Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] a [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although fixed terms allow for the job to end through a ‘ natural break ’ , the expiry of a fixed period of employment still counts as a dismissal for some legal purposes , such as the right to claim unfair dismissal or redundancy pay . |
| 2 | Although fixed terms allow for the job to end through a ‘ natural break ’ , the expiry of a fixed period of employment still counts as a dismissal for some legal purposes , such as the right to claim unfair dismissal or redundancy pay . |
| 3 | In order to obtain consistent results , it is best to expose the board for a timed period , though only the more expensive UV Light Boxes have a built-in timer . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ If they really had contemplated they would get such a sum of money a part of the plan would have been where to put the money for a temporary period . |
| 5 | Warnock had admitted stealing the money over a two-year period while she was the toy library 's treasurer . |
| 6 | Barclays Bank is making the grant over a three-year period to encourage independent companies . |
| 7 | Where there is a causal link between the grant of a rent-free period and the carrying out by the tenant of work to the property , and the tenant is obliged to carry out such work ( eg shopfitting ) , the tenant will be treated as making a supply to the landlord of an amount equivalent to the rent foregone . |
| 8 | However , at Cosmeston the archaeologist has the opportunity to excavate a large portion of the settlement over a long period of time and to use the results to shed light on sites where the excavators have not been so fortunate . |
| 9 | This is because the EDSP is the average value of the index over a 20-minute period , and the prices used in computing the index are the midprices of the quotations , not the last traded prices . |
| 10 | A logical consequence occurs when the parent intervenes and ( in the example above ) removes the toy while indicating that the child has ‘ chosen ’ or decided to play without the toy for a specified period of time because of his or her actions ( it is a form of response-cost ) . |
| 11 | Her successor , Stephen Martin-Scott , left for a variety of reasons , and the task of guiding the Association for a brief period fell to the honorary officers who received magnificent assistance from all the dedicated team at Trinity Road . |
| 12 | By having an attack of the infectious disease the body is stimulated to produce appropriate antibodies not only to assist recovery but also to provide a sufficient quantity to remain in the blood for a longer period , sometimes throughout life , for example after an attack of rubella |
| 13 | If this analysis is accepted , then it is clear that the attempt over a long period of time to protect the position of those living in privately rented accommodation has failed and has , in fact , made the position worse . |
| 14 | Consequently many Greek writers of the fifth century and later realized that their own society was the end-product of a long period of advance . |
| 15 | Professor John in a seminal article stressed the great importance of the coincidence of a modest rate of population growth , putting no general pressure on a food supply expanded by a generation of agricultural improvement , with the bounty of a long period of good harvests . |
| 16 | Thus on the eve of the Labour Party Conference at Blackpool in May 1945 , which he hurried back from America to attend , Attlee called on Churchill at Downing Street and discussed with him the possibility of maintaining the coalition for a further period . |
| 17 | In any case , a study of neolithic Early Minoan buildings very strongly implies that the temples were not an implant but the result of a long period of indigenous development . |
| 18 | By then the ethnic composition of its native population was multifarious and complex , being the result of a long period of prehistoric development . |
| 19 | He suggested that a day or so of drunken dissipation was the result of a previous period of intense labour . |
| 20 | In Spencer v Marchington [ 1988 ] IRLR 392 the plaintiff was employed by the defendant for a fixed period of one year . |
| 21 | This undoubtedly cushioned the Club during a difficult period . |
| 22 | Scientific work into the effects of vitamin E deficiency revealed that , in extreme cases , male animals deprived of the vitamin for a long period suffered irreparable damage to their testes . |
| 23 | Ford Chairman Lyndsay Halstead and General Motors Europe chairman Robert Eaton also backed the plan for a transitional period . |
| 24 | He was probably only at the mill for a brief period , and perhaps only occupied part of it . |
| 25 | He claimed that 85,000 people had used the range over a two-year period and that outdoor sport was acceptable on green belt land . |
| 26 | 5.8.3 If within two months of the service of such a notice the Tenant shall not have commenced and be proceeding diligently with the execution of the work referred to in the notice or shall fail to complete the work within a reasonable period to permit the Landlord to enter the Premises to execute such work as may be necessary to comply with the notice and to pay to the Landlord the proper and necessary costs of so doing and all necessary expenses incurred by the Landlord ( including reasonable and proper legal costs and surveyor 's fees ) within 28 days of a written demand . |
| 27 | Do they have any empty homes that need improvement available for sale in ‘ homesteading ’ schemes whereby a purchaser undertakes to improve the home within a specified period ? |
| 28 | Other types of skin cancer are associated with continued exposure to the sun over a long period . |
| 29 | Only 4.3% of the subjects in the violent condition could subsequently recall the number on the jersey whereas 27.9% in the non-violent condition were able to despite actually having seen the boy for a shorter period of time . |
| 30 | The policy of releasing prisoners into the community without a transitional period of supervision was challenged earlier this year following the case of David Evans , who murdered the schoolgirl Anna Humphries shortly after his release . |