Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a period in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naykene had written an article in which he alleged that all members of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council , which ruled for a period in 1979 , had benefited from an illegal foreign loan . |
| 2 | The changes in that country also occurred during a period in which education spread rapidly , fertility declined sharply ( with occasional fluctuations ) and family planning knowledge and methods became widely available . |
| 3 | Chapters 4 to 6 are art historical , interpreting about 800 years , beginning with a time when a miniaturist copied approved models with almost or actual religious obedience , and ending in a period in the early Renaissance when an illuminator does not even stand up when the Chancellor of France enters the room or when John of Holland can complain that Jacquemart de Hesdin has stolen his private pattern sheets in 1398 . |
| 4 | When questioned at the time , and for some time afterwards , as to what the novel was ‘ about ’ , I would reply vaguely that it referred to a period in my life in the 1960s , when I was married to a successful pop star and spent much of my time travelling up and down motorways , lulled with anti-depressants and sitting , an immobile non-person , in the back of a sealed , silent and chauffeur-driven Rolls Royce . |
| 5 | This should ideally consist of a period in each of the different sections of a local authority legal department . |
| 6 | The official newspaper of the Communist Youth League had reportedly been criticized for publishing investigative reports against party orders , and its editors had been threatened with a period in the country . |
| 7 | They may therefore benefit from a period in a convalescent home if this can be arranged . |
| 8 | Like so many things in that world its origins came from a period in history where everything was deliberately hazy . |
| 9 | Instead of a young person being sentenced to a period in custody , which means that it is all too likely that he or she will continue in a life of crime , become a professional criminal and never get out of the criminal world , the alternative makes both moral and economic sense . |
| 10 | Also , using 4WD seems to cause a minor oil leak which again appears to be self curing after a period in normal drive . |
| 11 | We want to be judged by a period in government . |
| 12 | The next extract refers to a period in Salisbury when Philip Parrish works eight hours a day in preparation for his Civil Service examination without too many lapses into dreaming . |
| 13 | Certainly a large proportion of young boys and girls go through a period in which they lose evident interest in the opposite sex and profess a fine disregard or contempt for it ; but this may well be due to the importance and priority of non-sexual behaviour and childhood tasks rather than any true decrease in underlying sexual interest and preoccupation . |
| 14 | This act certainly constituted a legal precondition to the proclamation of Finland 's neutrality , but it coincided with a period in the mid and late 1950s when for various reasons the notion of neutrality in Europe suddenly gained a positive image among Soviet leaders . |
| 15 | This is not only the temperament of the teacher : it represents also , with Pound , a passionate desire , not merely to write well himself , but to live in a period in which he could be surrounded by equally intelligent and creative minds . |
| 16 | He gives us a picture of a firm conversion to theism in the summer of 1929 , followed by a period in which he believed in God , but not in the doctrines of Christianity . |
| 17 | This time is followed by a period in which the chances of becoming dry are low ( MacKeith et al . |
| 18 | It has also been held that a wholesale sale does not become a retail sale because the goods are delivered over a period in retail quantities : Hales v. Buckley [ 1911 ] W.N. 32 . |
| 19 | In his choice of contributor Lehmann was able to draw upon his wide-ranging contacts , for he had lived for a period in Vienna and had also travelled Europe in search of material . |
| 20 | Since J. C. Wells 's research on the phonological adaptations made by Jamaicans who had lived for a period in London ( Wells 1973 ) , there have been only a few detailed studies of the language of Caribbeans in Britain in spite of a good deal of interest in all aspects of Britain 's black population . |
| 21 | Perhaps general practitioners wishing to provide some diabetic care should have a period of training in the specialty and work for a period in a diabetic clinic to enhance their experience . |