Example sentences of "[prep] be [art] [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the one hand by 1983 the straight-forward expansionist strategy has been virtually abandoned , but on the other side the French authorities are striving to sustain an active supply-side policy to prevent the fabric of industry being destroyed during what is supposed to be a temporary period of demand restraint caused by international financial problems . |
| 2 | There 's going to be a changing period this year , the end of the hardcore thing to a more responsible techno with a bit more thought . |
| 3 | Er I 'd always wanted to act even as a kid of fifteen sixteen er and I got into singing before I went into acting and so acting s see that seemed to be a good period to break my life and start again . |
| 4 | There is said to be a rough period of about 100 days , but I have never been able to confirm this . |
| 5 | Once an action becomes defended there is to be a fixed period within which the parties will be required either to set the case down for trial , on the assumption that it has not been settled or been otherwise disposed of , or to report to the court . |
| 6 | Gravity has a similar effect ; a spaceship could skip close to a black hole for what would seem to be a short period of time and then emerge to find that , for the rest of the Universe , millions of years had passed . |
| 7 | There does not seem to be a constant period before illness develops , and in some people , infection estimated to have lasted for more than eight years has not resulted in illness . |
| 8 | Even though their life-style is often timed normally , daily rhythms of body temperature and the concentrations of the hormones melatonin ( see below ) and cortisol in the blood are irregular , often with what appears to be a free-running period . |
| 9 | The other great assumption , of course , is that the framework for timetabling has to be the 40 period week . |
| 10 | We want our pupils ' time here to be an exciting period of hard work and play , and of discovery about ideas and feelings . |