Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv prt] during the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Impregnation of the sample with a coloured epoxy resin ( commonly blue ) makes the pore spaces more easily visible in thin section ( Chapter 4 ) and allows distinction between a true pore space and a void where a grain or crystal has been plucked out during the process of making a thin section . |
| 2 | Used to test theories and interpretations relating to technology and subsistence , experiments can also test the very basic interpretations that are carried out during the course of an excavation : whether or not a hole in the ground functioned as a pit or a posthole , what a particular pit was used for , and so on . |
| 3 | Fire crackers are let off during the day . |
| 4 | Instead , it lists a range of different losses which , the writs served on the two firms last March allege , should have been picked up during the course of the audits . |
| 5 | How else could it be so swiftly known that a prominent member of the Royal College of Acupuncturists , say , had been picked up during the night and pinched for drunk-driving ? |
| 6 | The hill farms generally have small fields near the valley bottoms , larger rough grazing ‘ in-bye ’ areas which adjoin the open hill , and common hill land where sheep , ponies , and occasionally cattle are turned out during the summer . |
| 7 | Rights to occupational and private pensions are built up during the individual 's employment . |
| 8 | Some streets which had been closed off during the intifada would be gradually re-opened . |
| 9 | However , when the regulations came to be made , the government maintained that the policy which had been set out during the passage of the Bill through the House was unworkable . |
| 10 | The moisture in the gel will be given off during the day and reabsorbed at night . |
| 11 | He had a vicious side to his nature and it apparently meant nothing to him that an old man was going to be roughed up during the raid . |
| 12 | Work had been planned to be carried out during the possession on a Saturday night to carry out some pointing |
| 13 | Transjugular liver biopsy allows histological and haemodynamic studies to be carried out during the course of fulminant hepatic failure . |
| 14 | Titles which are identified as possible purchases need to be noted down during the course of the stock revision . |
| 15 | The Palestinian need for Jordan seemed to be borne out during the years 1983–6 when the PLO lived on the edge of political extinction . |
| 16 | The advantage of this is that the secretaries can be laid off during the summer recess , and MPs can avoid the cost of employing them from the ‘ expenses ’ allowance . |
| 17 | Instead , a full selection procedure was to be gone through during the lifetime of a Parliament , thus allowing other aspiring candidates to be considered . |
| 18 | communication yes , so that we used to have the difficulty , and we used to rely on the odd person , railway people , drivers and their guards , they used to be knocked up during the night for early duty , by call boys , we used to make use of them if we wanted a message sent anywhere . |
| 19 | Their current training programme means two nights a week in the gym , one night running six miles , two outings a day at the weekend in their single sculls , a 6.30am outing once a week as part of a national squad eight then two more sculling outings have to be fitted in during the weekdays . |
| 20 | I wondered whether it could be drugs — that a caddie perhaps had to be made privy to , because the golfer had to be topped up during the round . |
| 21 | She is amazed how many teenagers are allowed out during the week in the run-up to examinations . |
| 22 | The school is a complex of large , red-bricked barrack blocks , which had been taken over during the war ( happily unoccupied ) by the American Army . |
| 23 | Copies of the charter were being given out during the rush hour at Darlington but connections proved not to be the best with an hour wait for the next train south . |
| 24 | After being shot down during the Battle of Britain , Stienhilper became a PoW and after a short period in a British camp was transferred to Canada . |
| 25 | 10 sows and one boar were moved in during the autumn and they 've already had 50 piglets . |
| 26 | The gangs were called up during the war . |
| 27 | And er really when you sort of l look at the children who were born during the war and were brought up during the war , they 're all pretty strong and healthy . |
| 28 | Unbelievably , our boats were still being laid up during the winter months but with a more professional approach being adopted from topside , this policy was soon to be abandoned . |
| 29 | ( As an American he would have been used to ‘ collections ’ being taken up during the service . |
| 30 | Rumours were put about during the strike that shipowners were threatening to import Chinese labour to man their vessels . |