Example sentences of "to [art] [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.

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31 The Pier Head incident proved to be the turning point which led to a new period of industrial peace within the giant Vehicle Division , unfortunately too late to avoid the massive investment switch to the Continent which was already under way with the newly approved corporate plan .
32 It seems very doubtful whether the required amount of water ever falls in present conditions and many authorities have attributed such erosion to a wetter period during the Pleistocene .
33 King Edward VII and his Consort , Alexandra , were able to influence international events , particularly in Europe , which continued to be the predominant continent and Britain looked forward to a long period of peaceful influence .
34 Their congregations of ‘ Independents ’ were justly named in a society settling down to a long period of outward conformity and growing indifference to religion .
35 It was to lead to a long period of self-confessed misery for her , including beatings by her tranquilliser-addicted mother and spells of being locked naked with her sister in cupboards .
36 With a solar-type star , however , the temperature rises to ten million degrees or so , and nuclear reactions are triggered off , so that the star settles down to a long period of stable existence .
37 But if we turn to consider the [ … ] supply price with reference to a long period of time , we shall find that it is governed by a different set of causes , and with different results .
38 The West had now to adapt itself to a lengthy period of Cold War competition with the USSR rather than prepare for an imminent crisis .
39 Here we see an illustration of the almost universal law that the term Normal being taken to refer to a short period of time an increase in the amount demanded raises the normal supply price . [ … ]
40 Second Division leaders Rovers roared into action on the resumption , subjecting the Saints defence to a 10-minute period of intense pressure on their try line , but to no avail .
41 By s. 10 of the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 the court has the power to make a disqualification order against the person concerned , up to a maximum period of 15 years .
42 In serious cases , consideration should be given to a brief period of suspension while the case is investigated and this suspension should be with pay .
43 His argument was that Tacitus had chosen the wrong period and provided bad examples for princes , whereas Polybius introduced the modern politicians to a noble period of ancient history .
44 It is owing to the fact that Christianity is a historical religion , having a necessary reference to a past period of human history , that such a discussion needs to proceed .
45 In Britain it was too good to last , but the slogan led to a disastrous period of false optimism .
46 But in Russia the masses refused to do so , refused to resign themselves to an indefinite period of subjection to capitalist exploitation .
47 It was superbly performed and I found it enjoyable , although it did seem to hark back to an earlier period of American modern dance .
48 In academic writings it is probably more common to look to an earlier period as the time when family solidarity was of prime importance .
49 Regression is a trip in time , in the mind , to an earlier period in life .
50 We could find no cause for this when I regressed him to an earlier period in this life and so I went on to regress him to what appeared to be a previous life .
51 Why on earth they should subject the whole world to an experimental period for some of the laws is beyond me .
52 All this is important because it meant that by the end of the 1930s British town planning was in a stronger position than would have been thought likely , to respond to the national emergency of physical destruction , which led to an unprecedented period of planned rebuilding .
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