Example sentences of "during the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Entry Punch : A humorous magazine created during the Victorian period ( qv ) and terminating towards the end of the Dark Century ( qv ) . |
| 2 | It is likely then that marriages , at least amongst the propertied , in fact lasted longer during the Victorian period than ever before or since . |
| 3 | During the Victorian period , in order to exercise these functions of controlling , scrutinizing , appointing and removing the executive , the procedure of the House was adapted to suit these tasks . |
| 4 | All the other elements had been erm liquified in , in , during the Victorian period . |
| 5 | Freud began to develop his theories in 1886 during the Victorian Age , a time when it was socially unacceptable to discuss sex , and it was considered that woman and children should be seen and not heard . |
| 6 | Botanical guides had their heyday during the Victorian mania for fern-collection , which stripped the mountains bare of many of the rarest species — go and look at the grave of ‘ Wil Boots ’ in Nant Peris churchyard for the story of this in miniature . |
| 7 | The pound sterling maintained a steady value during the Victorian era , and in the then current atmosphere of British security and superiority the possibility of any erosion of the value of the pound was unthinkable . |
| 8 | He and his assistants captured the voices of many famous people during the Victorian era . |
| 9 | During the Victorian era the conservatory became extremely fashionable and with almost primitive methods , plant enthusiasts of that period were able to experiment in the growing of a limited range of the more exotic plants including some tropical and sub-tropical species of aquatic plants . |
| 10 | It was therefore conceived as a residential " asylum " and , as such , established the pattern of deaf education in Britain during the Victorian era now known as " the asylum system " . |
| 11 | Though towns such as Thirsk which had been by-passed by the railways had lost some of their former vitality , others continued to expand , to rebuild and to prosper during the Victorian era . |
| 12 | Further north , in Yorkshire , Pocklington was amongst those scores of ancient market towns which continued to fulfil their traditional roles during the Victorian era . |
| 13 | During the papal schism of 1159 , Arnulf was charged with the task of keeping Henry loyal to Alexander III . |
| 14 | The forest , so restless during the night , so uproarious at dawn , was quiet during the middle hours of the day . |
| 15 | Within the local community it had survived during the Middle Ages and even to a certain extent right up to the nineteenth century , in spite of a foreign overlay of feudal institutions coming from western and southern Europe . |
| 16 | From sixth century beginnings Bicester gradually grew into a focus for an area separate from Oxford , and during the Middle Ages it was granted various licenses for markets and fairs . |
| 17 | In the ancient world , during the Middle Ages and Renaissance , even in the twentieth century , the word ‘ city ’ was frequently associated with wealth , success , culture , and opportunity . |
| 18 | In Europe , such ideas were suppressed during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance mainly in adherence to the views of St. Thomas Aquinas . |
| 19 | However , during the Middle Ages 1 January lost favour against a start date of the feast of the Annunciation ( 25 March ) , the main reason no doubt being the Church 's wish to underline its pre-eminence by using one of its own major festivals to mark the inauguration of each year . |
| 20 | During the Middle Ages rich merchants came , and built large houses around and in Sutton , letting the land out for farming . |
| 21 | It was these communities that saw the greatest pattern of change during the middle ages although , with a couple of notable exceptions , this was a very long process indeed but with some sudden shifts of direction . |
| 22 | During the Middle Ages Christian countries took this idea one step further : drinking the blood of a just-beheaded criminal was widely regarded as an effective cure for epilepsy , and mixtures containing powdered human bones and/or flesh were popularly regarded as aphrodisiacs . |
| 23 | It is unlikely that many Europeans would have had access to Aristotle 's writings , but the cuckoo 's habits were certainly well enough known during the Middle Ages for them to be mentioned by Chaucer ( in The Parlement of Foules , 1382 ) , and for the term ‘ cuckold ’ — describing a man deceived by his wife — to have passed into the English language . |
| 24 | Routledge are offering a number of promising books including Stained Glass in England during the Middle Ages by Richard Marks of York University ( about £80 ) . |
| 25 | Althusser 's conception of a structure in dominance is based on the sense , which he attributes to Marx , that in each society one particular kind of interest appears to be central in determining the character of that society as a whole ; for example , economic interests are uppermost in capitalist society , but during the Middle Ages religious concerns dominated social life . |
| 26 | Few who have read Professor J. F. Verbruggen 's The art of warfare in western Europe during the Middle Ages from the eighth century to 1340 will forget this vivid approach to the subject including , for example , his description of the very human fear experienced by men about to face battle , an emotion also vividly described in the more popular , but no less serious work of John Keegan , The face of battle . ’ |
| 27 | During the middle ages the most important records were at least in some degree legal instruments : whether they transferred land , appointed men to office , warranted expenditure , acquitted revenue officers of their charge , or summoned litigants to court , they conveyed some kind of legally valid authority . |
| 28 | It is frequently added to sauerkraut and Kummel , the German liqueur , contains its oil , along with cumin ; in Britain , during the Middle Ages and Tudor times , baked fruit was flavoured with the ubiquitous seeds . |
| 29 | It was much used in Germany and Denmark as an alternative to mustard during the Middle Ages . |
| 30 | Yet , when it did , it quickly established a leadership even more remarkable than that of north-western Europe during the Middle Ages and maintained that position until near the end of the eighteenth century . |