Example sentences of "[prep] an indefinite period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Elton Report recommends that if a pupil is to be readmitted to school after an indefinite period of exclusion , the school should ensure that before the pupil is allowed to return his/her parent signs an agreement in which the terms of the pupil 's readmission have been spelt out . |
| 2 | It assumed that models of rehabilitation valuing people through work , which had been established at such hospitals at Netherne , could be applied for an indefinite period with all patients being potential benefactors . |
| 3 | Andrew will now be cared for for an indefinite period at a psychiatric institution in Wales . |
| 4 | Profitt , Michael Cook , 18 , Adrian Sinclair , 19 , and Lee Scrivens , 19 , all from Birmingham , admitted theft charges ; another six City supporters were also remanded in custody or on bail , and 23 were fined a total of £8,600 for admitting charges arising from a weekend in the Lancashire resort which a Football Association inquiry may punish by banning City supporters from remaining away games ; all their away matches were made all-ticket for an indefinite period after trouble last season at Crystal Palace . |
| 5 | Gold and silver owe their nobility to the fact that unlike the base metals they retain their brightness and lustre for an indefinite period in a pure atmosphere . |
| 6 | Nevertheless separate meetings which President Vassiliou and Denktash held with the UN Secretary-General , Javier Pérez de Cuéllar , on Nov. 29 and Dec. 4 , 1989 , resulted in both sides accepting an invitation from Pérez de Cuéllar to meet for an indefinite period in search of an agreement , starting on Feb. 26 , 1990 . |
| 7 | The best hope of an autonomy deal surviving — forget about democracy — is the bleakness of the alternative facing Mr Hussein : an ambivalent slab of northern territory run for an indefinite period by foreign armies , and therefore largely outside Iraqi control . |
| 8 | But in Russia the masses refused to do so , refused to resign themselves to an indefinite period of subjection to capitalist exploitation . |