Example sentences of "in [art] period [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stanley Humphrey was an engine fitter in the period when the RAF was in one of its most interesting periods . |
| 2 | The heyday of Alpine life , arguably , was in the period when the mountains were still undeveloped for tourism and when traditional lifestyles — such as the mountain guide , the crystal hunter and the Alpine shepherd — were the rule , rather than the exception . |
| 3 | In a period when the number of courses increased , WEA membership in the District declined by 150 and in 1931 , capitation fees from branches had slumped to a mere £44 . |
| 4 | The regions have to be abolished , the health service , education and transport broken up or privatised — and in a period when the natural anti-government reaction , allied to an already-perceptible bitterness , will produce hefty hostile majorities in local government , and a narrow Commons majority will take its toll . |
| 5 | Not only that but Bates , in a period when the game in Britain has been at its lowest ebb , has won 16 of his 27 singles , 10 out of 17 in live rubbers , and 6 of his 11 doubles . |
| 6 | He was in Hollywood by 1915 in time to see Griffith at the height of his powers , and in a sense Vidor was always to remain a representative of the Griffith era ; he was to become Hollywood 's token Progressive in a period when the main energies of that phenomenon had been exhausted . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , they were greatly concerned with the idea of obtaining exact knowledge of the workings of society , and , living in a period when the natural sciences were making real strides in knowledge , felt that the application of natural science methods to the study of society might produce similar advances in understanding . |
| 8 | In a period when the social , political and economic priorities of the rural community would seem to have been largely disregarded , the attention paid to the urban sector did not lead to huge improvements in the social , political and economic environment of the inhabitants of the towns and cities . |
| 9 | It was increasingly apparent that the old laws , which were particularly concerned with the legal procedures for certification of patients , were obsolete in a period when the medical and social concern for mental disorder was of much greater importance . |
| 10 | In a very real sense , of course , the biographies of the Muftis in the following chapters illustrate the development of the hierarchy , but it seems not without point to concentrate attention on this particular aspect by placing side by side the biographies of two scholars , one of whom lived in the period before the hierarchy had become developed to any very great degree — before , perhaps , it is even possible to speak of a hierarchy-he other in a period when the development was fairly well advanced , though not complete . |