Example sentences of "be during " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am during his absence drawing as many native plants as I can , I mean branches of trees , some of which are very pretty . |
| 2 | Underlying this simplistic approach is sound reasoning , namely that your audience needs to know at all times where they are during your presentation . |
| 3 | This type of long-netting is inevitably carried out in broad daylight , and the rabbits will be much more aware of the net than they are during darkness . |
| 4 | The presence of Prince Charles , Prince Andrew , Prince Philip , Princess Anne , her new husband Tim Laurence and her son Peter was all to help a BBC Panorama team film how hard done by the royals are during their holidays . |
| 5 | The other aspect is of course catering facilities here on a Saturday may not be the same as what they are during the week . |
| 6 | For the next few minutes I had to put up with Sid 's reminiscences about how much worse it had been during the campaign in North Africa . |
| 7 | Enjoying widespread support in the constituencies , the supporters of the tariff threatened to become a danger to Baldwin 's leadership — as they had been during the 1929–31 period . |
| 8 | Mr Gates would be happy to get his financial information from the quarterly report to shareholders — so long as he can be confident that the news will be as consistently good as it has been during Mr Shirley 's seven years in charge . |
| 9 | In the Chiswick works of London Transport , during 1947 , the very popular Regent Three ( R.T. ) double-decker bus was redesigned so as to be ‘ jig built ’ in a like manner to that which the mass-produced Halifax bombers had been during the war . |
| 10 | Its last rebuilding is believed to have been during the first quarter of the 19th century . |
| 11 | The potty training restarted and then after 6 months she was re-established on cows milk starting with plain yogurt ( just as she had been during weaning . ) ’ |
| 12 | A touch of ground frost is not uncommon , irrespective of how blazing hot it has been during the day . |
| 13 | With a sense of shock Harriet realised that in the last hours Paula had become more of a stranger to her than she had ever been during the twenty years she had believed her dead . |
| 14 | How many prime ministers have there been during the reign of Elizabeth II |
| 15 | How many by-elections have there been during the 1987–92 Parliament ? |
| 16 | Asked how the princess had been during lunch , Lord Healey said : ‘ The princess was wonderful . |
| 17 | He was happier than he had been during the seven bad years between 1976 and 1982 , still self-assured but now far more reasonable . |
| 18 | It was a swift , obviously involuntary remark , rather like hers had been during their last fateful argument . |
| 19 | Did this , he was asked yesterday , mean that the economy had not been managed as well as it might have been during the Thatcher years ? |
| 20 | His position was now exactly what it had been during his exile in Rufus 's reign : he was without an income and reduced to dependence on the hospitality of Hugh of Lyons . |
| 21 | France 's diplomatic successes had made little impact on English opinion , and English military leadership was markedly weaker than it had been during the first phase of the war . |
| 22 | In this case Miss T. had been during her childhood subjected to the religious beliefs of her mother and in her weakened medical condition , in pain , and under the influence of the drugs administered to assist her , the pressure from her mother was likely to have a considerably enhanced effect . |
| 23 | The first had been during an attack by the Saracens in the Middle Ages and the second during an earthquake . |
| 24 | Well this bloke this boss 's brother er his his his brother was the mayor of for several years , the only one that 's been during the War , the First World War , . |
| 25 | In his later career he was hard-working and respected , especially by those in whose interests he was acting , but not innovative , as he had been during the heroic period of sanitary reform . |
| 26 | Roth 's influence was less as a teacher , there having been during his lifetime much less scope than later for Jewish studies in Britain , than as a writer and lecturer . |
| 27 | It had been b I think a lot of the mills had been during the very , the years after the war , they had been very busy and a lot of them would build sheds and b take up looms that were , you , they probably had new looms on order but they were filled with a lot of scrap almost you know , anything they could get that work , work . |
| 28 | His first apprehension of such large issues as " problems " seems to have been during his schooldays at Pforta . |
| 29 | Perhaps " acquaintance " would be a fairer description than " friend " , but the difference was clearer in peacetime than it had been during the war . |
| 30 | It was an ignoble , unworthy thought , he knew , but he was — now , anyway — only human , and therefore prey to human weaknesses , whatever sort of superhuman he 'd been during the War . |