Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] during the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The vendor should only account to the purchaser for post-taxation income earned during the interim stage . |
| 2 | Rumours of a split surfaced during the new album sessions , produced by Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth at Blue Wave Studios in Barbados earlier this year . |
| 3 | Her kiss at the cottage gate left my mind occupied during the long walk back to the farm . |
| 4 | Shell manufacture in Blundell Street car shed during the First World War : 200,000 shells were produced here , largely by female labour , yielding a profit to the Town of £16,000 , which was used to pay for the erection of the Cenotaph war memorial on Princess Parade . |
| 5 | The figure represented an increase of more than 70 per cent over the total amount of aid granted during the previous five years . |
| 6 | Finally , recent research by feminists and historians in the Federal Republic of Germany is unearthing the links between reproductive technology and experiments in obstetrics and gynaecology done during the Nazi regime . |
| 7 | It is sensible for the term to be stated to be from and including a specific date to avoid the uncertainty caused by the general law that a term which is to commence " from " a certain date in fact commences at the beginning of the following day , with the term lasting during the whole anniversary of the day from which it is granted , unless there is some contra-indication in the lease . |
| 8 | With the proliferation of puritan sects during the 1640s and 1650s , there was so great a range of extreme demands , from the nationalization of land to the emancipation of women , that it would be surprising if the natural philosophers had not begun to appear as moderates . |
| 9 | Answering the question : ‘ Has the North-South divide widened during the 1980s ? ’ is fraught with difficulties and , to some extent , the answer depends on which economic indicators are viewed and the way in which the calculations are interpreted . |
| 10 | Worried by the £200,000 loss incurred during the Romanian and Soviet tours last year , the NZRFU wants four Tests ( three internationals against New Zealand and the fourth against the ANZACS ) . |
| 11 | In a study conducted during the Second World War ( Stouffer et al. |
| 12 | As a result , many ornamental objects once again survived , if only to become the focus for the activities of Puritan iconoclasts during the civil war . |
| 13 | Mike Ross , Widows ' managing director , said : ‘ Despite a good 1992 , nominal investment returns during the 1990s continue to be considerably lower than for the 1980s . |
| 14 | The results showed that protein secreted during the first hour of stimulation was derived from pancreatic stores and that the turnover rate of stores was approximately 37%/h in normal human subjects . |
| 15 | The operational capability established during the Regional Mapping Programme has been further developed through a range of scientific and commercial projects . |
| 16 | The clinical signs are likely to be few , and since most of the damage occurs during the prepatent phase , eggs may not be found in the urine . |
| 17 | In a political agreement between the governments of Israel and Egypt , artefacts from the Sinai desert excavated during the 1967–82 Israeli occupation are to be handed back to Egypt . |
| 18 | The Lancashire ‘ cotton famine ’ , due to the cessation of cotton supplies during the American civil war of 1863–66 which caused severe unemployment and poverty , demonstrated most clearly that unemployment could be due to causes over which workers had no control ; it also demonstrated the peaceful fashion in which the labouring poor could behave in such circumstances . |
| 19 | In 1885 the lying-in ward in the Strand workhouse was located immediately above the female insane ward and despite the effort to reform workhouse nursing during the 1860s , elderly pauper women still acted as midwives and childminders . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Under the new law those found guilty of racial discrimination or incitement to racial hatred or violence would face heavier fines , imprisonment and could be declared ineligible for public office ; it became an offence to contest the existence of Nazi concentration camps , gas chambers and other evidence of crimes against humanity committed during the Second World War . |
| 22 | Beta testing starts during the first quarter of 1993 , with commercial availability expected by year-end . |
| 23 | Wrigley and Schofield have shown that between 1650–99 and 1800–49 the age at first marriage for women fell by 3·1 years ; most of the fall occurred during the second half of the eighteenth century and it was most apparent in industrial communities . |
| 24 | His rise to prominence came during the first Dutch war ( 1652–4 ) . |
| 25 | The first breakthrough came during the 1960s when the first all-electronic phototypesetting equipment appeared . |
| 26 | One of the liveliest days of the campaign came during the first week . |
| 27 | Slum clearance accelerated during the 1960s ; elsewhere ‘ gentrification ’ removed the cheap end of the private rented sector . |
| 28 | The World Council Churches on this occasion reviewed the work accomplished during the seven and a half years since the last assembly in Vancouver in Canada . |
| 29 | A historical emphasis in biogeography prevailed during the 1960s in particular and is collectively described as Quaternary ecology by Simmons ( 1980 ) . |
| 30 | It seems the weakness has arisen not only because of the excess capacity built during the Central Electricity Generating Board 's dying years , but also because the competition for business between the regional distribution companies , the generators , the Scottish companies , Nuclear Electric and the French is so strong , and also because of recession . |