Example sentences of "during the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He and his assistants captured the voices of many famous people during the Victorian era . |
| 4 | Entry Punch : A humorous magazine created during the Victorian period ( qv ) and terminating towards the end of the Dark Century ( qv ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | it was during the Victorian and Edwardian Periods that ‘ the shape of the private household was being officially defined ’ ( Davidoff , 1979 , p. 78 ) . |
| 7 | It is likely then that marriages , at least amongst the propertied , in fact lasted longer during the Victorian period than ever before or since . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 " . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 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 | All the other elements had been erm liquified in , in , during the Victorian period . |
| 14 | During the papal schism of 1159 , Arnulf was charged with the task of keeping Henry loyal to Alexander III . |
| 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 | During the middle rounds , when Mason still believed one punch could end it , he outjabbed the Wandsworth man and opened a cut over his left eye , but Mason rallied well and the last session in particular left no doubt as to which way the verdict would go . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Mary Leapor , however , would have studied under a man named Richard Cooper who made strenuous efforts to improve the school during the middle years of the century [ Clarke ] . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In Europe , such ideas were suppressed during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance mainly in adherence to the views of St. Thomas Aquinas . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The cave was formed some time during the early part of the Pleistocene , over one million years ago , and it became filled with sediment during the middle Pleistocene approximately 350 to 400 thousand years ago . |
| 23 | Contained within the breccias are the fossilized bones of many animals that lived in this part of Britain during the middle Pleistocene , and we will be describing the way in which the fossil bones of the smaller animals came to be deposited . |
| 24 | The forest , so restless during the night , so uproarious at dawn , was quiet during the middle hours of the day . |
| 25 | General pictures of what happens during the middle years are inevitably flawed , but they suggest that a change often takes place in marriage at that time and that for many people satisfactions come from sources outside the couple 's relationship . |
| 26 | During the Middle Ages rich merchants came , and built large houses around and in Sutton , letting the land out for farming . |
| 27 | July 11 1881 : During the middle watch , the so-called ‘ Flying Dutchman ’ crossed our bows . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |