Example sentences of "be [art] [adj] period [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Lincolnshire and the East Riding of Yorkshire , a substantial number of villages disappeared from the records in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries , as well as in the second half of the fifteenth century , which seems to have been the worst period of depopulation in the area most seriously affected in the Midlands , particularly in Northamptonshire , Oxfordshire , Warwickshire , Buckinghamshire , Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire ( 58 , pp.170–3 , 220–1 , 229 ) . |
| 2 | Mr Foster said : ‘ There has been a long period of uncertainty which always causes problems . |
| 3 | The Government can not say that because , by definition , the Government have to be comfortable with everything , but it has not been a profitable period for teachers in terms of their pay . |
| 4 | The 12 months prior to the August invasion had been a positive period for Jordan . |
| 5 | This seems to have been an important period for Williams , for his lecture programme gave him the opportunity to broaden his contacts . |
| 6 | Instead it was understood that there would be a long period of commodity circulation and all that that implied . |
| 7 | The committees are empowered to suggest amendments , and the bill which is returned to the house ( if it ever is ) may be substantially different from its original form ; there may be a long period of debate between representatives of the two houses of the Legislature and the Executive before consensus can be reached . |
| 8 | On the one hand by 1983 the straight-forward expansionist strategy has been virtually abandoned , but on the other side the French authorities are striving to sustain an active supply-side policy to prevent the fabric of industry being destroyed during what is supposed to be a temporary period of demand restraint caused by international financial problems . |
| 9 | In the Berg judgment , Mr Justice Hobhouse considered the timing of Union Discount 's alleged reliance on the 1982 accounts : ‘ Furthermore , there would only be a limited period of time within which it would be reasonably foreseeable that a bank or discount house would rely upon a given set of audited accounts . |
| 10 | Gravity has a similar effect ; a spaceship could skip close to a black hole for what would seem to be a short period of time and then emerge to find that , for the rest of the Universe , millions of years had passed . |
| 11 | In the UK , the institutional mechanics are broadly that a government 's intended expenditure plans for the coming four years are drawn up in the autumn of each year , with the upcoming year being the dominant period for consideration . |
| 12 | Moreover , the 1860s were a great period of standardisation and measurement . |
| 13 | This increase has been associated with a decline in the proportion of life which women spend in bearing and rearing children which has resulted in there being a significant period in women 's later lives in which they lack any major domestic occupation . |
| 14 | Twelve weeks notice is the correct period of notice for employment over 12 years . |
| 15 | Do you know if there 's a deferred period of payments ? |
| 16 | Some months before each series , there is a frantic period of preparation . |
| 17 | In the history of European music the twelfth century is a key period of development , when the unison of Gregorian chant gave ground before polyphony — much to the disgust of conservative intellectuals like John of Salisbury , who complained of " the wanton and effeminate sound produced by caressing , chiming and intertwining melodies , a veritable harmony of sirens " . |
| 18 | Sometimes too , although this is becoming less common , there is a minimum period of service required before you can join . |
| 19 | This is a first period of courtship if you like . |
| 20 | Maternity is a dangerous period for women and figures for perinatal mortality , natural and induced abortions with serious complications and still births are very high . |
| 21 | Historically there is a long period of overlap between patronal and market social relations in the arts . |
| 22 | On the seven-day cooling-off period , it is correct , as the Minister says , that there are similar provisions in other European countries , but will he confirm that , in those countries where there is a cooling-off period for unions , there is also a cooling-off period for employers ? |
| 23 | What they need is a purgative period in opposition in which they have time to think once more and sort themselves out . ’ |
| 24 | A further reason is that it is commonly found that eighteen months into recovery is a particular period of disillusion and difficulty . |
| 25 | When reporting semi-annually , and certainly when reporting quarterly , four months is a significant period of time . |
| 26 | If such assumptions are correct , if ageing is an inevitable period of withdrawal from the social process , why should we intervene ? |
| 27 | It may be considered that a three year period in 7.6.5 is too long and that two years is an adequate period for reinstatement to take place , but the landlord will probably hold out for the longer period . |
| 28 | Although it is an intense period of development and although it provides the basis of values , attitudes , and feelings — as well as darker things like repressions and obsessions — that may last a lifetime , it soon passes . |
| 29 | The first was the heroic period in London between June 1940 and May 1943 . |
| 30 | We continue to 24–48 hours based on our previous experience with streptokinase where it was found that this was the critical period for reocclusion . |