Example sentences of "during the [adj] [noun] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under Field Marshal , the Viscount , Alanbrooke 's chairmanship during the Second World War they were the Government 's most powerful advisers . |
| 2 | During the Second World War they were taken down to the dark stone vaults beneath the Half Moon Battery and buried to prevent them falling into enemy hands . |
| 3 | During the second world war he played an active role in the opposition to the German occupation , eventually joining the Resistance , and creating the magazine Confluence , which was rapidly banned , and became an early edition of French samizdat . |
| 4 | During the Second World War he worked in the production of aero-engine components and served as engineer officer with the Clevedon Fire Brigade . |
| 5 | If Charles Dodgson had been alive during the Second World War he would have surely been recruited for Station X , not only for his mathematics but also for his amphigory . |
| 6 | During the Second World War he came to national notice as chairman of a Senate committee set up to check on war contracts and to prevent war profiteering . |
| 7 | During the Second World War he made propaganda and training films for the US army . |
| 8 | The brewery used horse-drawn drays for beer deliveries in and around the East End , and during the Second World War it was hit hard when a German land mine damaged the brewery stables , killing and injuring many of the horses . |
| 9 | During the Second World War she worked indefatigably for charities such as the Red Cross , which packed parcels for prisoners of war , made medical dressings for the wounded and provided canteens for the serving men and women . |
| 10 | Luxemburg was vigorously criticised by a number of leading Marxists at that time , such as Otto Bauer and Karl Kautsky , and while she was in prison during the First World War she wrote a reply to her critics . |
| 11 | During the First World War she volunteered for the Women 's Reserve Ambulance and twice won the Croix de Charité for gallantry for heroic rescues in Salonica . |
| 12 | Perhaps because of his career as a Naval Officer during the First World War he worked for a long period during the Second World War at the Admiralty . |
| 13 | During the First World War he was occupied with the Jurassic rocks of Raasay in connection with the exploitation of the ironstone and wrote a memoir on the subject , published in 1920 . |
| 14 | He was a dredgerman yes , see he was on the river first then he went on the dredger and course that 's before my time and that was during the First World War he was on he was at Ramsgate . |
| 15 | During the Popular Front period it was comparatively simple to attract people to organizations with apparently acceptable aims , later persuading them to become Communists . |
| 16 | During the Lebanese hostage saga he maintained a dialogue with the Iranian Government . |
| 17 | During the three year programme we set ourselves a total of 33 remits , of which only 5 remain to be completed . |
| 18 | During the 1990 election campaign he had promised on at least eight occasions that if victorious he would serve the entire term as Prime Minister . |