Example sentences of "[adj] period [ex0] was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During this period there was a considerable body of opinion , particularly among economists , which held that the country was over-populated . |
| 2 | During this period there was a greater proportion of heavy smokers in the capital area , which is in agreement with the observed geographical distribution of patients in the present study . |
| 3 | During this period there was no such thing as ‘ evil ’ . |
| 4 | Little wonder that throughout the war and post-war period there was a persistent fear of inflation . |
| 5 | The evidence suggests that even in the pre-industrial period there was no automatic assumption of financial responsibility for elderly parents . |
| 6 | Furthermore , over the same period there was a shift towards indirect taxation , which tends to take a greater proportion of the income of lower than higher income groups . |
| 7 | Over the same period there was an accompanying shift away from the use of fines . |
| 8 | Thus there is no evidence over the period from 1963 onwards that the excess found in Seascale extends to a wider area around Sellafield , though for the most recent period there was a slight increase in the incidence of lymphoid leukaemia and non-Hodgkin lymphomas in the rest of Cumbria , particularly among children aged 0–4 years . |
| 9 | In an earlier period there was no great disadvantage in ‘ pirating ’ books , films , computer software and other products or violating patents or trademarks on pharmaceutical or consumer products . |
| 10 | But these are individual writers or thinkers responding to , and making use of , ancient Greece for their own individual purposes ; whereas in the earlier period there was the constant hope , at least , of something more , something evoked by such of our phrases as " quest for perfection " , " superior alternative to the present " , " blueprint for the German nation " . |
| 11 | During the early Christian period there was a church at Mahon associated with St Patrick and a well named after him . |