Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] during the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shift , if that 's what it is , mirrors the way shipments have been shaping up during the three months since they started . |
| 2 | Despite this apparent lack of interest at high level , detail work must have been carried on during the next two years , for Gordon Thomas , together with the signatories of the memorandum , took out two patents relating to the lift . |
| 3 | Beattie suggests that this is because much of the semantic planning for this phase has been carried out during the preceding hesitant phase . |
| 4 | Employers constantly gnawed at the high level of wages which had been built up during the First World War . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It 's all to do with GCSE coursework and see how we 're getting on during the two weeks and we get experience for us when we leave school and go to work . |
| 7 | Almost 2,000 knives and other blades have been handed in during the first fortnight of the month-long amnesty . |
| 8 | The list of churches that have been burnt out during the Waiting period of redundancy is scandalously long . |
| 9 | A few co-operatives have been set up during the last 25 years . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The process can be carried out during the normal dyeing and finishing of fabrics . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He notes that any loss of earnings can usually be made up during the first ten years of work . |
| 14 | The 1990 Broadcasting Act means that three new independent radio services and a fifth television channel will be set up during the next Parliament . |
| 15 | To make the needle fit the groove , the disc contained abrasive material , so the tip would be ground down during the first two or three revolutions . |
| 16 | But if the negotiators do allow them to fail after all , or if the United States Congress rejects any compromise that may be worked out during the next two months , the effects will be disastrous . |
| 17 | In Nottinghamshire no less than 164,508 ‘ presumed pickets ’ were turned back during the first 27 weeks of the strike ’ ( Wallington , 1985 : 154 ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | B. Each town has a few factories , most of which were set up during the last 40 years . |
| 20 | The UN Food & Agriculture Organisation ( FAO ) has reduced its estimate of the annual rate at which tropical forests were cut down during the 1980s . |
| 21 | that helicopter 's were fucking around during the second World War but they , they were |
| 22 | Will he take a personal interest in stopping this scandalous dumping and make sure that the overshoot is clawed back during the next two years , the time remaining to the EC-Chinese trade agreement ? |
| 23 | As you can see there , the model is breaking down during the latter period of our sample . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The Government 's being urged to stop developers bulldozing a site where vital intelligence work was carried out during the Second World War . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | This fund was set up during the 1880s as a means of providing sickness benefit for employees . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | That example was tossed out during the 1950s , when McCarthyites took issue with it . |