Example sentences of "was [vb pp] during the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The building programme was halted during the war with the scarcity of corrugated iron . |
| 2 | Evening rush-hour traffic in Liverpool city centre was halted during the alert , in which the gunman was spotted looking through the sights at potential targets . |
| 3 | The above company was formed during the year . |
| 4 | An Association of Latin-Speaking Communications and Telecommunications Researchers was formed during the IAMCR conference in Brazil . |
| 5 | The content of GSSG , however , showed no significant increases in response to the depletion of GSH and the activity of GSH peroxidase was significantly inhibited by indomethacin administration , which indicates that GSH was consumed during the reaction with oxygen radicals , organic radicals , and peroxide radicals . |
| 6 | The value of careful checking was highlighted during the Edward Heath government in Britain during the 1970s . |
| 7 | Direct contract work was undertaken during the year in Fiji , Hong Kong , Jordan and Laos . |
| 8 | In addition to the programme funded by the government , non-governmental commissioned research was undertaken during the year : for example , staff on leave-of-absence or secondment terms fulfilled contract and consultancy roles in Fiji , Hong Kong , Jordan and Laos . |
| 9 | An expanded programme of 14 trade missions to 20 countries was undertaken during the year . |
| 10 | A programme of 10 trade missions to 15 countries was undertaken during the year . |
| 11 | Most of this was undertaken during the course of the Civil Justice Review , although the nature of the review excluded consideration of the possibility of a radical approach in the form of a new Small Claims Court . |
| 12 | The ATB records indicated that as much as 70% of all training was undertaken during the winter and it was therefore assumed that winter was the most suitable season for training . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | BGS work in Colombia consists of a large mineral exploration project , the Pacific Coast Precious Metals Project , which was completed during the year . |
| 15 | The Falkirk project , funded by DOE , was completed during the year and includes thirty-six thematic maps at 1:10 000 depicting geological topics relevant to land-use planning , with an accompanying report . |
| 16 | The joint-funded project around Stoke-on-Trent was completed during the year : 12 high-quality coloured thematic maps were produced at 1:25 000 . |
| 17 | The field resurvey and analysis of geotechnical data for the joint-funded Leeds project was completed during the year . |
| 18 | Colombia The Pacific Coast Precious Metals Project ( MPP ) , based in Cali , was completed during the year . |
| 19 | Costa Rica The three-year collaborative industrial-minerals project was completed during the year . |
| 20 | Montreal Central eventually served the CPR express lines as well as the CNR , but , compared with Toronto or Cincinnati Union , there was something half-hearted about it , despite the trumpetings with which it was received during the war . |
| 21 | Ruth said , ‘ I gather he was interned during the war , as well ? ’ |
| 22 | Cherkin 's own description of how that task was developed during the mid-1960s was characteristic of the man . |
| 23 | This emphasis was developed during the renaissance , when happiness was interpreted as the search for Utopia . |
| 24 | His house was sacked during the revolt , and he himself was discharged from office ; although he lived for almost twenty years more , he was not reappointed . |
| 25 | Sporadic fighting was reported during the rest of October , and on Oct. 26 Interfax cited the Karabakh news agency as having reported that Azerbaijani MiG-25 aircraft had bombed Stepanakert , the Nagorny Karabakh capital . |
| 26 | Zanzibari opposition to the union with the mainland had been the cause of sporadic unrest on the islands , and the detention of several hundred dissidents on the islands was reported during the run-up to the elections . |
| 27 | Little progress was reported during the talks , which were largely overshadowed by events in the occupied territories . |
| 28 | Minton , guessing correctly that whilst in the West Country Norman would revisit the family with whom he was evacuated during the war , sent a wire asking him to join them . |
| 29 | ‘ Where was that thing plugged in for 50 years ? ’ he asks of the oxygen chamber in which his character was frozen during the experiment . |
| 30 | With the girl 's clothes we should be able to trace her back at least to the point at which she was dropped during the night — or I hope so , after all that rain . |