Example sentences of "during the time of " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Not surprisingly , in these conditions , the Swamp Eel has adapted by being able to breathe atmospheric air during the times of drought when the swamps dry up , aestivating ( the summer version of hibernating ) until more favourable conditions return , by burrowing into the mud or travelling across land in search of alternative waterways . |
| 2 | That was certainly the philosophy during the times of economic crisis in the early Eighties when the original run of Barnum played to packed houses , and when the National Theatre hit the jackpot with its first musical , Guys And Dolls . |
| 3 | It is only during the time of waiting , wrote Harsnet , during the time without hope , that these things assume significance , only during the time without hope that one is conscious of them , that one remembers them with despair , that one anticipates them with dread . |
| 4 | During the time of desolation a year before , he suffered from fantasies . |
| 5 | Though put beautifully into the mouth of Hannah by the storyteller , it did not have its origins with her , but , to judge from its mention of the king at the end , must have been composed for national celebration at some point during the time of the monarchy . |
| 6 | For the Halifax , Britain 's biggest building society , there is no exemption period if the claimant with their policies can prove they were covered during the time of the accident or sickness . |
| 7 | This book would hardly have been possible without the help of the long memories of two gentlemen who were children at Foxton during the time of the Lift . |
| 8 | From the castle he ruled the lake , more as pirate than governor , choosing just the right moment to sell the fortress to the Milanese during the time of the Spanish-French war . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , during the time of his Archbishopric Carlo was a diligent worker for the Christian faith , a builder of churches and rooter-out of heretics . |
| 10 | The third chapel on the right is called the Crucifixion chapel because it contains a wooden crucifix carried in procession by San Carlo Borromeo during the time of the plague of 1576 . |
| 11 | The pool — more correctly known as the Darsena — was dug at the start of the seventeenth-century , during the time of the Spanish domination of the city , and was connected to the twelfth-century canal which , by excavated waterway and river , connected the city with Lake Maggiore . |
| 12 | During the time of Rudolf II and later it was used like some grand art market , the stall-holders setting up their wares in the window embrasures . |
| 13 | It was during the time of Viking domination that Rognvald Kolsson began to build his magnificent , red sandstone cathedral in Kirkwall , named after martyred St Magnus , killed on the island of Eglisay in 1116 AD . |
| 14 | Greek became the lingua franca of this region and remained so during the time of the Roman empire . |
| 15 | The axe was originally a northern European weapon , and a typical design during the time of Barbarossa would have been a simple axe blade balanced by a spike on its reverse . |
| 16 | During the time of the teachers ' strikes the absence of all these extra-curricular elements of school was regretted as keenly , both by pupils and teachers , as the academic disruption . |
| 17 | These can tell us a great deal about past environments and climate during the time of their accumulation , but there are many ways by which small mammal accumulations occur in the natural world . |
| 18 | For example , if the expanding surface S emits monochromatic radiation of fixed intensity , then during the time of the strong blue shift the intensity of the white hole , varies simply in proportion to the cube root of the frequency . |
| 19 | During the time of the programme there were marked variations in deprivation and revitalisation indicators . |
| 20 | It is regarded as worthy of Christians to feed the starving ; to desist from war during the time of our dear Lord 's Nativity . ’ |
| 21 | Taunton , Somerset 's county town , was founded during the time of King Ine , astride the peaceful , picturesque River Tone . |
| 22 | Godwin in his book Political Justice ( 1793 ) , written during the time of the French Revolution , with its slogan of ‘ Liberty , Equality , Fraternity ’ , argued for the abolition of private property on the ground that it retarded the moral and intellectual development of a society because of its inequality . |
| 23 | The story of The Way To The Lantern is inspirational and tells of an actor called Robert during the time of the French Revolution who , by assuming different personae , evades the guillotine . |
| 24 | The six steam locomotives helping to run the train services between Swanage and Harman 's Cross during the special weekend cover over half a century of British steam locomotive development — from Victorian times during the time of Gladstone and Disraeli through to the ‘ new dawn ’ of the 1960s and the era of the present Queen and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan . |
| 25 | This feature was designed to cover the first flights of three Spitfires , during the time of its production that statistic changed to four ! |
| 26 | Despite a lengthy conversation with the chaplain , Paine could not be persuaded to attend divine worship and consequently he was placed in a room by himself during the time of the service . |
| 27 | During the time of Stalin agriculture was impoverished by conscious decision , as the human and material resources of the countryside were squeezed to finance industrialisation . |
| 28 | During the time of Magnus the Pious the Imperial court was at Nuln , for example . |
| 29 | During the time of Sigmar these chieftains became counts and the boundaries of their realms were formally established . |
| 30 | During the Time of Troubles the patriarchate ( established in 1589 ) became a vital focus of authority . |