Example sentences of "during [art] second " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Victorian Britain or France during the Second Empire the critic had some influence over taste . |
| 2 | After directing the Verity films , the company she and Sydney formed during the Second World War , she moved into independent feature production . |
| 3 | During the second term of that academic year the knives were drawn . |
| 4 | During the second summer , the ants came . |
| 5 | My grandfather had always taken a keen interest in my work , and I had an equal admiration of the stories of his time spent in Burma during the Second World War . |
| 6 | During the second half of the eighties , InterCity could at last boast five complete ten-coach VIP train sets all based and serviced at London 's Bounds Green depot . |
| 7 | The brewery used horse-drawn drays for beer deliveries in and around the East End , and during the Second World War it was hit hard when a German land mine damaged the brewery stables , killing and injuring many of the horses . |
| 8 | So the thrust of Everton movement was provided down the other side by Ian Snodin and Stuart McCall , to such effect during the second half that Steve Coppell , the Crystal Palace manager , likened the impression on his defence to kneading dough . |
| 9 | As Mr Cheney and General Yazov walked down a Pentagon corridor , Mr Cheney stopped General Yazov to point out a display honouring Dwight Eisenhower , who commanded Allied forces in Europe during the Second World War . |
| 10 | In contrast , at times Durie looked ready to scream , especially when the errors started creeping in during the second set of her 6-2 , 7-6 win over the promising Yayuk Basuki . |
| 11 | DOROTHEA RAMSEY was a pioneer in work for old people and one of the leading figures in establishing residential homes for the elderly during the Second World War . |
| 12 | ALESSANDRO FIORIO , of Italy , despite being plagued by overheating problems in his Lancia Delta Integrale , extended his lead to more than half a minute during the second stage of the San Remo rally yesterday . |
| 13 | Like George VI and the then Queen Elizabeth eating spam from a gold plate during the Second World War , this was pageantry on the cheap rather than an unrestrained recapitulation of the glories of the first Elizabethan Age . |
| 14 | The Association is experiencing an increase in welfare casework , particularly from those who served in the Air Force during the Second World War , and who are now elderly and in need of our support . |
| 15 | In snooker Joe Davis even put on a show at the Palladium during the Second World War with Tommy Trinder , Sid Field , Arthur Askey , and Tessie O'Shea . |
| 16 | During the second half of the nineteenth century the police were increasingly active against all sorts of minor public offences such as drunken or disorderly behaviour or the playing of street games . |
| 17 | He was a national hero , he had been Supreme Commander in South East Asia during the Second World War , the last Viceroy and first Governor General of India , first Sea Lord , and finally Chief of the Defence Staff . |
| 18 | Like so many of the films that were to be made during the Second World War , The Four Just Men does n't only draw attention to the nature of the enemy ; it also presents an evocative picture of just what it is that is under threat — ‘ all the roads and rivers , fields add woods and hills that make up this funny old island . ’ |
| 19 | AS the ideological gulf between Moscow and Bucharest yawns ever wider , the Romanian leader , President Nicolae Ceausescu , has raised the potentially explosive issue of former Romanian territories annexed by the Kremlin during the second world war . |
| 20 | Dr John Habgood , speaking in the Lords during the second reading debate on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill , said : ‘ Christians are no more required to believe that humanness is created in an instant than we are required to believe in the historical existence of Adam and Eve . ’ |
| 21 | Robert Vidalin , a voice of resistance during the second world war , in Paris aged 86 . |
| 22 | THE long-mocked idea of reparations to compensate black Americans for the slavery experienced by their ancestors is now before the US Congress , and its supporters say the $1.25 billion package to compensate Japanese-Americans who were interned during the second world war has created a legal precedent . |
| 23 | The emotional three-hour debate centred on whether to allow prosecution in this country of people who are now British citizens for acts of murder and manslaughter , or culpable homicide , committed as war crimes in Germany and German-occupied territory during the second world war . |
| 24 | An immigrant to Canada from Byelorussia , Mr Michael Pawlowski , aged 72 , appeared in the Ontario Supreme Court yesterday on charges of murdering 490 Jews and non-Jewish Poles during the second world war . |
| 25 | During the second world war he played an active role in the opposition to the German occupation , eventually joining the Resistance , and creating the magazine Confluence , which was rapidly banned , and became an early edition of French samizdat . |
| 26 | The cause of recovering Greenham Common for the people has been taken up by the author of Watership Down , Mr Richard Adams , who knew the area before it was requisitioned during the second world war . |
| 27 | Under Field Marshal , the Viscount , Alanbrooke 's chairmanship during the Second World War they were the Government 's most powerful advisers . |
| 28 | The closeness of the Anglo-American special relationship during the Second World War boded well for a continuing post-war partnership , in which Britain would be able to influence US policy in a mutually beneficial way ; and latent Soviet hostility , which became apparent in London sooner than in Washington , was lessened by the assumed technological backwardness of Russia , and by the devastation she had suffered at the hands of the Germans . |
| 29 | Britain had sunk vast capital sums into the military installations set up in the Suez Canal Zone and at Alexandria to serve the British campaigns in the Mediterranean during the Second World War . |
| 30 | There are three common grades of olive oil : extra virgin , which is thick and green , and cold-pressed with an acidity of less than 1% ; virgin , which is green and cold-pressed but with up to 4% acidity , and fine olive oil , for general cooking , which is heat treated during the second pressing to extract the maximum oil from the fruit and often blended with other olive oils . |