Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [vb pp] [prep] [art] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was understandably difficult for those whose views had been formed in a period of high unemployment to shift them radically and swiftly . |
| 2 | In a religiously-divided country such as the Netherlands , trade unions had been formed in a period of strong Protestant and Catholic religious revival when a socialist trade union movement was regarded as implying a secular view of society . |
| 3 | He hat eventually decided to ask Security 's registry and its computers for a trace muddling the trail by getting a colleague to send the request for him and burying it in a list of acronyms as if they had been collected over a period of time . |
| 4 | The official newspaper of the Communist Youth League had reportedly been criticized for publishing investigative reports against party orders , and its editors had been threatened with a period in the country . |
| 5 | A few months later , Harry Goodman responded with a full frontal attack , claiming that 9000 children in the care of the RCM had ‘ practically no Jewish contacts and that no effort had been made over a period of years to give these children some religious education ’ . |
| 6 | This support , he said , enabled the RNLI to follow such ambitious plans for the future and he emphasised that the year 's results had been achieved in a period of sharp recession and uncomfortably high inflation . |
| 7 | 1n 1911 the ports had been prepared by a period of intensive propaganda for strike action and a " spontaneous " movement for a withdrawal of labour had followed . |
| 8 | And we found that about twenty two percent of the er , sheep being entered , had been dipped within the period , so in other words they 'd not been withheld , so it 's a concern . |
| 9 | It had been designed in a period of relative economic stability and was not fitted for such tumultuous times . |