Example sentences of "take [noun] [prep] [art] [adj] period " in BNC.

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1 takes place during a particular period and in a particular environment .
2 The hon. Gentleman will be aware that the changes will take place over a four-year period .
3 This view will be related to the determinate sentence that would have been passed but for the element of mental instability and/or public risk which led the judge to pass a life sentence and will also take account of the notional period of the sentence which a prisoner might expect to have been remitted for good behaviour had a determinate sentence been passed .
4 On 7 June 1972 the Occupational Safety and Health Administration ( OSHA ) issued a standard on asbestos exposure at work which took effect over a four-year period to 1 July 1976 .
5 The printing of De revolutionibus took place during a tense period when the freedom of Protestants and the independence of Nuremberg were being threatened by Catholic authorities .
6 The study of language , literature , and history was also substantially influenced by the general process of higher academic specialization which took place during the same period .
7 GEMA organized and led the ‘ Change the Constitution ’ movement which had as its objective the prevention of the vice-president taking power in an interim period before an election , and which came to dominate party politics in the mid 1970s .
8 This in effect means that there is an onus on the Insured to notify all changes which have taken place during the previous period of insurance .
9 This chapter will concentrate on these ‘ historical sketches ’ as a way of illustrating in general terms the pattern of ‘ de-alignment ’ or the loosening of ties between the press and the political parties which has taken place from the mid-Victorian period onwards .
10 It is accordingly advisable for the lease to contain a right to terminate the lease if reinstatement has not taken place within a reasonable period .
11 Considerable evidence , however , is provided by Bell to show that a shift in the US occupational structure — from blue-to white-collar work — has taken place in the post-war period .
12 Iron fittings could replace wooden components gradually , allowing major alterations to take place over a long period .
13 It had to take place over a long period , in the face of a prodigious number of uncontrolled variables which were likely to confuse the outcome .
14 Mr Jack Adams , chairman of the union side , said that action would have to take place within a 28-day period from yesterday 's anouncement or it would be ruled out of order .
15 these considerations have produced provisions governing events which take place during the interim period which are to say the least of it , complicated .
16 Yet Mary Joe forcibly made the point that ‘ exhibitions can hurt the tour when they take place during the same period , the same City or just the same continent as specified sanctioned tournaments . ’
17 Internal histological changes , comparable to those occurring in exopterygotes , take place during the prepupal period and the wing-rudiment becomes pushed out of its pocket and comes to lie just beneath the cuticle .
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