Example sentences of "that during " in BNC.

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1 He stated that during this period he was interrogated and beaten on a daily basis .
2 Subsequent checks with this K6E pilot showed that during spin recoveries in the K13 his elevator movements were rather abrupt and uncontrolled .
3 We know very well that during your time in Glasgow you became familiar with the secret and unlawful society styling itself the ‘ United Scotsmen ’ .
4 Perhaps the most serious problem with the machines is that during use some of the parts can loosen .
5 The proposal also included an offer to reduce the price of supplies in real terms over the first five years and a pledge that during the contract period prices would remain ‘ within the general movement of prices in the economy ’ .
6 It added : ‘ This university is the last island of democracy in this country , ’ and said that during Ian Smith 's time as Prime Minister , students had the right to hold meetings on the campus without prior official approval .
7 While the outcome of the battle between public and private is far off , there is no doubt that during the phase of conflict the viewer is the winner .
8 The ironical and fundamental point is that during these post-war years , when international demand for tropical commodities for the first time since 1921 really justified vast investments in the Colonies ; when the Colonies had a huge back-log of demand for essential equipment ; when at last the British government was equipped with power to give or lend considerable sums to top up what the Colonies could afford to invest from their own accumulating surplus ; and when .
9 It is true that during Margaret Thatcher 's tenure of the Conservative leadership the social basis of the Conservative parliamentary party , the nature of its constituency , and the conflicting philosophies of the ‘ new ’ and ‘ old ’ right provided the subject matter for a wealth of publications .
10 The chances are that during the first eight or nine years you may appear to be treading water in the process of proving yourself .
11 L think most people felt that during the early stages of the miners , strike the British Coal balance with Scargill was not strong enough .
12 We took four years to do it , partly so people would get accustomed to the idea , and it was fantastic that during those four years people worked at least as hard and as well as they had in the previous four .
13 I think I can say that during my career most of the things I 've decided ought to be done , I 've got done , but I 've done them in very different ways to other people and sometimes I 've been criticised for not going out and grabbing the headlines .
14 Nevertheless , it is a fact that during shiftwork and after time-zone transitions , body temperature and adrenalin rhythms have been used in addition to , or even in place of , measures of performance at ‘ real tasks ’ or at the simpler tests devised by psychologists .
15 And there , after her warming-up exercises , she leaped like a gazelle , undisturbed by the fact that she was being filmed on video by two pupils and barely noticing that during the session a small group of people tiptoed on to the gallery , and she did her last jump to applause .
16 In an interview , Mr Baig alleged that during last year 's general election campaign , three cabinet members had received financial assistance from him .
17 ‘ I am proud that during my stewardship of DTI I was able to finish the job that Keith Joesph started .
18 He said that during his recent visit to Moscow , President Gorbachev had given a warning that the failure of East Germany 's reform process would not only destabilise the GDR but also have ‘ serious repercussions ’ for perestroika in the Soviet Union .
19 He said that during his recent visit to Moscow , President Gorbachev had given a warning that the failure of East Germany 's reform process would not only destabilise the GDR but also have ‘ serious repercussions ’ for perestroika in the Soviet Union .
20 After the Guardian pointed out on December 8 that Kingfisher did indeed face a prima facie competition problem , he told another newspaper that during his 1986 bid for the then Woolworths , he had been obliged by the OFT to pre-sell Comet to Granada to avoid a monopolies investigation .
21 To think that during the Blitz , families , stout-hearted folk , were down in these caverns holding hands beneath blankets and whistling the stirring refrains of Dame Vera Lynn .
22 The lack of international controls in the North Pacific Ocean , and the proliferation of the salmon , tuna , billfish , and squid drift-net fleets over the past two decades , has resulted in the development of a North Pacific fishery so huge that during the 6-month season , the 1000 or so vessels involved deploy 35 million km ( 1.9–3.4 million miles ) of netting .
23 The government is also aware that during the next ten years Japan has its last chance to provide more of the amenities that most westerners take for granted .
24 Then she told me that during the last winter , while I was in Sweden , my father had already had an attack , but they had not told me .
25 I was also surprised to hear that during the last few days her Premium Bond had won £5,000 .
26 CPRE 's evidence shows that during the committee stages of the 1986 Agriculture Act , Mr Gummer said that conservation advice would not be charged for .
27 I will go so far as to concede that taken in isolation , ripped away from the defining context of humour and irony and friendship , studied in their literal or surface sense only , then , yes , the words I spoke in that room as Robert stood at the window pretending to take me seriously could be understood to mean that during the past six or seven years I had gone to bed with more than one hundred and fifty prostitutes .
28 Given this cast of mind , it was not surprising that during Mrs Thatcher 's occupancy the Great and Good found the doors of 10 Downing Street more closed than at any time since the war .
29 So it was that during a week long break from filming Neighbours in October 1987 Kylie boarded an airliner and left the sweltering sunshine of Melbourne for the cold and rain of an English autumn .
30 Sometimes it would happen that during a lecture — at that time the secret police were very active — there would be a knock at the door and two men would enter .
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