Example sentences of "when it [was/were] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dines only admitted the charge when it was proven that guns found in his car had fired the shots . |
| 2 | Just two miles from the German forward positions , the Mort Homme seemed hardly beyond the scope of a determined thrust — especially when it was recalled that the Fifth Army had advanced three times as far during the first four days alone on the Right Bank . |
| 3 | They relented when it was explained that the alternative was to exhume the bodies of other relatives . |
| 4 | Hunt overtook Lauda to win the Spanish Grand Prix at Jarama , the fourth of the championship , but then the season-long wrangling and arguing started when it was ruled that Hunt 's car was 1.8 cm ( 0.7 in ) too wide and he was stripped of his points , Lauda being promoted to first place . |
| 5 | She added : ‘ It was a joint decision when it was decided that he should n't retire a couple of years ago . |
| 6 | When it was decided that Mr Brown would soon be fit to go home , sister contacted the warden of the flats in which he lived to discuss arrangements with her . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | When it was decided that the literature committee should take more account of the interests of readers , she chaired a committee to take soundings . |
| 9 | It reminded him of shop stewards with their sleeves rolled up in those endless conferences when it was said that the country was being held to ransom . |
| 10 | Thomas Duff , who had been going about his business as a messenger boy when it was said that he ‘ nearly ran in to two gentlemen ’ , put up a stout defence in court . |
| 11 | That is , they are not of the form exemplified at the end of the last section when it was said that if cc was a causal circumstance for e , then there is the true generalization that all circumstances of the type of cc , even if certain other events or conditions occur , are followed by events of the same type as e . |
| 12 | The German had intended to ride his Olympic gold medal partner , Walzerkoenig , on Saturday night until a few hours earlier when it was discovered that the horse 's off-foreleg was inexplicably swollen . |
| 13 | But this question was quickly resolved when it was discovered that Coggan much preferred moving to York and not London . |
| 14 | When it was discovered that a member of the Immigration Department was in the National Front his seniors merely glossed over it , saying that he was not a permanent member and in any case it did not affect the way he carried out his duties . |
| 15 | One Borstal inmate , Rodney Ackland , was expelled from the company when it was discovered that he had written a highbrow play while employed as a BIP screenwriter . |
| 16 | A frisson of concern ran through the staff when it was discovered that items have only been routinely fumigated against pathogens since the 1950s . |
| 17 | The link , however , was discovered soon after systematic depth soundings were taken , when it was discovered that there was a long submarine mountain range running down the middle of the Atlantic from Arctic to Antarctic . |
| 18 | Despite his heavy family commitments , he was instantly dismissed by his father when it was discovered that he had entertained a nurse in the company flat . |
| 19 | and the Scottish Court of Session agreed that his employers ' prejudice justified their sacking of him ; Susan Shell was sacked from her job as a care assistant by Barking 's Labour council , when it was discovered that she was lesbian and she refused to resign . |
| 20 | The interviews were already published when it was discovered that he was an impostor . |
| 21 | Thus when it was discovered that Jock Houston had a criminal record he was immediately moved from London to Manchester , and replaced in Shoreditch by Charles Wegg Prosser , a law student with an impeccable background . |
| 22 | Only when it was discovered that some men , formerly working on the surface , were working in canteens on the lowest male rate — higher than the female rate — did the union begin to campaign for equal pay for the women . |
| 23 | This theory was threatened when it was discovered that many substances gain weight after combustion . |
| 24 | The event started with a slight hiccup when it was discovered that the batteries were in the wrong way round . |
| 25 | She was brought in when it was discovered that the largest of the two rings , in Penzance , had contact with other rings throughout the country and many of the perpetrators had been in prison . |
| 26 | Then she had been forced to leave when it was discovered that her real father was a white man . |
| 27 | That motivation disappeared when it was discovered that the universe is expanding . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Will he explain exactly when it was discovered that that material was in the bags sent to Wandsworth prison and when the search for it started ? |
| 30 | These suspicions were fuelled when it was discovered that one of those killed was not employed at the mine . |