Example sentences of "[noun prp] during the second [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked to West Germany for support , holding two meetings with Konrad Adenauer during the second half of 1958 . |
| 2 | Its use in Germany during the Second World War provided the most dramatic illustration of the power of the symbol . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This one is pitched in Rosamund Pilcher territory , a many-layered family saga set in London , Kent and Germany during the Second World War . |
| 5 | The spectacular musical set in London 's East End during the second world war . |
| 6 | The film , about the effect of war on young men at a United States Air Force base in Cambridgeshire during the Second World War , demanded that Crawford learn to speak with an American accent — in twenty-four hours . |
| 7 | Graham served in the RAF during the Second World War and it was under the war-time ‘ guesting ’ arrangement that he first turned out for Palace . |
| 8 | TOM joined the family business as the fourth generation and served in the RAF during the second world war . |
| 9 | AS the ideological gulf between Moscow and Bucharest yawns ever wider , the Romanian leader , President Nicolae Ceausescu , has raised the potentially explosive issue of former Romanian territories annexed by the Kremlin during the second world war . |
| 10 | The trigonometrical ratios sine , cosine and tangent were used by Hipparchus during the second century BC to calculate the diameter of the Earth and the distance of the Moon with amazing accuracy : 7900 and 238 000 miles respectively . |
| 11 | Among the contents of Matthew 's safe there were two manuscript volumes , the journal of a certain Martin Beale who lived and worked in Natal and Cape Province during the second half of the last century . ’ |
| 12 | A well-loved picture dominates the bar , held in almost religious awe : a photograph of the SS Politician , the vessel which ran aground off Eriskay during the Second World War , cargoed with 20,000 cases of whisky ; not all of which went to the bottom when the boat eventually sank . |
| 13 | Her brother who had been a soldier was killed in Flanders during the Second World War and was buried there . |
| 14 | They were used as woven decorations to headdresses and the borders of garments found in richer graves in England during the second half of the sixth and early seventh centuries , significantly mainly in Kent . |
| 15 | Initially , Barlaston had been put to a series of uses by Wedgwood ( and had been leased to the Bank of England during the Second World War ) , but in the 1950s it developed dry rot and become an embarrassment to the company . |
| 16 | Still on the subject of voice , let me remind you of the slogan which heralded the government 's campaign against German spies in England during the Second World War . |
| 17 | For example , how to land allied armies and vast quantities of supplies on the beaches of enemy-occupied Normandy during the Second World War ? |
| 18 | The Ukrainian delegation offered to resettle in Ukraine the ethnic Germans who were forcibly deported from Ukraine during the Second World War . |
| 19 | But Okay then So I 'm here speaking to Walter and David and you 've both worked at Lyness during the second war . |
| 20 | The final paragraphs of The Lame Duck , a vigorous tale of a convoy attacked by submarines in the North Atlantic during the Second World War ( a story partly based on the true fortunes of the San Demetrio ) , may serve to illustrate this point : |
| 21 | The Church of St Helen , in Bishopsgate , which has been wrecked , survived both the Great Fire and the efforts of the Luftwaffe during the Second World War . |
| 22 | Charles Fraser-Smith worked with 007 writer Ian Fleming during the second world war . |
| 23 | My grandfather had always taken a keen interest in my work , and I had an equal admiration of the stories of his time spent in Burma during the Second World War . |
| 24 | A prolific author and poet , his best-known book , Beyond the Chindwin , is a restrained account of his experiences as a Column Commander behind the Japanese lines in Burma during the Second World War . |
| 25 | A Masai who acquitted himself well in hand-to-hand fighting in Burma during the Second World War was allowed to keep the samurai sword he captured : ‘ Please do not take this sword away from this soldier ’ , the man 's commanding officer wrote on the wound tag around his neck , ‘ He is a Masai . ’ |
| 26 | In Burmah Oil Co. v Lord Advocate [ 1965 ] AC 75 , HL , the company was successful in its claim for compensation against the Crown for the destruction of its installations in Burma during the Second World War , the destruction having been ordered by the commander of British forces to prevent the installations falling into the hands of the advancing Japanese forces . |
| 27 | Leaving Mongolia aside , the leaders of each country are the linear descendants of ‘ Muscovite ’ Communists , sheltered in the USSR during the Second World War and brought to power in the van of the Red Army : in times of friction , it takes little to remind Eastern Europe 's leaders not only how their bread is buttered , but how they got into the larder in the first place . |
| 28 | An airport was established at Balivanich during the Second World War , when , to improve inter-island communications , the South Ford , to South Uist , was bridged . |
| 29 | Opponents claimed that HDZ policies were reminiscent of the fascist ustasha government which had ruled Croatia during the Second World War , and that it was receiving funds from ustasha emigré organizations . |
| 30 | Finally , there is a tremendous sense of community belonging and pride throughout the whole of Carmarthen Bay & Teifi Valley and during the summer season especially , there exists a hole range of festivals and spectator events , such as the United Counties Agricultural Show held near Carmarthen during the second week of August . |