Example sentences of "the late [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the later Saxon period it was the royal estates , particularly the caputs , which developed exchange networks , especially when towns were developed . |
| 2 | Irish History in the Later Modern Period and the Politics of Modern Ireland are studied in the second year . |
| 3 | For the later prehistoric period , rather more evidence is now available from Dartmoor and the major river valleys of what early landscapes looked like in the 2000 years or so before the Roman Conquest , and how such early arrangements conditioned the later , more easily recognised , post-Roman countryside . |
| 4 | We identify three periods of accelerated erosion and conclude that erosion rates during both the late Preclassic/early Classic periods ( 2,500–1,200yrBP ) and the later Postclassic period ( 850–350yrBP ) were at least as high as those after the Spanish conquest . |
| 5 | It is built in brick and has some fine Tudor gateways in this material which have the flattened , four-centred arch , typical of the later Perpendicular period . |
| 6 | Although the lack of any source comparable to Gregory means that no satisfactory comparison can be made between the sixth and seventh centuries , it is , nevertheless , clear that central secular authority could still play a part in the appointment of bishops in the later Merovingian period . |
| 7 | A standard vessel in the later Greek period was the peniekonier , the fifty-oar ship , thought by Bury ( 1951 ) to have come into use in the eighth century BC , and it may be that the seal showing a vessel with thirty oars was intended to represent the Minoan forerunner of this Greek type of warship . |
| 8 | In future it is hoped to establish an orchard as apples and , to a lesser extent , pears were cultivated in the later medieval period and were particularly important for the cider and perry they produced . |
| 9 | The persecution of the bull cult in the later medieval period combined with the ruthless sack of the town in 1461 forced the closure of many of these smaller churches : St. Mary 's Bynwerk , St. Clement 's , St. Thomas ' , St. Andrew 's , St. Paul 's , St. Stephen 's , St. Michael 's Cornstall , All Saints ' by the Bridge and St. Peter 's all disappeared . |
| 10 | Timber was the chief material and the stave churches of the later Medieval period were influenced by this tradition . |
| 11 | As a consumer protest based on the home , the rent strike was an important and relatively neglected form of working class direct action , which paralleled industrial unrest in the workplace during the late Edwardian period . |
| 12 | First , many of the early colonisers belong to groups of plants ( genera ) that were widespread during the Late glacial period 10 000 years ago . |
| 13 | The first undoubted works of art documented by archaeology , the engravings and paintings on the walls and ceilings of caves and rock-shelters together with the figurines and engraved pieces from deposits resting on their floors , were created by members of our own species Homo sapiens sapiens during the Late Glacial period from around thirty thousand years ago . |
| 14 | More frequently these derive from species still found in tropical and semi-tropical habitats , but fossil ivory from mammoths which flourished in the northern hemisphere during the Late Glacial period was also used . |
| 15 | At the end of the lane , round a chicken-leg turn lay a large haveli of the late Mughal period . |
| 16 | Given Russia 's high latitudinal position , her short farming season , low productivity , absence of markets , and scant incentives for yield improvement in the late Tsarist period and until the advent of NEP , the natural result was a strong peasant urge to supplement agricultural income by promysly ( craft industries ) , one of which was the production and working up of flax for the kustarnyi industry . |
| 17 | Two-thirds of this was raised through excises , which had been the most common method in the late Tsarist period . |
| 18 | Russian nationalism , an official ideology in the late Tsarist period and still very strong today , helped to create an attitude towards the West which combined an admiration for its prosperity and efficiency with a deep contempt for its petty-mindedness and commercialism : a ‘ peculiar amalgam of love and hate ’ , as Isaiah Berlin has described it , combining intellectual respect and envy with emotional suspicion , hostility and contempt . |
| 19 | The roots of all this , it was agreed , lay deep in British history — perhaps in the moral nihilism of the 1960s , perhaps in the collectivism of the 1940s , perhaps in the decline of the entrepreneurial spirit in the late Victorian period , perhaps even in the many centuries of geographical isolation and freedom from foreign occupation behind the barrier of sea power . |
| 20 | The organized youth movement can easily be identified as emerging from out of the economic and social crises commonly associated with the late Victorian period . |
| 21 | Thomson has taken the issue further , arguing that many twentieth-century writers on social welfare issues have been misled into believing that recent developments represent an abrupt break with historical experience because of the peculiarly restrictive and individualistic support systems for elderly people that emerged in the late Victorian period . |
| 22 | Over recent years the literature on this has focused on the late Victorian period as the source of the problem [ Coleman , 1973 ; Weiner , 1981 ] . |
| 23 | With better education in the late Victorian period , literate girls could easily be found . |
| 24 | Although it achieved classic status , it did not become generally known until the late Victorian period , when Frances Hodgson Burnett [ q.v. ] , who had read the book as a child , retold part of it from memory in St Nicholas in 1887 , and the proper text was ‘ rediscovered ’ . |
| 25 | Despite the increase of unbelief , beginning well before the Origin of Species and showing itself in a whole new genre of novels of religious doubt starting with J. A. Froude 's Nemesis of Faith ( 1849 ) , the late Victorian period saw the enormous expansion of the missionary enterprise and of church building . |
| 26 | The late Victorian period was the first in which there were considerable numbers of agnostics , atheists and opponents of organized religion who led lives of exemplary respectability ; it could not be urged of Huxley , Clifford or Tyndall that they were irreligious because they were libertines , like the earlier ungodly . |
| 27 | Just as working class girls were included in the state provision of elementary education in 1870 and provided with an education which emphasised the virtues of good housewifery and domestic management , so the increased attention paid to the education of middle class girls during the late Victorian period — by male bureaucrats as well as female pioneers — may be seen as being as much a result of the general educational reform initiative of the period as of feminist ambition . |
| 28 | Since no amount of economic reductionism or political explanation alone will expose the roots and distinctive characteristics of the province of Ulster by the late Victorian period , the aim of this investigation is to concentrate specifically on the important contribution made by evangelical religion , from the early penetration by Methodism in the mid eighteenth century to the political crises surrounding Home Rule at the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 29 | These three periods are the second quarter of the eighteenth century , the two decades after the Napoleonic Wars , and the so-called Great Depression of the late Victorian period . |
| 30 | Well , I I I mean , it , it , it 's nothing to the stories that were circulating in the late Victorian period about the Duke of |