Example sentences of "[pron] be [art] [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Review recommended that there be a fixed period within which the parties would be required to set down the case for trial or to report to the court . |
| 2 | This increase has been associated with a decline in the proportion of life which women spend in bearing and rearing children which has resulted in there being a significant period in women 's later lives in which they lack any major domestic occupation . |
| 3 | Do you know if there 's a deferred period of payments ? |
| 4 | Furthermore there is no qualifying period during which the applicant must have received maintenance from the deceased . |
| 5 | The same is generally true of unfair dismissal rights , although if the reason for dismissal was trade union-related , there is no qualifying period at all . |
| 6 | Sometimes too , although this is becoming less common , there is a minimum period of service required before you can join . |
| 7 | Historically there is a long period of overlap between patronal and market social relations in the arts . |
| 8 | There is a primary period of around 140 days , but neither the period nor the amplitude is constant . |
| 9 | Some months before each series , there is a frantic period of preparation . |
| 10 | On the seven-day cooling-off period , it is correct , as the Minister says , that there are similar provisions in other European countries , but will he confirm that , in those countries where there is a cooling-off period for unions , there is also a cooling-off period for employers ? |
| 11 | The range is from 4.0 to 5.0 , and there is a rough period of around 47 days . |
| 12 | The range is from 6.8 to 9.1 , and there is a rough period of about 198 days . |
| 13 | In parish churches , however , there was a long period of stagnation , although there were improvements in standards and taste , and until the time of Vatican II there had been few developments in the Liturgy and its music . |
| 14 | There was a blank period of no-memory , like a black dreamless sleep , followed by a slow awakening to events too horrific to contemplate . |
| 15 | Faced with that dilemma the plaintiffs chose to endeavour to run the business to an early sale and that is what they did my Lord and er the premises were put back on the market er in the early part of nineteen eighty six and er it is pleaded that er in in paragraph six statement of claim , that in May er a buyer came forward but that sale did not go ahead er because there were unreasonable delays on the part of the purchaser erm and er the deal fell through but then again in July er after the business had ceased trading , another buyer was found and then there was a lengthy period of negotiations at the conclusion of which the sale price was reduced because at that stage the plaintiff 's landlord was going to increase the rent er and the plaintiffs were at that stage under threat of forfeiture and eventually contracts were exchanged on the sixth of November nineteen eighty six the sale price being eighty one thousand five hundred and er completion was on the fifth of December nineteen eighty six . |
| 16 | Following the overthrow of the Achaemenid dynasty by Alexander of Macedon in 331 BC there was a confused period in the history of Zoroastrianism until its revival as the state religion under the Sassanian dynasty ( AD 226–651 ) . |
| 17 | — There was a high period of English drama ( which had a beginning ) . |
| 18 | There was a longer period of comparative calm in the townships of the East Rand during the second half of December than at any time in the previous five months , although during the first half of the month deaths had averaged 20 per day . |
| 19 | There was a further period of tussles for power until the ageing grandson of Bruce and son of Walter and Marjory at last reached the throne in his own right as Robert II , and gave to the royal house the name which would remain as Stewart until Mary , Queen of Scots , altered its spelling to Stuart . |
| 20 | There would have been less practical difficulty about saying that trade ceased when business ceased actively to be carried on , because there was a further period of a year during which a petition could be presented . |
| 21 | The union representing the performers were militantly opposed to British dancers taking work from them and there was a lean period for the sixteen Girls left . |
| 22 | It will be observed that in those cases there was no statutory period after cessation of trade during which jurisdiction continued , and the court was therefore faced with a stark choice between saying that the jurisdiction ceased immediately active trade was suspended , or saying that it continued until the business had actually been wound up by payment of the debts . |
| 23 | And whatever Councillor says , there was an inadequate period for that essential preparation , both within the directorate and for heads and teachers , to allow them to come to terms with what Local Manage of the schools meant . |
| 24 | Must this period last until an agreement is reached by both parties , or will it be a finite period at the end of which the unions must accept the propositions put forward by their employers ? |
| 25 | Although it is an intense period of development and although it provides the basis of values , attitudes , and feelings — as well as darker things like repressions and obsessions — that may last a lifetime , it soon passes . |
| 26 | It was a difficult period for a few years until the market caught up with us . ’ |
| 27 | Luke , even though his order of material is basically the same as Mark , tries to give the impression that it was a longer period of time ( see Luke 19:47 ; 20:1 ; 21:38 ; 22:1 , 7 ) . |
| 28 | Despite the war , it was the happiest period of her life . |
| 29 | It was an odd period in music . |
| 30 | Nobody is pretending that we are having a great time , but it is important to recognise the factors which have affected us in what is a transitional period for the club . |