Example sentences of "[adv] during the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One option that he did not possess was the mass medium of radio which he had used so effectively during the war : in April 1947 the prime minister Paul Ramadier prohibited retransmission of de Gaulle 's speeches . |
| 2 | I appreciated the very great honour of being asked — Coronation opera and all that — but I knew that my voice had been punished mercilessly during the war and I had , indeed , decided to retire from the opera stage . |
| 3 | Mr Carmichael was in contemplative mood yesterday after the news that betting shops would be allowed to remain open until 10pm during the summer months , bringing Scotland into line with England and Wales . |
| 4 | During a typical marathon , your fatty tissue is whittled down by almost six ounces , your liver and leg muscles cough up about 11 ounces of carbohydrate , and — if you do n't drink properly during the race — your body can lose about 100 ounces of water . |
| 5 | Steven Isserlis has said that he needs ‘ a safety net not to have to worry whether I 've ever played this or that bar properly during the session and also someone who knows the kind of musical personality I am and whether I have covered a particular stretch of music the way I would want . |
| 6 | By doing so , and by being at the heart of Europe , that Government will be able to represent Britain properly during the presidency . |
| 7 | The latter had the important advantage of incumbency , but , as we have seen , was handicapped by a poor record as president and had stumbled badly during the campaign ; nevertheless he ran Carter close — 49 to 51 per cent in the popular vote and 240 — 297 in the Electoral College . |
| 8 | Leeds started out the second half the way they played the first , but lost their way badly during the course with Oldham coming back into the game strongly . |
| 9 | The area suffered badly during the time of the plague which gave rise to the legend of the Butterstone . |
| 10 | With gliders which have a front wheel or main skid , a main wheel just behind the c.g. and a tail-wheel or skid like the K13 , Grob 103 , ASK21 , Puchazc , Schweitzer 233 and most of the older single seaters , it may be necessary to ease back a little during the take-off run to raise the front wheel or skid . |
| 11 | By contrast equatorial forests lack extreme seasonal variation ; where productivity varies little during the year the resource fluctuations are never so great as in savannah or temperate regions . |
| 12 | Only if the window is a sunny south-facing one should they be shaded a little during the middle of the day in summer when the sun is shining . |
| 13 | Government policy towards the village changed remarkably little during the period . |
| 14 | This inbuilt coloration may alter slowly during the lifetime of the fish , depending on its environment . |
| 15 | The GCC states — in the diplomatic as in other fields , generally inclined to support Iraq — had lobbied vigorously during the run-up to the Security Council vote for the emergence of a form of words incorporating censure of Iran . |
| 16 | It has published major studies of the likely impact of the Channel Tunnel on Kent , consulted widely with local people , and petitioned vigorously during the passage of the Bill . |
| 17 | The wind had risen powerfully during the evening and now thumped against the side of the car , whistling through its hidden but inevitable apertures . |
| 18 | But more than two million acres of ‘ waste ’ were successfully enclosed , divided into fields , and brought under cultivation by act of parliament , mostly during the course of the nineteenth century . |
| 19 | In spite of this , she never lost an opportunity to jog his memory , mostly during the coffee breaks when Desmond Fairchild and the girl with red hair were within earshot . |
| 20 | Hunters would pursue it relentlessly during the snow season , for its winter pelt was especially prized in coat and hat making . |
| 21 | Had hir survival expertise been destroyed somewhere during the treatment SHe 'd had ? |
| 22 | There 's always one to be heard somewhere during the summer — in the piazza in front of the art gallery and Town Hall or in a park . |
| 23 | Groups S and D performed identically during the test ; using an aversive reinforcer eliminates context-specificity in this preparation and allows the result of Lovibond et al . |
| 24 | Napoleon III , who had a horror of offending anyone socially , said nothing and both he and Eugénie behaved graciously and warmly during the dinner , as though not in the least put out . |
| 25 | Elections , and history , might have been quite different had people known about the depressions of previous presidents like George Washington , who suffered terribly during the Revolution . |
| 26 | The statement , ‘ Venus , as viewed from earth , does not change size appreciably during the course of the year ’ , was generally accepted by all astronomers , both Copernicans and non-Copernicans , on the basis of those observations . |
| 27 | The observation was accepted in spite of its inconvenience , since the Copernican theory as well as some of its rivals predicted that Venus should appear to change size appreciably during the course of the year . |
| 28 | This is precisely what was involved when Copernicus 's theory was retained and the naked-eye observation that Venus does not change size appreciably during the course of the year , which is inconsistent with the Copernican theory , was rejected . |
| 29 | They involved the absence of parallax in the observed positions of the stars and the fact that Mars and Venus , as viewed by the naked eye , do not change size appreciably during the course of the year . |
| 30 | The diagnostic methods for gall stone disease have changed appreciably during the study period . |