Example sentences of "[vb past] that during [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It transpired that during the war he had been a medical officer in the German Wehrmacht fighting on the Eastern Front .
2 Whether Cecil Leitch found the course embarrassingly short is not clear , but Lady Rathcreedan afterwards proposed that during the summer ladies should use the men 's tees to lengthen their course although without altering the par !
3 Correll found that during the summer about half the river 's estuarine loadings of nitrogen come from the sky .
4 Given the date , it was then a question of working backwards and consulting an old diary ; and I found that during the period in question I was in India for Panorama .
5 Ethiopian radio reported that during a ceremony in the office of President Meles , Carter had said that he was ready to make his own contribution to convince the World Bank , the IMF and other international organizations " to take part in the country 's economic reconstruction " .
6 Albanian sources reported that during the talks Alia had stressed the government 's intention to develop its relations with the UN .
7 The Middle East International of Nov. 23 reported that during an address to the Knesset foreign affairs and defence committee on Nov. 19 , Shamir had specifically linked the territories with the need for space to absorb immigrants from the Soviet Union .
8 Tim Young , head of the town 's £5,400-a-year Royal Grammar School , admitted that during the summer five boys were taken out of his school for financial reasons .
9 In an article published in the early 1970s , Nicholas Tyacke argued that during the period from 1560 to 1625 there was a common predestinarian Calvinist heritage within the English church , shared by both prelates and Presbyterians alike , against which Laud and his supporters firmly set their faces in the 1630s .
10 He added that during the repair process Mr Hall had been told he could exchange the Rolls for another vehicle but had refused .
11 In his study of a herd of red deer F F Darling noted that during the autumn rutting season stags used their antlers to masturbate .
12 Looking back wistfully three decades later , he recalled that during the summer months the Office followed the Law Courts in observing what were called ‘ vacation hours ’ .
13 Would my right honourable friend confirm that the former director of G C H Q , Sir Brian Tovey , stated that during the imposition of martial law in Warsaw and during the Soviet anva invasion of Afghanistan some ten thousand hours of cover were lost at G C H Q. And will he not confirm that is a perfectly good reason for the ban on external er interference by trade unions in the activities of G C H Q and will he also assure the house that the existing trade assoc the staff association works perfectly well and there is no reason whatever for an external trade union to interfere in G C H Q's affairs .
14 Rafael Rodriguez claimed that during the course of the first visit Castro gave a verbal acceptance of the idea of an alliance between Fidelistas and Communists ( Thomas : 1977 , p. 224 ) .
15 Mr Gummer claimed that during the negotiations the powerful American farming lobby had been ‘ all over the hotel ’ .
16 This startling document showed that during the course of the meal Sixsmith had smoked , or at any rate bought , nearly a carton of cigarettes .
17 The latter study , which was conducted in Macomb , Illinois , discovered that during the period 1972 ( when Rossi carried out his research in Baltimore ) to 1979 , ‘ the seriousness rating of white-collar crime … increased both absolutely and to a greater extent than any other category ’ , and more important , increases in seriousness ratings were pronounced in two categories of corporate crime , particularly ‘ violence ’ ( resulting in death or injury ) and ‘ price-fixing ’ .
18 She did , however , give him occasional cause for jealousy : a lover 's tiff nearly broke their engagement when Constanze indiscreetly confessed that during a game she had let another young man measure her calves .
19 As I got nearer the Porsche I saw that during the night someone had taken a sharp instrument to the bodywork .
20 I gathered that during the summer she and the child spent most of their time on the beach . ’
21 The complainant , a partner in a small practice from south of Manchester , said that during a meeting one of the company 's representatives , Mr Hoy , effectively said that the Institute was satisfied with Channel 7 's marketing approach from an ethical point of view .
22 It said that during the quarter it greatly improved product delivery time to its resellers , and recorded the highest volume quarter in its history .
23 He said that during the war things like that happened . )
24 Rowel suggested that during the tour opposition players had breached the fine line between rucking and stamping .
25 In a 1972 paper I suggested that during the evolution of terrestrial open-country monkeys , two main selection pressures operated on the individuals whose collective strategies lead to the interactions and relationships that are responsible for the social structure ( see also Fig. 4.1 ) .
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