Example sentences of "was [adv] [art] period [prep] which " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was not a period in which the British suffered defeats gladly , however much their lack of preparation in peacetime might seem to invite them . |
| 2 | He describes this period of work as one of , of terrible strain , it was also a period in which he was personally very unhappy , and I get the impression that he really did use the best of his mind on this problem , and that for the rest of his life he found it difficult to press his thinking home with the kind of ruthlessness that many of the problems that he then assumed required . |
| 3 | Yet this was also the period during which the United States became the main supplier of the hugely increasing need for raw cotton . |
| 4 | This was also the period beyond which the Tominah priests could allegedly no longer cause the dead to walk . |
| 5 | This was also the period in which the foundations of sociology were laid . |