Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] during a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The usual system is for the client to say how much he will spend as a working budget during a certain period of time . |
| 2 | The then United Kingdom Minister for Overseas Development , Christopher Patten , on July 5 , 1989 , signed an environmental co-operation agreement with the Brazilian Foreign Ministry during a six-day visit to the country . |
| 3 | So , by the late 1980s , the services resembled the kitchen of a fast-food restaurant during a busy lunch hour . |
| 4 | The former Clipstone Colliery linesman had his progress impeded by a string of top-class seamers during a frustrating period on the Nottinghamshire staff , and considered quitting the game before Ken Higgs recruited him for Leicestershire in 1990 . |
| 5 | A SQUAD of Cambridge University rugby players turned the air blue as they terrorised a packed jetliner during a two-hour rampage . |
| 6 | Prepare wide planting hole with leaf-mould and garden compost , and apply this as an annual mulch during a wet spell in early spring . |
| 7 | Economic income is simply the maximum amount of real income that can be consumed out of real wealth during a given period without impairing the ability of that stock of real wealth to deliver real income and hence real consumption in the future . |
| 8 | Mr Major will meet Clinton in his capacity as president of the European Community during a preplanned US-Euro summit . |
| 9 | Alex Murphy , a determined Detroit cop , is shot down in cold blood during a risky low-profile operation . |
| 10 | An old acquaintance of the family needed a governess-companion for her little girl during a prolonged visit to Europe . |
| 11 | Freedoms may also be suspended by Emergency Regulations promulgated by the Privy Council during a national emergency . |
| 12 | And so it is with Wattana , who , in a psychological move during a recent Matchroom League clash , showed he is hardly in awe of Hendry when he won five successive frames before scattering the balls to ‘ allow ’ the Scot the first of three consolation frames . |
| 13 | On April 24 the UK Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd , told the House of Commons that " we take the Amnesty report seriously " , and he promised to raise the question of human rights during a forthcoming visit to Kuwait . |
| 14 | And the Prime Minister , due to meet local Tory activists during a regional tour this week , is fighting off growing party unrest over the Budget VAT levy . |
| 15 | Norway hit one of its own submarines with a dummy torpedo during a military exercise , the defence command said yesterday . |
| 16 | Being the prevailing wind did not make a storm less stormy ; having bubonic plague during a Black Death which affected half the world did not make it less painful ; being overindebted at a time when cultural change had made it fashionable neither excused it nor mitigated it . |
| 17 | Family and friends have paid their last respects to rock climber Peter Bowron , who was swept to sea by a freak wave during a New Year rock-climbing holiday . |
| 18 | Whether they learn their home stream 's distinctive smell during a discrete sensitive period is undecided . |
| 19 | Fresh start : The new intake at Queens University take a look around the Great Hall during a special Open Day |
| 20 | THE Chinese Premier , Mr Li Peng , yesterday made what is believed to be his most forthright attack yet on the reforms sweeping Eastern Europe during a private meeting with a delegation from Hong Kong . |
| 21 | THE Chinese Premier , Mr Li Peng , yesterday made what is believed to be his most forthright attack yet on the reforms sweeping Eastern Europe during a private meeting with a delegation from Hong Kong . |
| 22 | Semerdzhiev resigned on July 27 as Interior Minister during a noisy Assembly debate on plans for ousted Communist leader Todor Zhivkov to testify before parliament . |
| 23 | In the 1950s he bought the major share of Universal Pictures , which he steered to good fortune during a difficult period , with movies featuring such stars as Cary Grant , James Stewart and Doris Day . |
| 24 | In mildly hypertensive non-insulin-dependent patients a recent controlled study using an intended diet shown in Table 3.4 lowered systolic and diastolic blood pressure , improved glycaemic control and reduced weight during a three-month period ( Dodson et al , 1984 ) . |
| 25 | On account of that , there is enhanced absorption of unrelated intraluminal antigens during a positive cow 's milk challenge . |
| 26 | You can do all your homework and be in the right swim during a feeding spell and then still miss the fish if you , for example , put all your baits under the far bank and the pack is moving up and down the centre of the drain or close to the near bank which in my experience is quite common . |
| 27 | The tectonothermal history of the metasedimentary rocks of both groups is of progressive deformation during a regional metamorphism . |
| 28 | My cassettes had been removed from the rack separating the front seats during a half-hearted attempt at car valeting , and I had n't replaced them . |
| 29 | Mitterrand and Bush discussed the Arab-Israeli conflict during a one-day meeting on the island of Martinique on March 14 . |
| 30 | It is also surprisingly difficult to hold accurate heading during a full airbrake sideslipping approach . |