Example sentences of "it [be] during [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm now available , if it 's during their holidays , to do something with them myself . |
| 2 | It was during her time at Clandon that Lady Onslow first became interested in voluntary work . |
| 3 | It was during her time as General Secretary from 1889 to 1921 that the guild emerged as a national force . |
| 4 | It was during her sister 's romance that Diana first came into the path of the man considered then to be the world 's most eligible bachelor . |
| 5 | It was during my second year as a news reporter that I was assigned to the Police Court beat . |
| 6 | It was during my visit that I made my acquaintance with Woolworths and thought it a marvellous store with goods that were priced at either 3d or 6d ; the firm did not arrive in Salisbury until 1927 . |
| 7 | It was during my first year at university that I first came across it in a book by James Tyler Kent in a public library . |
| 8 | It was during my fourth visit to Rhodesia that I managed to take some time off . |
| 9 | In his memoirs he wrote , ‘ It was during my visit to Bulgaria that I had the idea of installing missiles with nuclear warheads in Cuba without letting the United States find out they were there until it was too late to do anything about them ’ ( Khrushchev : 1970 , p. 493 ) . |
| 10 | It was during his second year at Manchester that he was offered the West Indies captaincy for the visit by Pakistan , but decided that his studies had to come first ; he had a strong sense of predestination and apparently felt that the leadership would be his eventually . |
| 11 | Benjamin Disraeli became Prime Minister of the British Parliament in 1874 and remained in that office until 1880 It was during his administration that Britain purchased a major holding of the shares of the Suez Canal Company |
| 12 | Carter had already excavated on behalf of Lord Amherst in the 1890s , but it was during his period with Lord Carnarvan that he made his most spectacular and significant finds , digging at Thebes and in the Valley of the Kings . |
| 13 | But it was during his tenure that the College Council debarred them . |
| 14 | The authors do not acknowledge the source of Escoffier 's account , but recount that it was during his days as an army chef de cuisine at the siege of Metz in 1870 that he had first grasped the necessity of improving the techniques of canning food . |
| 15 | It was during his Stowe years ( 1932–6 ) that White acquired his passion for hunting , shooting , and fishing . |
| 16 | has always involved himself with the community and it was during his first term of office here that one of our cherished hopes came to fruition , a community centre for , called The Village Hall . |