Example sentences of "in [noun prp] during the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been a prisoner-of-war in Germany during the First World War and as a result of his wartime experiences suffered constantly from a weak chest . |
| 2 | Its use in Germany during the Second World War provided the most dramatic illustration of the power of the symbol . |
| 3 | Similarly , in some of the large industrial enterprises in Germany during the inter-war period with the introduction of standardised mass-production techniques a parallel emphasis was placed upon welfare measures ( company housing , provision of leisure activities , etc. ) as a means of motivation , promoting integration and worker commitment to the company . |
| 4 | If we restrict our attention solely to the twentieth century , it is notable that the two most important and traumatic socialist revolutions , that in Russia in 1917 and that in Germany during the Nazi era , whilst being the creation of particular political leaders who soon imposed total state power , nevertheless drew what popular support they had from political myths that are obvious paranoid projections . |
| 5 | The film , about the effect of war on young men at a United States Air Force base in Cambridgeshire during the Second World War , demanded that Crawford learn to speak with an American accent — in twenty-four hours . |
| 6 | In theory , during this period their potential to adapt technology to source inputs locally ( as had occurred in Biafra during the civil war ) , rather than to import them might have given them a competitive edge over the large manufacturing companies managed and partly owned from overseas . |
| 7 | Her brother who had been a soldier was killed in Flanders during the Second World War and was buried there . |
| 8 | I can illustrate this by referring to a poem which was part of a racist leaflet circulated in Haringey during the 1987 election . |
| 9 | The most picturesque explanation is that US soldiers were frequently heard in Mexico during the US-Mexican war of 1848 to sing the song ‘ Green Grow the Lilacs ’ . |
| 10 | The twelve enamel plaques were made in Byzantium during the tenth century , but the roundels were made locally at Regensburg . |
| 11 | ‘ And he , of course , was the architect of some of the finer domes in Florence during the 15th century . ’ |
| 12 | A resilient alliance between Protestant theology and Aristotelian philosophy , which had established itself in different parts of Europe , remained particularly strong in Scotland during the first half of the seventeenth century . |
| 13 | In Scotland during the past year we have witnessed the distasteful spectacle of Dounreay scouring the planet and touting for business as the nuclear prostitute of the world , seeking to sign as many contracts as possible to dispose of other countries ' spent nuclear fuel while the clock ticks away towards the 1994 deadline set by the Government when funding for the 250 MW prototype fast reactor will cease . |
| 14 | In the Steam Museum , the Power Hall displays live steam stationary engines made or working in Ireland during the nineteenth century . |
| 15 | The emergence of the people 's committees was promoted by the significant improvement in the communications network in Korea during the Japanese era and through the population growth and mobility of the population under colonialism . |
| 16 | They were used as woven decorations to headdresses and the borders of garments found in richer graves in England during the second half of the sixth and early seventh centuries , significantly mainly in Kent . |
| 17 | Still on the subject of voice , let me remind you of the slogan which heralded the government 's campaign against German spies in England during the Second World War . |
| 18 | For Marx and Engels the French Revolution marked the violent transition from feudalism to capitalism , which had occurred over a century earlier in England during the civil war . |
| 19 | In his early works he was very concerned with the problem of ‘ alienation ’ and the ‘ essence of man ’ and even in Capital it is impossible not to be moved in reading his account of conditions in England during the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 20 | To take another example , provenance has also proved a useful method of attributing ‘ sceattas ’ , the small silver coins which circulated in England during the eighth century . |
| 21 | The Romans probably introduced the geared watermill and are first recorded in England during the last quarter of the twelfth century . |
| 22 | ‘ You 'd think he 'd come for the Christmas or even write but never a word , no thought for anybody except himself , ’ and it cast a deep shadow when they tried to imagine what kind of space enclosed Luke in England during the same hour , but they were n't able to imagine it . |
| 23 | The Dutch Souterliedekens with tunes only were published at Antwerp in 1540 and in England during the same period Miles Coverdale brought out his Goostly psalmes and spirituall songes , also with tunes only ( c. 1543 ) , while Francis Seagar 's selection of 19 Certayne Psalmes ( London , 1553 ) are all accommodated to two four-part compositions . |
| 24 | They offered in effect a free counselling service and many of the problems brought to them were of a spiritual nature , which in itself showed the high level of spiritual and religious interest in England during the fourteenth century . |
| 25 | My grandfather had always taken a keen interest in my work , and I had an equal admiration of the stories of his time spent in Burma during the Second World War . |
| 26 | A prolific author and poet , his best-known book , Beyond the Chindwin , is a restrained account of his experiences as a Column Commander behind the Japanese lines in Burma during the Second World War . |
| 27 | A Masai who acquitted himself well in hand-to-hand fighting in Burma during the Second World War was allowed to keep the samurai sword he captured : ‘ Please do not take this sword away from this soldier ’ , the man 's commanding officer wrote on the wound tag around his neck , ‘ He is a Masai . ’ |
| 28 | In Burmah Oil Co. v Lord Advocate [ 1965 ] AC 75 , HL , the company was successful in its claim for compensation against the Crown for the destruction of its installations in Burma during the Second World War , the destruction having been ordered by the commander of British forces to prevent the installations falling into the hands of the advancing Japanese forces . |
| 29 | An extreme case of charlatanism occurred in Argentina during the Peronist era of the 1950s . |
| 30 | On the other hand , an incident which occurred in Ulster during the same february 1974 general election left so much circumstantial evidence , suggesting undercover involvement , that a judicial commission absolutely must be used to establish whether or not this was so . |