Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [prep] [art] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the task seemed enormous , as it indeed was , they endowed the feeble human with supernatural powers , and artists of the period reflected this philosophy by glamourising the general public and monumentalising the heroes of the daily toil . |
| 2 | This gave her an opportunity to work in Bradford and she extended her interest and investigations into the period of time between 11 and 14 , when a child becomes a woman . |
| 3 | For Barker Brown and many other gynaecologists and obstetricians of the period , clitoridectomy was the solution . |
| 4 | An important outlet for the growing population , energy and skills of the period were the crusades — religious wars against the Saracens , aiming to free Christian shrines , particularly Jerusalem , from Muslim rule . |
| 5 | Stoll and Whaley ( 199Ob ) analysed returns ( logarithm of the price relative ) over five-minute intervals for the S&P500 and MMI index futures and indices over the period from 1982 to 1987 . |
| 6 | A statement of total recognised gains and losses , as required by FRS 3 , shows that the profit for the half year of £32.6m is boosted by currency translation differences on foreign currency net investments of £3.2m to produce total recognised gains and losses for the period of £35.8m . |
| 7 | In order not to divert attention from the components of performance of the total of recognised gains and losses for the period , if included as a primary statement , the reconciliation should be shown separately from the statement of total recognised gains and losses . |
| 8 | On Dec. 21 , 1989 , Argentina reached agreement with its " Paris Club " group of creditor countries on the rescheduling of $2,800 million of foreign debt principal , interest and arrears for the period July 1 , 1988 , to March 31 , 1991 [ for 1987 rescheduling agreement see pp. 35562-63 ] . |
| 9 | Unlike the central character struggling in the movement of history in its unfolding , the communist narrator , distanced from the events themselves , coolly and relentlessly exposes the myths and illusions of the period with the hindsight of history . |
| 10 | The 19th volume of the Architectural Periodicals Index ( API ) covering periodicals and books for the period Jan–Dec 1991 was published by RIBA Publications , as well as three quarterly issues for 1992 . |
| 11 | A full appreciation of the cemeteries , in this context , demands an understanding of the relationship between the settlements and cemeteries during the period . |
| 12 | Of course , one of the main difficulties in this kind of research lies in the collection of accurate information about events and experiences over a period of twenty years or more . |
| 13 | A programme of lectures , seminars and visits over a period of time is most likely to meet that need . |
| 14 | Will the attack on democracy be as outrageous as killing all blue-eyed babies , or will it be a more insidious erosion of rights and liberties over a period of time ? |
| 15 | Visit typical rooms , shops and workshops of the period . |
| 16 | A visit to a country house for instance will probably include reference to some of the social groups and classes of the period under study ( upstairs/downstairs , the estate workers , the craft or factory workers who produced many of the goods seen in the house ) ; the role of the gentry as leaders and rulers of their society can be covered ; there will be ample scope for looking at the economic and technological aspects of life in the period , especially if the house is related to its setting and the surrounding estate and countryside that supported it ; finally there will be objects or rooms in the house which relate to cultural or religious life in the period . |
| 17 | The internally contradictory form , waltzing , as a genre , cuts across classes , and , as a practice , is inscribed in the overall relations of cultures and classes in the period . |
| 18 | A griddle car service will be available on weekdays and Saturdays during the period of daily running . |
| 19 | In the short term it might be expected to gain considerably from the actual construction of the tunnel and figures for the period up to March 1989 show that the South East , including Kent , had gained 27% of the £492m worth of contracts placed in the UK by Transmanche Link : Kent , as a single county , attracted a high share of 9% . |
| 20 | The state of the market can be ascertained by visiting a number of shops and auctions over the period of a few weeks , and carefully noting the prices . |
| 21 | The question was , whether the vitality of his original conceptions and compositions of the period before The Lord of the Rings , indeed from 1914 on , could survive . |
| 22 | Again and again in the letters and diaries of the period there are references to both partridge and elephant fights ; they also feature prominently in the miniature illustrations of late Mughal manuscripts . |
| 23 | The calculus , without which the achievements of engineering and communications of the period would have been impossible , was by now far behind the moving frontier of mathematics . |
| 24 | The sloppiness of such thinking-by-pun affected many of the leading molecular biologists and immunologists of the period ( two who were swept up in this early enthusiasm but stayed on to become wiser neurobiological theorists were Gerald Edelman and Francis Crick ) . |
| 25 | These three fat volumes of anecdote and reminiscence are a useful source for biographers and historians of the period , and provide an insight into the lifestyle of the Victorian and Edwardian upper classes . |
| 26 | The NIESR has published two histories of economic policy in Britain , that by J C R Dow on the period 1945 to 1960 , and that by F T Blackaby and others on the period 1960 to 1974 . |
| 27 | Some have a substantial occupational pension , and possible capital accumulation which might allow for the provision of goods and services in a period of dependency . |
| 28 | Langdon indicated that Hodge intended to establish a Korean Non-administrative Cabinet and Legislative Body which , under his supreme authority , would enact requisitions and laws in the period before the setting up of a unified provisional government . |
| 29 | ICI , on the other hand , runs a career break scheme where breaks are available for both men and women for a period of between two and five years . |
| 30 | Indeed , the major underlying concern in debates over pornography , homosexuality , abortion , the age of consent , divorce and drugs during the period under consideration here has been the welfare of children . |