Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given that previous periods of rapid growth had been brought to a halt in the face of escalating deficits on the balance of payments , largely because of the high marginal propensity to import manufactured goods , the improvement of the balance of payments figured prominently in the plan . |
| 2 | Using this same period as a basis for comparison with the general population and examining available records ( including the Icelandic Who 's Who ) , he was able to show that the relatives concerned significantly more often entered creative occupations . |
| 3 | Given this shorter period of experimentation with other drugs prior to heroin use , it could be expected that these informants would have exhibited less variety in their pre-heroin polydrug use . |
| 4 | ‘ I propose to halve that qualifying period to six months , ’ Mr Lamont said . |
| 5 | BMK 's own book ‘ From London to Lathe ’ covers this exact period . |
| 6 | During the holiday season the head office reports on the clubs on a weekly basis , which means it needs 52 reporting periods . |
| 7 | The emphasis will be on needlecraft and allied skills , as the house has many fine period pieces of such work . |
| 8 | Scholars can now be considered fortunate if they manage to find " one unworked field " , Three years later , McKerrow describes this great period as constituting a " revolution in literary history " in the course of which everything previously taken as axiomatic has been questioned or disproved . |
| 9 | It is clear from this expression that the difference between full information output and actual output can be made zero each period ; that is , perfect stabilization policy can be achieved , if the government sets the policy parameter γ 2 equal to - 1 . |
| 10 | Thematic optional units which span several historical periods can be " deconstructed " , broken down into different periods to form special studies which might be followed alongside the appropriate core unit , or used as bridging units to link one core unit with the next . |
| 11 | The Employment Protection ( Consolidation ) Act 1978 prescribes certain minimum periods of notice and Peter can not be deprived of this protection no matter what Frank Fairbrother says . |
| 12 | Assuming a fair wind on major infrastructure , access , and drainage , it is unlikely that a new settlement would be producing a significant group of housings until somewhere around , at the very best , end ninety six into the of ninety seven period , in that context , what is happening in that short intervening period , assuming certain planning guidance comes forward to help that intervening period , and will that new settlement actually be built out prior to two prior to two thousand and six , will the fourteen hundred dwellings be built in that period , question mark , probably not , it will lap over , therefore in that context of a gap at the beginning , and a potential overlap at the end , it is very important again to revisit the peripheral land issue . |
| 13 | Coloured tins were used to identify each two-hour period of the day . |
| 14 | ‘ We are getting substantial rent-free periods and are being offered large capital contributions ’ — a sum paid by the landlord to the tenant , usually for shopfitting to entice customers into the mall or high street . |
| 15 | Each course requires one double period per week and leads to a SCOTVEC qualification . |
| 16 | " W. E. Gladstone ( 1809–98 ) was one of England 's greatest statesmen , who enjoyed two major periods of office , 1868–74 and 1880–85 . |
| 17 | Janet Boulton , who spent two six-month periods doing portraits of geriatric patients in Radcliffe Infirmary in 1986 , has also met with resistance . |
| 18 | One of the reasons I forgot about Ohio was that I wanted to forget that unhappy period of my life . |
| 19 | I mean , I 'm really looking forward to I mean most of your bloody time within a year I 'm getting out you can start doing what you want then , but when you do n't have that regular period you do n't know how you 're gon na react to your own , you 've got |
| 20 | Chesney Wold is supposedly based upon Rockingham Castle ( Fig. 12a ) , a mainly Elizabethan house within its Norman walls , where Dickens had spent some pleasant periods of his life when staying with his friends , the Watsons . |
| 21 | Jameson 's approach is typical of that conservatism which regards all other periods of history as authentic , but the present as the final inauthentic state . |
| 22 | Your leader article ‘ action now for science literacy ’ ( 3 March p 566 ) quotes the Royal Society 's recommendation that all fourth and fifth year pupils should have nine weekly periods of science , an equivalent to 22.5 per cent of total teaching time . |
| 23 | The insanity claim she hoped would be endorsed by the fact that she had spent several brief periods in mental institutions in Wells and Gloucester . |
| 24 | We were never given any long period free from a fight from the coast to a target and hack … |
| 25 | We call this first period of recording the baseline which tells us how bad the problem is before intervention starts . |
| 26 | Already moves to have three 40-minute periods instead of two of 45 have had to be resisted . |
| 27 | The electrons and ions thus tend to co-rotate , that is , to have sidereal orbital periods equal to the planet 's sidereal axial period . |
| 28 | The new rule is also a clear victory for the environmentalists against a proposal by the Bush administration that would have eliminated any waiting period . |
| 29 | The day was a continuous series of interruptions so that it was difficult for clients to have any real period of rest and quiet . |
| 30 | Carroll Meeks , the doyen of station architecture historians , discerns four distinct periods in the era of picturesque eclecticism — the emulation of one style ( 1830–50 ) , the synthesis of many ( 1850s ) , the take-off to creativity ( 1860–90 ) , and finally megalomania ( 1890–1914 ) . |