Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv prt] during [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Impregnation of the sample with a coloured epoxy resin ( commonly blue ) makes the pore spaces more easily visible in thin section ( Chapter 4 ) and allows distinction between a true pore space and a void where a grain or crystal has been plucked out during the process of making a thin section .
2 Used to test theories and interpretations relating to technology and subsistence , experiments can also test the very basic interpretations that are carried out during the course of an excavation : whether or not a hole in the ground functioned as a pit or a posthole , what a particular pit was used for , and so on .
3 Fire crackers are let off during the day .
4 Instead , it lists a range of different losses which , the writs served on the two firms last March allege , should have been picked up during the course of the audits .
5 How else could it be so swiftly known that a prominent member of the Royal College of Acupuncturists , say , had been picked up during the night and pinched for drunk-driving ?
6 The hill farms generally have small fields near the valley bottoms , larger rough grazing ‘ in-bye ’ areas which adjoin the open hill , and common hill land where sheep , ponies , and occasionally cattle are turned out during the summer .
7 Rights to occupational and private pensions are built up during the individual 's employment .
8 Well I mean , if you bought them and then you 're building up during the year , but you know , we can always have them for
9 ‘ It reinforces and give practice to what has been going on during the day , ’ he says .
10 For example , the TV drama ‘ Thin Air ’ in 1988 brought out some of the unpleasantness about the ‘ wheeler-dealing ’ that has been going on during the Docklands boom years .
11 Some streets which had been closed off during the intifada would be gradually re-opened .
12 Dramatic as imprinting is as a form of learning , it suffered from my point of view from the problem that for a bird to become imprinted requires exposing it to the stimulus , the flashing light or whatever , for a couple of hours ; memory builds up slowly over that time , and so the cellular changes that are going on during the period inevitably intermingle the effects of learning and of visual stimulation with those of memory formation .
13 However , when the regulations came to be made , the government maintained that the policy which had been set out during the passage of the Bill through the House was unworkable .
14 ‘ The caterers are coming in during the afternoon .
15 It is the first time troops have been brought in during a dispute since 1978 .
16 The moisture in the gel will be given off during the day and reabsorbed at night .
17 He had a vicious side to his nature and it apparently meant nothing to him that an old man was going to be roughed up during the raid .
18 A range of on-site activities can be carried out during a visit .
19 Work had been planned to be carried out during the possession on a Saturday night to carry out some pointing
20 Transjugular liver biopsy allows histological and haemodynamic studies to be carried out during the course of fulminant hepatic failure .
21 A badly-planned script , by contrast , necessarily leads to a badly-organized film , and the only reason anyone thinks otherwise is because so much seems to be going on during the shooting stage — money is spent , crowds of extras run in front of the cameras , tempers become heated and everybody becomes very tired — that the person trying to control this chaos appears to the casual observer as the only significant creative force .
22 Titles which are identified as possible purchases need to be noted down during the course of the stock revision .
23 The Palestinian need for Jordan seemed to be borne out during the years 1983–6 when the PLO lived on the edge of political extinction .
24 The advantage of this is that the secretaries can be laid off during the summer recess , and MPs can avoid the cost of employing them from the ‘ expenses ’ allowance .
25 The stars will be coming out during the day to celebrate Sainsbury 's Fundays — this is your chance not only to meet a celebrity , but to get their autograph and even a photograph !
26 Instead , a full selection procedure was to be gone through during the lifetime of a Parliament , thus allowing other aspiring candidates to be considered .
27 communication yes , so that we used to have the difficulty , and we used to rely on the odd person , railway people , drivers and their guards , they used to be knocked up during the night for early duty , by call boys , we used to make use of them if we wanted a message sent anywhere .
28 Their current training programme means two nights a week in the gym , one night running six miles , two outings a day at the weekend in their single sculls , a 6.30am outing once a week as part of a national squad eight then two more sculling outings have to be fitted in during the weekdays .
29 I wondered whether it could be drugs — that a caddie perhaps had to be made privy to , because the golfer had to be topped up during the round .
30 Af , I thought that first time would be the last , but since this , Steve 's been dropping in during the day while my son and daughter are at work .
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