Example sentences of "[vb pp] during the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than 12 vans and cars were stopped during the 35 minutes the road block was in position . |
| 2 | Thus ‘ size ’ is partly dependent on shape , a fact which was gradually recognized during the early years of the present century . |
| 3 | The impersonal and durable character of these rights was highlighted during the last years of Louis VII 's reign , in the use in charters of the phrase corona regni ( the crown of the kingdom ) , a phrase which marked out royal rights from princely by asserting their value to the kingdom as a whole . |
| 4 | The principles underlying Adrienne Bennett 's work have been developed during the Low Attainers in Mathematics Project and the Raising Achievement in Mathematics Project . |
| 5 | Karadjordje 's attempt to impose himself on this structure by having himself declared ‘ Supreme Leader ’ created tensions which were never resolved during the nine years of his rebel regime . |
| 6 | A first planeload of ANC exiles returned home from Zambia on March 7 , and a further 550 were expected during the ensuing weeks . |
| 7 | If caught during the early weeks of pregnancy it can cause deafness , blindness and heart problems in the baby . |
| 8 | He seldom thought of the half-dozen men who had been hanged during the twenty years of his forensic experience , primarily because of his evidence , and when he did , it was not the strained but oddly anonymous faces in the dock which he remembered , or their names ; but paper and ink , the thickened downward stroke , the peculiar formation of a letter . |
| 9 | The teachers ' industrial action has limited this particular development , and the evaluators know of seven events which were either postponed or cancelled during the two years of the evaluation ; it is also probably the case that attendance at those events that did run was less than it would have been in happier times . |
| 10 | Discussions should also be held when relevant systems are being considered during the early stages , and when some specialist input ( ie from the organisation ) would be advantageous to the modelling exercises . |
| 11 | It was the victories won during the Seven Years War of 1756–63 much more than any intrinsic merits of the British constitution which forced a revision of disparaging estimates of this kind . |
| 12 | Debt that was amassed during the go-go years of the 1980s remains high while confidence remains low . |
| 13 | No doubt she has heard about Lovat being badly wounded during the early days of the fighting in Normandy and remembers her words to me as I left Achnacarry to join Lovat in Sussex . |
| 14 | There was the commander of the Cigognes , Captain Brocard , wounded during the first days of the fighting at Verdun , and relieved of his command the following year — because he simply could not adapt to the new conditions of air warfare the old form of single combat that had brought the Cigognes such renown in the early days . |
| 15 | THE COMMISSION of Investigation wishes to pay homage to you , in particular for your support to the Chadian people oppressed during the eight years of dictatorship of Hissein Habre . |
| 16 | In the UK , 2462 new HIV infections were reported during the twelve months to 30 June 1992 , bringing the cumulative total to 17,868 . |
| 17 | Comparisons will be made between the actual business experiences of the sample and the expectations reported during the original interviews . |
| 18 | The central keep dates from the early twelfth century but concentric walling with mural towers was added during the Middle Ages , bringing its fortification up to date ( 526 ) . |
| 19 | Various emergency measures had been imposed during the 1989-90 disturbances in Kosovo by Serbia 's President Slobodan Milosevic . |
| 20 | Assuming that the contributions are made during the five years the child is at a fee-paying school the difference in total cost works out at £43,000 at an investment return of 13 per cent , compared with £58,320 at 8.5 per cent . |
| 21 | The recording was made during the darkest years of the Depression and reduced strings were used ; this tells at the opening of the finale but is hardly noticeable elsewhere . |
| 22 | On Jan. 16 the round table talks immediately ran into problems when the UDF representatives accused the BCP of reneging on promises made during the preliminary discussions that the opposition would be allowed its own newspaper and access to state television and radio , and that a building would be handed over for use as a UDF headquarters . |
| 23 | These ‘ triangle centres ’ tend to fetch high prices among collectors , because they are pretty safe guarantees that the disc in question was actually manufactured during the golden years of rock ‘ n ’ roll , and is not a more modern pressing . |
| 24 | It was obviously written as encouragement to the soldiers and families separated during the long years of the Second World War , but it seemed to express the yearning that so many young men must have felt when they were far from their families , desolate and frightened : |
| 25 | Historical evidence suggests that relief arrangements are initiated or expanded during the occasional outbreaks of civil disorder produced by mass unemployment , and are then abolished or contracted when political stability is restored … this view clearly belies the popular supposition that government social policies , including relief policies , are becoming progressively more responsible , humane and generous . |
| 26 | He has devised a model based on the mathematics of fluid dynamics , that attempts to explain the genesis of simple geometric patterns seen during the early stages of drug-induced hallucinations ( International Journal of Quantum Chemistry , vol 22 , p 1059 ) . |
| 27 | In short , Winckelmann epitomizes an intimate relationship between classical scholarship on the one hand and living culture and thought on the other.And in this he was renewing a tradition which had once existed ( albeit primarily outside Germany ) : the Renaissance tradition , which had weakened during the intervening centuries , and which was to lapse again almost beyond recall within the hundred years after his death . |
| 28 | Priscilla Savage remembers her mother telling her that she was placed down in the shade between two bundles of corn in an angle of the harvest field , and she was fed during the brief intervals her mother won from the gavelling . |
| 29 | Arguably , however , his most brilliant work was done during the many months of relative inactivity that followed , for it was then that he remoulded his demoralized command into a confident , compact fighting unit . |
| 30 | Moreover , one might predict further that had royalty in 1940 continued with the rich pageants of peacetime ( as the Prince Regent had done during the Napoleonic wars ) , the indifference might have turned to explicit criticism . |