Example sentences of "be [vb pp] during the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Simon Heffer argued in last week 's Spectator that welfarism is once more coming to characterise the British , having been repulsed during the Thatcher years : ‘ The plaintive , dependent-relative voice of the something-for-nothing society , heard on almost every street in this campaign , was a little harder to find five years ago . ’ |
| 2 | And as you will see from the County Council evidence , the er sites for them have actually been agreed during the Greater York study . |
| 3 | According to Mr Lee , a code of conduct has been agreed during the Tweeddale campaign which precludes each of the bidders from passing comment on the opposition 's package . |
| 4 | The high priority being given to quality is also reflected in plans for additional equipment that will be installed during the July holidays . |
| 5 | Although the enormous difficulties of the German economy could be felt during the Düsseldorf and Hannover fairs , both proved to be more successful for the participating ceramic dealers than last year 's fairs ’ . |
| 6 | Although the firm claimed that the general theme of the report was consolidation rather than expansion , Mr Freedman 's appointment has coincided with the announcement of a glitzy TV ad campaign in the US , to be premiered during the US Superbowl at a cost of $2m . |
| 7 | * UK Environment Secretary Michael Howard has warned that some EC environmental directives might be repealed during the UK Presidency . |
| 8 | On the compound they were never desperately short of the staple foods , though it was more difficult when sanctions were imposed during the Smith regime . |
| 9 | Readers of high moral sensitivity may be shocked — in the words of one reader — by the ‘ Machiavellian and devious way decisions were made during the Thatcher era ’ . |
| 10 | They shared Whig exclusionist politics and were arrested during the Monmouth rebellion . |
| 11 | These include such types as the $4 million a throw ‘ Patriot ’ missile which were utilised during the Gulf War . |
| 12 | Its mountains — the highest , Tai Mo Shan , reaches 3,143 ft ( 958 m ) — were uplifted during the Jurassic period , between 130 and 190 million years ago . |
| 13 | Compressed as the battle arena had become , losses suffered among the senior commanders were every bit as grievous as among the rank-and-file ; in one French division , three out of four full colonels were killed during the mid-March fighting . |
| 14 | His parents had been killed during the Berlin blitz and after being shunted from one set of foster parents to another he had run away at the end of the war . |
| 15 | Iraq 's Agriculture and Irrigation Minister Abdul Wahab Mahmoud al-Sabbagh said on May 18 that 50 per cent of cereal and seed stocks had been destroyed during the Gulf war , as had 95 per cent of livestock and poultry for breeding . |
| 16 | The new bill empowered the Intelligence and Security Ministry to be represented on this committee , whose deliberations , which had been suspended during the Iran-Iraq war , had begun again in December 1988 . |
| 17 | The value of careful checking was highlighted during the Edward Heath government in Britain during the 1970s . |
| 18 | The Metropolitan Police settled in the High Court the damages claim of cameraman Mr Anthony Walsh , whose spine was injured during the Wapping dispute . |
| 19 | The 22-year-old , in a coma since he was injured during the FA Cup semi-final at the Sheffield Wednesday ground on April 15 , 1989 , had not been given artificial help to survive since February 22 . |
| 20 | ‘ Our doctor has tiny plane that was conscripted during the Malvinas War , ’ said Claudia . |
| 21 | ( The leisure industry was denounced during the Paris conference as ‘ prostitution ’ . ) |
| 22 | He was already renowned for his view that ‘ democracy is something to be struggled for , not conferred from above ’ , and as Kelly points out , this doctrine was voiced during the September protests . |
| 23 | Indeed Hubert Landais , the last Directeur but one , was appointed during the Giscard years but stayed on with Jack Lang . |
| 24 | I was heartened to note that a new clause was inserted during the Bill 's progress through Parliament , stipulating that the results of a pupil 's assessment should be made available only to the pupil 's parents , the governors or the LEA . |
| 25 | Close fellowship was achieved during the Lambeth Conference of bishops of the Anglican Communion in the summer of 1989 — the first at which women were allowed a voice . |
| 26 | An inaugural conference was held during the Leicester Conference of the Labour Party in October 1932 to establish a Socialist educational and propaganda organization affiliated to the Labour Party . |
| 27 | A meeting of publishers and booksellers was held during the Brussels book fair . |