Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] during [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her fears were justified during the next few hours , and Claudia was relieved when Dana at last went to sleep , curled up in Claudia 's spare bed , her rumpled curls damp with angry tears . |
| 2 | THE long-mocked idea of reparations to compensate black Americans for the slavery experienced by their ancestors is now before the US Congress , and its supporters say the $1.25 billion package to compensate Japanese-Americans who were interned during the second world war has created a legal precedent . |
| 3 | Domestic developments were dominated during the second half of the year by the Gulf crisis , which emphasized Djibouti 's close relationship with France at a time when it had been striving to build up its image as a non-aligned Arab state . |
| 4 | Two fluid processing modules for the Southern platform were installed during the second quarter and a 2,000 tonnes gas compression module for Ninian Central is well on the way for completion in 1993 . |
| 5 | To make matters worse , most of the contents of the Musée Jacquemart-André were evacuated during the last war . |
| 6 | The Kuwait intervention , though important to the Defence policy-makers , was of little consequence to the political departments , whose mandarins were immersed during the first half of 1961 in two major debates : how to handle the Anglo-American special relationship after Kennedy had taken over as US President in January ; and whether or not to put less emphasis on Anglo-American and Commonwealth links by applying belatedly to join the EEC . |
| 7 | The earliest reversions to Exchequer offices were granted during the fifteenth century ; they became frequent during the sixteenth . |
| 8 | The present psychiatric services have to work with many large old hospitals that were built during the nineteenth century as lunatic asylums . |
| 9 | Siemens has no dates yet for them but their orientation certainly suggests they were built during the first centuries AD . |
| 10 | Last year foxes were unusually abundant and 27 were shot during the first week of lambing . |
| 11 | The first attempts at producing a problem-solving machine , or computer , were made during the Second World War as Allied scientists sought to break enemy codes . |
| 12 | Over a million gasifier units , usually powering road vehicles , were used during the Second World War . |
| 13 | Neuroelectric devices were used during the last century without the blessing of the medical sciences . |
| 14 | In a study , again in Costa Rica , the vegetation biomass , nutrient content and species composition were measured during the first year after clear-cutting of plots , some of which were treated with commercial inorganic fertilizer ( 70kg N , 87.5kg P and 166kg K per hectare ) while others were planted with the pioneering Cecropia obtusifolia , as seedlings . |
| 15 | Both these works were played during the first Tilford Bach Festival after which William Mann reviewing the concert in the Times wrote ‘ such a Festival in such a place does Bach signal homage ’ . |
| 16 | At first the allowance was £10 for each child under sixteen years of age , but this and the income limit were raised during the First World War , and later , in 1919 , the age limit for the child was abolished provided he or she was still in full-time education . |
| 17 | The view in this paper is that the sense of disillusionment many people were experiencing during the first year of the war resulted from an over-valuation of man 's nature , and an attempt to deny the reality of death for people one loved . |
| 18 | Whilst geological studies were employed during the last War , in surveys of landing beaches , roadway planning , water supply , bridges etc. , the number of geologists involved was very small , and the situation today is unlikely to be greatly different , although for security reasons the numbers are not published . |
| 19 | Whilst geological studies were employed during the last War , in surveys of landing beaches , roadway planning , water supply , bridges etc. , the number of geologists involved was very small , and the situation today is unlikely to be greatly different , although for security reasons the numbers are not published . |
| 20 | The reserve takes in part of the Minsmere levels which were flooded during the Second World War to counter possible invasion . |
| 21 | I accept the term " growth " on the basis of the probability that both population and ( though this is harder to demonstrate ) productivity were rising during the ninth century . |
| 22 | These earliest faces and the French versions of them , which were derived during the first half of the 16th century by type-founders such as Garamond , remain the models for most type-faces . |
| 23 | HISTORIC war department buildings in Essex are being restored to their former glory.Jobless volunteers have started clearing overgrowth from around the wartime buildings at Beacon Hill , Harwich , paving the way for full restoration work in the future.The work is being organised by NACRO , the National Association for the Care and Rehabilitation of Offenders , on behalf of the Essex Training and Enterprise Council.Project supervisor Ray Rawlinson said the 18 people working at Beacon Hill were long-term unemployed and did not have criminal records.The buildings date back to the Napoleonic wars were updated during the first and second world wars . |
| 24 | Various global tectonic models were proposed during the nineteenth and the first part of the twentieth century , with most attention being focused on the origin of the major mountain systems of the Earth 's surface . |
| 25 | Unfortunately , the overwhelming majority of surviving herds of deer either died off or escaped when country houses were requisitioned during the Second World War ; the ‘ Dig for Victory ’ campaign meant that much ancient pasture was ploughed and used as arable land which was often never reseeded . |
| 26 | Many of the wagons , dating back to the late nineteenth century , were requisitioned during the First World War and purchased , from R.N.A.D. Bandeath on its closure , by the S.R.P.S. |
| 27 | Merrill 's forebodings about working for Luke were fulfilled during the first morning . |
| 28 | Large numbers of Dutch cattle were imported during the seventeenth century to improve the fattening and milking abilities of some of the Welsh cattle . |
| 29 | So , the final batch of Computex machines were delivered during the last week of August to the Liverpool subcontractor , who promised to deliver the ZX machines on or before the last day of August . |
| 30 | Whilst not strictly an aeroplane book , it nevertheless gives the reader an overview of how land , sea and air operations were co-ordinated during the last world conflict . |