Example sentences of "and it [be] during [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Henry embarked on a course in herbal medicine and it was during this that she heard about the Gerson therapy . |
| 2 | And it was during this time that he had lost his wife , lost his job , lost his sense of himself as a separate human soul , and in struggle worked out the theory that he was nothing but a sick character in the hands or under the pen of a malevolent Author . |
| 3 | The lavish reception afforded to Fidel Castro himself when he went to the Soviet Union the following year is well known , and it was during this visit that he was guaranteed economic concessions , notably a rise in the price paid for Cuban sugar . |
| 4 | And it was during this period that he published , in fair French , his monograph on artificial daylight ( Lettre sur les moyens de produire , la nuit , une lumière pareille à celle du jour , 1785 ) and his second essay on light and vision ( Théorie de la lumière , applicable aux arts , et principalement à la peinture , 1786 ) . |
| 5 | After National Service in the RAF , he worked for for eight years and it was during this time that he came in contact with , whilst the Belfast mill was being refurbished . |
| 6 | In January 1936 he joined Imperial Airways and quickly became known as the " Boy Wonder " and it was during this period , he later admitted , that he committed the only error of judgement in his entire flying career . |