Example sentences of "[been] [adv] [vb pp] during the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He realized , without interest , that the enemy firepower had been tremendously increased during the day . |
| 2 | Earth-science techniques applicable to archaeology have been successfully publicised during the year . |
| 3 | All of us — my mother , my sister and I — were determined to spare him any more hospitals : he 'd been badly burned during the war and had a horror of them . |
| 4 | Increased tension with India over Kashmir [ see pp. 37377-78 ; 37451-52 ] ensured that the defence budget was increased to Rs63,300 million in 1990-91 after it had been effectively frozen during the previous budget period . |
| 5 | The second edition of Lewis 's ‘ Topographical Dictionary ’ in 1840 speaks of how the town had been greatly improved during the previous 40 years . |
| 6 | Recent research , aided by aerial photography , has revealed traces of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century formal gardens of a type that was thought to have been entirely destroyed during the naturalistic craze of the eighteenth century . |
| 7 | These people had been highly politicised during the ‘ ten years of chaos ’ and could infect the younger generation , already causing some problems , with their negative attitudes and ideas . |
| 8 | As was often common after breech births , the afterbirth had not come away as it should have done , and Effie had been so torn during the birth , Dr Neil told her later , that she had started to bleed , and then the bleeding had turned into a violent haemorrhaging , the passage of the afterbirth completing the damage already done to Effie 's poor little body . |
| 9 | The object may prove to be genuine , but this is little consolation to the owner if it has been largely destroyed during the authentication process . |
| 10 | Then it 's necessary to re-view the lots to make sure they have n't been further damaged during the view . ’ |
| 11 | While support for the government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl had been further undermined during the period of the strike , a meeting between the three ruling coalition parties and the opposition Social Democrats ( SPD ) on May 27 failed to resolve differences , and both the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) and SPD rejected any idea of a " grand coalition " as suggested by the media . |
| 12 | The new Milanese opera , Lucio Silla ( another opera seria ) had been partly written during the summer in Salzburg , but Mozart could not complete it until he had heard each of the principal soloists , and was able to adjust his arias and recitatives to suit individual voices . |
| 13 | As Ives ( 1987 ) has pointed out , the issue of environmental degradation in the Himalaya is extremely complex and has been extensively debated during the 1980s , giving rise to what he describes as the Himalaya Environmental Degradation Theory ( HEDT ) . |
| 14 | The report from the three wise men concludes : ‘ The significance of Super-SARA , from a Community point of view , has already been severely eroded during the years that the project has been under discussion and it is expected that its significance will be yet further undermined before the completion of the project . ’ |
| 15 | The scale of the police operation had been substantially reduced during the day . |
| 16 | This acquisition , which complemented the group 's sales profile , has been well integrated during the year . |
| 17 | We will also see cases where we do not categorize whole organizations in this way but we separate out those functions within the organization which could be classed as Type A and those which could be classed as Type B. This can also lead to parts of public sector organizations being classified as ‘ profit-oriented ’ , a trend that has been particularly marked during the 1980s with the increasing use of Direct Service Organizations in local authorities , Hospital Trusts in the health service and Executive Agencies in the civil service . |
| 18 | This ‘ individualistic approach ’ , however , has been increasingly modified during the past hundred years . |
| 19 | The muscles had been fully stimulated during the growth period and Ewan had supposed they 'd be fully operational immediately . |
| 20 | In fact , Hammersmith Road might belong to any British city that has been silently raped during the past few years . |
| 21 | He also strove staunchly to strengthen relations between the Poles living in Poland and those scattered abroad in the 13-million-strong Polish diaspora — links which had been almost destroyed during the Cold War period by Communist authorities , oblivious to their potential value to both sides . |
| 22 | Moving into the factory a Wilton loom has been completely reconditioned during the holiday period and 200 new Axminster spool frames are already in use . |
| 23 | His Opel Manta had been heavily damaged during the Burmah Rally and could n't be repaired in time for the Mourne Stages . |
| 24 | However , his reputation had been seriously damaged during the past year by a scandal involving his younger brother Juan Guerra González [ see p. 37263 ] , whose conduct had been the subject of a judicial investigation , the results of which were due to be made public in the near future . |
| 25 | The division 's storage capabilities have been significantly extended during the year . |
| 26 | Papal influence over the English church had been significantly eroded during the course of the fifteenth century , partly as a consequence of late fourteenth-century legislation , such as the statutes of Provisors and Praemunire , and partly as a consequence of the international political situation . |