Example sentences of "during the " in BNC.

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1 Pre-recorded broadcasts were made by BBC Radio News for Radio 4 's ‘ World at One ’ and by Independent Radio News ( IRN ) for broadcast during the week of the 7th International Conference on AIDS in Florence .
2 During the week the BBC took the opportunity to broadcast part of another pre-recorded interview on Radio 4 's ‘ File on 4 ’ , while Capital Radio broadcast a four-part feature on AIDS , again including a ‘ canned ’ interview with Patrick .
3 At the present rate of referral , numbers are more than set to double during the year .
4 ‘ Thank you for all the help you gave to us and to Bob during the last few days of his illness — I only wish we 'd been put in touch with ACET sooner .
5 During the past year at least 1.5 million more men , women and children have become infected with HIV .
6 In Scotland the AIDS problem is largely drug related with HIV spreading rapidly through the communal use of syringes and needles during the mid 1980s .
7 He had first been found guilty of setting fire to an armoured personnel carrier commandeered by students and a car during the 19898 pro-democracy demonstrations in Beijing .
8 Opposite : A concert crowd in New Delhi , during the Human Rights Now !
9 Zhang Jingsheng was sentenced to 13 years ' imprisonment in December 1989 for ‘ counter-revolutionary ’ crimes during the 1989 pro-democracy demonstrations .
10 Xiao Bin , a 42-year-old worker from Dalian , is serving a 10-year sentence for ‘ counter-revolutionary incitement ’ during the pro-democracy demonstrations .
11 During the first 11 months of 1990 AI sent 68 delegates to 50 countries ranging from Jordan to Nepal , from the USA to Romania .
12 President Bush 's recent pronouncements on what is just and moral during the Gulf war left me feeling empty and bitter .
13 The definition of capital murder — which carries the death penalty — varies from state to state : in Alabama , a capital murder is one that occurs during the course of a robbery , or where the victim is kidnapped or raped ; or , where the perpetrator is on parole or has escaped from custody ; or where the crime is particularly cruel .
14 During the interim period the prison authorities had taken David 's favourite visitor off his visiting list causing him to drift into despair .
15 Prisoners executed in Arizona during the 1920s .
16 During the period of 1984–5 , more than 2,800 Sri Lankans sought asylum in the UK and in May 1985 , a visa requirement was imposed on the nationals of Sri Lanka , the first time such a requirement was imposed on the nationals of a Commonwealth country .
17 On 28 May 1986 , Amnesty 's 25th Anniversary , St Clement Danes Church in the Strand , London , rang 5,000 chimes , roughly one for every POC case Amnesty had worked on during the year .
18 Although we may claim that we simply publish an objective report , the inference that exceptional evil existed during the occupation of Kuwait will naturally be made by those trying to justify the devastating Allied bombardment of Iraq , now retrospectively .
19 In other political states during the twentieth century , there has been strong support for the view that art should serve a social purpose .
20 His secretary , the poet Rainer Maria Rilke , wrote with feeling about his work , but during the 1920s Rodin was less regarded , and not until after the Second World War did his reputation revive under the stimulus of exhibitions and increasingly careful cataloguing of his work .
21 During the nineteenth century to be noticed was good fortune , while to be praised was a professional advantage .
22 In Victorian Britain or France during the Second Empire the critic had some influence over taste .
23 Greenberg wrote exhibition reviews for The Nation during the 1940s , but his lasting reputation comes from a collection of his articles , including some more thematic pieces for Partisan Review , in a book published in 1961 with the title Art and Culture .
24 Looser paint-handling , combined with what remained an essentially Cubist sense of design , drawing , layout , was what artists as different as Gorky and Pollock had in common during the mid-1940s .
25 His parents did not get on and parted during the war , which put an end to the old hierarchic world of Amnersfield , where you were not to look at your masters when they came up the drive , but to hoe on regardless .
26 During the meeting with him a few months before his death which was recorded in an article published in the London Review , Philip Roth found him as keen as mustard : here was someone who listened , with the intent stillness of a chipmunk .
27 Philip Roth 's article refers to this issue in referring to the later book If not now , when ? — Levi 's ‘ Eastern ’ , an adventure story of Jewish partisans during the closing months of the war , led by the Communist fighter-fiddler Gedaleh .
28 Theatres were closed during the Cromwellian period , but with the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 came Court comedy and the beginning of the ‘ comedy of manners ’ which has , in one way or another , been popular right up to the present day .
29 Sheridan and Goldsmith continued to write comedies of manners during the eighteenth century ‘ with their famous plays The Rivals and She Stoops to Conquer , and this tradition finds its most successful twentieth-century exponents in Noel Coward and Somerset Maugham ; Private Lives and The Circle are frequently revived by present day repertory companies .
30 You may smile , but does freedom of the press mean freedom to choose its own standards ? … down , as I would have been obliged to do had it not been burned down during the state of emergency which followed independence .
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