Example sentences of "in [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In this period of the first twelve months of the life of the new church we experienced doubt , uncertainty and spiritual attack . |
| 32 | The grain of truth in the myth of the British administrator dispensing justice impervious to the affection of the natives is to be found in this period of the history of British India , of which James Fitzjames Stephen is perhaps the representative figure , when a maturing bureaucracy was moving away from a personal to an institutional sense of fairness . |
| 33 | There is scope in this period of defeat for a benign leader-figure who lets others make the ideological running . |
| 34 | The question was one which must often have arisen in this period of extensive rebuilding : Did an altar require to be reconsecrated after it had been moved ? |
| 35 | ‘ In this period of glasnost , I thought we 'd stopped all that . ’ |
| 36 | The view was breathtaking , and even in this period of crisis both men found time to absorb St Petersburg 's beauty . |
| 37 | In this period of evangelism Christian communicators must ask themselves how the media can most appropriately present the Good News of the Gospel . |
| 38 | Fully annotated with biographies of the artists , it is essential for print lovers and all those interested in this period of French art . |
| 39 | Consequently , the jobs available to youths came to be known as dead-end' jobs or as ‘ blind-alley ’ employment in this period of history . |
| 40 | In this period of her life the fifty-year-old duchess has been transformed from a tough old battleaxe into " the presiding genius in a society of knights and troubadours " . |
| 41 | In this period of rapid social change , involving families moving from the countryside to the town , the support given by the wider network of relatives was of great importance for individual families . |
| 42 | In this period of cultural technology , and especially in the nineteenth century , the reproducibility of print was very much ahead of most other kinds of artistic reproduction , and this made the question of property in the work acute . |
| 43 | In this period of ‘ realism ’ the immediate concerns of many workers have moved towards job security . |
| 44 | In this period of change and uncertainty I asked the Directorate how best to keep staff informed of the actions being initiated and decisions taken affecting staff in all Divisions . |
| 45 | I hope that in this period of electioneering excitement we can keep off the personalities and concentrate on the policies . |
| 46 | And some of the buildup play has been tremendous in this period of time . |
| 47 | The idea of probability develops in this period of life . |
| 48 | It is not surprising that in this period of increased sensitivity to the emerging ecological problem we find the first Utopia based upon ecological as well as social ideals . |
| 49 | ‘ Many farm businesses are under pressure just now , so we would urge planners to heed advice from the DoE and bear in mind the needs of farm enterprises in this period of great upheaval for the farming industry , ’ a spokesman said . |
| 50 | However , throughout the period November to February flocks of 500 or more are regularly present , and the average of all counts in this period between 1964 and 1976 was over seven hundred . |
| 51 | Sappho 's name also functions in this period as a sign of transgressive female desire . |
| 52 | The aim here is to give the flavour of the key developments in this period as part of the history of social policy . |
| 53 | When Coenred went to Rome he went in the company of Offa , son of Sigehere and king of the eastern Saxons , who abdicated at the same time ( HE V , 19 ) , and the harmony which appears to have prevailed between Coenred and Offa is another salutary warning not to describe relations between overlords and their royal dependants in this period as one of constant hostility . |
| 54 | Despite all the shortcomings of British society in this period from a socialist point of view , and the alarming prospects raised by nuclear armament , it has to be said that capitalism was ‘ too successful ’ , in developing the productive forces and meeting popular aspirations , for political forces supporting a radical transformation of social relations to make much headway . |
| 55 | As Windmüller ( 1984 ) has shown , employers ' associations were then further consolidated and entrenched during the interwar period ( although there were some marked exceptions ) since collective bargaining became institutionalised in this period in many countries . |
| 56 | The climate which developed in this period in Britain was one in which the prejudices of the judiciary were reinforced by a media campaign supportive of the Tory Party 's ideas on moral decay and over-dependence upon the state . |
| 57 | Even in this period in Japan , however , it is highly unlikely that the exchange rate movement was the dominating factor in declining profitability . |
| 58 | The most systematic theological reflection on these problems was offered in this period by Ernst Troeltsch . |
| 59 | Later contemporaries of Edward , namely Boniface VIII and Clement V ( who was Edward 's own subject ) , emphasized the tradition of papal legislation in this period by their further additions to the body of canon law . |
| 60 | The Labour government sought from the start to construct and hold together a support bloc around the theme of a ‘ social contract ’ , and I propose to organise my account of the development of political forces in this period around that same theme . |