Example sentences of "in [noun] when it be [verb] " in BNC.

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1 It was the grandest building in Montevideo when it was built , and adopted a style which seems to have been particularly congenial to Latin American nationalism , Second Empire .
2 Student nurse Carolyn Blanshard was in car when it was hit from behind .
3 The UN does not mind too much : it is determined not to repeat the mistakes made in Angola when it was landed with an inadequate mandate and impossible timetable .
4 This is a particularly important point to bear in mind when it is realized that many technological developments operate at the edges of life , whether they be ventilators or incubators .
5 Plans by The Ritz Carlton Hotel Company to manage the Windsor Hotel in London ( the former BR headquarters at Marylebone ) appeared to be in jeopardy when it was announced that the hotel 's owners were facing financial difficulties .
6 He was reviled as a so-called atheist but otherwise his thought received little attention , only becoming a main force in philosophy when it was rediscovered by German philosophers in the nineteenth century .
7 In the past two years it has grown by more than 35 per cent , and anyone who put in £3,000 when it was launched , in April 1988 , will have seen their investment swell to £4,267 .
8 The master at this time , J.W. , was in trouble when it was reported that he had been boarding some of the officers and two of their relatives in his own apartments under a private arrangement .
9 A painting of a garden at Auvers-sur-Oise by Van Gogh , finished only days before he killed himself , will become the first historical monument to go under the hammer in France when it is sold at Drouot salerooms on 6 December by Paris auctioneer Maître Jean-Claude Binoche of the firm Binoche et Godeau .
10 One version of what then ensued caused an uproar in France when it was published , a few months later , in Le Matin — through the evident complicity of a coterie of officers ardently desiring to install de Castelnau on Joffre 's throne .
11 The computer ‘ forgets ’ whatever is stored in RAM when it is switched off ; which is why it is so important to save to disk any files you have created beforehand .
12 Einstein became the success of the 1976 Avignon Festival and established Glass 's reputation in America when it was brought to the Metropolitan Opera House later that year .
13 This autumn statement was in doubt when it was published .
14 Most recently , in July 1991 , two fine Balthasar Denner heads of ‘ Old Women ’ were withdrawn from sale in London when it was learned that they had been looted from the Dresden Museum .
15 The motion was in order when it was put down and it is open to any hon. Member to support it — or amend it — if he or she wishes .
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