Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [art] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the greatest botanical artists of the period , Georg Dionysius Ehret ( 1708–1770 ) , was related to the Millers by marriage . |
| 2 | From Nietzsche 's private notes of the period , it appears that his conservative inclinations were reinforced by Hanslick 's insistence on traditional formal principles of composition and the orthodox ideal of autonomous musical structures ; and it is no surprise to find distinct hostility in Nietzsche 's recorded comments on the new piano score of Die Walküre in 1866 . |
| 3 | It may be recommended that independent psychiatric or psychological assessment is made or that the sufferer is admitted for prolonged assessment over a period of time ( ten days or so ) in daily contact with the group of patients already in treatment . |
| 4 | A strong Iranian presence throughout the period 479 — 334 is indicated by chance literary references , such as Herodotus , who refers not only to Persian individuals at Sardis before the Ionian Revolt from Persia of the 490s , but also to Persians being given the land round Miletus after the revolt ( v. 101 ; vi.20 ) . |
| 5 | This was very reminiscent of General Primo de Rivera 's economic policies of the period 1923 – 30 , with the same basis in political nationalism . |
| 6 | We begin therefore with an outline of the political background and an indication of the nature of urban and regional change during the period . |
| 7 | To make the point , consider the striking contrast during the period 1973–85 ‘ between the serious economic setbacks suffered by the newly oil-rich Mexico and the notable strides made by the oil-poor and oil-hungry Brazil ’ ( Hirschman , 1986 ) . |
| 8 | All these viral infections have the same symptoms in the first few days — a patient might have ‘ flu , measles , hepatitis — ye canna tell during the porodomal period' — he used the technical term for the period of incubation . |
| 9 | It was a normal practice in the period 1259–1340 for the higher offices in the administration of Aquitaine to be held by Englishmen , or at least non-Gascons . |
| 10 | If exchange rates had remained constant , total turnover for the period would have increased by 18 per cent . |
| 11 | SAYS Kinsey : ‘ What we have seen in newspaper editorials and in political speeches over a period of time , is a latching on to the problem of crime and a series of assertions about the so-called welfare-dependent underclass . |
| 12 | Italy shared in the European boom of the period and the consequent general tightening of labour markets . |
| 13 | The duke 's motivation is one of the most controversial aspects of the period . |
| 14 | The duke 's motivation is one of the most controversial aspects of the period . |
| 15 | It redresses the imbalance in the existing historical literature of the period , which is heavily weighted in favour of economic and political issues . |
| 16 | The most eminent social scientist of the period , Karl Marx , worked in Britain , derived the framework of his concrete analysis from the un-German science of economics , and the empirical basis of his work from the ‘ classic ’ though by this time no longer unchallenged form of bourgeois society — the British . |
| 17 | This received some support from the statistics , as far as Conservatives are concerned ; the total number of ministerial appearances on regional news and weekly programmes in the period analysed by Blumler was 124 , while Conservative back-benchers appeared 104 times . |
| 18 | Using five-minute returns for the period from 1 to 15 October 1987 , they concluded that the negative basis after 11 a.m. on Monday 19 October was primarily due to stale prices , particularly physical delays in the processing of spot transactions , and not to illiquidity . |
| 19 | She may be able to work different hours for a period of time while her burden is shared by another member of the family or a neighbour . |
| 20 | Whether the men had truly neglected their duties is unknown , though in view of the social norms of the period the drinking must have been heavy indeed to have been called ‘ excessive ’ , but employment in government service , even when obtained , was never easy to retain , and the chance of doing so was greatly enhanced by a wise choice of political friends . |
| 21 | In an attempt to provide concise information on this point I have gathered together details of all the surviving English harpsichords from the period 1700–1744 , judging that nothing outside this time span could be relevant to the Mercier picture . |
| 22 | Much of his energy was spent in repeated feuds with various popes , with the Italian confederacy known as the Lombard League , and with his cousin the other great German prince of the period , Henry the Lion . |
| 23 | The show illustrates in two large sections the period from the election in 1024 of the first Salien king , Konrad II , to the death in 1125 of his great-grandson Emperor Heinrich V. The first , introduced by historical maps of the period , illustrates the everyday life and working environment of people of different social strata . |
| 24 | Had a case of a claim by a child for damages for pre-natal injury come before the English courts in the period from 1972 to the enactment of the Act of 1976 , and had it been as well argued as the present cases have been in this court , I have no doubt that the English court would have been referred to Watt v. Rama [ 1972 ] V.R. 353 and Duval v. Seguin , 26 D.L.R. ( 3d ) 418 and would have preferred the views there expressed to Walker v. Great Northern Railway . |
| 25 | I was also shown an entry in an old ledger of the period to the effect that plates sent by ‘ Wm . |
| 26 | Barclays Bank would not divulge its figures despite repeated requests over a period of three weeks . |
| 27 | It occurs in a number of quite precise and extremely crucial contexts , from the Maccabean regime on into the first century A.D. Thus the High Priest at the period of Judas Maccabeus ( who died in 160 B.C. ) is referred to as a Zaddik and described as being ‘ a zealot for the law ’ . |
| 28 | He said it would change and tone a man in three five-minute sessions over a period of a week . |
| 29 | R Aræ , in the same × 7 field with Zeta and Eta , is an Algol-type eclipsing binary with a period of 4.4 days . |
| 30 | This intermediate stage consists of what appears to be a free-running rhythm with a period that differs from 24 hours . |