Example sentences of "occur during the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The provision of permanent waters led everywhere to overgrazing and consequent soil erosion , and veterinary quarantine regulations which interfered with the free movement of cattle both within and into and out of the reserves almost certainly contributed to the spread of tsetse fly which occurred during the colonial period .
2 Extensive volcanism occurred during the Ordovician in the Lake District and Wales ( and also in the concealed Lower Palaeozoic rocks to the east of the Midlands Microcraton ) as southward subduction of the lapetus Ocean floor continued .
3 Ths implies that an ancestral duplication event occurred during the recent evolution of the chromosome which encompassed a ZNF gene cluster in a region of at least several tens of kb .
4 Robinson and Robinson showed that a shift from listener-blaming to speaker-blaming , and a consequent recognition of the role of the message in referential communication , occurred during the early school years .
5 The profound learning experience which occurred during the early 1980s has established a style of operation and a mutual receptivity to change which Pilkingtons believe will transform the company from a reactive to a proactive organization capable of dealing with market uncertainty .
6 In Latin America this occurred during the great wave of nationalizations which took place after the Second World War and involved dislocation from which some of the railways have never recovered .
7 It was middle classes who were the major beneficiaries of the economic and social changes which occurred during the inter-war years .
8 In the preamble to the final version of the Declaration released by Egyptian officials , contracting parties reaffirmed their " rejection of the aggressive course and alignment that occurred during the Iraqi aggression and occupation of the state of Kuwait " and recognized that it had " destroyed many of the concepts and achievements of joint Arab action " .
9 The first one occurred during the German counter-offensive in the Ardennes at the end of 1944 , when Eisenhower ordered preparations for the evacuation of Strasbourg , which had only just been liberated by Leclerc 's Armoured Division .
10 The nadir pressures of the first transient UOS relaxations that occurred during the common cavity episodes differed significantly from the first transient UOS relaxations that occurred before the common cavity ( p<0.05 ) .
11 The mean wave frequency was 2.36 c/min ( range 0.1–12.4 ) with the higher values occurring during the prandial periods ( Table I ) , although this did not reach statistical significance .
12 They they w s they withheld and suppressed evidence of suicides occurring during the pre-release trials .
13 The widespread distribution of opportunities for tertiary education occurring during the preceding decades has extended its development into broader opportunities for communal leisure activities .
14 3 to carry out preparatory procedures in order to minimize the risk of mistakes or complications occurring during the peri-operative period .
15 Although it can not be ruled out that some unconscious oro-pharyngeal muscle movement was occurring during the experimental tasks , ‘ inner speech ’ is probably not dependent on such movements .
16 The complication occurs during the actual process of birth , caused by difficulties in labour , or ‘ anoxia ’ , known as oxygen starvation .
17 The clinical signs are likely to be few , and since most of the damage occurs during the prepatent phase , eggs may not be found in the urine .
18 Analyzing the work that occurs during the transitional state .
19 While no radical shift in the distribution of the British people at the macro-regional scale has occurred during the present century , the settlement pattern has displayed a dynamism that has proved difficult to forecast .
20 Intriguingly , such an inversion has occurred during the recent evolution of human chromosome 2 , being present in the chimpanzee precursor chromosome , but not in the related chromosomes of gorilla and orangutan ( 51 ) .
21 The stratigraphic record indicates , however , that eustatic changes have also occurred during the long equable periods when the available evidence suggests that polar ice was absent .
22 Though some of the original contributions by Sir George Grove [ q.v. ] were still retained , Blom was able to take account of the huge expansion of musical scholarship and history that had occurred during the preceding quarter of a century .
23 Indeed , this lack of distinctiveness owed something to the changes which had occurred during the inter-war years .
24 The number of duodenal ulcer episodes that had occurred during the previous two years was noted .
25 All but 22 of these occurred during the exceptional influxes into England of the autumn and winter periods of 1966/67 , 1973/74 and 1974/75 .
26 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 ) .
27 However , investigations have been made into corporate crashes that have occurred during the past two decades .
28 A resumé by Secretary General Ian Martin of the momentous world events that have occurred during the past five years set the work of AI in context and also set the scene for the working parties , which between them would report back to the plenary with recommendations that would change the AI mandate dramatically .
29 That policy , like that of the Government and the official Opposition , is at present under review because of the enormous changes that have occurred during the past two years .
30 Some of the following sentences are bound to occur during the doll-washing activity :
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