Example sentences of "been [vb pp] during the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Up to one million purchases are estimated to have been delayed during the last three years because of the sluggish market . |
| 2 | On Oct. 26 , 1989 , the House of Representatives fulfilled a commitment made in 1988 [ see p. 37081 ] when they voted that $20,000 should be paid to each of 62,000 Japanese-Americans who had been interned during the Second World War . |
| 3 | Several new initiatives have been undertaken during the year . |
| 4 | But the majority were either dissatisfied or upset about a number of aspects of the way they had been treated during the assessment process . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A number of seminars on a variety of topics have been arranged during the year . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The principles underlying Adrienne Bennett 's work have been developed during the Low Attainers in Mathematics Project and the Raising Achievement in Mathematics Project . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Communications were no doubt temporarily dislocated : our jam-packed train had been halted during the night owing to an air raid in the region . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Intimation had been received during the previous year that they were considering paying over to the Official Trustee of Charitable Funds the sum of £12,000 , the interest on which would be sufficient to maintain their endowment of £300 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | As we come to the end of this Parliament , will the Secretary of State take this opportunity to give us some insight into the Government 's long-term policy which has been formulated during the past 13 years ? |
| 18 | But this turnover is so extraordinarily slow that each grain could only have been exposed during the last 4600 Ma for a total time much less than a million years thus requiring considerably higher cosmic-ray intensities in the past , which though possible is thought by several scientists to be unlikely . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Many people attended the popular event which also includes the presentation of trophies that have been won during the year ( see photo ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Neighbourhood Watch No incidents have been reported during the last month . |
| 24 | Neighbourhood Watch No incidents have been reported during the last month . |
| 25 | The colony had been devastated during the Japanese occupation . |
| 26 | A list of courses that have been considered during the session are given in Appendix ( 3 ) . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | In the whole country only two lorries had been hijacked during the latter part of May and neither was on Hatton 's regular route . |
| 29 | He seldom thought of the half-dozen men who had been hanged during the twenty years of his forensic experience , primarily because of his evidence , and when he did , it was not the strained but oddly anonymous faces in the dock which he remembered , or their names ; but paper and ink , the thickened downward stroke , the peculiar formation of a letter . |
| 30 | They develop basically because the velocity of a stream diminishes fairly rapidly at its mouth , a condition which must have been accentuated during the Post-glacial rise of sea level : deposition starts , probably aided by flocculation of the finer particles where the effect of salt water is felt , progradation ensues , which further reduces the gradient and so increases deposition by a positive feedback process . |