Example sentences of "during the [noun] trials " in BNC.

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1 During the treason trials Tixier-Vignancour became notorious for a tactic known as ‘ the defence of blackmail ’ when he repeatedly threatened to call eminent witnesses such as General de Gaulle and the Prime Minister Michel Debre , hinting that they too were involved in criminal plots .
2 The children were next asked to perform a two-choice discrimination problem — deciding which of two boxes contained a picture sticker — with a model who exhibited ‘ functionless ’ behaviour during the discrimination trials , that is behaviour not related to the stated task-goal ( finding the sticker ) .
3 In particular , during the discrimination trials , the children ‘ dutifully ’ followed the example set by the model , even when she took an indirect route to the boxes , which more than doubled the distance to be travelled and ‘ was clearly incompatible with the subjects ’ eagerness to get to the containers ' .
4 The public now has a better chance of listening to treasures such as the massive 40-cm 78-rpm discs cut during the Nuremburg Trials , or the 40 hours of tape recorded during the 0z trial .
5 We had a typical example of this during the F-Plan trials at London University .
6 During the show trials at the end of the 1940s she had been imprisoned pour encourager les autres , though she had no political associations .
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