Example sentences of "[prep] an [adj] period of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Elton Report recommends that if a pupil is to be readmitted to school after an indefinite period of exclusion , the school should ensure that before the pupil is allowed to return his/her parent signs an agreement in which the terms of the pupil 's readmission have been spelt out . |
| 2 | As a rule of thumb , the radioactivity of an element has usually disappeared ( has reached 0.1 per cent of the original value ) after an equivalent period of ten times its half-life ( Bach , 1972 ) . |
| 3 | If the management 's lawyers are not successful in removing a provision of this kind , then its effect can be mitigated by amendment so that it will apply only after an agreed period of time , for example five years , or with the consent of an agreed percentage of the members ; the latter may be appropriate where the investment has been syndicated . |
| 4 | It was hardly surprising that after an initial period of cooperation and even of euphoria , unrest and discontent , mingled with weariness of a conflict which became ever more bloody and apparently endless , began to grow . |
| 5 | She knew that , after an initial period of gaining experience with a leading European firm , he had set up on his own . |
| 6 | In recent years , after an earlier period of reaction , most of the leading German theologians have been post-Barthian in the sense that while they have departed from him in various ways , they have nevertheless taken a basic orientation from him . |
| 7 | Although she decided , after an agonizing period of inward questioning , to continue with the pregnancy , it led her and her husband to reject their rigid moral position : ‘ We will never pressure any woman not to have an abortion . |
| 8 | There are some identifiable developed deities ; there are some incongruously primitive daemons too , which may look back towards an earlier period of religious feeling ; there are also some images of divinities which seem to be relatively poorly assimilated foreign imports . |
| 9 | Movement from the centralities of ‘ real polising ’ in uniform , via the CID , into the marginal fringes of an extended period of drug squad work , had a profound influence on the absolute tenets of policing I had absorbed over the previous decade . |
| 10 | One of the purposes of an extended period of single-sex science teaching might be to let teachers see how girls approach scientific matters , and to discover , what may well be the case , that girls are just as capable of ‘ scientific thinking ’ as boys . |
| 11 | All industrial countries have experienced such a transition from high to low birth- and death-rates in the last century , usually ( except in France ) with an intervening period of moderate population growth when the death-rate falls before the birth-rate . |
| 12 | Mr. Hogan has a service contract with the Company with an unexpired period of three years . |
| 13 | Mr. Cordingley has a service contract with the Company with an unexpired period of two years . |
| 14 | An economical explanation of the features just presented is that HDE 226868 and Cygnus X-1 form a binary pair with an orbital period of 5.6 days : the time-varying spectral shift of the optical partner is then simply the Doppler shift produced by its orbital motion . |
| 15 | CONCERTED efforts to improve health and safety have been rewarded with an accident-free period of 100 days at Courtaulds Packaging company Soplaril . |
| 16 | In line with decisions made by a policy-making National Conference in February 1990 the Constitution was suspended , the National Assembly was dissolved , and the country entered into an 11-month period of transitional government when legislative power was vested in a 50-member High Council of the Republic , to culminate in contested elections in 1991 . |
| 17 | Section 41(1) ( c ) represents an exception to the rule that the seller has no lien during an agreed period of credit . |
| 18 | During an extended period of wandering in the sky world , Litaw met Inabay , who gave him some dust from her eyes . |
| 19 | Its surface bears some evidence for an early period of crater erasure , and for a long subsequent period of slight internal contraction , presumably the result of cooling . |
| 20 | Therefore , in the subsequent 56 patients adjuvant therapy with chenodeoxycholic acid 7 mg/kg/day and ursodeoxycholic acid 5 mg/kg/ day was given for an arbitrary period of three months after the procedure . |
| 21 | First , s/he must do so if the pupil is to be excluded for an aggregate period of more than five days in any term , or if the pupil 's exclusion will mean that s/he misses an opportunity to take a public examination which s/he was going to take . |
| 22 | If the pupil has been excluded for an aggregate period of more than five days in any term or will miss an opportunity to take an examination as a result of his/her exclusion , the governors may order his reinstatement and the head has to comply . |
| 23 | 11.3 At the end of the Term of this Agreement , may continue for an additional period of six ( 6 ) months to complete orders and sell off its existing stocks of the Licensed Products and will pay to all royalties attributable to such sales in accordance with clauses 5 and 6 . |
| 24 | Agreed royalties will be paid for the use of each others ' code for an agreed period of time . |
| 25 | This is a scheme whereby unemployed people who require to learn new skills or brush up former skills are placed with an employer for an agreed period of time to achieve those skills . |
| 26 | If an antidepressant is indicated , it should be used in a full therapeutic dose and continued for an appropriate period of time . |
| 27 | It was the ECSC experience which had occasioned the acceptance for an interim period of a change in the relationship between the supranational element and the member governments . |
| 28 | Having defended the exclusion of capital punishment at Second Reading , the Home Secretary and his Ministerial colleagues conceded a free vote on a new clause moved at Report stage by a private member , Sydney Silverman , which had the effect of suspending the death penalty for murder for an experimental period of five years . |
| 29 | The Select Committee on Capital Punishment , 1929–30 , recommended the abolition of capital punishment for an experimental period of five years , and an amendment in this sense is likely to be moved if a new Criminal Justice Bill is introduced . |
| 30 | It will be based there for an experimental period of a year to evaluate suitability of the bay behind the power station as a permanent mooring for the lifeboat . |