Example sentences of "be during the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its last rebuilding is believed to have been during the first quarter of the 19th century . |
| 2 | France 's diplomatic successes had made little impact on English opinion , and English military leadership was markedly weaker than it had been during the first phase of the war . |
| 3 | The incidence of wage queries has certainly reduced since summer , but the first test of the improvements made will be during the next up-man which is due in early 1993 . |
| 4 | But of course it is only reassuring if the person can be relied on to be there whenever the need arises — and you can be sure that that is bound to be during the last class hour on the longest teaching day of the week . |
| 5 | ‘ We consider training to be crucial and we are spending more on it now than we were during the last recession , ’ he said . |
| 6 | 1980 ) and onset is during the second half of the first year of life . |
| 7 | Cos that 's during the First World War , you see , and erm , he did and so he said goodbye to us all and he said I 'm going up now to say goodbye to your mother and he ran up the street here to say goodbye to my mother . |
| 8 | The year 's biggest Americana sales were held at Christie 's and Sotheby 's during the last week of January , coinciding with the Winter Antiques show in New York . |
| 9 | Yet simultaneously and apparently paradoxically it was during the nineteenth century that the debate about sexuality exploded . |
| 10 | As Raynor ( 1969 ) noted , the first use of the term ‘ middle class ’ in Britain was probably in the early years of the nineteenth century ( Raynor quotes the Oxford English Dictionary 's date of 1812 ) , and it was during the nineteenth century that the ‘ middle class ’ developed into an identifiable and vocal , if rather vaguely defined , social collectivity . |
| 11 | In this conception labourism predated the party , for it was during the second half of the nineteenth century that it emerged as an identifiable political culture within the working class ( Saville 1973 ) . |
| 12 | but you see er , yes that 's right and then of course I 'm , since then I was up at Cambridge and that was during the second year |
| 13 | It was during the second week that Carol asked him to dinner at her parents ' place . |
| 14 | The contemporary ‘ macho ’ image which Press and public has given to the regiment since they became dramatically aware of it during the siege in 1980 of the Iranian Embassy in London , is a false representation of what it was during the Second World War . |
| 15 | The one time disabled people were really encouraged to set their sights higher than the usual occupations reserved for them , such as basketwork , needlework , shoe or watch repairing , was during the second world war . |
| 16 | You see , and of course when I was at Cambridge , you see , and that was during the Second World War , well of course , you see , I remember seeing a plane because of course the station was a prime target |
| 17 | erm There they might have remained erm but erm a sensational discovery took place , which was during the Second World War , when , in the Blitz , a bomb actually hit the , the , the place of worship for the Muddletonians , where they were still worshipping though in very small number , and the man whom we have called the last Muddletonian , who was a farmer in Matfield in Kent , went out with his lorry — you remember petrol was rationed during the war , but he was allowed as a farmer — he took his fruit to Covent Garden , and then went to the smoking ruins of the Muddletonian worship , and filled his apple boxes with papers , and they remained there until the nineteen seventies . |
| 18 | One such trip was during the first week that Mr. Shipsey started his business — the bakery door was open and Dad and I stood and watched the proceedings , I gazed in amazement as the tin loaves were drawn from the oven , trays of currant buns brought out , brushed with sugar water applied by a three inch brush and doughnuts sprinkled with sugar . |
| 19 | In the main , it was a time of misery which unknowingly strengthened her character and at the same time introduced her to a friendship which resulted in her opening her eyes to another way of life , a life that she recognised and knew she could fit into ; for it was during the first summer holiday that she was invited to spend a day with Annabel at her home . |
| 20 | Aeroplanes had been seen in the county from about 1912 but it was during the First World War that they became common . |
| 21 | That was during the First World War , I should be I suppose about five then . |
| 22 | He was a dredgerman yes , see he was on the river first then he went on the dredger and course that 's before my time and that was during the First World War he was on he was at Ramsgate . |
| 23 | It was during the fifth week — Christmas and the New Year having passed with little to celebrate — that Charlie was put in charge of the duty roster for his own section . |
| 24 | It was during the last years of the reign of Anne Boleyn 's daughter Elizabeth that the curative effects of lemon juice on scurvy victims was observed , although neither cause nor effect were understood . |
| 25 | But it was during the next year that observers noticed that King Charles himself had become so fond of Berkeley that he was now one of the principal royal favourites , and perhaps the greatest . |
| 26 | It was during the eighteenth century that madeira wine as it is known today came into being . |