Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv prt] during [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Impregnation of the sample with a coloured epoxy resin ( commonly blue ) makes the pore spaces more easily visible in thin section ( Chapter 4 ) and allows distinction between a true pore space and a void where a grain or crystal has been plucked out during the process of making a thin section . |
| 2 | The shift , if that 's what it is , mirrors the way shipments have been shaping up during the three months since they started . |
| 3 | Used to test theories and interpretations relating to technology and subsistence , experiments can also test the very basic interpretations that are carried out during the course of an excavation : whether or not a hole in the ground functioned as a pit or a posthole , what a particular pit was used for , and so on . |
| 4 | Fire crackers are let off during the day . |
| 5 | Instead , it lists a range of different losses which , the writs served on the two firms last March allege , should have been picked up during the course of the audits . |
| 6 | How else could it be so swiftly known that a prominent member of the Royal College of Acupuncturists , say , had been picked up during the night and pinched for drunk-driving ? |
| 7 | Despite this apparent lack of interest at high level , detail work must have been carried on during the next two years , for Gordon Thomas , together with the signatories of the memorandum , took out two patents relating to the lift . |
| 8 | Beattie suggests that this is because much of the semantic planning for this phase has been carried out during the preceding hesitant phase . |
| 9 | Employers constantly gnawed at the high level of wages which had been built up during the First World War . |
| 10 | The cataclysm destroyed much of what had been built up during the long reign of Bel-Shanaar and left the Elves temporarily too weak to pursue their dark kinsfolk . |
| 11 | The hill farms generally have small fields near the valley bottoms , larger rough grazing ‘ in-bye ’ areas which adjoin the open hill , and common hill land where sheep , ponies , and occasionally cattle are turned out during the summer . |
| 12 | Rights to occupational and private pensions are built up during the individual 's employment . |
| 13 | Well I mean , if you bought them and then you 're building up during the year , but you know , we can always have them for |
| 14 | It 's all to do with GCSE coursework and see how we 're getting on during the two weeks and we get experience for us when we leave school and go to work . |
| 15 | Almost 2,000 knives and other blades have been handed in during the first fortnight of the month-long amnesty . |
| 16 | For example , the TV drama ‘ Thin Air ’ in 1988 brought out some of the unpleasantness about the ‘ wheeler-dealing ’ that has been going on during the Docklands boom years . |
| 17 | ‘ It reinforces and give practice to what has been going on during the day , ’ he says . |
| 18 | Some streets which had been closed off during the intifada would be gradually re-opened . |
| 19 | Dramatic as imprinting is as a form of learning , it suffered from my point of view from the problem that for a bird to become imprinted requires exposing it to the stimulus , the flashing light or whatever , for a couple of hours ; memory builds up slowly over that time , and so the cellular changes that are going on during the period inevitably intermingle the effects of learning and of visual stimulation with those of memory formation . |
| 20 | The list of churches that have been burnt out during the Waiting period of redundancy is scandalously long . |
| 21 | A few co-operatives have been set up during the last 25 years . |
| 22 | However , when the regulations came to be made , the government maintained that the policy which had been set out during the passage of the Bill through the House was unworkable . |
| 23 | ‘ The caterers are coming in during the afternoon . |
| 24 | It is the first time troops have been brought in during a dispute since 1978 . |
| 25 | It is the first time troops have been brought in during an industrial dispute since 1978 . |
| 26 | Today will be the first time troops have been brought in during an industrial dispute since 1978 . |
| 27 | It is the first time that troops have been brought in during an industrial dispute since the firemen 's strike in 1978 . |
| 28 | People see advertisements out of the corner of their eye as they drive along a road or look through a newspaper or magazine ; they catch a glimpse of half a TV commercial round their wives ' or husbands ' broad backsides as the biscuits are brought in during a commercial break . |
| 29 | The moisture in the gel will be given off during the day and reabsorbed at night . |
| 30 | He had a vicious side to his nature and it apparently meant nothing to him that an old man was going to be roughed up during the raid . |