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

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1 Certainly the Keynesian view provided the academic basis for the conduct of monetary policy in the period from the Second World War up to the late 1960s , with the influential Radcliffe Report ( 1959 ) supporting this general approach in the UK .
2 Health , and to a lesser extent education , were key issues of political contention during the period to mid-1991 [ see p. 38200 ] .
3 He reached the conclusion after studying samples of preserved moss from the period .
4 Remember that velocity stands for the ratio of total spending over a period of time to the stock of money available .
5 Anna Cavallaro is the author of the first exhaustive study of this late fifteenth-century artist , the chief exponent of devotional painting of the period .
6 The second consideration concerns that characteristic feature of French music of the period , notes inégales .
7 It is one of the few examples of mobiliary art of the period from Britain .
8 This survey also showed an intention to change which reflected the intensity of public scrutiny in the period after the Act .
9 An efflorescence of scientific publication in the period 1645–1660 — especially in agriculture , mathematics , and medicine — suggests that ingenuity did , for a while , come into fashion .
10 Maintaining a healthy body of scientific research in a period of financial stringency is a problem of widespread concern .
11 Detailed studies of English science during the period of the puritan domination have also revealed plans for a national agency to supervise technological innovation — plans that had taken shape in the mind of Samuel Hartlib .
12 But when Mexican stations moved from the era of foreign capital to the period of nationalist fervour , they took on a new self-conscious national grandeur , complete with the acres of frescos which Aldous Huxley noted on his visit to Mexico .
13 Much has been written on the performance of British business during the period and many attempts have been made to explain , excuse or refute what has been seen as a decline in British innovative ability since the successes of the industrial revolution .
14 The financial costs of various resources ( such as costs of physical resources and labour ) should be quantified and a statement of required expenditure over the period obtained .
15 Of crucial importance in the period of transition to democracy was the setting up of a specific negotiations commission under Cyril Ramaphosa , secretary-general of the ANC .
16 This study investigates the health of two substantial areas of basic science over the period 1960-85 , using various measures of health , such as citation analysis , publications , invited papers , peer esteem and migration patterns .
17 Research into the history of corporate finance during the period before 1914 has been limited by two major difficulties .
18 The coffin furniture — the term given to the applique metalwork fixed to the black fabric-covered outer case — was usually quite plain , with very simple grip-plates and grips of a type found on most average items of domestic furniture of the period , being of sheet iron and wrought iron respectively .
19 The saloons with three side windows with opening lights above , were of conventional design for the period , with lincrusta flat ceilings and long bent plywood benches for eleven passengers each side .
20 She says you have to have evidence of continued use over a period of time and in a variety of sources so that it 's not just very specialised and short-lived .
21 Thus , as a case study in business history , the Stockton and Darlington Company provides important insights into the process of managerial decision-making in a period of economic history which has hitherto been under-researched at the level of the individual firm .
22 It commits all signatory states to ( i ) use the best available techniques for controlling pollution , ( ii ) reduce discharges of toxic waste to harmless levels by the year 2000 , and ( iii ) refrain from all dumping of radioactive waste for a period of 15 years .
23 firstly it will co-ordinate the statistical findings of a team of sub-editors who are working on many aspects of Agrarian history in the period .
24 One of the distinctions between these two works is that Veblen 's goal is more limited ; he is not concerned with consumption in general so much as a specific type of consumption which was of particular importance in the period during which he was writing , a period which may be seen as marking the transition to the age of mass consumption .
25 On the level of social meaning , the transition could be seen as associated with the move from a period dominated by the modernist critique of mass culture to the period of ‘ post-modernism ’ .
26 The Geurrero Centre apparently made every effort to ensure that all the inmates received at least some form of educational tuition during the period of their sentence .
27 Sculpture , being Fine Art , he did not tackle till he was 27 and well established and then seemingly by way of therapeutic sublimation during a period of enforced sexual abstinence whilst his wife was pregnant .
28 Forget the idea of spreading material over a period of time or developing a number of different characters . ’
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