Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] during the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cultivators became discouraged during the Japanese occupation and lack of export facilities , with the result that much land went out of cultivation . |
| 2 | In Britain , the idea seemed confirmed during the 1980s . |
| 3 | You could n't have risked people finding out you 'd stolen it from a woman you 'd raped during the Russian campaign . |
| 4 | ‘ And it was just like a miracle because no body , none whatsoever , got hurt during the whole operation . ’ |
| 5 | Early on , she demanded from each member a list of the people they had consulted during the previous three months . |
| 6 | The eventual collapse of the adjustable peg system came about as a result of intensification of the pressures that had developed during the 1960s . |
| 7 | The jury had heard during the four-day trial that Daly and Welshman Artro Davies , of Maes Dulyn , Penygroes , had earlier been involved in two scuffles in a local pub . |
| 8 | It was swollen with the heavy rain that had fallen during the last few days , and it looked fierce and dark . |
| 9 | I WAS once interviewed for a radio programme on BBC and was asked how deaf people had fared during the past 20 years . |
| 10 | It marked it out as a patriotic party , in contrast to the general image it had earned during the 1920s . |
| 11 | The pipes had frozen during the severe weather , and the inhabitants of the street had to use a standing tap for their water : as a result , Eliot used to wash and shave at his club . |
| 12 | The authorities had claimed during the previous month that the courts had " basically completed " all trials connected with the 1989 " counter-revolutionary rebellion " . |
| 13 | Only one Valence had returned , to die slowly of poisons he had absorbed during the long march . |
| 14 | They had met during the early months of the war at the home of Woodcock 's uncle , the Midland Bank manager Fred Elt who , though respectably employed , was something of a Bohemian in his fondness for mistresses and for paintings . |
| 15 | The women appear rather to get a share of the compensation for the " " il fit " " , the " unpleasant trick " ( 4184 ) that the clerks had suffered during the preceding day . |
| 16 | Peter White , main Board director of group personnel at Midland Bank , was more justified in complaining that the banks in the City had suffered during the Big Bang as the result of excessive leverage enjoyed by headhunters in a tight market . |
| 17 | Her collarbone was ambushing her with surprise guerrilla raids of searing pain while her head was screaming revenge for the ordeals it had undergone during the past twelve hours . |
| 18 | That might well explain the twitchiness which Joanne had noticed during the ensuing week . |
| 19 | In a wartime bulletin of 1942 , staff were advised to urge customers to bring their own receptacles for food shopping , as they had done during the Great War . |
| 20 | Moreover , one might predict further that had royalty in 1940 continued with the rich pageants of peacetime ( as the Prince Regent had done during the Napoleonic wars ) , the indifference might have turned to explicit criticism . |
| 21 | This was seen by some as an attempt to improve his image abroad after remarks which he had made during the presidential election campaign to the effect that he was " untainted " with Jewishness . |
| 22 | Everything that he had written during the previous four years on the overriding need to oppose fascism , on the need to defend nation states through the creation of a Strong system of alliances based on collective security , and on the central role of the Soviet Union in promoting peace and stability , all was reduced to the level of absurdity by the Nazi-Soviet pact , the invasion of Poland and subsequently the war in Finland . |
| 23 | There was no hint of the troubling flirtatiousness which had confused her on earlier occasions , yet neither was his manner that of the ‘ matey , all good pals together ’ variety which he had adopted during the first weeks of their friendship . |
| 24 | Mosley had decided during the 1931 general election campaign to form a fascist movement , after the devastating defeat in which the New Party lost all its parliamentary seats and twenty-two of its twenty-four candidates forfeited their deposits , and his visit to Mussolini in Rome and to nazi leaders in Munich in January 1932 merely strengthened his resolve . |
| 25 | Iris held it in front of her nose , showing the scratches and scuff marks it had collected during the nerve-racking passage to Fernand 's cave . |
| 26 | In short , Winckelmann epitomizes an intimate relationship between classical scholarship on the one hand and living culture and thought on the other.And in this he was renewing a tradition which had once existed ( albeit primarily outside Germany ) : the Renaissance tradition , which had weakened during the intervening centuries , and which was to lapse again almost beyond recall within the hundred years after his death . |
| 27 | Standing back from the main road , surrounded by green grass , was the memorial to those men of the village and the surrounding hamlets who had died during the Great War , and behind the memorial was the primary school which I was going to join in the course of the next few days . |
| 28 | It estimated that 100,000-120,000 Iraqi troops had been killed , as well as 5,000-15,000 civilians , and that 2,000-5,000 Kuwaitis had died during the Iraqi occupation and in the war itself . |
| 29 | Though some of the original contributions by Sir George Grove [ q.v. ] were still retained , Blom was able to take account of the huge expansion of musical scholarship and history that had occurred during the preceding quarter of a century . |
| 30 | Indeed , this lack of distinctiveness owed something to the changes which had occurred during the inter-war years . |