Example sentences of "been [vb pp] during the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Several new initiatives have been undertaken during the year .
2 But the majority were either dissatisfied or upset about a number of aspects of the way they had been treated during the assessment process .
3 The situation had been compounded during the elections in the previous month when the Nationalist had taken seventy-three seats out of a total of one hundred and five , and out of those , forty-two of those elected were in jail for various offences related to their opposition of the British presence in Ireland .
4 A number of seminars on a variety of topics have been arranged during the year .
5 The legality of these road-blocks was not tested in court ; the police claimed to be relying both on the Road Traffic Act and on the breach of the peace power as it had been developed during the miners ' strike ( see below ) .
6 Leadership in science , which had moved from France to Germany in the late nineteenth century and from Germany to Great Britain early in the twentieth , now went to the United States , where immense resources had been developed during the war and were ready to be applied to more beneficial ends .
7 Featuring new and experimental piece by OYT members and other artists , an entertaining mixture of new talent and fresh pieces that have been developed during the spring season .
8 In view of all the information and advice that has been given during the course of this planning discussion , I 'm firmly of the opinion that sectors three , four and five do not fully comply with the requirement of P P G three .
9 Communications were no doubt temporarily dislocated : our jam-packed train had been halted during the night owing to an air raid in the region .
10 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 . ’
11 Information had been received during the night that a large party of Dragoons , commanded by the infamous Graham of Claverhouse , were in pursuit of them and had spent the night at Strathaven .
12 Jamie asked whether she could make it slightly later , giving him time to finish an essay that should have been completed during the summer vacation .
13 He must have been interviewed during the night of panic following the murder ; in the rational light of dawn he would recognise that his words had been just heroics .
14 Returning to the fate of the Moscow Museum of Fine Arts , there are ways to help it to survive , even if they have long been forgotten during the years of subordination to its well-cushioned Soviet existence .
15 Many people attended the popular event which also includes the presentation of trophies that have been won during the year ( see photo ) .
16 It may have been dropped during the run-in to opening in 1692 , to spare the first-night audience too long a wait for the music they had paid to hear in this long-expected opera ; for it can perfectly well be done without .
17 A list of courses that have been considered during the session are given in Appendix ( 3 ) .
18 Savings have certainly been rebuilt during the recession , and the returns are no longer attractive , but savers are still reluctant to spend while jobs are still under threat .
19 A sudden volley of shots broke out , the sound no longer muffled by windows , all of which had been shattered during the night .
20 The ‘ myth ’ of sexual equality in China had been shattered during the reform decade with women facing discrimination in the workplace on a greater scale .
21 After the rug has been clipped , it is washed to remove any dirt that may have been collected during the weaving process and to give the pile its particular " finish " .
22 Preliminary work had also been done during the war on the ideas for the social security scheme , and plans had begun to be drafted for a national health service .
23 I was still finding out some of the things which had n't been done during the symposium itself .
24 It seems strange that the chancel and tower should be given an earlier date than the nave for it is presumed to have been built during the Bishopric of Haymo , who carried out considerable building at Halling .
25 To these charters were now added the concessions , mostly concerning prises , which had been granted during the summer and autumn .
26 5.12.4 Unless the Landlord shall otherwise direct to carry out and complete before the expiry of the Term any works required to be carried out to or in the Premises as a condition of any planning permission which may have been granted during the Term irrespective of the date by which such works were required to be carried out It is understandable that a landlord will wish to ensure that the tenant not only complies with planning legislation but also does not make application for planning permission without the landlord 's consent .
27 The effects will no doubt have been revealed during the ARC .
28 Neither of them mentioned anything that had been said during the night ; they just agreed to head back to civilisation and not to mix whisky and cannabis like that again .
29 The recordings are available for you if you wish or will be available for you if you wish to er improve your memory on what has been said during the discussion periods .
30 Chairman , much has been said during the course of this examination about the quality of the environment in North Yorkshire .
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