Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to a simple version of the adaptive expectations hypothesis , the expected rate of inflation is revised each period by adding on some proportion ( say , w ) of the observed error in the previous period , where w lies between zero and one . |
| 2 | Some professions require you to seek further qualifications which entail another period of full-time study . |
| 3 | Given this period of respite during the winter of 1915–16 and the following spring , Russia had , in fact , made an astonishing recovery . |
| 4 | This , the report claimed , would explain why Sophie-Liberté , apparently born during her mother 's supposed 29-month period of captivity , actually had the appearance of a four-year-old . |
| 5 | Better-off workers could survive this period on Friendly Society or trade union benefits ; the clause discriminated against poorer workers , including women , who had no access to such resources . |
| 6 | The French used this period of waiting to obtain up-to-the-minute intelligence about Portsmouth . |
| 7 | The term should not include any period for which the instrument might be extended unless such an extension is certain at the time the instrument is issued : that is , there is no genuine commercial possibility that the period will not be extended . |
| 8 | ‘ Break up … ‘ ' is about a string of friends I had who were very intense people and at that age , when your friends talk about the slim separation between life and death — and you set that against the fact that this period of your youth is supposed to be the most playful and reckless — well , if you utilized that period in a very intense way , that feeling never really leaves you . ’ |
| 9 | In recounting my coming out story in later years I have always sited this period of my life as extremely important to my subsequent emergence as a lesbian . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Fleischmann recalled this period to me . |
| 12 | From Primary 1 to S2 , two periods of PE are allocated on the timetable , whilst S3 to S6 receive one period per week . |
| 13 | My own belief , which is shared , oddly enough , by the head of the CIA , William Webster , is that sanctions would have eroded his military capacity so much that , given another nine months or so — assuming we has used that period for more flexible diplomacy , which we notably failed to do — then we could either have got him out by negotiation , or we could have promoted a situation inside Iraq in which he could n't fight . |
| 14 | But DJ Gary Davies is out of synch and tries to evoke that period of naff-Seventiesness by calling the crowd ‘ gang ’ and dropping a ‘ mate ’ into every sentence during an early link-up with Simon Bates in London . |
| 15 | 5.17.3 to remove all signs erected by the Tenant in upon or near the Premises and immediately to make good any damage caused by such removal It is advisable ( at least for the purpose of this clause ) for the tenant to ensure that the term includes any period of holding over or continuation of the contractual term ( as it does in this lease by virtue of clause 3.8 ) although it must be considered highly unlikely that the tenant would be forced to yield up the premises to the landlord during a continuation under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 . |
| 16 | You know that period between all the workers getting started and the women coming out to do their marketing . |
| 17 | It can , nevertheless , get out of hand and we should always bear in mind the need to intervene , to challenge , to focus the work , to use this period of " dramatic play " to provide learning opportunities . |
| 18 | In June 1561 , just before the personal rule began , Elizabeth 's ambassador Nicholas Throckmorton warned her that ‘ your realm is in no other case at this day , than all other realms of Christendom are ’ , by which he meant torn by religious controversy and conflict ; in the twentieth century , J. H. Elliott was to characterize this period as the decade of revolution , when Scotland was only one of eight countries including France , Spain , the Netherlands and England which experienced upheaval and revolt . |
| 19 | They may have tried to forget that period in their lives without coming to terms with some of the pain and guilt related to it . |
| 20 | We are doing everything we can to keep that period of time to a minimum . |
| 21 | We have reduced that period to five weeks , which means that millions of patients now wait for shorter periods than they did under a Labour Government . |
| 22 | Anyway there 's a lot more to say on this subject , but I 'm going to leave it until I 'm having another period of poor fishing . |
| 23 | One further male child survived this period of holocaust . |
| 24 | The Maths Department assists in an S1 and S2 Computer Familiarisation course which is allocated one period per week . |
| 25 | In this study the profitability variable was lagged one period in order to take into account the unavoidable delays between changes in profit conditions and the effective realization of resulting investment decisions . |
| 26 | In this sense prices in period t are sticky : they are set one period in advance and are then unresponsive to the level of demand which actually occurs in period t . |
| 27 | Each pupil in S1 and S2 receives one period of class music per week . |
| 28 | Far From the Madding Crowd brought this period of literary apprenticeship to a triumphant close . |
| 29 | There are several factors which help to prolong this period to perhaps three or four times that in the male . |
| 30 | Staff are being kept informed ; we do not want to prolong any period of uncertainty . ’ |