Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] during " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of these ideas can be used directly as you knit or can be sewn on afterwards as a pleasant ploy during the holiday season . |
| 2 | A water tub will provide two or three goldfish with a pleasant home during the summer months but they should be removed for the winter . |
| 3 | The loss of two men , a highly expensive experimental aeroplane and the F-104 had serious repercussions , especially when one considered that all this happened when all were engaged in taking photographs for a private company during a military test flight . |
| 4 | The Protector was n't too pleased by this and later summoned Richard Baxter to a private audience during which he lectured Baxter for an hour . |
| 5 | This took a little time during which I pondered uneasily on the possibility , however remote , of having to recognize the existence of additional progeny , and all that it would entail . |
| 6 | It would have been inconsiderate , and the possibility was not discussed , although Groa , moving from hall to hall with her husband , took the chance to pack a few extra boxes with thick clothes and blankets , and spent a little time during her last call at Orphir studying the crucifix Bishop Jon had pinned over her bed and wondering whether or not it would be Christian to pray for a wind . |
| 7 | Constant friction between the two nations at sea led , on 23 October 1739 , to the British government declaring war on Spain , the resulting conflict being known as ‘ The War of Jenkins 's ear ’ ; Robert Jenkins was the master of a British ship who had had his ear cut off by a Spanish officer during a search . |
| 8 | The region suffered a prolonged drought during this interval when the level of Lake Pátzcuaro fell by 4–5m ( ref. 15 ) and the basin may have been abandoned . |
| 9 | This is commonly blamed on a prolonged drought during the amelioration of climate following the last glaciation . |
| 10 | Aside form the odd gripe from local bands either overlooked by the organisers or unable to gain a prestigious spot during the week , this inaugural music biz fest went swimmingly , with an earnest enthusiasm for proceedings and a general bonhomie which belied the corporate overtones . |
| 11 | Duplicated KOX zinc finger gene clusters flank the centromere of human chromosome 10 : evidence for a pericentric inversion during primate evolution |
| 12 | I discovered a classic example during my research : the Mackie Memorial Library donated in 1895 to the New Mills Technical Institute . |
| 13 | Foreign investment in India remained at a low level during the 1980s when compared with similar international investment elsewhere in south and south-east Asia , despite the introduction of liberalization measures in 1985-86 which had boosted industrial investment and output . |
| 14 | Iran-US relations remained at a low ebb during 1989 and early 1990 despite the new regime in Iran and US efforts under the new administration of President George Bush to come to terms with the Iranian government . |
| 15 | ‘ At a low point during my stay in Japan when I was having trouble with the language and the culture I phoned my father to say I was coming home , ’ recalls the black sheep with the black belt . |
| 16 | PRINCE Charles kept a low profile during an official visit yesterday when he was taken 20ft underground into a sewer . |
| 17 | I think it 's fair to say , particularly in the case of Wales which is perhaps one of the more surprising erm elements there , Wales as you know has tended to be quite a strong region during the recovery period erm it may be because er certain , I think a lot of although as I say Wales is a weaker region in terms of the expected |
| 18 | Two of his best-known works , the unaccompanied setting of Donne 's ‘ At the Round Earths Imagin 'd Corners ’ and the Seven Sea Poems for soloist , chorus , oboe and strings , date from the mid-1950s , the latter making a strong impression during the 1968 City of London Festival . |
| 19 | Following a short-lived partnership during 1792 with the working silversmith William Frisbee , Storr removed to premises in Church Street , Soho , formerly occupied by Andrew Fogelberg , the Swedish-born silversmith , whose business had flourished there since about 1772 . |
| 20 | Dowty says that after a rocky patch during the recession , when the company was forced to axe 1,800 jobs , it 's fortunes are picking up ; not the time to be selling out . |
| 21 | It is a site of a Roman villa and a Saxon palace ; it is the birthplace of Edward the Confessor , and was the site of a Royalist garrison during the Civil War . |
| 22 | A light-hearted moment during the annual meeting of the Suffolk West Federation of Women 's Institutes at Bury St Edmunds yesterday |
| 23 | And although home ownership has proved a profitable investment during most of the decade , with house prices rising by an average of around 12 per cent , it looks far less so now . |
| 24 | THE former Cabinet minister , David Mellor , was accused of ‘ talking bollocks ’ by a Labour MP during a television row yesterday . |
| 25 | The genes are differentially regulated during development ; for example , NF-L and NF-M genes are expressed early in the embryo , with a progressive increase during development , while the NF-H mRNA accumulates to significant levels only post-natally ( 3 ) . |
| 26 | We encountered two technical complications : one stent was badly positioned and was left too proximally because of a technical problem during insertion . |
| 27 | In an attempt to reduce reservations concerning his election , Ramos adopted a conciliatory approach during June and held talks with church leaders and politicians . |
| 28 | The launch to our own salesforce took place on a regional basis during early October . |
| 29 | He was popular as a man of the people who toured Mexico with his wife and 10 children in a mobile home during the presidential campaign , a very different strategy from the typically aloof approach of the PAN 's other wealthy and middle-class leaders . |
| 30 | The company confirmed it would be visiting every Scottish Homes tenancy in Tweeddale , and would provide a freephone help line and a mobile office during the campaign . |