Example sentences of "[ex0] be a [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Review recommended that there be a fixed period within which the parties would be required to set down the case for trial or to report to the court . |
| 2 | This increase has been associated with a decline in the proportion of life which women spend in bearing and rearing children which has resulted in there being a significant period in women 's later lives in which they lack any major domestic occupation . |
| 3 | This is then forgotten or repressed when it seems to have vanished altogether and there 's a third period , what Freud calls the return of the repressed when the initial trauma comes back in the form of symptoms and er ideally in the form of an analysis that finally brings it to the surface of consciousness and dissolves it , and this is a typical pattern . |
| 4 | Do you know if there 's a deferred period of payments ? |
| 5 | Sometimes too , although this is becoming less common , there is a minimum period of service required before you can join . |
| 6 | Historically there is a long period of overlap between patronal and market social relations in the arts . |
| 7 | There is a primary period of around 140 days , but neither the period nor the amplitude is constant . |
| 8 | Some months before each series , there is a frantic period of preparation . |
| 9 | On the seven-day cooling-off period , it is correct , as the Minister says , that there are similar provisions in other European countries , but will he confirm that , in those countries where there is a cooling-off period for unions , there is also a cooling-off period for employers ? |
| 10 | The range is from 4.0 to 5.0 , and there is a rough period of around 47 days . |
| 11 | There is a rough period which is said to be around 2070 days or just over 5½ years , but it is rough . |
| 12 | The range is from 6.8 to 9.1 , and there is a rough period of about 198 days . |
| 13 | In parish churches , however , there was a long period of stagnation , although there were improvements in standards and taste , and until the time of Vatican II there had been few developments in the Liturgy and its music . |
| 14 | But there was a flat period just after lunch when there seemed nothing to do but wait for the special meeting at half past three . |
| 15 | There was a blank period of no-memory , like a black dreamless sleep , followed by a slow awakening to events too horrific to contemplate . |
| 16 | Faced with that dilemma the plaintiffs chose to endeavour to run the business to an early sale and that is what they did my Lord and er the premises were put back on the market er in the early part of nineteen eighty six and er it is pleaded that er in in paragraph six statement of claim , that in May er a buyer came forward but that sale did not go ahead er because there were unreasonable delays on the part of the purchaser erm and er the deal fell through but then again in July er after the business had ceased trading , another buyer was found and then there was a lengthy period of negotiations at the conclusion of which the sale price was reduced because at that stage the plaintiff 's landlord was going to increase the rent er and the plaintiffs were at that stage under threat of forfeiture and eventually contracts were exchanged on the sixth of November nineteen eighty six the sale price being eighty one thousand five hundred and er completion was on the fifth of December nineteen eighty six . |
| 17 | Following the overthrow of the Achaemenid dynasty by Alexander of Macedon in 331 BC there was a confused period in the history of Zoroastrianism until its revival as the state religion under the Sassanian dynasty ( AD 226–651 ) . |
| 18 | There was a quiet period while she put down the receiver and wrote her notes . |
| 19 | In the late 16th century there was a short period when , rather than the usual 13 ribs , lutes suddenly sprouted anything up to 37 and made of very narrow strips of yew . |
| 20 | — There was a high period of English drama ( which had a beginning ) . |
| 21 | There was a longer period of comparative calm in the townships of the East Rand during the second half of December than at any time in the previous five months , although during the first half of the month deaths had averaged 20 per day . |
| 22 | There was a further period of tussles for power until the ageing grandson of Bruce and son of Walter and Marjory at last reached the throne in his own right as Robert II , and gave to the royal house the name which would remain as Stewart until Mary , Queen of Scots , altered its spelling to Stuart . |
| 23 | There would have been less practical difficulty about saying that trade ceased when business ceased actively to be carried on , because there was a further period of a year during which a petition could be presented . |
| 24 | The union representing the performers were militantly opposed to British dancers taking work from them and there was a lean period for the sixteen Girls left . |
| 25 | And whatever Councillor says , there was an inadequate period for that essential preparation , both within the directorate and for heads and teachers , to allow them to come to terms with what Local Manage of the schools meant . |
| 26 | He also made a comment on one of his early poems that it belonged to his ‘ Imagist period ’ , adding almost sotto voce and in a typical Eliot way — ‘ if there was an Imagist period ’ . |
| 27 | Through the 1980s , there was an extended period when school rolls fell back and there are now 30 per cent fewer pupils now than there were . |