Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj -er] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Founded in 1925 , the Review is in many respects a source as appropriate to this phase as the English Association and the Newbolt Committee were for the earlier period . |
| 2 | The generally optimistic tenor of this debate provides a revealing comparison with those public views examined for the earlier period . |
| 3 | This project involves establishing computer files containing Sri Lankan data from censuses and vital registration for the period 1926-54 and then ( since data for the earlier period have already been computerized ) analyzing the material for the entire period 1900-1954 . |
| 4 | Upon a sale of land the purchaser is normally entitled to have produced to him and to investigate the deeds recording previous transactions in the land going back for fifteen years ( Law of Property Act 1969 : formerly the period was thirty years ) ; and though this period is sometimes reduced by agreement , the shortening of the period throws a risk on the purchaser , who is not only bound by all legal interests in the land which actually exist whether he discovers them or not , but also by all equitable interests which he would have discovered if he had insisted on an investigation for the longer period . |
| 5 | It may be considered that a three year period in 7.6.5 is too long and that two years is an adequate period for reinstatement to take place , but the landlord will probably hold out for the longer period . |
| 6 | If the shares are not claimed after , say , six months they will be sold and the proceeds and dividends paid into a separate bank account to be held by the trustee for the further period of 6 or 12 years . |
| 7 | It is to be hoped that these commendably practical volumes will be followed by similar ones , particularly for the later period styles . |
| 8 | The map for the later period ( figure 2.10 ) shows a very different picture with a broad band of population decline across the country from East Anglia to the South-West which is the area of maximum growth today . |
| 9 | Its administrative importance is certainly attested for the sixth century , and it probably continued , although evidence is almost non-existent for the later period . |
| 10 | Its leader was George Edwards , a devout Primitive Methodist lay preacher , who had been active during the earlier period of unionization in the 1870s and in brief revivals during the intervening years . |
| 11 | This finding is in line with a study from Sweden that also found a significant increase in incidence during the shorter period 1970–84 , resulting in twice the incidence in women as in men . |
| 12 | Such a clock will wake an individual when a certain stage of the sleep/wake cycle is reached ; if he goes to bed late then that stage will be reached after a shorter period of sleep than usual . |
| 13 | In other cases a relative or foster carer may apply for custody after a shorter period and you will be informed of this action and be able to contest it in court if you wish . |
| 14 | After a further period in the translation agency of a chemical firm , she returned to England and had a child . |
| 15 | After a further period of three months or so , Don Bennett appointed me Group training inspector — and I became virtually a horse thief ! |
| 16 | If the monies are not claimed after a further period ( usually 6 or 12 years ) then the bidder will be released from its payment obligation and the moneys paid back to it . |
| 17 | In recent years , after an earlier period of reaction , most of the leading German theologians have been post-Barthian in the sense that while they have departed from him in various ways , they have nevertheless taken a basic orientation from him . |
| 18 | Courses in the earlier years introduce and develop the study of topics that are taken to an advanced level at honours — the pronunciation and grammar , and the functional , regional , and social varieties of present-day English and of the earlier periods of Old English , Middle English , and Early Modern English . |
| 19 | With the implementation of the present Call-slip analysis exercise it became possible to review the situation after an interval of almost ten years , and in the tables which follow , those findings of the present Survey which relate to foreign-language material are set alongside the broadly comparable findings of the earlier periods . |
| 20 | The same is true of the earlier period , but with important differences which are oft en disregarded . |
| 21 | Kemp 's difficulty in defining ‘ science ’ and ‘ art ’ is not confined to his discussion of the earlier period . |
| 22 | This book does not have a polemical purpose , but the author has not been able to escape the conclusion that at least some of the customs and habits of mind of the earlier period tended to induce healthier attitudes , both among those on their death-beds and those left behind to mourn . |
| 23 | This period of growth confirmed the patterns of the earlier period in the support for Paisleyism . |
| 24 | There can be no doubt that this new ideal was much better adapted to the intellectual and material developments in western Europe after 1050 than the old monastically oriented society of the earlier period . |
| 25 | Although overt proclamations of the need to maintain English as a " manly " educational pursuit by no means disappeared during the inter-war period , the pages of the Review reveal few of the defensive and often hysterical avowals of the discipline 's " manliness " that had been characteristic of the earlier period . |
| 26 | As Laffin and Young ( 1985 ) observe , the break up of the post-war consensus , coupled with the passing of the earlier period of growth and the increased politicization of local government , has made the officer 's professional stance increasingly difficult to sustain . |
| 27 | In dealing with the ulema of the earlier period , then , one must first take care not to allow to influence one 's thinking unduly the relatively rigid structure of the hierarchy of the later period and the values and attitudes which this helped to foster . |
| 28 | After the reorganization this part of the process seems to have worked relatively smoothly , but injustices appear to have occurred in the comparative chaos of the earlier period . |
| 29 | They suggest that the difference , present at puberty and persisting beyond the menopause , is due to the greater physical activity imposed on women of the earlier period . |
| 30 | The whole effect is original and has more to do with whim and fantasy , rather than the philosophy and scholarship of the later periods of the Gothic Revival . |