Example sentences of "be [vb pp] during the war " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In 1949 work began on rebuilding the Newbridge Hill maltings which had been bombed during the war . |
| 4 | Marriages had been made during the war , but many damaged or broken by war , too . |
| 5 | The statutes of self-government granted to the Basque Country and Catalonia had been rescinded during the war . |
| 6 | The total included around 600,000 people who had been displaced during the war between Serbia and Croatia in 1991 . |
| 7 | Attempts were made during the war to bomb Saddam 's convoy , and the American attack on the Al-Amariyah shelter , which resulted the in the deaths if up to 300 women and children , seems to have been ordered because a high intensity of walkie-talkie traffic was detected at the shelter . |
| 8 | The best were made during the war , including Listen to Britain ( 1942 ) , Fires Were Started ( 1943 ) , and Diary for Timothy ( 1944/5 ) . |
| 9 | And er really when you sort of l look at the children who were born during the war and were brought up during the war , they 're all pretty strong and healthy . |
| 10 | Our two children , Virginia and Peter were born during the war and after Franklin was demobbed in 1946 we moved to Peterborough where he works for an engineering company . |
| 11 | It challenged the shibboleths of Liberalism — free trade , the gold standard , retrenchment and peace — all of which were abandoned during the war . |
| 12 | Hunt told Hall 's Committee that it occupied seventeen different buildings of which seven were requisitioned during the war . |
| 13 | These allowances were increased during the war , and by 1918 were worth four shillings for the first child , decreasing to one shilling each for fourth and subsequent children . |
| 14 | And then of course the boats were sunk during the war . |
| 15 | He tells me the story of two US servicemen who were stationed during the war near the Welsh town where he grew up . |
| 16 | George objected , but Libby said chocolate was something prisoners were sent during the war . |
| 17 | Because bonfires were banned during the war , Hitle was n't burnt until 1945 when he was already dead . |
| 18 | 300,000 school places had been destroyed during the War , and 350,000 additional ones would now be needed . |
| 19 | It was familiar to many of his fellow- countrymen because another version had earlier been Japanese-owned , but had sadly been destroyed during the war . |
| 20 | Monsieur Brisset arranged an appointment for us , and later that day Paul Ingouf , in his office , passed to us a typewritten page from the secret daily record that had been kept during the war ; listed there we saw : |
| 21 | This may have led him to exaggerate the extent to which Labour Party organisation had been maintained during the war , while Conservative Party organisation had languished : |
| 22 | The vision of the new church had not been lost during the war years . |
| 23 | The novelistic density of Andrien 's film makes the well-meant Canadian picture Bye Bye Blues ( director , Anne Wheeler ) , which touches on somewhat related themes though it is set during the war , seem merely novelettish . |
| 24 | The catalyst was the Crichel Down Enquiry in 1954 by the Minister of Agriculture into the sale and subsequent choosing of a tenant for Crichel Down in Dorset which had been purchased during the war as a bombing range ( Griffith , 1955 ) . |
| 25 | The building programme was halted during the war with the scarcity of corrugated iron . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Ruth said , ‘ I gather he was interned during the war , as well ? ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's very unlikely that it survived the Civil War in 1919 , and even less likely that it was looted during the war and brought out of Russia in one piece . |