Example sentences of "[prep] be [art] [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 is said to be a rough period of about 100 days , but I have never been able to confirm this . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We want our pupils ' time here to be an exciting period of hard work and play , and of discovery about ideas and feelings . |