Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [adj] [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You would need to have a sound grasp of English history before you began ; and you would need , at every point , to relate your study of the literature of any given period to the state and development of the language . |
| 2 | Both have walls and bastions normally associated with fourth-century defences , but in the only recent excavations at Caistor , later disturbances have been found to have removed any opportunity of establishing the presence of any earlier period of defences . |
| 3 | The end of the nineteenth century was the climax of the Age of Science ; what remains for us is to glimpse briefly the aftermath of that confident period in which it seemed that all the interesting questions must have answers , and that it was the business of natural philosophy to find them out . |
| 4 | … it can sometimes be overlooked that reasonable damages should always be assessed in respect of that initial period of shock and suffering . |
| 5 | Features that will tend towards a tenancy at will are : ( 1 ) the absence of a right of re-entry ; ( 2 ) the absence of onerous repairing covenants ; ( 3 ) the absence of a prohibition against assignment ; ( 4 ) the absence of any specified period of notice ; ( 5 ) a rent payable on demand . |
| 6 | It may or may not have been his home for any length of time , but it is certainly the only survivor of that contemporary period of timbered houses with thatched roofs which frequently caught fire and were eventually forbidden . |
| 7 | His collection , appropriately entitled ‘ new Beginnings ’ and on show in Edinburgh includes the innovative works of among others Victor Pasmore , Adrian heath , Kenneth and Mary martin , the painters associated with St. Ives like Patrick heron and Robert Hilton , as well as sculptors such as Eduardo Paolozzi , William Turnbull and Reg Butler , giving an encapsulated view of this interesting period in British art . |