Example sentences of "[adj] period [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the Hebrew seven-day week ending with the Sabbath ( the only day to which a name was given ) resembles the Babylonian seven-day period ending with an ‘ evil day ’ , there are important differences . |
| 2 | The persecution of the bull cult in the later medieval period combined with the ruthless sack of the town in 1461 forced the closure of many of these smaller churches : St. Mary 's Bynwerk , St. Clement 's , St. Thomas ' , St. Andrew 's , St. Paul 's , St. Stephen 's , St. Michael 's Cornstall , All Saints ' by the Bridge and St. Peter 's all disappeared . |
| 3 | This symptom free period lasted for several days and even weeks . |
| 4 | Copies of all the counter proposals and representations were then placed on local deposit in council offices and a further period allowed for representations to be made about them . |
| 5 | The first set of changes in this period led to the Sexual Offences Amendment Act in 1976 ; the second led to Home Office guidelines on revised police procedures in 1983 ( and later 1986 ) . |
| 6 | Table 6 from their ‘ 1989 Based Population Projections for the Counties and District Health Authorities of Wales shows the projected net population change for this period split into various phases . |
| 7 | No English autobiography of this period tells of that experience of powerlessness from the other side . |
| 8 | The Commission continued during this period to press for the creation of a single EC market in energy , particularly in response to appeals from France , which sought larger export markets for its nuclear-generated electricity . |
| 9 | Few persons living in Newcastle during this period escaped without suffering some of the symptoms that are inescapably associated with cholera , if not the disease itself . |
| 10 | The second-hand books you must look for if you want to embark on a research programme for this period go by the tradename of ‘ Contour Road Atlases ’ and were published in many forms between 1890 and 1920 . |
| 11 | This period came to an end when , on a two months home leave Stan met Mary , his future wife , at The Cavendish Ballroom in Edinburgh . |
| 12 | And some of the worst excesses during this period came from Third World governments , such as Sanjay Ghandi 's notorious sterilisation campaign in India in 1976 . |
| 13 | More specifically though , the sharpest decline in employment in manufacturing within this period came in the later 1960s , with the ‘ shake-out ’ associated with the merger boom and the accompanying ‘ rationalisation ’ of enterprises ' activities , a process which was in part stimulated by fiscal deflation and in part actively sponsored by quasi-state agencies such as the Labour government 's Industrial Reorganisation Corporation . |
| 14 | With a revival in fifties and sixties pop music , this has now gone further , to the use of hits of this period to sell to the under 25s : the Levi 's 501 commercials of the mid-eighties , with songs by Sam Cooke and Percy Sledge , are now classic examples . |
| 15 | This period began in 1856 with the Declaration on Privateering adopted at the Congress of Paris at the conclusion of the Crimean War . |
| 16 | As it happened this period coincided with the arrival in Vancouver of Andrew Allan , later one of Canada 's all time great producers , and he was accompanied by his ‘ unofficial fiancee ’ that talented actress Judith Evelyn . |
| 17 | This period coincided with various socioeconomic advances which could also be usefully recorded , such as the change from horsepower to mechanisation and from an all-male workforce to a female civilian one . |
| 18 | This period coincided with various socioeconomic advances which could also be usefully recorded , such as the change from horsepower to mechanisation and from an all-male workforce to a female civilian one . |
| 19 | Access allocation over this period controlled by the Engineer . |
| 20 | Patterns of erosion , sedimentation and igneous activity recorded over the area during this period seem to be consistent with a migrating region of uplift related to the track of this hot spot . |
| 21 | The three organizers , however , and many of the painters most directly concerned , were at this period working in a Cubist idiom . |
| 22 | This period coincides with the development of G cells within the antrum . |
| 23 | This period coincides with a well-established increase in volcanic activity in Africa and , less certainly , with a phase of uplift . |
| 24 | A complex interplay of industrial structure , patterns of social relations , efficacy of constituency organisation , trade union strength and national development determined the achievement of local parties , and hence an understanding of the political dimensions of working-class action over this period has in large measure to incorporate the locality . |
| 25 | An individual must have been in the business for ten years or have retained shares throughout this period to qualify for maximum relief . |
| 26 | Everyone involved at this period put in time and effort far beyond what might have been predicted . |
| 27 | Unlikely though it seemed to students and friends of the scholarly and bespectacled professor , he had at this period worked for what became SOE ( a kind of work for which his precision of mind , excellent memory and linguistic ability pre-eminently qualified him : he contrived among other exploits to smuggle the leader of the Bulgarian Peasant Party out of the country into Turkey in a truck ) . |
| 28 | The technical improvements of this period centred around the problem of increasing the fire-power of armies ; and towards this end a good deal of progress was made . |
| 29 | Some of Gibson 's basses of this period come with ‘ tighten towards the player ’ heads , as on early Fender Precisions , and could cause a certain amount of confusion . |
| 30 | The term 's application to this period originates in the Earl of Clarendon 's History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England produced by a Royalist during the Restoration to celebrate those who ‘ opposed and resisted that torrent ’ — rebellion being unqualifiedly equated with disorderly , uncontrolled catastrophe . |