Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] during the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The development of the brilliant cut supposedly under the patronage of Cardinal Mazarin during the seventeenth century intensified the effect of diamonds , but entailed a greater loss . |
| 2 | He looked to West Germany for support , holding two meetings with Konrad Adenauer during the second half of 1958 . |
| 3 | Strang , a major component in the Reds ' midfield engine room , collapsed under a hefty tackle from Ards skipper David Jeffrey during the 5– win at Solitude on Friday night . |
| 4 | I wrote to Neil Kinnock during the last election , asking him to withdraw the remark that gays and lesbians were losing votes on the doorsteps of the pensioners . |
| 5 | Ted Owens was one of the stalwarts of Crystal Palace FC during the inter-war period , when his resolute performances at right-back during the latter half of the 1930s made him a firm favourite . |
| 6 | Indians of many parties have been terrified by the prospect of escalating Hindu-Muslim violence , highlighted in Meerut in Uttar Pradesh during the first round of voting , when 19 people were killed . |
| 7 | The appearance of large-scale peasant resistance in Tambov , and even more the sustained independent peasant movement led by the Ukrainian peasant Nestor Makhno during the Civil War , pointed to an irreconcilable clash of principle . |
| 8 | England have been in trouble twice this season , upset by Canada 's pack at Wembley and shunted alarmingly by South Africa during the first half . |
| 9 | If not at yet another matinee of Swan Lake during the flat season , I am usually in front of a television set fascinated by the fine-boned , immaculately-trained and groomed creatures and then by their sheer grace in motion once they begin to race . |
| 10 | On Monday , the Paris Appeal Court ruled that M Touvier , intelligence chief of the pro-Nazi Lyons Milice during the 1939–45 War , and now aged 77 , should not face charges of crimes against humanity in connection with the murder of Jews and resistance workers . |
| 11 | Lennox Lewis dismissed the world title plans of rival British heavyweight Frank Bruno during the latest round of verbal in-fighting between the two men , writes Steve Bunce . |
| 12 | X/Open Co Ltd has abandoned plans for a European Xtra conference , which was to be held in Dusseldorf next month ( UX No 386 ) : it claims users expressed a preference for the Xtra Congress in Washington DC during the first week of December . |
| 13 | Charles Fraser-Smith worked with 007 writer Ian Fleming during the second world war . |
| 14 | This is not a very remote county , but some districts still lost up to one-fifth of their population in only 20 years , roughly equivalent to the 17.6 per cent decrease that occurred in the population of the Scottish Islands during the same period ( Dunn et al . |
| 15 | Maggie was called to see Mr Parnham during the next morning and it came as a great surprise . |
| 16 | They took their name from the bush guerillas who fought with Robert Mugabe during the bloody war of independence and blend high energy guitar with subtle Zimbabwean rhythms . |
| 17 | Among the contents of Matthew 's safe there were two manuscript volumes , the journal of a certain Martin Beale who lived and worked in Natal and Cape Province during the second half of the last century . ’ |
| 18 | Later reports from the IBM Corp annual meeting in Tampa , Florida on Monday stress the anger of shareholders that we forecast when we mentioned that the meeting was to be held in America 's retirement capital : ‘ IBM stock no longer provides for your old age , but it certainly hastens its arrival , ’ one irate shareholder told Louis Gerstner during the annual meeting ; some 2,300 shareholders , mostly elderly investors and current or former IBM employees , crowded into the Tampa Convention Center for the meeting . |
| 19 | The Conservative Party is probing claims , made by the editor of the Sun newspaper , that a Cabinet Minister attempted to smear the name of the SLD leader , Paddy Ashdown during the general election campaign . |
| 20 | Fletcher said he had spoken to Graham Gooch during the past week but that Gooch was still insistent that he would not be rushed into a decision about the England captaincy . |
| 21 | There had been fears that allegations of British Conservative support for ‘ dirty tricks ’ against Mr Clinton during the American election campaign last year may also cast a cloud over the Prime Minister 's visit . |
| 22 | As Acheson had remarked in 1952 , the world had moved on too far for Churchill and Eden to try to revive the sort of personal ties which had existed with President Roosevelt during the Second World War — this would be " a classical example of the wrong way to do things " . |
| 23 | The charge , of revealing information likely to harm state security , related to his memoirs , published in Algiers , in which he had criticized decisions taken by President Sadat during the 1973 war . |
| 24 | The spectacular musical set in London 's East End during the second world war . |
| 25 | During an , a very intensive training and organization period in the United States during the first half of nineteen forty three , and that does sound a long time ago , er we er the Three-Ninetieth Bomb Group , under the able direction of Colonel , er arrived at Parham , right here , in July nineteen forty three . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , inflation rose for some months , and production continued to grow in all major economies except the United States during the first half of 1974 . |
| 27 | In context the psychoanalysis in order to explain erm Wilson 's actions and er , attitudes in the pres presidency of the United States during the First World War , basically con concentrates on erm . |
| 28 | Industrialisation was prompted by the failures of Europe and the United States during the Great Depression and the Second world war , leading to import substitution , rather than a conscious development policy . |
| 29 | This dilemma has been exacerbated as a result of the development of thermonuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction and is associated with the nuclear arms race between the Soviet Union and the United States during the Cold War from the 1940s to the 1980s . |
| 30 | Changes in sexual law of recent years give evidence of a gradual movement towards tolerance and understanding , and without doubt this has been the true state of affairs in the United Kingdom during the present generation . |