Example sentences of "[verb] during the time of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of the learning and practice of the Egyptians was absorbed by Greek physicians , one of the best known of whom is Dioscorides , an army doctor who lived during the time of Nero in the first century AD . |
| 2 | Godwin in his book Political Justice ( 1793 ) , written during the time of the French Revolution , with its slogan of ‘ Liberty , Equality , Fraternity ’ , argued for the abolition of private property on the ground that it retarded the moral and intellectual development of a society because of its inequality . |
| 3 | Walden away to my left was patterned with meticulously regular fields built during the time of the later enclosures . |
| 4 | It may be very difficult to obtain accurate colour photographs of quartz luminescence because the shift to red may occur during the time of exposure . |
| 5 | Taunton , Somerset 's county town , was founded during the time of King Ine , astride the peaceful , picturesque River Tone . |
| 6 | This enabled companies not only to cut costs but also by-pass awkward labour-protection laws introduced during the time of the left-wing military dictatorship . |
| 7 | And it is deeply revealing that recent scholarly research into what tribal art he could have encountered during the time of his first enthusiasm for it has demonstrated that he could not have seen most of the examples which art historians have previously compared and juxtaposed to his paintings.1 |
| 8 | The Slovenes and some Croats had been converted during the time of Charlemagne , and the Croats of Dalmatia were converted by missionaries from Rome during the early seventh century . |
| 9 | Sexual relations were prohibited during the time of a woman 's menstruation . |
| 10 | For the Halifax , Britain 's biggest building society , there is no exemption period if the claimant with their policies can prove they were covered during the time of the accident or sickness . |
| 11 | In 1652 Alexis was persuaded to establish a new ‘ foreign suburb ’ in Moscow to replace the one destroyed during the Time of Troubles . |