Example sentences of "[verb] occurred during the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While no radical shift in the distribution of the British people at the macro-regional scale has occurred during the present century , the settlement pattern has displayed a dynamism that has proved difficult to forecast . |
| 2 | Intriguingly , such an inversion has occurred during the recent evolution of human chromosome 2 , being present in the chimpanzee precursor chromosome , but not in the related chromosomes of gorilla and orangutan ( 51 ) . |
| 3 | What the figure does not reveal is the shift in the balance that has occurred during the 1980s towards overseas securities , prompted initially by the relaxation of exchange controls in 1979 and encouraged subsequently by the strong performance of some overseas economies and stock-markets . |
| 4 | The Free Churches have made much use of the explosion of hymn writing which has occurred during the last thirty years and which crosses the boundaries of all denominations . |
| 5 | Mr Dryfe said : ‘ The violence which has occurred during the last several weeks outside the factory gates and the damage done to the property of several of our employees is deplorable . |
| 6 | If the spontaneous origin of life turned out to be a probable enough event to have occurred during the few man-decades in which chemists have done their experiments , then life should have arisen many times on Earth , and many times on planets within radio range of Earth . |
| 7 | He was also bitterly denounced by former colleagues for having betrayed King 's memory by detailing instances of his colleague 's adultery , including incidents which were alleged to have occurred during the last night of King 's life . |
| 8 | Though some of the original contributions by Sir George Grove [ q.v. ] were still retained , Blom was able to take account of the huge expansion of musical scholarship and history that had occurred during the preceding quarter of a century . |
| 9 | Indeed , this lack of distinctiveness owed something to the changes which had occurred during the inter-war years . |
| 10 | The number of duodenal ulcer episodes that had occurred during the previous two years was noted . |
| 11 | In the latter union these changes ‘ were less a surrender of power to the shopfloor than a formal accommodation to the reality of decentralisation which had occurred during the post-war years ’ ( Hyman , 1983 , p. 42 ) . |
| 12 | However , investigations have been made into corporate crashes that have occurred during the past two decades . |
| 13 | A resumé by Secretary General Ian Martin of the momentous world events that have occurred during the past five years set the work of AI in context and also set the scene for the working parties , which between them would report back to the plenary with recommendations that would change the AI mandate dramatically . |
| 14 | That policy , like that of the Government and the official Opposition , is at present under review because of the enormous changes that have occurred during the past two years . |