Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would be much more interested in holding period returns , which depend on the bond 's price when it is sold ( in relation to the purchase price ) and on the coupons received during the holding period . |
| 2 | Add to this cost the growth in government expenditure , and we are a long way in explaining why the real value of the tax threshold , or the level of income at which tax begins to be paid , has fallen during the post-war period . |
| 3 | Secondly , anything suggested by the Progressive Democrats has to be automatically suspect , on the grounds that the Pee Dees are a miserable bunch of motherfuckers who , when Sam Snort grasps the reins of power , will all be rounded up and interned for an indefinite period . |
| 4 | The generally optimistic tenor of this debate provides a revealing comparison with those public views examined for the earlier period . |
| 5 | Should the elective resolution cease to have effect , if the authority has lasted for 5 years or more before the election it expires forthwith : otherwise it has effect as if it had been given for a fixed period of 5 years . |
| 6 | In addition , the copyright monopoly is only given for a certain period of time ( eg in the UK , 50 years from the end of the year in which the author dies ) , but databases are usually continuously updated with new information , therefore does the protection period keep changing ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | These data are given for the post-war period in Figure 2.1 . |
| 9 | Patients who presented as emergencies were excluded , as were patients treated during the same period of time with cancers arising in a background of familial Polyposis coli or long standing ulcerative colitis . |
| 10 | The mill-pond was drained for a three-year period in order to allow some necessary excavation . |
| 11 | Barthes has differentiated between a postwar period during which the cultural influence of the French writer/intellectual has gradually diminished , and an interwar period during which " great writers … such as Gide , Claudel , Valery , Malraux … were at the centre of intense activity , exerting enormous cultural influence " . " |
| 12 | Ohrid , the deepest lake in Yugoslavia ( 286 m ( 935 ft ) at its greatest depth ) is of great scientific interest , as it contains a species of trout which , like the omul in Lake Baikal , has survived from before the last Ice Age , the lake having being formed during the Tertiary period . |
| 13 | Bernard Moing , Univel 's regional marketing manager for Europe says , ‘ we 're not expecting any returns on UnixWare until the first quarter of 1993 , and then the take up will be limited for a further period . ’ |
| 14 | Perhaps the attitude developed during a long period of established practice and little change . |
| 15 | This new hobby developed during an interesting period for the British press . |
| 16 | However , many of the features of the pub as we know it today were developed during the Georgian period ; at the same time , many Georgian pub buildings — or at least Georgian architectural fittings — still survive today . |
| 17 | Drop-leaf tables which could be placed against the wall when not in use developed during the pre-Commonwealth period , but the method of framed ‘ joined ’ construction necessitated the use of a securing pivot at the top and the bottom of the swing-out supporting leg . |
| 18 | Even where such process does not demonstrate the incompatibility of the firms seeking a merger it will frequently happen that the actual merger will need to be delayed for an agreed period so as to phase in the new arrangements . |
| 19 | The statutory power to recommend a minimum period might , in practice , have been used to create a tariff among the judges for all murders , so that the recommended minimum came to be regarded as the appropriate period of detention , subject only to the question whether the prisoner was a danger to the public when it expired . |
| 20 | Approval can not be given after the six-month period has elapsed . |
| 21 | Rule 5 The module version has been nominated for a greater period than the nomination latency set in the configuration file . |
| 22 | For the most part they are only likely to be occupied during a limited period each year by a number of different families . |
| 23 | All sorts of schemes were thought up to keep people busy and occupied during the trying period of ‘ waiting to be demobbed . ’ |
| 24 | The trial judge granted the possession order , holding that , although the premises had been occupied for the requisite period , there was no adverse possession here because there was an implied licence . |
| 25 | In the year it joins the group , its results are included for the whole period . |
| 26 | However , the proportion of women who are full-time housewives has significantly dropped during the post-war period and , since married women who have paid employment spend less time on housework than those without paid work , this means that overall , there has been a significant decline in the amount of time the average woman will spend doing housework . |
| 27 | The company of some elderly relatives can only be enjoyed for a limited period at the end of a busy day , and long evenings — every evening — spent together can be a strain on all concerned in different ways . |
| 28 | The state forces children to be educated for a given period , if necessary against the parents ' wishes or indifference . |
| 29 | To these titles various laws were added during the Merovingian period , and indeed later . |
| 30 | This , in the event , was wildly optimistic : but it was , by contrast with Melby 's extraordinary projection , what the State Department 's Policy Planning Staff considered as the maximum period which France would have to grant independence if it were to satisfy ‘ genuine nationalism ’ in Indo-China . |