Example sentences of "during [art] first [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the first stages of pregnancy , the growing foetus is extremely vulnerable and so early diagnosis , using a home pregnancy test , can be essential to its health development — especially if you need to improve your health and fitness . |
| 2 | Although progress in passing European single market laws was painfully slow during the first months of the French presidency , Paris hands over to Dublin this month amid a last-minute rush of important agreements . |
| 3 | Most Germans were in expectant but uneasy mood during the first months of 1940 . |
| 4 | All this occurred during the first months of the Awlad Amira administration , while Mannaia still smarted from electoral defeat ; and at that time some lineages did not exclude the possibility of further Tibbu reprisals after the earlier fighting and homicides . |
| 5 | It saw a slight recovery of demand for its products by the end of 1992 and during the first months of 1993 . |
| 6 | During the first months of war life in Fontanellato was uneventful and the fighting seemed far away . |
| 7 | According to Western reports , during the first months of 1990 the Khmers Rouges increased their infiltration of fighters and supplies from their border camps into Cambodia proper . |
| 8 | During the first months of his presidency , the pressure to adopt a more aggressive policy mounted . |
| 9 | Probably the people whose advice had put him behind in the polls during the first weeks of the campaign . |
| 10 | During the first weeks of the new year ruthless reprisals helped restore order to urban Russia . |
| 11 | Anna Freud ( 1943 , 1960 ) , who had been one of the first to call attention to the emotional difficulties of small children separated from their mothers , attacked from yet another angle , affirming the emotional need , not only in the baby but in his mother , to be together during the first weeks of the child 's life , and criticizing maternity hospital practice that separated the two . |
| 12 | There was no hint of the troubling flirtatiousness which had confused her on earlier occasions , yet neither was his manner that of the ‘ matey , all good pals together ’ variety which he had adopted during the first weeks of their friendship . |
| 13 | Similarly , Mr Yeltsin , like Mr Gorbachev , was born into a peasant family during the calamitous 1930s and came to political maturity during the first days of Khrushchev , when hope began to dawn after Stalin 's long night . |
| 14 | During the first days of that Holy Week Mrs Abigail continued to believe that she could not endure a marriage that was a travesty , and that she could no longer endure life in Dynmouth . |
| 15 | She had not exactly been reading Tennyson but had remembered John quoting one of his poems during the first days of their acquaintance . |
| 16 | Aurel Dragos Munteanu , appointed director of Romanian Television and Radio during the first days of the December revolution , resigned on Feb. 9 after widespread public criticism that he had manipulated broadcasting to benefit the NSF . |
| 17 | Nowhere seemed to be safe from the searching French guns ; during the first days of March one regiment lost more men while behind the lines in reserve than during its assault on Haumont Wood the first day of the offensive . |
| 18 | There was the commander of the Cigognes , Captain Brocard , wounded during the first days of the fighting at Verdun , and relieved of his command the following year — because he simply could not adapt to the new conditions of air warfare the old form of single combat that had brought the Cigognes such renown in the early days . |
| 19 | Another tom did the same thing , supplying his female with food while she was unable to leave the nest during the first days after producing her litter . |
| 20 | It is kin , often , who provide shelter during the first days in the town and who help the migrant build his/her own home . |
| 21 | Helen , however , was still imprisoned in the fears and longings that had marked her life during the first years of puberty and was obsessed with the idea that she would never marry and have children . |
| 22 | During the first years of the Federal Republic , from 1949 to 1953 , when the Right was staging something of a recovery , attempts had been made to distinguish between ‘ insane Hitlerism ’ and the positive aspects of National Socialism . |
| 23 | All his actions — still more his inactivity — during the first years of his archiepiscopate were based on this idea of partnership . |
| 24 | During the first years of the women 's life in the community , the full-time team of health authority support workers has been regularly understaffed , with temporary cover being provided by a private nursing agency . |
| 25 | Thus what is interesting about the women 's magazines in England during the first years of the twentieth century is not the content of the advice given on child rearing , but the fact that so little advice is given at all ; sometimes , from one year to the next , children are barely mentioned save for the occasional appealing illustrations , the pattern for a christening bonnet or the recipe for a nursery pudding . |
| 26 | His father , Giovanni , fled Lucca in 1567 because of his Reformed faith , and lived subsequently in France , Antwerp , Germany , and then London , where , during the first years of James I 's reign , he founded an influential merchant-banking house with his son-in-law , Philip Burlamachi [ q.v . ] . |
| 27 | When , during the first years of their friendship , at Braque 's suggestion he and Picasso stopped signing their works they were automatically emphasizing the autonomous existence of their creations . |
| 28 | Relations with the USA , which had improved during the first years of Rajiv Gandhi 's government , came under strain in 1987 due to the US decision to grant large military aid packages to Pakistan , including early warning surveillance aircraft , and to Indian fears of a Pakistani nuclear bomb . |
| 29 | His place was taken by Sir Herbert Samuel , Postmaster General during the first years of the King 's reign . |
| 30 | Germany also began during the first years of the twentieth century to make some patchy and sporadic provision of much the same kind for her trade interests abroad . |