Example sentences of "[vb past] be [adv] [vb pp] during " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of us — my mother , my sister and I — were determined to spare him any more hospitals : he 'd been badly burned during the war and had a horror of them . |
| 2 | The supplies had been temporarily halted during 1989 , apparently in an attempt to force UNITA into negotiations . |
| 3 | His Opel Manta had been heavily damaged during the Burmah Rally and could n't be repaired in time for the Mourne Stages . |
| 4 | Ours was just one branch of a large family-tree whose roots had been well established during many generations in Lithuania . |
| 5 | In 1924 and 1925 field work was confined to the Midland Valley in order to finish sheets which had been partly surveyed during coalfield work . |
| 6 | The new Milanese opera , Lucio Silla ( another opera seria ) had been partly written during the summer in Salzburg , but Mozart could not complete it until he had heard each of the principal soloists , and was able to adjust his arias and recitatives to suit individual voices . |
| 7 | As before , this new document , The School Curriculum , emphasised preparation for adult life and the economic needs of the country , and repeated the list of aims claiming that they had been widely accepted during consultations . |
| 8 | On Jan. 30 , 1990 , a Supreme Soviet Commission revealed that nearly 845,000 victims of Stalinism had been posthumously rehabilitated during 1988-89 , but called for review procedures to be streamlined . |
| 9 | He realized , without interest , that the enemy firepower had been tremendously increased during the day . |
| 10 | Increased tension with India over Kashmir [ see pp. 37377-78 ; 37451-52 ] ensured that the defence budget was increased to Rs63,300 million in 1990-91 after it had been effectively frozen during the previous budget period . |
| 11 | Evidently the garden had been badly neglected during her ten days ' absence . |
| 12 | I mentioned in my last letter to Fiona that Lord Lovat had been badly wounded during an attack on the enemy positions on the evening of 12th June . |
| 13 | The Marine Mammals Protection Act was passed in New Zealand in 1978 , and reflected a growing public awareness of the need to provide for the conservation of the country 's marine mammals , which had been ruthlessly slaughtered during both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries . |
| 14 | He also strove staunchly to strengthen relations between the Poles living in Poland and those scattered abroad in the 13-million-strong Polish diaspora — links which had been almost destroyed during the Cold War period by Communist authorities , oblivious to their potential value to both sides . |
| 15 | The muscles had been fully stimulated during the growth period and Ewan had supposed they 'd be fully operational immediately . |
| 16 | As was often common after breech births , the afterbirth had not come away as it should have done , and Effie had been so torn during the birth , Dr Neil told her later , that she had started to bleed , and then the bleeding had turned into a violent haemorrhaging , the passage of the afterbirth completing the damage already done to Effie 's poor little body . |
| 17 | However , his reputation had been seriously damaged during the past year by a scandal involving his younger brother Juan Guerra González [ see p. 37263 ] , whose conduct had been the subject of a judicial investigation , the results of which were due to be made public in the near future . |
| 18 | While support for the government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl had been further undermined during the period of the strike , a meeting between the three ruling coalition parties and the opposition Social Democrats ( SPD ) on May 27 failed to resolve differences , and both the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) and SPD rejected any idea of a " grand coalition " as suggested by the media . |
| 19 | It was her only concession to family feeling , which had been severely strained during Terry 's stay with her after he came out of prison . |
| 20 | Relations between India and Pakistan had been severely strained during 1990 as a result of the revolt in disputed Kashmir . |
| 21 | These people had been highly politicised during the ‘ ten years of chaos ’ and could infect the younger generation , already causing some problems , with their negative attitudes and ideas . |
| 22 | The second edition of Lewis 's ‘ Topographical Dictionary ’ in 1840 speaks of how the town had been greatly improved during the previous 40 years . |
| 23 | The scale of the police operation had been substantially reduced during the day . |
| 24 | Papal influence over the English church had been significantly eroded during the course of the fifteenth century , partly as a consequence of late fourteenth-century legislation , such as the statutes of Provisors and Praemunire , and partly as a consequence of the international political situation . |