Example sentences of "[adj] period [modal v] [vb infin] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Example continued Class time The children examine original documents loaned from the local library , showing what a parish register from this period would have looked like . |
| 2 | This period will vary depending upon the number of redundancies . |
| 3 | Gabriel had the unconventional good looks of her generation , high cheekbones with a wide mouth and slightly slanting green eyes , another period might have called her plain . |
| 4 | This event only lasted two days , but the amount of coinage and artefacts lost during that period would seem to have been enormous . |
| 5 | A full survey even of German theology in that period would have had to mention very many more , and to bring out a far wider range of approaches and issues ; but we have attended particularly to those whose legacy did most to shape the background to more recent thought . |
| 6 | The best performing unit trust over that period would have produced £9,481 . |
| 7 | Education , particularly for women , in that period must have changed enormously ? |
| 8 | Giving them and other first-time buyers a higher rate of tax relief for an initial period will help to ease the financial pressures of the early days of home ownership . |
| 9 | Examining a number of artefacts of the same period can help to build up a composite picture of a society and culture . |
| 10 | His figure , which was based on a tally kept by victim support groups , was criticized by other experts , who argued that a longer period would have to elapse before such a large number of people could develop cancer . |
| 11 | It was dismissed by other experts , however , who argued that a longer period would have to elapse before sufficient people developed cancer . |
| 12 | To Victorian eyes , any interior from that earlier period might have seemed underfurnished ; but the construction that George Eliot puts on the dominance of walls and ceiling is decisively Victorian in its moral emphasis : ‘ in walking through these rooms with their splendid ceilings and their meagre furniture , which tell how all the spare money had been absorbed before personal comfort was thought of , I have felt that there dwelt in this old English baronet some of that sublime spirit which distinguishes art from luxury , and worships beauty apart from self-indulgence ’ . |
| 13 | All this was indeed ‘ daring ’ stuff and few moviegoers in that 1914–16 period could have failed to appreciate that the messages were coming at them thick and fast as the motion-picture industry tried hard to prove that it was a mature social agency . |