Example sentences of "it be during [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if it is only for one moment that a spasm in your face draws my attention to the intensity of your pain , a glimpse from which I flinch back into insensibility , it is during that moment that a choice between my conflicting pulls to help and to ignore will be made in fullest awareness . |
| 2 | It is during this time that torture most commonly occurs . |
| 3 | Since rainfall controls plant growth , and plants are the base of the food pyramid , deserts typically have only a short period when food is abundant ; it is during this time that the creatures of the desert must complete their breeding cycle . |
| 4 | It is during this period that various decrees and opinions of church leaders advise women to abstain from the Eucharist and even to refrain from entering the church altogether when they are menstruating . |
| 5 | It is during this period that any further investigation which is necessary should be carried out , both into new allegations in the Summons/Initial Writ and any further points which are raised by the solicitor following consideration of the insurers ' file . |
| 6 | It was during that affair that she persuaded politicians to start an annual bridge match between the two Houses of Parliament . |
| 7 | It was during that holiday that the notion had first come to Melissa of setting a novel in the region . |
| 8 | The date 1830 was chosen because it was during that year that the first true naturalist wrote . |
| 9 | It was during that discussion that ( I think ) some of them began to appreciate that the existence of a form in the language is no guarantee that is used . |
| 10 | I did my best , but I suppose it was during that time that I began to drink too much and that finished off my promotion chances . |
| 11 | It was during these years that the new Canadian designed Noorduyn Norseman began its long association with Red Lake . |
| 12 | It was during these years that Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany enunciated his famous ‘ yellow peril ’ theory , the idea that the millions of China , led by Japan , would overrun Europe and destroy its civilization . |
| 13 | It was during this trip that the idea of a ‘ Lincoln Tower ’ arose . |
| 14 | It was during this Test that the word ‘ bodyline ’ was coined by an Australian journalist . |
| 15 | It was during this decade that the present deaf community 's sports infrastructure was established , following the formation of the British Deaf Amateur Sports Association ( later the British Deaf Sports Council ) in 1930 . |
| 16 | It was during this decade that the erection of the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh was commenced . |
| 17 | It was during this incident that I became aware of Husseys Hatches , as the Fire Brigade used the water from one of these , nearly opposite the Brown Street Baptist Church . |
| 18 | It was during this period that he formed a mixed media trio called Feathers comprising himself , Hermione and John Hutchinson who came from Hull . |
| 19 | It was during this period that it became the second major party in British politics , and Britain 's leading progressive party . |
| 20 | As was indicated in Chapter 1 , it was during this period that Britain officially returned to the gold standard and free trade . |
| 21 | It was during this period that a young buyer for Adidas based in Liverpool ( but originally from Yorkshire ) set up shop in a small back-street in Liverpool City Centre . |
| 22 | It was during this period that the wheel and most of the machinery was stripped out . |
| 23 | It was during this period that horoscopic astrology was invented , probably in the fifth century BC . |
| 24 | It was during this period that the boroughs of Bethnal Green , Stepney , Mile End and Poplar witnessed a net loss of population for the first time . |
| 25 | It was during this period that Caledor oversaw the building of the fortresses at Griffon Gate , Phoenix Gate , Eagle Gate , Dragon Gate and Unicorn Gate . |
| 26 | It was during this period that with the cooperation of the US Occupation , parts of the bureaucracy , elected conservative politicians and private employers sought to alter the extent of labour rights in order , it was argued , to maintain internal political stability . |
| 27 | It was during this period that he conceived the idea of an airline devoted to small package shipments . |
| 28 | It was during this period that savage Turkish reprisals against Balkan nationalist movements gave the last of the sultans an unsavoury reputation for religious persecution which has coloured the writings of some western historians in their assessment of the whole record of the Ottoman empire . |
| 29 | And it was during this period that he published , in fair French , his monograph on artificial daylight ( Lettre sur les moyens de produire , la nuit , une lumière pareille à celle du jour , 1785 ) and his second essay on light and vision ( Théorie de la lumière , applicable aux arts , et principalement à la peinture , 1786 ) . |
| 30 | It was during this period that he took into his service Perkin Warbeck [ q.v. ] , who later claimed to be Edward IV 's son , Richard , Duke of York [ q.v . ] . |