Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun] [prep] [art] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Westergaard and Resler ( who produced the figures for the period up to 1960 in Table 5 ) suggest that the most significant redistribution was within the wealthiest groups , rather than between them and the less well-off . |
| 2 | The report singled out Gerrit Viljoen , who headed the department during the period in question , for particular criticism . |
| 3 | In Technograph Printed Circuits Ltd v Chalwyn Ltd [ 1967 ] RPC 339 a restrictive covenant prevented the employee for a period of two years after the end of his employment from being associated with any company in the UK concerned with manufacture of " printed electrical circuits " . |
| 4 | In planning our analyses we were concerned to avoid the biases that affected the analyses of the period up to and including 1983 ; it was agreed in advance , at a meeting of a working group of the Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment , that the principal hypothesis to be tested should be that ‘ no excess of leukaemia or other cancer in 0–24 year olds has occurred in the area of the Sellafield plant from 1984 to the present , and that the diagnostic groups , areas , and calendar periods to be analysed should be these set out below . ’ |
| 5 | Lloyd 's argues that many members who are leaving are those with limited resources who joined the market during a period of rapid expansion in the 1970s . |
| 6 | However , the only area ( comprising three adjacent sectors ) in this category with a comparable proportion not born in Scotland ( though it is much less isolated ) also showed an excess in the period 1979–83 at ages 5–24 ( 2 cases observed , 0.54 expected ) . |
| 7 | Every Buddhist boy became a monk for a period , it might be for a lent , or a year or two , it might continue for a lifetime or be as short as a week . |
| 8 | Not one delivery — ’ he held up one finger — ‘ was more than six minutes later than we estimated , taking account of the traffic , and we checked every delivery over a period of two weeks . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ The FA has therefore fined Mr Jones £20,000 and imposed a suspension for a period of six months , suspended for three years . |
| 10 | The great peace congresses which punctuated the history of the period gave particular scope , by bringing together in one place the representatives of a large number of different States , for disputes of this kind . |
| 11 | The control which state and interests together could exert over society and economy contributed to a uniquely low level of class conflict for much of the twentieth century so ensuring a political stability that reached a head over the period 19455 . |
| 12 | Their relationships and marriage alliances did not conduce to peace , but they commonly gave the warfare of the period the appearance of civil war , even though the rank and file of the soldiers can hardly have felt the bond which united the leaders on both sides . |
| 13 | The 1560s marked the beginning of a period of economic dislocation and social upheaval which stunted the development of Muscovy 's fragile ‘ proto-bourgeoisie ’ . |
| 14 | Thus when the General Strike came in 1926 it marked the end of a period of working-class militancy and collective resistance to industrial decay and stagnation . |
| 15 | The author 's sounder proposition is that , when South Africa 's rulers at last ( perhaps too late ) released the one black leader they might strike a deal with , they marked the end of the period in which the words ‘ national liberation ’ had any meaning in Africa . |
| 16 | Certainly it is noteworthy that it was 1377 , a year of good harvest , which marked the start of the period when real wages remained high . |
| 17 | The European Convention is different in kind , and the British signatories of it , worthy predecessors to the signatories of the Treaty of Brussels in 1972 , put an end to a period of more than four centuries during which no causes have been carried out of this realm . |
| 18 | The first modern systematic inquiry into the Institution 's general educational policy was undertaken by the Healing Committee in 1939 , and while it proved to be the forerunner of the Watson ( 1950 ) , Wells ( 1960 ) , Eve ( 1967 ) and Brett-Jones ( 1978 ) reports , it reflected the attitude of the period by confining its recommendations to relatively detailed matters of the examination system and syllabuses . |
| 19 | It is easy to see how such a view suited the mood of the period . |
| 20 | Manual workers made up a large proportion of the TUC membership , and the health of many of these was depicted as having been destroyed by their employment ; and , moreover , it was held that all workers had a right to a period of leisure in later life supported by-a full subsistence pension . |
| 21 | This proved not to be the case , partly because the relationship between the two countries underwent a transformation in the period 1966–70 . |