Example sentences of "to [adj] [noun] during the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the late 1980s , this demand has been much increased by the partial return to school of those who were out of school or sent away to rural areas during the school boycotts and political turmoil of the late 1970s and early 1980s . |
| 2 | A further presidential decree issued on June 14 and published in Rossiskaya gazeta of June 18 allowed the sale of land to private owners during the privatization of enterprises , and also permitted the sale of land for " entrepreneurial activity " . |
| 3 | Similarly , Mr Yeltsin , like Mr Gorbachev , was born into a peasant family during the calamitous 1930s and came to political maturity during the first days of Khrushchev , when hope began to dawn after Stalin 's long night . |
| 4 | The conclusion then must be that the minimum contribution of education to economic growth during the two periods was 0.35 per cent and 0.67 per cent respectively . |
| 5 | Although it is common knowledge that the authorities sold a great many works of art from Russian museums to foreign buyers during the 1920s and 1930s , it is rather less well-known that the book reserves of Russian libraries were similarly violated . |
| 6 | Direct subsidies to Scottish farmers during the year were £190 million , with indirect subsidies worth about the same again . |
| 7 | There were a number of episodes of armed resistance to British authority during the early years of occupation , and they were dealt with in a fashion amply sufficient to deter . |
| 8 | Yuill and Dodds , which ran the miners ' gauntlet to deliver supplies to British Steel during the 1985 strike , was convicted at Linlithgow Sheriff Court in October on 36 charges of allowing drivers to exceed permitted hours and to take insufficient breaks . |
| 9 | But the language of everyday correspondence was undoubtedly French , and the many news-letters and reports sent to English recipients during the Anglo-French war of St Sardos ( 1324–5 ) were overwhelmingly French . |
| 10 | The appalling conditions in which some urban and industrial workers lived and worked were first brought to public notice during the 1890s . |
| 11 | And that bodes ill for future stability ; after all , King Hussein of Jordan has bowed to popular pressure during the past six months in opposing war and has only earned Western enmity for his democratic behaviour ! |
| 12 | The question that then needed to be answered was whether the dd fusion was being induced by collisions within the hot plasma — ‘ thermonuclear ’ fusion — or from some other non-thermonuclear processes such as collisions between deuterons that had been accelerated to high energies during the initial pulse of current and other deuterons of comparatively low energies . |
| 13 | The instruments for changing behaviour show an adapted regularity which suggests that they themselves have been subject to natural selection during the course of evolution . |
| 14 | In my view a good case has been made for the view that the learning processes involved in the formation of mating preference of humans have been subject to natural selection during the course of evolution . |
| 15 | His evidence : more and more babies were born to unmarried women during the past 30 years — which is when social-welfare spending shot up . |
| 16 | There seems to be a readiness in the baby to react keenly to visual stimuli during the first few months of life . |
| 17 | A sixty-foot tree , a gift from the people of Stockholm in recognition of the hospitality shown to Swedish seamen during the war , arrived at the Docks and was ceremoniously welcomed by the Lord Mayor . |
| 18 | Later research showed that they were in fact storehouses and workshops , attached to hut-dwelling communities during the first and second centuries AD : quernstones were found in such a cellar at Barns of Airlie , and a chamber in a Carlungie souterrain seems to have been used for both stone and metal working . |
| 19 | That was the story that finished with psychiatrist Fulton Mackay being driven almost insane — and to unscripted laughs during the first ‘ take ’ . |
| 20 | The Nazi Party of Germany used its powerful pattern to full advantage during the Second World War . |
| 21 | The bid drew the attention of the Takeover Panel , and Burson-Marsteller , Dowty 's public relations advisers , were censured for suggesting to various newspapers during the bid that Dowty 's profits would rise considerably in the future . |
| 22 | This form of analysis has been applied to various periods during the industrial revolution and to more modern developments . |
| 23 | In addition , important regulators of platelet function , such as prostacyclin and cyclic AMP , may have been degraded to inactive products during the time taken to prepare platelet-rich plasma . |
| 24 | It would be beneficial to warn people to change their ‘ alien ’ notes to familiar currency during the Christmas period so they know where they are and do not give the opportunity to the fast buck merchants of lining their nests . |
| 25 | The UK Northern Ireland Secretary Sir Patrick Mayhew and the Irish Foreign Minister David Andrews agreed on Nov. 16 that progress had been made in the talks when round-table and committee stages gave way to bilateral contacts during the past four weeks , although there had been no bilateral meeting between the Irish government and the Democratic Unionist Party . |
| 26 | Several theories of planetary formation include the possibility of disturbance to axial spins during the late stages of formation of a planet . |
| 27 | It was known , for instance , that ‘ many thousands ’ of party and non-party members had been subjected to mass repression during the Stalin period ; this was the truth of the matter , and there was no escaping it . |
| 28 | The earnings-related supplement , paid to eligible claimants during the first six months of unemployment , has been abolished ; unemployment pay is now taxable ; and tax rebates are not now paid immediately to those losing their jobs . |
| 29 | On March 5 India 's Central Bureau of Investigation ( CBI ) filed a First Information Report ( FIR ) in a New Delhi court in connection with allegations that commissions had been paid to Indian middlemen during the government 's purchase of submarines from a West German company , Howaldtswerke Deutsche Werft ( HDW ) , in the early 1980s . |
| 30 | This generally takes the form of a tailored information memorandum and would be given to prospective purchasers during the course of negotiations . |