Example sentences of "[noun prp] during the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In Turkestan , the issues were at their most stark , for the province was cut off from Moscow during the Civil War .
2 Maggie was called to see Mr Parnham during the next morning and it came as a great surprise .
3 Burco Ltd produces and sells two products : X and Y. During the last year 700 labour hours were worked and the operating results were as follows :
4 Orwell 's point can be extended , since these writers recognized not only the dissolution of public or social values but also the bankruptcy of private ones : it ought to be remembered that the notion of " personality " reached its apogee in Oscar Wilde during the same period of scientific and social optimism .
5 He looked to West Germany for support , holding two meetings with Konrad Adenauer during the second half of 1958 .
6 An assizes court in Paris on June 15 , 1990 , sentenced Rolf Dobbertin , a German-born nuclear physicist who had worked for the French National Council for Scientific Research ( CNRS ) , to 12 years ' imprisonment for espionage for East Germany during the 10 years to January 1979 [ see p. 29786 for his arrest in 1979 and p. 33867 for his release in 1983 ] .
7 Its use in Germany during the Second World War provided the most dramatic illustration of the power of the symbol .
8 Pacelli 's relationship with Germany during the Second World War , and his apparent failure to act sufficiently vigorously in defence of the Jews , remains the great enigma of his pontificate .
9 This one is pitched in Rosamund Pilcher territory , a many-layered family saga set in London , Kent and Germany during the Second World War .
10 But he also showed a striking interest in international developments , particularly the progress of the Protestant cause in France and Germany during the Thirty Years ' War .
11 A more informative example is that of samian pottery , produced mainly in factories in France and Germany during the Roman period and exported all over the Roman Empire .
12 In October the government announced that CFC production in West Germany during the first half of 1990 had been reduced to 42,820 tonnes ( as compared with 112,000 tonnes during the whole of 1986 ) .
13 King Hussein visited Iceland , Canada , the USA , France and Germany during the first half of March .
14 He 'd been a prisoner-of-war in Germany during the First World War and as a result of his wartime experiences suffered constantly from a weak chest .
15 Only once has he named the same team twice in succession ( against the Netherlands and Germany during the European Championship finals last year ) , but the latest spate of trouble is exceptional .
16 It is set in Germany during the middle ages , and although not abandoning a ‘ fantasy ’ setting , its stance is rather more along the ‘ if what they believed about magic and legends were actually true ’ .
17 Similarly , in some of the large industrial enterprises in Germany during the inter-war period with the introduction of standardised mass-production techniques a parallel emphasis was placed upon welfare measures ( company housing , provision of leisure activities , etc. ) as a means of motivation , promoting integration and worker commitment to the company .
18 Again , when Jews were refused ordination in the national protestant church in Germany during the Third Reich , the church split , for there were those who said that on principle ( whatever might be the case in the state ) this could not be in the church .
19 If we restrict our attention solely to the twentieth century , it is notable that the two most important and traumatic socialist revolutions , that in Russia in 1917 and that in Germany during the Nazi era , whilst being the creation of particular political leaders who soon imposed total state power , nevertheless drew what popular support they had from political myths that are obvious paranoid projections .
20 He nearly adopted music as a profession , but left Germany during the Nazi persecutions because of his Russian and Jewish ancestry .
21 Die Welt of Dec. 22 reported that France had raised the question of the payment of Second World War reparations to French nationals by Germany during the two-plus-four talks on German unification .
22 He served with both Horse and Foot in Germany during the Seven Years ' War , an experience to which he often subsequently referred .
23 The J94 lookalike has been hired to provide additional loco support for the SDR after problems were encountered with Chatterly Whitfield Mining Museum visitor ‘ Joseph ’ which will be leaving the SDR during the 1992 season .
24 The details that follow describe Magnus during the Great War against Chaos , before he was elected Emperor .
25 Taking a pass from Patrick during the next chukka , she set out once more for goal .
26 ON THE RIGHT BERNARD DURING THE SAME VISIT .
27 The development of the brilliant cut supposedly under the patronage of Cardinal Mazarin during the seventeenth century intensified the effect of diamonds , but entailed a greater loss .
28 Tanay launched his assault on Najibullah during the early afternoon of March 6 .
29 Thus , Lincoln during the Civil War , Wilson during World War I and Franklin Roosevelt in an era of domestic and international crisis were all temporarily accorded a leeway that non-crisis presidents have not enjoyed .
30 The leading principles of prize law were settled by Lord Stowell during the Napoleonic wars ; and they were the basis of the prize law which was applied in the 1914–18 and 1939–45 wars .
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