Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This benefit allows you to deduct the years when you were required to give up work from the normal qualifying period for a basic pension and so , in effect , shorten the number of years when you would otherwise have been required to make contributions . |
| 2 | It is now widely realised that a comprehensive education for a mentally handicapped child should continue over a longer time than the normal educational period of 5–16 years . |
| 3 | After the usual lengthy period of gestation , the government produced the " Temporary Rules " of 1865 ( which remained in place until 1905 ) . |
| 4 | Arrangements for the financing of the bridge beyond the end of the extended tolling period in 1996 are under consideration . |
| 5 | Numerous other fragments of buildings , many of barn-like or shop-like forms , have been discovered in the suburbs , representing almost the entire Roman period from the lat e first century onwards . |
| 6 | The six rooms on the main floor of the Academy will be devoted to : innovations in composition in the second half of the eighteenth century , through to the early work of Cotman and Girtin , with an emphasis on the importance of Alexander Cozens ; topography , spanning the entire chronological period from the Sandby brothers to Lear ; naturalism , including watercolour sketches , observations of nature , still-lifes , animal studies etc. ; later developments in composition ; atmosphere , stressing the ‘ proto-impressionist ’ nature of works by artists such as Cox and Muller ; and lastly the relationship between watercolours and oils and the role of the Old Water-Colour Society in the promotion of the medium as suitable to portray historical and literary subjects . |
| 7 | Even more remarkable , perhaps , that this branch of the Titfords was to make only two significant moves from one place to another in the entire 400-year period from 1547 to 1947 : first leaving Bratton for Frome in 1625 , then settling in London from the late 1790s onwards . |
| 8 | The remaining evidence is all later than this , ranging from late classical law ( Ulpian ) to the fourth century , the early post-classical period of the Epitome of Ulpian and the sententiae of Paul . |
| 9 | So we begin to understand the masculine fear in the early modern period of being effeminized — not , as might be the case today , by erotic contact with other men , but by excessive contact with women . |
| 10 | Many lines of thought were eventually brought together in the 454 folio pages of Bishop Wilkins 's Essay Towards a Real Character and Philosophical Language , which Slaughter deems a monument to that time ‘ when western Europe entered upon the early modern period of its specialised scientific and technical development ’ . |
| 11 | Mukerji focuses on the early modern period of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries as marking a highly significant rise in material culture , so that peasants and ordinary town dwellers who had remarkably few personal possessions in late medieval periods ( Braudel 1981 : 283 ) were becoming familiar with many more products , and from a much wider area ( Burke 1978 : 246–8 ) . |
| 12 | On one side is a reiteration of the Whiggish , teleological view of history which dominated the nineteenth century , demonstrating present western culture as the result of a continuous enlightenment and development of civilisation from the beginnings of the early modern period until the present . |
| 13 | Of those countries requiring quarterly reports , the average maximum period to publication was 42 days . |
| 14 | The Maya priests discovered , however , that 584 days is a slight overestimate of the average synodic period of Venus . |
| 15 | For the period 1 May , 1992 to 31 January , 1993 , pre-tax profits dropped from £881,000 for the previous comparable period to £629,000 . |
| 16 | House sales over the six months went up from 357 units for the previous comparable period to 409 . |
| 17 | The airlines made their moves yesterday to counter the traditional slack period on the normally busy American routes from after Easter until June . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | Over recent years the literature on this has focused on the late Victorian period as the source of the problem [ Coleman , 1973 ; Weiner , 1981 ] . |
| 21 | Some historians have been arguing recently that payments of census and hostilicium specified in some polyptychs are forms of tax collection and demonstrate the continuity of taxation , and of the administrative structures to exact it , from the late Roman period to the Carolingians . |
| 22 | It is most probably that the inhabitants had heard of this religion which had spread over Europe and had been known as early as the late Roman period in Britain . |
| 23 | The Corporation may cancel this Policy by sending seven days notice by registered letter to the Policyholder at his last known address and in such event will return to the Policyholder the premium less the pro rata portion thereof for the period the Policy has been in force or the Policy may be cancelled at any time by the Policyholder on seven days notice and ( provided no claim has arisen during the then current period of insurance ( subject to the relative International Motor Insurance Card ( Green Card ) being returned to the Corporation the Policyholder shall be entitled to a return of the premium less premium at the Corporations short period rates for the time the Policy has been in force calculated from the date upon which such Card is received by the Corporation . |
| 24 | These are concerned with two specific types of temporary worker , persons on fixed-term contracts of less than 12 months ( the then qualifying period for protection against unfair dismissal ) and agency-supplied workers . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , it is an early maturing variety well suited to the long ripening period of a northern wine region . |
| 26 | Over the long historical period since the Industrial Revolution , the focus of industrial development has shifted a number of times . |
| 27 | Land cultivation in the Auvergne uplands is extremely limited because of the long cold period in winter when sward re-establishment would be difficult , a dry summer climate , and because of thin soils which are anyway generally quite fertile . |
| 28 | After the great innovative period of bacteriology had achieved its ends , there remained a number of diseases , evidently infectious , for which no causative organisms could be found . |
| 29 | The book can be seen as an attempt by Scott to assert himself as leading expert on Gothic Revival secular buildings , perhaps having felt that during the great church-building period of the 1840s and 1850s his work was overshadowed by that of other architects , particularly Pugin and Street . |
| 30 | Like Winckelmann and Hölderlin , many later Hellenists felt those favourite qualities to be best represented in the literature of the mature classical period from Sophocles to Plato ( roughly 450 to 350 ) , which was almost exempt from criticism . |