Example sentences of "it was during the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was during the period of 1943–1945 that his political awakening took place . |
| 2 | If the polys are indeed achieving the parity of esteem they have long sought , their graduates ' relative position during the next recession should prove better than it was during the early 1980s . |
| 3 | Stone shows no awareness of the place of the Royal Commission 's recommendations within the politics of the postwar debate on the disintegration of the family , which was almost as much a preoccupation of the 1940s and early 1950s ( the Commission was set up in 1952 ) as it was during the 1980s . |
| 4 | It was during the regional link-ups with Nationwide in London that she was spotted as a young broadcaster with great potential . |
| 5 | It was during the war when the convent had been turned into a shrine for Bruckner by a man called Glasmeier . |
| 6 | It was during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I that the Burlington Arms was built in Church Street , Chiswick , quite close to St. Nicholas Church , and the building still exists , although much altered internally , and in more recent years used for residential purposes only . |
| 7 | The contemporary ‘ macho ’ image which Press and public has given to the regiment since they became dramatically aware of it during the siege in 1980 of the Iranian Embassy in London , is a false representation of what it was during the Second World War . |
| 8 | It was during the Mesozoic that the forms ancestral to many of the living gastropods evolved . |
| 9 | It was during the late 1770s that the long proposed Stroudwater canal became a reality and this signalled the start of a long war of words between the Company of Proprietors and the Purnells . |
| 10 | It was during the 1820s that Ebley Mill was also rebuilt . |
| 11 | It was during the early part of his occupation that the last of the Painswick cloth mills finally went out of business and a number of others , such as Damsell 's , were converted to other uses . |
| 12 | It was during the latter part of the 19th century that Tewkesbury 's commercial decline began for , at the time of building of Healing 's substantial mills , many of the smaller cottage-based trades disappeared . |
| 13 | In any case , my point is that it was during the course of this interview , when I raised the question of the difficulty of recruiting suitable staff in these times , that Mr Farraday , after a moment 's reflection , made his request of me ; that I do my best to draw up a staff plan — ‘ some sort of servants ' rota ’ as he put it — by which this house might be run on the present staff of four — that is to say , Mrs Clements , the two young girls , and myself . |
| 14 | It was during the time of Viking domination that Rognvald Kolsson began to build his magnificent , red sandstone cathedral in Kirkwall , named after martyred St Magnus , killed on the island of Eglisay in 1116 AD . |
| 15 | It was during the early 30s and on one of my annual visits to eastern Canada that I first became acquainted with that noted Canadian humorist , Dr.Stephen Leacock . |
| 16 | It was during the 1914–18 war that the King 's and Queen 's saloons were modified . |
| 17 | Fragments of lacquerware have been excavated dating from as long ago as the Shang Dynasty ( from about 1700 to about 1000 BC ) , but it was during the Han Dynasty ( 206 BC to AD 220 ) that lacquer painting flourished . |
| 18 | It is probable that it was during the period which is termed the ‘ dawn of civilisation ’ that the first primitive acts of homage or deference to a ‘ god ’ occurred , and if this were so it could be an indication that the need for a ‘ god ’ is fundamental to the civilising process . |
| 19 | Aeroplanes had been seen in the county from about 1912 but it was during the First World War that they became common . |
| 20 | This seems acceptable but doubts about its legitimacy can arise when , for example , the issue seems less a legal one than a political one , as it was during the Spycatcher affair . |
| 21 | It was during the 1989 London Lesbian And Gay Film Festival that the organisers screened ‘ damning evidence ’ against Bugs Bunny . |
| 22 | It was during the second week that Carol asked him to dinner at her parents ' place . |
| 23 | It was during the 1940s that parishioners at the cathedral held rummage sales , whist drives , sales of work , raffles and soon to raise funds to buy ground in Ditherington , to the north of Shrewsbury , for a church for the parishioners living there . |
| 24 | It was during the inter-regnum of 1907 to 1912 , when Lugard was occupied as governor of Hong Kong before returning in triumph to be Governor-General of a united Nigeria , that the Northern Residents seized their opportunity to move collectively into a position of virtually unassailable independence from the central government . |
| 25 | It was during the 1800s that Preston became one of the principal pig producing areas of East Yorkshire . |
| 26 | ‘ It was during the post-punk kind of period and I went through a series of bands , but I must admit I found working for other people really difficult . |
| 27 | It was during the eighteenth century that madeira wine as it is known today came into being . |
| 28 | It was during the filming of the opening titles for the last ‘ Marti ’ series for the B.B.C. Dressed in a red chiffon evening gown , high heels and lead-weighted knickers , I had to sit on a rock at the bottom of a tank full of sharks , smiling and brushing my hair , while Duncan swam past with a plywood plaice bearing the immortal words ‘ End of Part One ’ ( it could have been the end of several parts ! ) . |
| 29 | In this conception labourism predated the party , for it was during the second half of the nineteenth century that it emerged as an identifiable political culture within the working class ( Saville 1973 ) . |
| 30 | But it was during the war that real expansion occurred as branches turned with renewed vigour to improve child and maternity welfare . |