Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] period [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This event only lasted two days , but the amount of coinage and artefacts lost during that period would seem to have been enormous . |
| 2 | Any inflation occurring during that period will reduce the real value of the redemption payment and hence the real yield . |
| 3 | It was not properly inflation proofed , but anyone who paid national insurance contributions , even at the reduced rate , during that period will have a right to some graduated pension , however small , or to an equivalent amount from an employer 's scheme . |
| 4 | Whether or not hydrocarbon generation continued during the Mesozoic , losses from Palaeozoic reservoirs during this period could have been trapped at the post-Carboniferous unconformity , for example by the Lias shales in the Wealden area . |
| 5 | During the oral phases , extending over the first year or so of life , his main concerns involve activities like sucking , swallowing and biting ; and the nature of his oral experiences during this period will have considerable repercussions in the long as well as the short term . |
| 6 | Second marriages were therefore common , as anyone who has tried to construct a family tree for this period will know . |
| 7 | Headlines of that period will recall some of the concerns : the assassinations of Bobby Kennedy and Dr Martin Luther King ( the previous year ) ; Black Power and the police shoot-outs with Black Panthers ; the continuing Vietnam War , claiming its 40,000th American victim ; fever-pitch anti-war demonstrations and the symbolic burning of draft cards ; draft-dodgers escaping to Canada ; massive public demonstrations for peace in every major western city ; and two million acres defoliated in South Vietnam by the beginning of 1969 . |
| 8 | Silver of this period should conform to the Britannia standard but does not always do so . |
| 9 | There are thus both economic and ideological reasons why the new musical energies of this period should come from American sources . |
| 10 | With its finances balanced precariously , with Ministry restrictions on the appointment of tutor-organisers and the withdrawal of some of the university 's resident tutors , it had to rely heavily on voluntary effort — and no-one who reads the branch or Federation literature of this period can fail to be moved by the zealous commitment of ordinary WEA members , a commitment based upon the sheer love of learning and an earnest desire to offer something worthwhile to society . |
| 11 | The amnesia associated with this period may render some difficulty in coming to terms with what they have been through . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Education , particularly for women , in that period must have changed enormously ? |
| 14 | It is not possible to say whether the apparently symbolic objects had any sacral meaning , although the story of Merovech 's birth provides some reason to think that the authority of the Merovingian kings in this period may have been bolstered by pagan tradition . |
| 15 | Historians who hypothesise large-scale sea-borne slave-trading in this period should give more thought to logistics . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This will be further discussed , but it is perhaps ironic that all the distinguishing , concrete features in the landscape from this period should disappear , but that the invisible ownership element should persist . |
| 18 | Land is in fixed supply , and what is considered uneconomic to develop in one period may prove profitable at a later date . |
| 19 | The best performing unit trust over that period would have produced £9,481 . |
| 20 | The employers did however wish to keep the door open for the future , and proposed a ban of five years on women entrants — something which the union was prepared to accept in the hope that " natural reductions " over this period would leave the men in a commanding position . |
| 21 | I have found that a build up of infusoria in the tank over this period can reduce the number of fry that reach the free swimming stage . |