Example sentences of "[adj] during the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , another working party examining China 's status as a contracting party gave further consideration to this issue during 1989 , although the shootings in Tiananmen Square on June 4 ( see pp. 36720-22 ) led to a postponement until December of talks due during the middle of the year . |
| 2 | The court will , for example , try to construe a lease so that all payments of rent fall due during the term and in respect of periods that fall wholly within it ( Ladyman v Wirral Estates Ltd [ 1968 ] 2 All ER 197 , Whelton Sinclair v Hyland [ 1992 ] 2 EGLR 158 ) . |
| 3 | Tom was clean and dry during the day shortly after his second birthday , but at over 3½ years old he still needs a nappy at night . |
| 4 | It was kept alive during the last century by a series of exotic injections . |
| 5 | If Charles Dodgson had been alive during the Second World War he would have surely been recruited for Station X , not only for his mathematics but also for his amphigory . |
| 6 | The smallest insect alive during the Age of Dinosaurs must have been more than a million times smaller than Brontosaurus . |
| 7 | Referring to Western society Gerth and Mills state that life chances include ‘ Everything from the chance to stay alive during the first year after birth to the chance to view fine arts , the chance to remain healthy and grow tall , and if sick to get well again quickly , the chance to avoid becoming a juvenile delinquent and very crucially , the chance to complete an intermediary or higher educational grade ’ . |
| 8 | When we toured with the Inspiral Carpets — which was good for us to do at that point — we 'd only done 20 gigs as a band , and were n't experienced in the ‘ problems ’ of a support act like monitors being mysteriously unplugged during the performance , and an ever-shrinking stage , but we still did the business ! |
| 9 | As it happens , the concrete evidence about marriage in the " 1910 sample " analysed in Chapter 6 ( those women in the trade in 1910 ) very largely relates to women who were aged about 18–28 during the Great War , and it could reasonably be argued that the war played such havoc with the marriage chances of this generation that it will have contained an unusually high proportion of women who never married . |
| 10 | So he and Mr Skinner started pointing at Tory MPs , appearing to be arguing about precisely how many of them had fallen asleep during the Health Secretary 's speech . |
| 11 | But despite a guest appearance by Jack Nicholson , and the assistance of the ingenious Simenon ( a man so uninfatuated by Prince and all his works that he fell asleep during the Sign O The Times movie ) , does Cat have the creative wherewithal to make it as a solo act ? |
| 12 | He must have fallen asleep during the Jane Russell film . |
| 13 | When fast asleep during the day , the tarsier clings , hunched up , by means of its sucker discs to a vertical tree shoot . |
| 14 | At the final stage , sleeping only 4.5 hours a night , problems arose with subjects complaining of falling asleep during the day , and the reductions in time allowed in bed were discontinued . |
| 15 | The superintendent had fallen asleep during the journey , her head gently rolling from side to side against the car seat , her front teeth prominent in her open mouth as she breathed through her nose . |
| 16 | Come on , if they 're asleep during the day they ought to be woken up . |
| 17 | About quarter to eleven we got to bed , but they were going on I fell asleep during the middle of it cos I just got used to the noise |
| 18 | You should make sure that you are adequately covered from the start , because the likelihood of a dog running away from home is probably greatest during the first few months of ownership . |
| 19 | Fifth , since the amount a striker can receive in income tax rebate is greatest during the end of the financial year , i.e. March , the incidence of strikes is highest during that period . |
| 20 | whitewashed West Indies in the one-dayers and were then routed 4–0 during the main business of that summer . |
| 21 | Well if Mark Bosnich was the man of the moment in midweek the name on everyone 's lips during the week during sorry during the last twenty four hours has been Bobby Gould . |
| 22 | The bond between grandparents and grandchildren can remain strong during the difficult years of adolescence . |
| 23 | As has been explained previously , the value of the Guinness offer for Distillers depended on the relative share prices of the two shares and the Guinness share price proved to be strong during the final lap of the campaign . |
| 24 | Hungarian pressure was particularly strong during the reign of Kálmán ( 1095–1116 ) , who in 1102 became King of Croatia and Dalmatia . |
| 25 | The Soviet Union 's commitment to nuclear power appeared strong during the three years following Chernobyl but since 1989 there has been an increasing number of public demonstrations against nuclear power expansion , especially in the Baltic republics , the Ukraine , Byelorussia and Armenia . |
| 26 | The belief that working class men would choose idleness if at all possible and that married women 's work provided them with the opportunity was particularly strong during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . |
| 27 | These ties were particularly strong during the Hohenstaufen dynasty in the twelfth and thirteenth century . |
| 28 | Another problem arises because the air on board the aircraft has an oxygen pressure and water vapour content that are low in comparison with ‘ fresh air ’ and such an environment tends to cause dehydration and headaches. further , the lack of movement that is possible during the flight can lead to stiffness , even cramp . |
| 29 | He is refreshingly straightforward and forthright , embarrassing Labour 's image makers who attempted to keep him in the background as much as possible during the election campaign . |
| 30 | Two or three cameras , mounted on tripods , could be placed in three select committee rooms and in two used by standing committees , and some upgrading of the lights was required in those rooms when the cameras were in use , but the aim was to make as few changes as possible during the experimental period . |