Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [prep] [art] period " in BNC.

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31 The War of the Spanish Succession is the name given to a period of European conflict from 1701 to 1714 , fought between Britain , Austria .
32 The 1991/92 annual report of the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) has shown that it prosecuted and won less than 2 per cent of cases of river pollution reported during the period .
33 Given that a detailed examination of every transaction of a business is impossible , auditing concentrates on a sample confined to a period of time or to a type of transaction which is singled out for detailed examination .
34 The target 's circular to shareholders must disclose purchases and redemptions made over the period commencing 12 months prior to the offer period and ending with the latest practicable date prior to the posting of the document .
35 Warburgs , which acted for BAT , was ranked first in the table , with £23.6bn of deals done in the period .
36 For example : Priority date 1st August 1988 Infringement commenced 1st July 1989 Infringement ceased 1st January 1991 Patent formally granted 1st February 1992 The patent owner will be entitled to damages based on the period of infringement ( 1st July 1989 to 1st January 1991 ) but can not bring a legal action for damages against the infringer until after 1st February 1986 .
37 The £250 prize for the best Safetip submitted in the period January to March 1993 was awarded to James Fulton , Health Physics OSART Team , Hunterston .
38 ‘ A measure of the extent to which financial resources obtained during a period are sufficient to cover claims incurred during that period against financial resources .
39 With reference to the article in June on breaking dormancy in sweet peas : experiments conducted over a period of several years at New College , Pontefract certainly seem to bear out Anne Swithinbank 's remarks .
40 The cost of evening courses or those consisting of a few sessions in a school of nursing cost considerably less than residential week long courses or part-time variations held over a period of several months .
41 The minus sign attached to the period indicates that the axial rotation is retrograde , and this is also indicated by an inclination in excess of 90° , though the angle between the spin axis and the perpendicular to the Cytherean orbital plane is only 2.2° .
42 That slag was at some times tapped during the period is shown by the debris at Shakenoak , which was accompanied by the day linings from four furnaces and forging hearths .
43 Precedent 3 is a framework agreement governing the continuous supply of goods under a number of orders placed over a period of time .
44 Certainly , the theories developed in the period between 1880 and 1914 have had a very important influence on twentieth-century British social democratic thought .
45 Most social and political theories formulated in the period immediately after the Second World War tended to view the industrialised societies of the West as set on a path of continuous economic and social development .
46 The concept of " certainty of duration " also means that a lease granted for the period of someone 's life is incapable of being legal , as stated in s. 205(1) ( xxvii ) above .
47 In Britain these anxieties , warnings and qualifications intensified in the period of debate that preceded the 1867 Reform Act .
48 That these were exceptional arrangements agreed during a period of acute difficulty for the District is revealed in the following table which summarises the provision of Chapter III courses in England and Wales in 1935–36 :
49 You do n't need to have just one holiday , you could enjoy several up to the value of £5000 spread over a period of one year .
50 If this assumption is incorrect , if the structure of the model is in fact dependent upon the policies being carried out , then a model of the economy estimated in a period when one set of policies , one policy regime , was in operation will give misleading advice about what to expect under a different policy regime .
51 There are at least fourteen types of coffin recorded for the period 1450 to 1900 , from the simple gable-lidded single shell , provided for late medieval Everyman , to the hulking triple-shell polished mahogany cases of the late nineteenth century .
52 It 's the snap-shot of people paid in a period , and it has in it comparisons with the previous quarter , June ninety-three and the previous year , September ninety-two .
53 This is perhaps just as well , since White 's informative 1985 survey of interlending in the UK found that the percentage of UK requests satisfied within a period of seven days ( from all sources ) had declined from 50% in 1977 to 32% in 1985 .
54 If the Claimant is an inpatient in a hospital ABROAD due to accidental bodily injury or illness sustained during the period of insurance and the hospital is licenced for surgery then benefit will be paid for each complete day of hospitalisation up to the limit of the policy .
55 Over the next twelve months , the Agency will be working intensively with Glasgow companies to ensure they are fit to compete and to handle the particular business challenges presented by a period of growth .
56 Leaving aside the problem of what time period to specify , we should have to ransack the libraries of the world to find a complete list of published works written during the period .
57 The problem here remains one of the identification of the sources of the raw materials used during the period .
58 Although it is true that the authority of istoria declined within the period covered by the exhibition , it would be more accurate to say that the development of the female nude demonstrates the substitution of classical mythology by a different kind of modern myth , replacing gods and heroes with the modern artist .
59 Outside Greater London , a reorganized local government system was created by a series of Acts of Parliament passed during the period 1972–4 .
60 When partners leave the partnership they remain personally liable for all debts incurred during the period of their membership .
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