Example sentences of "[subord] [art] [adj] period of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course professional use is significantly more , but even than the actual period of continuous operation is deceptively low . |
| 2 | Although a short period of unemployment may be unwelcome and will certainly cause hardship , it is not necessarily disastrous . |
| 3 | Unlike in certain other European countries , British labour law sets no maximum duration to a temporary employment relationship , whereby all persons employed for longer than a certain period of time automatically have permanent status . |
| 4 | When discussing terms with your employer , you may be asked to consider whether you prefer a fixed-term agreement or a ‘ rolling ’ contract , ie one which rolls on until the required period of notice is given . |
| 5 | So far , we have looked at some of the features of four periods of structural change in the UK economy and some of the main developments in the international connections of the UK economy from the 1940s until the recent period of structural change . |
| 6 | If the pupil has not been excluded permanently , but his been excluded for an indefinite period , the governors can only order the head teacher to reinstate him/her if the aggregate period of exclusion would be more than five days in any term or if the pupil would miss an opportunity to take a public examination . |
| 7 | These will tend to be ESN(S) schools , but if the early period of schooling is successful in developing the child , they may move on to ESN(M) schools and eventually to normal primary schools . |
| 8 | Where the tenancy in question is one to which Part II of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 applies , it is often convenient if the minimum period of notice is six months and the form of the notice is capable of being that prescribed for the purposes of s25 of that Act . |
| 9 | If the synodic period of Venus were exactly 584 days , the number of revolutions required would be 65 , corresponding to 146 of the 260-day cycles . |
| 10 | If a longer period of time is allowed ( say , 14 days ) the rate of discount will be lower ( say , 2.5% ) . |
| 11 | Since the great period of railway closures of the 1950s and '60s it is , of course , now possible to walk along many of the former track beds and appreciate their impact on the landscape . |
| 12 | Since the crucial period of pasture contamination with O. ostertagi eggs is the period up to mid-July , one of the efficient modern anthelmintics may be given on two or three occasions between turn-out in the spring and July to minimise the numbers of eggs deposited on the pasture . |
| 13 | These are the words spoken by the Bishop to those catechumens who , after the long period of formal preparation express their desire to be received into full communion with the Catholic Church . |
| 14 | After the initial period of assessment and support it should be possible to formulate a treatment plan . |
| 15 | After the initial period of training there should be adequate supervision by senior psychiatrists or other experienced therapists , preferably on a daily basis . |
| 16 | It is significant that a popular monarch , making war at the very start of his reign , after a long period of peace , could only raise such inadequate sums . |
| 17 | After a long period of soothing and occasional stroking he managed to get his arms round her . |
| 18 | After a minimum period of five days stability they were eligible for randomisation and inclusion into the trial . |
| 19 | Zimbabwe became independent in April 1980 as a republic within the Commonwealth , after a 15-year period of unilaterally declared independence under the government of Ian Smith ended in 1979 with the Lancaster House agreement on the Constitution [ see p. 30165 ] . |
| 20 | After a brief period of independence , Soviet rule was established in 1919 and the larger part of historic Belorussia joined the USSR in 1922 . |
| 21 | Wrangham , after a short period of ecological work , remarked that ‘ herd formation clearly involves costs even at the beginning of the wet season , when a grazing animal should have the best food supply of the year ’ . |
| 22 | Eventually the traditional route to professional training will emerge whereby qualified community interpreters will , after a defined period of professional practice and experience , be trained to pass on their skills . |
| 23 | After a lengthy period of looking , one respondent ended up with the following list of constructs : |
| 24 | After an initial period of relative restraint , people return to their former prolixity and the novel ends with ‘ Verbivore ’ being resumed for good . |
| 25 | After an extended period of neglect the decorative arts in Rome are about to have new homes . |
| 26 | Moreover , from the annual and diurnal growth patterns of organisms , preserved as fossils , it has been established , for example , that about 380 Ma ago there were about 400 ‘ days ’ in the year and as the orbital period of the Earth is very unlikely to have changed the ‘ day ’ must then have contained only about 22 hours . |
| 27 | A study of Mary as queen rather than as a woman of great misfortune and ultimate tragedy necessitates discussion of what was happening when the central figure of the monarch was off-stage , and especially before her debut , when the scene of her rule was set ; the problems which her absence created , and the way in which others struggled to resolve them are as relevant as the short period of her personal reign . |
| 28 | Payments of £6 for every period of cold weather will be paid automatically to eligible people as soon as a seven-day period of exceptionally cold weather is forecast by the Met Office or actually occurs . |
| 29 | Industrial growth , too , suffered from depression , but when a new period of inflation began in the 1890s , it was soon clear that the European economy as a whole was expanding at a rate unsurpassed except in the United States — . |
| 30 | B , only when a deferred period of four weeks is chosen . |