Example sentences of "[noun pl] have been [verb] during " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an incubator a brown-gold boy , naked and perfect except that both his legs had been broken during his birth , and were now suspended from a delicately constructed pulley and weight inside his perspex container . |
| 2 | Requests to place pupils in particular schools have been increasing during the 1980s . |
| 3 | A number of distinct morphological units have been identified during the crystallization of polymers from the melt , which have helped to clarify the mechanism . |
| 4 | Amongst the other companies to have been privatised during the Conservative second term are Jaguar ( 1984 ) , British Airways ( 1987 ) and Rolls-Royce ( 1987 ) . |
| 5 | The mug he had used in the morning was still unwashed and his two spare mugs had been smashed during Zoe 's last visit . |
| 6 | His parents had been killed during the Berlin blitz and after being shunted from one set of foster parents to another he had run away at the end of the war . |
| 7 | The re-contras claimed that 66 former contras had been killed during the year in continuing clashes with Sandinista army and police personnel who they wanted replaced by a police force which included ex-contras . |
| 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 | Many such sites have been found during the construction of buildings , roads , railways , dams , and so on , as well as during mineral extraction . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , the International Committeee of the Red Cross announced on July 13 that two of its workers had been killed during an armed ambush in Paktia province . |
| 11 | When the IWC was established in 1946 , its purpose was to work for the resuscitation of an industry that was declining because stocks had been over-exploited during the previous decades , rather than to conserve existing whale stocks . |
| 12 | Iraq 's Agriculture and Irrigation Minister Abdul Wahab Mahmoud al-Sabbagh said on May 18 that 50 per cent of cereal and seed stocks had been destroyed during the Gulf war , as had 95 per cent of livestock and poultry for breeding . |
| 13 | Of a planned 2,266 a total of 1,581 Cuban troops had been withdrawn during January , bringing to 31,138 the number withdrawn since January 1989 . |
| 14 | 300,000 school places had been destroyed during the War , and 350,000 additional ones would now be needed . |
| 15 | Some of the poems had been written during the 1860s , others were of more recent date , but the overall impression — which so disturbed contemporary readers — of austerity , metrical irregularity and verbal roughness , reminiscent of an oral tradition , can now be seen , in the words of another poet , David Wright , ‘ as a beginning of the end of Victorian poetry ’ . |
| 16 | Frances Donaghy of the RCN in Northern Ireland said 2,000 beds had been removed during the past four years yet hospitals were still handling the same volume of patients . |
| 17 | Detailed counts have been conducted during these periods in Chichester and Pagham Harbours since 1964 , once each winter for waders along the whole coastline from 1964 to 1969/70 , and twice each winter from 1971/72 onwards . |
| 18 | Although tests of details are not always necessary , they are needed for an external audit , when evidence of financial values is required and when weaknesses have been exposed during systems evaluation and compliance testing . |
| 19 | If listing particulars have been issued during the previous year some of the contents requirements for the new listing particulars are relaxed . |
| 20 | Leadership in science , which had moved from France to Germany in the late nineteenth century and from Germany to Great Britain early in the twentieth , now went to the United States , where immense resources had been developed during the war and were ready to be applied to more beneficial ends . |
| 21 | On either side of it , where the houses had been bombed , blocks of dull flats had been built during Jarvis 's childhood . |
| 22 | In the whole country only two lorries had been hijacked during the latter part of May and neither was on Hatton 's regular route . |
| 23 | A number of seminars on a variety of topics have been arranged during the year . |
| 24 | If problems have been identified during assessment , monitoring of vital signs and fluid balance may continue . |
| 25 | Significant changes have been made during the past few months . |
| 26 | What goods have been bought during that month |
| 27 | MORE than £10,000 worth of stolen antiques , office equipment and other goods have been found during police searches at a house in Newton Aycliffe and a Darlington business . |
| 28 | For determining whether the value and service potential of physical resources have been maintained during a period . |
| 29 | A unique programme of steam trains has been organised during May and June to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the Heart of Wales Line . |
| 30 | The main aim of this phase was simply to spread the message about the lobon-gur solution still further : 2.5 million households had been visited during Phase 1 , and a further 4.5 million households were visited during Phase 2 . |