Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adv] [prep] [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was also during this period that we had the strangest set of photographs taken of us , by Peter Christopherson who worked for a design company , Hipgnosis — whose offices were at the back of our Denmark Street HQ — and who later joined Throbbing Gristle , a band best known for tabloid spreads on their occult practices . |
| 2 | It was also during this period that primitive man undoubtedly arrived at the time when he was able to communicate with his fellows with developing abilities more effective than those available to the rest of living creatures . |
| 3 | It was also during this period that his single-engined fighter designs began appearing , starting with the Yak–1 and leading on to the classic Yak–3 — later developed into the familiar Yak–11 trainer . |
| 4 | It was also during this period that his political ideas began moving sharply to the right . |
| 5 | As a young radio announcer he had shown a talent for communication that he had subsequently built on during his years in Hollywood and it was also during this period that politics became a consuming interest . |
| 6 | Although in the middle of the seventeenth century Muscovy was racked by a series of civil rebellions , peasant wars , religious turmoil and military mutiny , it was also during this period that the foundations for the political , social and economic structures of the tsarist imperial system were laid down . |
| 7 | It was also in this period of the early Sixties that he experimented with LSD and , like most of his contemporaries , used marijuana . |
| 8 | It was also in this period that the frequent stayer programmes were introduced . |
| 9 | He left the king 's service for a few years after March 1245 ; it was probably during this period that he compiled a metrical grammar for the children of Hamo de Pecche , a Cambridgeshire baron . |
| 10 | Unfortunately no division lists survive for the Commons for the years 1691 – 5 , and there are strong grounds for believing ( as will be discussed later ) that it was precisely in this period when party lines became most blurred . |
| 11 | It was indeed during this period that many universities used copies of their theses as an exchange medium between universities in the USA and Europe . |
| 12 | Furthermore , it was only during this period that scientific advance identified the main links between insanitary conditions and disease . |