Example sentences of "in the [noun] when [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next day Minton might insist on a walk on Hampstead Heath in the morning but the nub of the weekend came in the afternoon when all sat down to draw , Minton inspiring them all to work and try hard . |
| 2 | The expense of twelve lighting points and six socket outlets ( as high as £30 in the mid-1950s when this was being promoted as a desirable minimum ) also deterred some builders . |
| 3 | That recipe may have been appropriate in the past when personal consumption was largely met from the output of labour-intensive British industries . |
| 4 | The question then arises : Was there a time in the past when all the galaxies were on top of each other and the density of the universe was infinite ? |
| 5 | In the past when any of her casual boyfriends had tried to deepen the relationship , having discovered early that laughter and gentle ridicule were the things most men 's egos could n't stand , she 'd resorted to clowning . |
| 6 | The 1987 SORP did not elaborate but notable examples have occurred in the past when high-rise council flats have been demolished relatively soon after construction : local authorities have decided that housing revenue accounts could not and should not bear the burden of extinguishing the associated debt in the year of demolition . |
| 7 | He said : ‘ The car of elderly people is marginal to other government policies and we have services that are rooted in the past when social control was more important to care . ’ |
| 8 | It was thought extremely clever tactics when one team pretended not to be taking part in a tournament , and only joined in late in the day when all the other knights who had been fighting since soon after sunrise were exhausted . |
| 9 | Mr Frost says it looks real nice in the summer when all the flowers come out . |
| 10 | Oh , right , we row , we lucky we 've got a row of trees all the way along the back fence like , and in the summer when all the foliage makes quite a nice barrier for the noise and sound and stuff , but what were trying to do is to stop them from , were trying to make them spread out |
| 11 | But I always had books to read and pictures to paint and it was lovely in the summer when those theatrical people from London came down and put on all those Shakespearian plays out-of-doors on the cliffs . |
| 12 | Although this can lead to frustration for car drivers — especially in the summer when large queues build up — it helps limit the environmental damage to this very special area . |
| 13 | TEXTILE companies in the Borders are facing an unexpected staff shortage in the week when national unemployment figures are expected to top three million . |
| 14 | So we did , at the Athenaeum , in the days when that club , like most others in London , was rather livelier in the evenings than , for social reasons , it is now . |
| 15 | In the days when increased duty meant an increased tax take , this attitude might just be forgiven , never mind the long-term damage it did to the industry . |
| 16 | A Aequidens rivulatus got its common name back in the days when medium-sized fish were few and far between and by the standards then it was a Terror of an aquarium fish . |
| 17 | Once famed as ‘ Baghdad by the Bay ’ in the days when such an appellation was a compliment , San Francisco has gone the way of many major U.S. cities and is burdened by a high number of homeless and beggars , and rising crime . |
| 18 | Broodthaers , who was an installationist in the days when such work was still rather uncommon , became a guru to a select handful of French and later American artists — but his work remains , oddly , little known in New York . |
| 19 | Stacks of weathering timber stood between them in the days when four thousand men worked in the shipyard at the height of the Napoleonic Wars . |
| 20 | ( This was in the days when four pounds and ten shillings was worth sod all . ) |
| 21 | It was she who had cared for him , and looked after him , too , until he died , and in the bed upstairs in which he had been born , and his father before him , in the days when this house had really been a farmhouse and the land about had been glowing with crops in their rotation . |
| 22 | The interaction between SENSS teachers and class teachers as they work together with the class and as they exchange information is a great improvement on the situation which pertained in the days when remedial groups were withdrawn and then returned to class with a total absence or communication . |
| 23 | This could have been an argument for the theory of the mechanical origin of the sound in the days when some still insisted that it was vocal . |
| 24 | Considered an essential item of diet in the days when hazardous voyages to the islands were made by the Ness men in their open sailing 'sgothan , these days it was sought after as more of a delicacy , in spite of its rather revolting appearance when cured . |
| 25 | He was very kind to both of us , and played with us in the days when older brothers did not expect to play with ‘ little kids ’ . |
| 26 | In the days when most types of beer were dark , wheat brews were seen as being relatively pale and often cloudy . |
| 27 | In the days when most computer systems demanded their own room , ‘ casual ’ theft was n't a problem , but the incredible shrinking PC has increased the likelihood of equipment going missing . |
| 28 | Horne had first made his name on radio in the days when most people still called it the wireless — on another wartime show which supposedly told everything you ever wanted to know about an RAF station . |
| 29 | The flight panel was designed in the days when American firms used to write the names of the instruments on bits of paper , put them in a hat , draw them out one-by-one and fill in the holes . |
| 30 | The ample panel ‘ was designed in the days when American firms used to write the name of the instruments on bits of paper , uput them in a hat , draw them out one-by-one and fill in the holes ’ . |