Example sentences of "[vb pp] when [pron] was [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two days after its signing , Joyce went to England and joined the army , but was discharged when it was discovered that he was only sixteen . |
| 2 | This was not pursued when it was realised that quite small countries like Ireland could become significant contributors . |
| 3 | But this question was quickly resolved when it was discovered that Coggan much preferred moving to York and not London . |
| 4 | This was agreed in February 1906 and at the same time the order for a further 14 cars of the smaller type , to work the Sutton route , was cancelled when it was realized that the fifteen ‘ Croydon & District ’ cars dumped on the site of Mitcham Road Depôt ( Aurelia Road ) would have to be taken into the South Metropolitan fleet . |
| 5 | This theory was threatened when it was discovered that many substances gain weight after combustion . |
| 6 | ‘ The manager was told when he was appointed that his was a pressure job and that the pressure would increase with good results or bad . |
| 7 | The Conservative Education Association also condemned the government plan and opposition mounted when it was learned that the government planned to cut education spending in London by 40 per cent following abolition of the ILEA . |
| 8 | This new decision , however , was overruled when it was discovered that its passage would require a larger majority . |
| 9 | Apparently much amusement was caused when it was learned that the bill for the work was even more excessive than the shape of the statues . |
| 10 | The shock/horror disclosure that children were watching video nasties in vast numbers was severely criticised when it was found that the research had undergone a little trimming with a chain-saw here and there . |
| 11 | And what impact it had made was soon dissipated when it was realized that the ‘ total ’ war was still only partial after all , and that the well-to-do and high-and-mighty were still able to avoid the burdens which fell on ordinary people . |
| 12 | The dramatic irony was further heightened when it was revealed that the botanist and would-be cryptographer was indeed engaged in an extra-marital affair . |
| 13 | But memories of the Flockton Grey affair of 1982 were revived when it was revealed that the horse was bred by Ken Richardson . |
| 14 | A Baroque façade was added in the seventeenth-century but much of this was lost when it was suggested that it was shadowing the more important church of Santa Maria beside it . |
| 15 | These suspicions were fuelled when it was discovered that one of those killed was not employed at the mine . |
| 16 | Their competence was further questioned when it was resolved that , ‘ Messrs. Brunel and Burn be requested to examine further the plans proposed by Messrs. Angell and Pownall to be omitted , and to report to the Judges at their next meeting ’ . |
| 17 | A section of motorway had to be shut when it was discovered that the bridge was structurally unsafe . |
| 18 | This fear largely evaporated when it was proved that the fragile genetically-engineered microbes could not live outside their special environment inside the fermenter . |
| 19 | I have said it before and will say again that I am one such beneficiary , and probably not the sort of beneficiary that was intended when it was decided that a discount would be required . |
| 20 | The interviews were already published when it was discovered that he was an impostor . |