Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] during the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cultivators became discouraged during the Japanese occupation and lack of export facilities , with the result that much land went out of cultivation . |
| 2 | Fundamentally , roses are as much shrubs as any others in the garden and , like them , divide broadly into two categories as far as pruning is concerned ; those that flower in spring and summer on wood developed during the previous growth period ( i.e. last year ) , and those that flower , necessarily a little later , from mid summer on , upon wood that has developed during the current season . |
| 3 | Add to this cost the growth in government expenditure , and we are a long way in explaining why the real value of the tax threshold , or the level of income at which tax begins to be paid , has fallen during the post-war period . |
| 4 | They provide about 80 per cent of total lending for private house purchase , though this figure has fluctuated during the 1980s as banks entered , retreated from and then re-entered the mortgage market . |
| 5 | The Detachment Commander , a Captain and Ammunition Technical Officer ( ATO ) in the Royal Ordnance Corps , is busy writing up reports for the couple of incidents the team has attended during the preceding few days . |
| 6 | Has my right hon. Friend seen the excellent report of Lancaster health authority , a copy of which I sent him , showing the immense progress that it has made during the past year — all within its budget ? |
| 7 | We will continue to work strenuously for a political agreement which is acceptable to all the parties involved in the talks which the Secretary of State has had during the past year with the main constitutional parties in Northern Ireland the Government of the Republic of Ireland . |
| 8 | While no radical shift in the distribution of the British people at the macro-regional scale has occurred during the present century , the settlement pattern has displayed a dynamism that has proved difficult to forecast . |
| 9 | Intriguingly , such an inversion has occurred during the recent evolution of human chromosome 2 , being present in the chimpanzee precursor chromosome , but not in the related chromosomes of gorilla and orangutan ( 51 ) . |
| 10 | What the figure does not reveal is the shift in the balance that has occurred during the 1980s towards overseas securities , prompted initially by the relaxation of exchange controls in 1979 and encouraged subsequently by the strong performance of some overseas economies and stock-markets . |
| 11 | The Free Churches have made much use of the explosion of hymn writing which has occurred during the last thirty years and which crosses the boundaries of all denominations . |
| 12 | Mr Dryfe said : ‘ The violence which has occurred during the last several weeks outside the factory gates and the damage done to the property of several of our employees is deplorable . |
| 13 | In the Dehra Dun Valley some 16 per cent of the forest cover has disappeared during the last 100 years ( J F Richards 1987 ) . |
| 14 | ‘ Before I return to London , I 'd like to propose a strategy , should Elinor ever again be ill , to prevent the problems that Buzz has experienced during the past few weeks . ’ |
| 15 | Citizens ' Committees outraged by the scale of corruption that has emerged during the last week , have continued their crusade against state , party and security institutions . |
| 16 | Citizens ' Committees outraged by the scale of corruption that has emerged during the last week , have continued their crusade against state , party and security institutions . |
| 17 | Citizens ' Committees outraged by the scale of corruption that has emerged during the last week , have continued their crusade against state , party and security institutions . |
| 18 | As measured by examination performance , educational achievement in secondary schools in the United Kingdom has increased during the 1970s and 1980s ( especially in the 1970s ) . |
| 19 | The percentage of young people staying on in full-time education after the legal minimum leaving age has increased during the last decade , as Figure 12.1 shows . |
| 20 | Among the children of a Woolwich school evacuated to somewhere in Kent the average weight of the boys has increased during the last month by 2½ lb. and of girls by 3½ lb . |
| 21 | Recent evidence does indeed suggest that total factor productivity has increased during the 1980s . |
| 22 | Has my right hon. Friend noticed the extent to which the German economy has suffered from the worldwide slowdown and the fact that German output has decreased during the past two months for which figures are available ? |
| 23 | ‘ The editorial content of the popular press ’ , they write , ‘ has shrunk during the last forty years . |
| 24 | If the right hon. Gentleman examines completely what has happened during the past year with that objective in mind , he will find that not only have we cut inflation , as I have just said , but we have cut interest rates . |
| 25 | He is a most welcome supporter of the Bill It would be helpful if I brought the House up to date on what has happened during the past year , so that hon. Members can take recent developments into account when making up their minds if and when they vote later . |
| 26 | Interest in runaways , street children and child prostitution has heightened during the 1980s . |
| 27 | The Corporation may cancel this Policy by sending seven days notice by registered letter to the Policyholder at his last known address and in such event will return to the Policyholder the premium less the pro rata portion thereof for the period the Policy has been in force or the Policy may be cancelled at any time by the Policyholder on seven days notice and ( provided no claim has arisen during the then current period of insurance ( subject to the relative International Motor Insurance Card ( Green Card ) being returned to the Corporation the Policyholder shall be entitled to a return of the premium less premium at the Corporations short period rates for the time the Policy has been in force calculated from the date upon which such Card is received by the Corporation . |
| 28 | The beliefs which , he suggests , play this special role for us now include the belief that I have two hands , that men do not fly to the moon , that the sun is not a hole in the sky , that the earth has existed during the last century and that our hands do not disappear when we are not paying attention to them . |
| 29 | Undoubtedly , the two interrelated movements — the democratic movement and the labour movement which developed so vigorously in the nineteenth century continue to have a major influence in politics , but the relation between them has changed during the present century , in a way which is also relevant to the character of more recent movements . |
| 30 | In this chapter we show first how the age structure of Britain 's population has changed during the twentieth century , and how it is likely to change in the century 's final years and beyond . |