Example sentences of "at [art] period " in BNC.

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1 Ayrshire 's contribution is even more impressive when it is related to the county 's small population figures at the periods when most of the settlements listed above were founded .
2 His text hints at the periods and utterances of Gloriana 's England , but it quite avoids the " half-timbered " .
3 Mike Ashman has opted to set the piece firmly at the period of composition .
4 Mike Ashman has opted to set the piece firmly at the period of composition .
5 The items showed that the burial had taken place at the period when the cremation of bodies and burial of the ashes in urns was practised .
6 For light to work by at the period concerned , a miner had only a small coffee-pot shaped metal oil lamp with a wick protruding from the spout .
7 The first is that the arithmetical accuracy of a profit and loss budget must be confirmed by the preparation of a budgeted balance sheet as at the period end .
8 Secondly , it will show the potential liquidity of the practice at the period end and link in with the cash flow forecast for the same period .
9 The status of the expected Messiah was augmented by the circumstances which obtained in Palestine at the period of Jesus 's birth .
10 It occurs in a number of quite precise and extremely crucial contexts , from the Maccabean regime on into the first century A.D. Thus the High Priest at the period of Judas Maccabeus ( who died in 160 B.C. ) is referred to as a Zaddik and described as being ‘ a zealot for the law ’ .
11 Think what sort of murders were most in the public eye at the period you want to write about , because there are fashions in murder .
12 What was it at the period in the recent past that fascinates you ?
13 In addition to these outbursts of weeping with which she made up arrears and which followed close upon the fatal termination of the illness , the lady celebrated annual festivals of remembrance at the period of the various catastrophes .
14 ( b ) whether the financial statements give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company at the period end and of the profit or loss for the period then ended and have been properly prepared in accordance with company law ; and
15 Although the total retail trading area is unchanged at the period end there are in fact two different underlying elements new footage has been laid down in France but this has been off set by a net reduction in the retail trading area in the U K. The sales per square foot which excludes retail sales and is based on the waiting average trading area shows an increase of seven point two percent A low margin of fifty five point six per cent was down from fifty eight point five per cent in the same period last this , this was mainly due to a drop in in-house manufacturing participation and adverse exchange rates .
16 The cash position at the period end showed net borrowings of thirty nine point seven million which compares to eight two point seven million at the same time twelve months ago .
17 Although persuaded to drop this proposal , the brewery redecorated in the most unsympathetic manner , using metallic glazed fabrics and crude reproductions of Morris wallpapers and carpets — destroying any attempt at a period interior ( which the 1960s restoration had , ironically , tried to create ) .
18 He was himself later to acknowledge the inadequacy of a production policy that drew so heavily on stage plays , particularly at a period before the arrival of sound when it was impossible , for example , to do more than allude to the savagery of Noël Coward 's attack on his social set in The Vortex ( 1927 ) .
19 Edward Thomas wrote these words in 1908 , at a period of comparative ease and tranquillity , when he had gone about the South Country these twenty years and more on foot , especially in Kent between Maidstone and Ashford and round Penshurst , in Surrey between London , Guildford and Horley , in Hampshire round Petersfield , in Wiltshire between Wootton Bassett , Swindon and Savernake .
20 At a period when Residents had no clerks and were lucky if they possessed a typewriter , Lugard was listing some thirty different sets of records which either had to be kept or sent in , dealing with every conceivable aspect of a fully developed civil administration from postal matters to canoe registration .
21 They contrast his intention to supersede capitalists and managers by the elected representatives of voluntary and sectional associations of producers with ‘ the modern Socialist proposal to substitute the officials of the Municipality or State ’ which would , they recognise , have been ‘ unthinkable at a period when all local governing bodies were notoriously inefficient and corrupt and Parliament practically an oligarchy ’ .
22 At a period when I kept house in France and could lay hands on the Gruyère of the Comté I used on occasion to cook a similar version .
23 These high earnings , however confounded the directors , as he achieved them while the markets were quiet , and while business was usually slow , at a period when morale was low from the market crash a few months earlier .
24 Photography has reached its 150th anniversary and arrived , simultaneously , at a period of unprecedented diversity , distinguished achievement and fundamental change .
25 White nephrite rings were already being distributed , presumably from this source , as far west as Seima near Gorki at the confluence of the Oka and the Volga at a period broadly contemporary with the Shang dynasty .
26 ‘ Every estate which must expire at a period certain and prefixed , by whatever words created , is an estate for years .
27 And it was done like this , this was done at a period when this church was changing from a Roman Catholic church The the window the original glass in this was a massive stained glass window of the crucifixion , and that had been put there in the fifteenth century by a Lord Mayor of York who was very wealthy and very religious and he wanted to show how wealthy and religious he was by pu er donating this window to the church .
28 I first came under him at a period in his life when he was abandoning the piano .
29 This study examines these contrasts in detail , at a period when the Stock Exchange in London is introducing great reforms .
30 Within the earth sciences field at least , however , the data presented here show that at a period of declining career opportunities world-wide , universities were accepting increasing numbers of graduates into Ph D studies .
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