Example sentences of "[Wh det] had [vb pp] during the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Furthermore , the abolition of the school boards was a first step towards reducing the number of overlapping , separately elected , local authorities which had emerged during the preceding seventy years ; and importantly , in the eyes of Balfour and Morant , it would diminish the independence of local education authorities and the consequent considerable variation in the quality of provision , and also reduce the denominational influence upon local education .
2 The value placed on these men is most clearly stated in the Treaty of Andelot , where Guntram and Childebert II settled the question of the succession and dealt with various matters which had arisen during the early years of the latter 's reign .
3 In short , Winckelmann epitomizes an intimate relationship between classical scholarship on the one hand and living culture and thought on the other.And in this he was renewing a tradition which had once existed ( albeit primarily outside Germany ) : the Renaissance tradition , which had weakened during the intervening centuries , and which was to lapse again almost beyond recall within the hundred years after his death .
4 P3731 ( which had arrived from ‘ Argus ’ with 418 Flight in August 1940 ) and V7370 ( which had arrived during the ill-fated second reinforcement flight in November of that year ) reached Palestine , and were later taken on charge by the newly-formed 127 Squadron .
5 This was a technique which had evolved during the 1930s and would hardly have been practical either for Craddock at St Mary 's in 1929 or , perhaps , even for Raistrick in 1931 .
6 The outbreak of war found the Army wearing uniforms which had evolved during the Indian Wars , and which were unsuitable both for tropical campaigning , and for the dawning age of modern warfare .
7 Indeed , this lack of distinctiveness owed something to the changes which had occurred during the inter-war years .
8 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 ) .
9 The local press , which had flourished during the last years of colonial rule , had been allowed to die .
10 Relations with the USA , which had improved during the first years of Rajiv Gandhi 's government , came under strain in 1987 due to the US decision to grant large military aid packages to Pakistan , including early warning surveillance aircraft , and to Indian fears of a Pakistani nuclear bomb .
11 However , because of what had happened during the last few days , she knew she could not simply let this matter fade from her mind .
12 What had happened during the previous 30 months to cause the right hon. Gentleman to change his apparent convictions of 30 years ?
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