Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] have been [vb pp] during " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to a USSR Interior Ministry Commission , over 250 South Ossetians had been killed during the conflict with Georgia , which began in December 1990 [ see p. 37920 ] . |
| 2 | A TRIBUTE to the way the Community centre had been maintained during the year was paid by president Major Dougie Covill at a recent Alresford and District Community Association annual general meeting . |
| 3 | Since no spontaneous proton decay had been observed during the experiment , one can calculate that the probable life of the proton must be greater than ten million million million million million years ( 1 with thirty-one zeros ) . |
| 4 | However , in June the UK Prime Minister , Margaret Thatcher , acknowledged that the question of UK aid had been discussed during the negotiations , despite an express prohibition contained in the UK 's 1966 Overseas Aid Act on the use of aid as a means of getting defence sales . |
| 5 | Individual storms may be 500 times more acidic than expected and exceptionally low pH values have been observed during rainstorms as , for example , at Pitlochry in Scotland when on 10 April 1974 a pH value of 2.4 was recorded ( Likens et al. , 1979 ) . |
| 6 | Therefore , far from Government support having been reduced during the period that the Government have been in office , there has been an increase in real terms of 9.6 per cent . |
| 7 | After the IPS requirements had been specified during Activity 3 of the FAOR approach , it was employed to forecast the possible effects of the proposed system in terms of benefits and disadvantages ( the latter being referred to disbenefits in the FAOR publication ) . |
| 8 | The fire escape on the first floor of Kilbreck House had been removed during building work on an extension . |
| 9 | It said that Iran had executed 224 people between January and July 1992 , at least 66 of whom had been put to death for political reasons , and that at least 199 members of the minority Baha'i community had been killed during " systematic " persecution of their sect . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , on Feb. 13 rail freight traffic resumed from Baku to Yerevan ( the Armenian capital ) ; the whole Azerbaijan railway network had been paralysed during January , leading to food , fuel and raw materials shortages in Armenia as critical as those of September 1989 [ see pp. 36899 ; 36978-79 ] . |
| 11 | 300,000 school places had been destroyed during the War , and 350,000 additional ones would now be needed . |
| 12 | A unique programme of steam trains has been organised during May and June to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the Heart of Wales Line . |
| 13 | Various emergency measures had been imposed during the 1989-90 disturbances in Kosovo by Serbia 's President Slobodan Milosevic . |
| 14 | It was also reported that considerable quantities of files and computer disks had been seized during the raids . |
| 15 | Iraq 's Agriculture and Irrigation Minister Abdul Wahab Mahmoud al-Sabbagh said on May 18 that 50 per cent of cereal and seed stocks had been destroyed during the Gulf war , as had 95 per cent of livestock and poultry for breeding . |
| 16 | This may have led him to exaggerate the extent to which Labour Party organisation had been maintained during the war , while Conservative Party organisation had languished : |
| 17 | On a recent visit to Warsaw I found that many of the street names had been changed during the past year . |
| 18 | Fill the damaged area with a cement/sand mortar to which pva adhesive has been added during mixing . |
| 19 | DAB was pleased to record that five successful , well attended DAB conferences had been held during the summer and autumn : international symposium on Supporting reagent chemistry ( York ) , 10th international meeting on NMR spectroscopy ( St Andrews ) , 11th international conference on Chemical education ( York ) , 16th international symposium on Macrocyclic chemistry ( Sheffield ) and the 1991 Autumn meeting ( York ) . |