Example sentences of "[noun] during negotiations [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The 50 passengers were released , but the hijackers held four crew members hostage for several hours during negotiations with the Djibouti authorities and Ethiopian embassy officials .
2 Lewis and Maloney so played up their own virginal roles during negotiations for a fight with world heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe , that you wonder whether , in the words of Muhammad Ali , these boys ai n't as dumb as they look .
3 That we will keep all information of a confidential nature about [ ] Plc and [ ] Plc 's business and financial affairs which come to our knowledge during negotiations for the sale of the Shares to you confidential and accordingly we will not disclose any such information to any person or use any such information other than wholly in connection with such negotiations except to the extent that it is , already when we receive such information , or becomes thereafter , public knowledge through no fault of any of us .
4 If , on the other hand , there are pressures on the salesperson , perhaps because of low sales returns , then a buyer should be able to extract extremely favourable terms during negotiations in return for purchasing from him .
5 It brought several things to mind : the evident barrier during negotiations between the steward and the women ; the warnings of a friend about my own relationship with the steward — ‘ You put too much trust in that man ’ ; and the remark made when I reported how I had initially explained my research aims to the union stewards — ‘ You told the Secret Service !
6 Job evaluation , however , was an ideal application for the use of interactive computing during negotiations in that : ( i ) the issues were clear cut and technical ( no elements of pure judgement , such as the value of a cooperation clause , were present , for example ) ; ( ii ) several different facets of the outcome were important ( grade specific rates of upgrading being relevant , not merely the overall upgrading figure ; the effect on individual formations , not just the overall position ) making manual calculations particularly slow and cumbersome .
7 None of this suggests that the NUAAW is going to sanction any widespread militant activity other than a little judicious sabre-rattling by its left-wing faction during negotiations on the AWB .
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