Example sentences of "[verb] through [art] period [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Spain lived through a period of being isolated from Europe and the rest of the world ; González 's biggest card remains the memory of Franco .
2 Every teenager goes through a period of deciding who he really is .
3 ‘ These countries are going to go through a period of not only political but also economic instability for some time to come , ’ he says .
4 From the president down , the policymakers have always appreciated that Germany was bound to go through a period of introversion .
5 Finally , you may expect her to go through a period of depression when she is ceasing to try to avoid the reality of her loss .
6 Whenever we suffer a major loss in our lives — such as the death of a loved one , divorce , redundancy , miscarriage , children leaving home , or the end of a love affair — we need to go through a period of mourning .
7 Many doctors think that it is important for parents to recognize these feelings and to go through a period of mourning for their lost imaginary baby …
8 Thus , for example , if people believe that the stock market is about to go through a period of ‘ boom ’ with share prices going up rapidly , they will switch some of their wealth into stocks and shares .
9 Undoubtedly we are living through a period of considerable political instability , in which there is a complex ‘ crisis of legitimacy ’ ( to use Habermas ' expression ) not only in the capitalist societies but also in the former communist societies of Eastern Europe , and in many countries of the Third World ; but the crisis works itself out through an international system of relationships , and such events as the overthrow of President Allende 's government in Chile , or American and Soviet military intervention in various regions of the world in the postwar period , can not be fully comprehended unless they are seen in the setting of global political conflicts .
10 Early bosses were squat cone shaped with a slight carination , developing through the period into very tall examples with no carination , called sugar-loaf bosses ( Evison 1963 ) .
11 The farming industry is passing through a period of profound change ; most farmers recognise that the industry must achieve a better balance with the market and the environment .
12 He acknowledges his indebtedness to Tolstoy and maintains that at the time of reading the book he was passing through a period of doubt and scepticism .
13 We believe that the world is passing through a period of considerable instability and therefore we do not propose further reductions in our defence forces .
14 Embarrassed to some extent by their traditional association with the Soviet Union , but at the same time drawing their identity from it , the communist parties of Western Europe have been passing through a period of internal crisis and conflict .
15 By 1984 , Fibres had moved through the period of mere survival to realize that it was on a winning track and could expand , guided by some astute marketing of some of the exciting new products then coming through .
16 The future for financial reporting in New Zealand The New Zealand financial reporting regime is going through a period of radical change
17 Going through a period of artistic training can involve a frightening leap into the unknown — into the ‘ night ’ where one 's carefully constructed notions will dissolve and something much greater , more awesome , take their place .
18 This circle of writers and intellectuals did not confine themselves to their own particular pursuits , for the West Indies was going through a period of great political change in the aftermath of the First World War .
19 Charity accounting is going through a period of rapid and far-reaching change as accountants with charity clients or who are trustees themselves come to terms with the new regulatory procedures introduced by the Charities Act 1992 and the impact of the new SORP2 regulations .
20 Standard started looking at the possibilities of EAP back in 1990 when the financial industry was going through a period of great change .
21 Consumers were going through a period of retrenchment after the boom years of the 1980s .
22 It 's safe to say that every child in every culture will go through a period of saying that the pencil which has been moved up is now longer or bigger or big now .
23 It 's a nice idea that in business or banking you can go through a period of ‘ consolidation ’ , but it seldom works out that way .
24 We might turn away from our own particular church — we might go through a period of not knowing what we believe in — we might change from being a Catholic to a Buddhist or from a Jehovah 's Witness to an Anglican ; but , no matter how many times we reject religion , we know it will never reject us .
25 There are occasions , usually occurring when the weather conditions are near perfect for bream fishing , when you will go through a period of having bite after bite , all looking perfectly hittable in the classic bream style — slow and determined — and when you will become extremely frustrated because you miss every one .
26 The received BBC wisdom was that young people went through a period of obsession with rock and pop , but that as ‘ sanity and maturity ’ prevailed , they would graduate ‘ like their elders ’ to light , popular music .
27 ‘ I went through a period of seeing myself dead , seeing myself in a coffin and the people at my funeral .
28 I went through a period of depression erm I 'd been attending the doctor I 'd been told that I was suffering from various illnesses , but nothing helped .
29 In the early part of 1991 , before all this occurred , I went through a period of time when my find rate dropped drastically and on many occasions I went out and came back home with nothing at all .
30 Swedish industry went through a period of instability , due partly to the loss of important export/import markets in eastern Europe and partly to labour difficulties .
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