Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] during the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further , he suggested that the principle of the exemption of the civilian population from being an intentional object of warfare had been so whittled down during the Second World War and in post-1945 treaties as to cease to offer reliable guidance except in the most unambiguous circumstances . |
| 2 | Torn down during the French revolution , little remains . |
| 3 | His jacket was torn off during the first verse and his shirt during the second , then the Little Sweep realized he had made a monumental error and tried to tell the two schoolmasters not to remove his trousers . |
| 4 | Voice of Vietnam radio reported on Jan. 6 that De Michelis had informed officials of the Italian government 's expanded aid programme for Vietnam , including a US$60,000,000 package to cover new projects to be carried out during the 1993-94 period . |
| 5 | To achieve this we shall be drawing upon the products of archaeologists ' research mostly carried out during the present century . |
| 6 | The Government 's being urged to stop developers bulldozing a site where vital intelligence work was carried out during the Second World War . |
| 7 | The process can be carried out during the normal dyeing and finishing of fabrics . |
| 8 | WACC 's Central Committee ( CentCom ) , which met in Toronto , Canada , 29 June -5 July , launched the five-year programme and also authorised over 200 communication projects , seminars , studies and publications to be carried out during the coming year . |
| 9 | However , obvious explanations are not always correct , and some studies carried out during the past couple of decades seem to suggest that , instead , we are born with an inherited knowledge of the signals that can indicate danger . |
| 10 | He certainly underestimates the effective recruiting campaigns that the CPS has carried out during the past year and he seems to have ignored the fact that , in order to carry out its work as well as possible , its total manpower requirement has been increased . |
| 11 | It speculated that some 20,000 deaths might have come about during the forced evacuations from Moslem villages , and estimated that the Bosnian Serbs had already largely completed their plans for the creation of homogenous Serb-populated areas . |
| 12 | The revolution in New Testament scholarship which had come about during the hundred years before he wrote The Problem of Pain appears to have passed him by . |
| 13 | Two of those references are to research by Professor Harry Smith and his colleagues in Birmingham — work which has certainly moved on during the intervening decades . |
| 14 | His return to Eaton Park could scarcely have come at a more opportune moment considering that Gordon Hamilton , Stuart Laing , Norman Robson and Davy Nicholl have all moved on during the close season . |
| 15 | The cataclysm destroyed much of what had been built up during the long reign of Bel-Shanaar and left the Elves temporarily too weak to pursue their dark kinsfolk . |
| 16 | Employers constantly gnawed at the high level of wages which had been built up during the First World War . |
| 17 | Almost 2,000 knives and other blades have been handed in during the first fortnight of the month-long amnesty . |
| 18 | Such attitudes were reinforced by the increased contact with more remote societies as tropical Africa was opened up during the later decades of the nineteenth century . |
| 19 | Until the South African mines were opened up during the last decade of the nineteenth century , diamonds were obtained exclusively from alluvial deposits , often those which also produced gold . |
| 20 | The ‘ standing army ’ of over a million unemployed was mopped up during the first year of hostilities , and between 1939 and 1943 almost 3 million jobs were added to the labour market , including many jobs for women . |
| 21 | The 1990 Broadcasting Act means that three new independent radio services and a fifth television channel will be set up during the next Parliament . |
| 22 | The list of churches that have been burnt out during the Waiting period of redundancy is scandalously long . |
| 23 | we replied that our only object was to secure a Government on such lines and with such a prospect of stability that it might reasonably be expected to be capable of carrying on the war ; that in our opinion his Government , weakened by the resignations of Lloyd George and Bonar Law and by all that had gone on during the past weeks , offered no such prospect and we answered the question therefore with a perfectly definite negative . |
| 24 | Other pro-democracy activists were also rounded up during the following months . |
| 25 | He also showed that the zeolite used as the exchanger could be regenerated with sodium to replace the calcium taken up during the softening cycle . |
| 26 | It was however , almost permanently switched out during the final years . |
| 27 | But although Biarritz still has a statue of Queen Victoria , that of Edward VII was blown up during the Second World War , on political rather than aesthetic or moral grounds it is said . |
| 28 | If the Minister genuinely believes in the equitable distribution of the social fund , may I invite him to review cold weather payments , because the senior citizens in my area of east Cleveland have lost out during the past week ? |