Example sentences of "to [art] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the WFS surveys , however , the pregnancy intervals are computed similarly to the birth intervals , i.e. they refer to the periods between termination of successive pregnancies . |
| 2 | As to the periods of restraint , the court observed that their reasonableness was " hardly susceptible of proof by specific evidence " , " some weight should be given to the fact that the restriction is found in a partnership agreement which has evidently been carefully drafted and which must be taken to represent the views of experienced solicitors who would be well aware that an unduly severe restriction would be unenforceable " . |
| 3 | This is because the repayment of tax is treated as being made in respect of the accounting period in which the surplus ACT arose ( as opposed to the periods in which it was offset ) ( s 825(4) ( a ) ) . |
| 4 | The court 's inability to determine those matters is not limited to the period pending the visitor 's determination but extends so as to prohibit any subsequent review by the court of the correctness of a decision made by the visitor acting within his jurisdiction and in accordance with the rules of natural justice . |
| 5 | I agree with his conclusion that , although the power to release a life prisoner on licence is conferred by section 61(1) of the Criminal Justice Act 1967 on the Secretary of State , the decisions leading to that release , including the decision as to the period to be served by the prisoner for the purposes of retribution and deterrence , may properly and lawfully be made by a junior minister in the Home Department . |
| 6 | Quite clearly , while I 'm not prepared to put a a figure on the contribution that conversions are going to make to the period to two thousand and six , I 'll be most surprised if it was a long way different from what has been taking place in the past . |
| 7 | The balance of Lady Antonia 's very long and extremely well-researched book reflects this exactly ; she devotes 75 pages to the period of Mary 's personal rule from 1561–5 , compared to 137 for the years 1565–8 and 81 for 1586–7 . |
| 8 | The origin , heyday , disuse and final dismantling of the inclined plane at Foxton occupied at most thirty-four years , eighteen of which belong to the period of disuse . |
| 9 | But when Mexican stations moved from the era of foreign capital to the period of nationalist fervour , they took on a new self-conscious national grandeur , complete with the acres of frescos which Aldous Huxley noted on his visit to Mexico . |
| 10 | It follows , therefore , that there is no end to the period of acquisition . |
| 11 | A worshipable God must belong to the period of life on earth and be acknowledged to be non-existent before then . |
| 12 | Try and keep the majority of writing to the period of five minutes or so after the interviewee has left , when you should sum up the points while they are fresh in your mind . |
| 13 | Those who advocate caution in allowing a rapid decline in interest rates , and in consequence a further devaluation of the pound , can point to the period of sterling 's membership of the ERM as the most effective discipline the UK has experienced — an incentive to force down both inflation and interest rates . |
| 14 | But Faussett failed to appreciate the true significance of his discoveries ; in his journal , kept for the years 1757 to 1773 and later published as Inventorium Sepulchrale under the editorship of Charles Roach Smith in 1856 , the remains were attributed to the period of Roman occupation , while Smith preferred a purely British origin . |
| 15 | Between these two regions , a step in the ion energy will be observed , corresponding to the period of little or no reconnection between the pulses . |
| 16 | In this chapter I shall be considering some of the great historical Western moral philosophers of the past , confining myself , however , to the period of modern philosophy , which is usually conceived of as starting in the seventeenth century . |
| 17 | The strains of Wagner had certainly filled those rented rooms in Earl 's Court or South Kensington , to the annoyance of the neighbours , though like his practical study of the German language they belonged only to the period of Hitler 's influence upon him . |
| 18 | A great deal has been written and said as to the period of sexual " latency " which often occurs , at least on the surface of the child 's life , during this period . |
| 19 | On the level of social meaning , the transition could be seen as associated with the move from a period dominated by the modernist critique of mass culture to the period of ‘ post-modernism ’ . |
| 20 | Automatic Cover — Previously this was provided without limit as to the period of time by which the Company must be notified but as we can no longer rely on surveyors picking up additional plant , it is now a condition of this cover that the Insured notifies the Company before expiry of the current period of insurance . |
| 21 | The unit of time may be chosen according to the circumstances of each particular problem : it may be a day , a month , a year , or even a generation : but in every case it must be short relative to the period of the market under discussion . |
| 22 | As a compromise , the BCP proposed that the President should be elected by the present parliament , but with a mandate extending to the period of office of the next Grand National Assembly . |
| 23 | Thrombosis of cerebral vessels is a reported complication when tranexamic acid is given over several days , but not when use is restricted to the period of cardiac surgery . |
| 24 | Alternative methods of protecting the original tenant include : ( 1 ) limiting his contractual liability to the period of his tenure as tenant ; ( 2 ) stipulating for a tenant 's break clause at regular intervals throughout the term ; ( 3 ) limiting the landlord 's right to impose retrospective liability on the original tenant without warning ; ( 4 ) requiring the landlord to exhaust other remedies first ; ( 5 ) reserving a right of re-entry on any assignment ( Shiloh Spinners v Harding [ 1973 ] AC 691 ) . |
| 25 | The duty to take reasonable care is confined to the period of 21 days after cancellation ( s72(8) ) , thereafter , he usually becomes an involuntary bailee with a duty to refrain from wilful damage . |
| 26 | In this case , only a proportion of the gain will be exempt by reference to the period of actual occupation and to the last 36 months of ownership . |
| 27 | they 'd carry on getting the reduced rate prior to the period of disallowance . |
| 28 | In general , taxes remained largely unchanged , although the budget revived proposals for phasing in by 1993 a sliding-scale reduction in capital gains tax on long-term investment , according to the period for which the investment had been made . |
| 29 | The creation of nominal and fictitious votes was by far the greatest abuse to disfigure Scottish politics in the eighteenth century , but that was a form of political corruption which long survived even the Reform Act of 1832 , and the only abuse which was truly confined to the period under consideration was that which attempted to capitalise upon the opportunities for manipulating the voters , through a judicious application of patronage , which the small number of voters appeared to invite . |
| 30 | The authority invested in the ideological judgements within the text arises from the superior ( because later ) historical position of the narrator in relation to the period under scrutiny . |