Example sentences of "[noun] had [vb pp] during the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crisis within the coalition had arisen during the previous week when Reynolds on Oct. 27 accused O'Malley of " dishonest " testimony to a parliamentary inquiry into fraud in the beef export industry as regards Reynolds 's handling of export credits for Iraq while Industry and Commerce Minister in 1987-88 . |
| 2 | The way she saw Bella had changed during the course of that afternoon . |
| 3 | Although the move away from Keynesianism had begun during the mid-1970s under a Labour government , the Thatcherite programme explicitly rejected the previous consensus and embraced a liberal political economy based on the restoration of market forces and market values . |
| 4 | Amidst expressions of growing concern by environmentalists and politicians , the Japanese Energy Agency later admitted that engineers had been forced to use a back-up water sprinkler system after a valve had failed during the emergency shut-down process . |
| 5 | It was also the cold : a chill wind had risen during the morning and ruffled the feathers of a sparrow which stood shivering on the window-ledge . |
| 6 | However , after Wakeham reported that support among backbenchers had collapsed during the day , perhaps by half , it was clear to those around Mrs Thatcher that , although she said she would sleep on it , she was virtually certain to resign . |
| 7 | Damien Gould had died during the night . |
| 8 | The rector had called during the afternoon and found Winnie Bailey sitting by her husband 's bedside . |
| 9 | Coleridge had discovered during the final weeks at Bristol that the devoted but unstable Lloyd was subject to attacks of mania and was a sufferer from epilepsy . |
| 10 | The heavy rain had subsided during the morning , but the pavements were still wet underfoot and a fine haze of moisture hung on the wintry air . |
| 11 | observed that the section 49 investigation had started during the course of a full C.I.D . |
| 12 | She liked the way it stood , distinct and certain , rising out of the level muddy waste of grass and tarmac that generously surrounded it : a bomb had fallen during the war , on a neighbouring chapel , and the site had been levelled out and was now an unofficial part of the school 's playgrounds The whole area was of a bleak airiness , and a cold wind seemed to blow incessantly upon it , turning the knees and knuckles of the girls pink and blue , and snatching away their obligatory berets the moment they emerged from the school porch . |
| 13 | During lunch we discussed how the water had changed during the week . |
| 14 | After 18 months in office , the rector , the Rev. Dick Woodger , expressed his thanks for the help he and his wife had received during the move into the new rectory and at the recent birth of their latest daughter . |
| 15 | That might well explain the twitchiness which Joanne had noticed during the ensuing week . |
| 16 | He decided that on the way he would take a look at the nearby clump of trees from which the eerie sounds had drifted during the night . |
| 17 | She was n't hungry — her appetite had disappeared during the long moments she had looked into his amber eyes . |
| 18 | The form that literary studies had taken during the second half of the nineteenth century , positivism , was , as we saw in the Introduction , largely based on the genetic approach ; critics , or rather scholars , concentrated their energies on uncovering the sources and genesis of particular works , and the role of biography , history and history of ideas in these genetic studies obviously reduced the importance of literature itself in literary scholarship . |
| 19 | However , many things had happened during the two years since she had been told that her mother had died of the fever and that , prior to this , she had not been allowed to see her in case she should catch it and spread it further . |
| 20 | The by-election was not legally required but Goh had announced during the campaign period for the 1991 general election that he would use by-elections to provide voters with a chance to renew his mandate . |
| 21 | I WAS once interviewed for a radio programme on BBC and was asked how deaf people had fared during the past 20 years . |
| 22 | So many people had died during the siege either from wounds or illness that a considerable quantity of private stores had accumulated . |
| 23 | A SAIRI statement from Beirut on March 9 claimed that over 30,000 people had died during the uprising and that fighting was still raging throughout the south . |
| 24 | Nationalisation was not new to France — the railways had been put into State ownership in 1937 — but support for economic planning had grown during the war as a way towards national renewal , greater investment and improved working conditions , and also as a way to punish businessmen who had collaborated with the Nazis . |
| 25 | Now , our dining-room had served during the General Election just concluded as the local Labour Party committee-rooms , and there were still various sheets of strawboard balanced on tables and sideboards , covered in the stubs of canvass-returns , with pencils at hand to mark them . |
| 26 | Although it was not incompatible with the view that new species had arisen during the earth 's long history , it was incompatible with evolutionary theory as conceived by Darwin . |
| 27 | During the night I cut firewood for them , and added it secretly to the wood which the young man had cut during the day . |
| 28 | Joseph 's ‘ old wife ’ , Heyoom Yoyish ( Bear Crossing ) and daughter had fled during the opening battle , and were among some 230 Nez Perce who escaped from the Bear Paws to Sitting Bull 's camp in Canada . |
| 29 | The jury had heard during the four-day trial that Daly and Welshman Artro Davies , of Maes Dulyn , Penygroes , had earlier been involved in two scuffles in a local pub . |
| 30 | Relying on government figures , the report estimated that 14,000 civilians had died during the war while another 57,000 were wounded , 37,000 of whom were permanently disabled . |