Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] during the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ON THE RIGHT BERNARD DURING THE SAME VISIT . |
| 2 | For example , how to land allied armies and vast quantities of supplies on the beaches of enemy-occupied Normandy during the Second World War ? |
| 3 | The Pattyndennes were of the newly emerging class of yeomanry , who with the gradual acquisition of land in the fertile valleys of the Weald were one step ahead of the rest of agricultural England during the mid-fifteenth century . |
| 4 | It is nevertheless of interest that supplies were being drawn into the Chinese market as early as the Han empire , that it featured among the tribute rendered by the Turkish tribes of central Asia during the tenth century A.D. , that the Portuguese introduced European amber through Macao and that during the Qing dynasty supplies were assured from the mines of north Burma , situated in the same region as the sources of jadeite . |
| 5 | It is of interest to note that both venues were designated as public meeting places following outbreaks of public disorder and public clashes with the police when people were seeking to demonstrate and protest publicly in central London during the nineteenth century . |
| 6 | Observers believed that the ruling opened the way for the first prosecution under the UK War Crimes Act approved in May 1991 [ see p. 38219 ] , and that 30 members of a former Lithuanian police battalion living in the UK could soon be charged with the killing of thousands of civilians and Jews in eastern Europe during the Second World War . |
| 7 | And although they emphasised purity and traditional observance in religion , their position in other spheres might justifiably be compared to that of , say , the Vichy regime in occupied France during the Second World War . |
| 8 | As with the resistance movements of occupied Europe during the Second World War , many hajduks outwardly collaborated with the occupying administration , whilst clandestinely supporting the resistance . |
| 9 | But it spread through most of southern France during the latter half of the twelfth century . |
| 10 | Except for Britain and France this type of banking became prevalent in continental Europe during the buoyant expansion of capitalism since the 1880s and close relationships between industrial companies and banks built up everywhere basically on the same lines , even though their evolution proceeded rather differently in different countries . |
| 11 | Its manifestation , in neutral Switzerland during the First World War , rapidly spread through post-war Europe as a declaration of personal freedom . |
| 12 | The best conjecture , backtracking the path of this cloud , is that it originated from an unobserved eruption either in Zaire in the middle of January or in the northern Pacific during the first half of January 1982 . |
| 13 | To ease my conscience I would like it to be recognised that I have five co-founders : Jock Lewes , Paddy Mayne of the original ‘ L ’ Detachment , George Bergé who started the French S.A.S. , Brian Franks who re-raised the S.A.S. flag after the war and John Woodhouse who created the modern S.A.S. during the Malaysian Campaign by restoring to the regiment its original philosophy . |
| 14 | These recent theories , whether they deal with an intellectual movement — the invention of a new doctrine — or with the social process of industrialization , are obviously concerned mainly with the nationalism of the twentieth century and with what are claimed to be its roots in the social , cultural and political changes which occurred in Western Europe during the nineteenth century . |
| 15 | Thus among the most frequently cited examples of conjonctures are the increase in the population of western Europe during the sixteenth century , the rise and fall of European prices from 1791 to 1817 and 1817 to 1832 , and the pattern of wages during the same period . |
| 16 | It is estimated that the value of resources transferred by the Soviet Union out of Eastern Europe between 1945–1956 approximated the value of Marshall Plan aid transferred by the United States into Western Europe during the same period . |
| 17 | For the socialist press , in any event , the burning issue in working-class London during the hot summer of 1898 was not the Hooligans , but the water shortage which was reaching crisis proportions . |