downhill successes when the first of two World Cup races begin in Val Gardena , Italy today .
20 Only a tentative diagnosis is possible during the pulmonary phase of heavy infections when the larvae are migrating , and is based on the simultaneous appearance of pneumonic signs in a litter , often within two weeks of birth .
21 She sat down and was about to indulge in a fit of angry tears when the phone rang .
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