Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] a period " in BNC.
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| 31 | Furthermore measurement has usually to be made over a period of time . |
| 32 | It was also true that the reformers were more interested in what practical achievements could be made by a period of liberalisation . |
| 33 | Such nominations to be made within a period of time and under conditions mentioned therein . |
| 34 | In May of this year , we were pressed by Amnesty International and other refugee groups to speed up the process of determination , and the Bill before the House , which will be debated next week , sets out a scheme that will allow determination to be decided within a period of three months . |
| 35 | The trench warfare of the early 1980s was replaced by more subtle forms of guerrilla conflict , in which the guiding principles are no longer so straightforward , yet the consequences of change may be rather more significant , to the extent that the '80s as a whole might justifiably be seen as a period of structural change . |
| 36 | Doing it manually , it had to be done over a period of two or three days , fitting it in after work . ’ |
| 37 | Wherever the terms require something to be done within a period of time , the drafter should also consider what are to be the consequences of a failure to comply . |
| 38 | Harrison and Wood claim to be writing in a period during which there has been ‘ growth of a critical self-consciousness about the history of Modernism itself ’ . |
| 39 | Where information , particularly of a detailed nature , is to be collected over a period of time the panel has clear attractions . |
| 40 | In March of the following year Mr Henderson was appointed treasurer of the Building Fund and the cost of the building scheme was estimated at £18,000 a sum which could be met over a period of 7 years . |
| 41 | The stimulus to demand would be felt during a period of expansion and so would exacerbate any inflationary pressures which might be building up . |
| 42 | Kenneth Clarke , when Home Secretary , announced the establishment of secure training centres where young people aged up to fifteen years could be sentenced for a period of up to two years . |
| 43 | Thus the process of convergence to the play in the full information game can be interpreted as a period of temporary reputation . |
| 44 | If so , the guarantee will be renegotiated for a period of two years and Harley will receive a royalty on sales of two per cent . ’ |
| 45 | Alternatively a range of different video materials could be used in a period earmarked for video . |
| 46 | It did suggest that the principles of confidentiality should be preserved for a period of fifteen years instead of thirty , but that there should be no new machinery for enforcement since offenders would carry the risk of social and political sanctions , and , of course , if they came within the rubric of any existing legal restraint , such as the Official Secrets Act , they would run the risk of legal proceedings . |
| 47 | Is not the timing of that exercise particularly insensitive , and is there any reason why it should not be postponed for a period of , say , a week as a mark of respect to the crew of the Antares , all of whom perished when the vessel was sunk ? |
| 48 | b ) the bringing to a conclusion of any proceedings on the Bill which , under this Order , are to be brought to a conclusion after that time shall be postponed for a period equal to the duration of the proceedings on that Motion . |
| 49 | ( 4 ) If an allotted day is one to which a Motion for the adjournment of the House under Standing Order No. 20 stands over from an earlier day , the bringing to a conclusion of any proceedings on the Bill which under this Order are to be brought to a conclusion on that day shall be postponed for a period equal to the duration of the proceedings on that Motion . |
| 50 | We 're having with effect from next Monday to reduce er our service to urgent cases only : accidents , emergency cases , those that need urgent medical care , they will be dealt with , but patients who are awaiting this type cases , for orthopaedics , gynaecology , general surgery er will have to be postponed for a period of about 5 weeks . |
| 51 | In any case any pattern of interaction between popular radicalism and revivalism , whether oscillating or of any other kind , could not be discerned in a period bounded by 1815 . |
| 52 | ‘ We seem to be moving into a period of high pressure with clear but cold weather . |
| 53 | They may also be interrupted by a period of unsettled weather — when the winds blow from anywhere at any strength ! |
| 54 | A gigantic undertaking like the invasion of Europe needed at least a few days of good weather to give it a chance , and we appeared to be settled into a period of wind , rain and low cloud . |
| 55 | Elizabethan England could be portrayed as a period before emigration to the American colonies began , before the ruptures between a British and American way of life existed . |
| 56 | A firm may also be restricted for a period from accepting certain types of new appointments without the committee 's consent . |
| 57 | We want to be judged by a period in government . |
| 58 | The occupational mobility of labour can often be overcome by a period of retraining , but this takes time and may be costly for the unemployed worker . |
| 59 | In primary sclerosing cholangitis standard liver function tests may improve after diagnosis — a result of diagnosis tending to be at times of maximal abnormality in a fluctuating course and likely therefore to be followed by a period of partial remission . |
| 60 | Overtaking behaviour at a number of locations will be monitored over a period of several months using video-recording equipment . |