Example sentences of "[prep] a period [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Acquired from Rhone-Poulenc in 1984 , the business 35km from Paris is making waves after a period struggling for direction . |
| 2 | THE RELEASE of this album , their first studio effort in three years , sees the return to the fray of Level 42 after a period punctuated by the tragic death of Alan Murphy , their lead guitarist , and a change of record labels to boot . |
| 3 | As Heather Joshi has estimated ( see Chapter 8 here ) , women returning to work after a period caring for children or at a later stage of the life cycle are likely to re-enter the labour market at lower rates of pay . |
| 4 | FinallyJanet Seligman after a period working with an antiquarian bookseller joined Sotheby & co as cataloguer of rare books and manuscripts . |
| 5 | In the event , the ending of their two Dorset years came with dramatic suddenness , and brought not a narrowing of their lives , as they might have feared , but the beginning of a period marked by profound and creative friendship . |
| 6 | On 13 April , in the midst of a period described by his biographer as ‘ … these trying , troubled days with ‘ Overlord ’ looming … ’ , the Prime Minister responded in unmistakably personal terms : |
| 7 | in connection with an offer of securities , open for acceptance for a period fixed by the Directors , by way of rights to holders of Ordinary Shares in proportion ( as near as may be ) to their holdings on a record date fixed by the Directors ( subject to such exclusions or other arrangements as the Directors may deem necessary or expedient to deal with problems under the laws of any territory or the requirements of any regulatory body or any Stock Exchange in any territory or in connection with any fractional entitlements or otherwise howsoever ) ; |
| 8 | They might also be banned from holding public office for a period determined by the courts . |
| 9 | The BBC had for a period turned from county commentaries to one-liners . |
| 10 | Members still enjoy freedom from arrest for a period extending from 40 days before the commencement of a session to 40 days after it . |
| 11 | By talking about Renaissance texts , or more accurately texts produced during a period defined by current readers as the Renaissance , we are attempting to provide a type of structure ( how language operated in a defined period ) which deconstruction , in some purist sense , would argue is to miss the point of how language acts as a supplement . |
| 12 | Nizan 's membership of the PCF and his active life as a novelist between 1927 and 1940 coincided precisely with a period described by Lucien Goldmann as a moment of deep structural crisis in early twentieth-century capitalism . |
| 13 | Thus Adorno 's major contribution dates from a period described in the previous chapter as one of relative situational stability and consensus , when , more than at any other time , the machinery of ‘ mass culture ’ worked to considerable effect . |
| 14 | On the level of social meaning , the transition could be seen as associated with the move from a period dominated by the modernist critique of mass culture to the period of ‘ post-modernism ’ . |
| 15 | Alternatively a range of different video materials could be used in a period earmarked for video . |
| 16 | A big reason for the Penelope Spheeris-directed film 's success is that in a period crowded with pictures nowhere near as smart as they think they are — Paul Verhoeven 's lumbering , botched , thrill-free Basic Instinct , Robert Altman 's unbelievably over-exalted The Player — it 's the only fun in town . |
| 17 | In any case any pattern of interaction between popular radicalism and revivalism , whether oscillating or of any other kind , could not be discerned in a period bounded by 1815 . |
| 18 | In a period dominated by the processes of , and adjustment to , unification , the implementation of the state treaties instituting economic and monetary union ( July 1 , 1990 ) and the unification of the two German states ( Oct. 3 , 1990 ) were the most significant events . |
| 19 | The Community shall adopt measures with the aim of progressively establishing the internal market over a period expiring on 31 December 1992 … |
| 20 | And er over a period diversify into er different markets . |
| 21 | It is often argued that survey data give a very limited analysis of managerial policies which are developed over a period to deal with specific problems and this study should help to test such methodological criticisms . |
| 22 | It should be noted that owing to the increase in size and complexity of modern business , the development of computer systems and the requirement that an auditor should review transactions over a period to report on the profit and loss account , the modern practice of auditing has moved away from a detailed checking of a mass of individual items towards a review of the systems in operation . |