Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] a period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such regions are designated for a period of five years and are specifically defined to be those areas ( NUTS Level II ) where per capita GDP in PPSs is less than 75 per cent of the Community average . |
| 2 | It was understandably difficult for those whose views had been formed in a period of high unemployment to shift them radically and swiftly . |
| 3 | In a religiously-divided country such as the Netherlands , trade unions had been formed in a period of strong Protestant and Catholic religious revival when a socialist trade union movement was regarded as implying a secular view of society . |
| 4 | During a period of extreme emotional distress , the ending of her first marriage , she became interested in the work of Philip Guston. these paintings ‘ Beggar ’ ( 1982 ) , along with Guston 's later work , are included in a period of art referred to as ‘ Bad Paintings ’ . |
| 5 | It had been designed in a period of relative economic stability and was not fitted for such tumultuous times . |
| 6 | 1n 1911 the ports had been prepared by a period of intensive propaganda for strike action and a " spontaneous " movement for a withdrawal of labour had followed . |
| 7 | He hat eventually decided to ask Security 's registry and its computers for a trace muddling the trail by getting a colleague to send the request for him and burying it in a list of acronyms as if they had been collected over a period of time . |
| 8 | Provided that if the Lease shall not have been granted within a period of 12 months from the date hereof the Tenant shall be at liberty to assign underlet or otherwise deal with the benefit of this agreement subject to the same conditions as would be applicable to a corresponding transaction if the Lease had then been granted |
| 9 | It has often been precipitated by a period of considerable exposure to cold , especially very cold dry weather and then ill the same day , that is soon after the exposure . |
| 10 | The official newspaper of the Communist Youth League had reportedly been criticized for publishing investigative reports against party orders , and its editors had been threatened with a period in the country . |
| 11 | Since most theses are lent for a period of one month , it could be that most borrowers are able to digest the contents of theses within this period , but , due to the widespread availability of photocopiers , it is suspected that the regulations on thesis copying are frequently broken . |
| 12 | A few months later , Harry Goodman responded with a full frontal attack , claiming that 9000 children in the care of the RCM had ‘ practically no Jewish contacts and that no effort had been made over a period of years to give these children some religious education ’ . |
| 13 | The nineteenth century has been seen as a period of transition from a largely amateur ‘ natural history ’ to a professionalized science of ‘ biology ’ . |
| 14 | I note that the Opposition 's tax plans have gone back to the drawing board ; after five years of careful preparation , they have been ditched in a period of five weeks . |
| 15 | Initially , garden plots of c. 1 ha are created by felling ( slashing ) and the felled trees are burnt after a period of drying . |
| 16 | Withdrawal from southern England , therefore , may have been accompanied by a period of consolidation in the more immediately adjoining territories around the Mercian heartland , analogous to processes at work in northern and southern England . |
| 17 | In addition to exploring the influences upon arrears , this approach will allow the course of arrears to be traced over a period of time . |
| 18 | However , the emphasis has shifted in that the business is now controlled by the purchaser rather than the vendor and the earn out will be calculated over a period of perhaps several years following completion . |
| 19 | This reiterated the belief , common among all those concerned with the youth question , that ‘ adolescence ’ should be regarded as a period of education , supervision , control , and guidance . |
| 20 | On that assumption , Theunis Krankoor 's arrival in Cape Town can be placed within a period of about fifteen years , after the implementation of the full Napoleonic legal code in the Netherlands and before the birth of his first child , James , who , according to his wedding and death registrations , was born in the Cape Colony about 1823 or 1824 . |
| 21 | Stonesfield , with its many stylistic parallels with the Woodchester mosaic , likewise , can be assigned to a period between 300 and 340 . |
| 22 | The schemes , to be prepared within a period of three years from that date , were still to relate to land in course of development , or earmarked for development . |
| 23 | Furthermore measurement has usually to be made over a period of time . |
| 24 | It was also true that the reformers were more interested in what practical achievements could be made by a period of liberalisation . |
| 25 | Such nominations to be made within a period of time and under conditions mentioned therein . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Doing it manually , it had to be done over a period of two or three days , fitting it in after work . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Where information , particularly of a detailed nature , is to be collected over a period of time the panel has clear attractions . |