Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] a period " in BNC.
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| 1 | of ideological progression , maybe he thought that , that , that erm the only , ultimately the only way to capitalis er to communism was through capitalism and he needs to establish a period of capitalism first . |
| 2 | Are they expected to observe a period of mourning ? |
| 3 | Moreover , there has been little recent research on what befalls older manual workers following redundancy , although the labour market has undergone a period of rapid change over the last few years ( one recent exception is Bytheway 1987 ) . |
| 4 | This patient has suffered a period of acute hypoxia . |
| 5 | Almost anybody who is offered an honour of some kind indicates that he has had a period of anxious , nay tortured reflection , but somehow inexorably arrives at the conclusion that duty demands — duty to his family , his wife , his children , his bank manager — that he should accept the honour . |
| 6 | In international trade , short term finance is considered to cover a period of up to 6 months from the date of invoice or shipment and can therefore be considerably longer than the 30 , 60 or 90 days credit extended to buyers in the home market . |
| 7 | Whatever the outcome , the UK financial sector has entered a period of increasing risk and uncertainty in which it remains to be seen whether the deregulation of the 1980s has provided it with competitive advantages . |
| 8 | However , the late 1980s has seen the UK housing market enter a much less buoyant phase , with the result that the estate agency sector has entered a period of severe retrenchment . |
| 9 | A HOME Office grant for a youth work project has signalled a period of intense activity for Middlesbrough 's Safer Cities programme . |
| 10 | The study appears fortunately timed since it has covered a period of relatively intense local violence between the rival supporters of Sheffield United and Sheffield Wednesday . |
| 11 | Andrew Lloyd Webber ) half inched the composer 's Rondeau as their election theme , the Dean has advised a period of diplomatic silence at services . |
| 12 | The Hillsborough disaster seemed to encourage a period of self-reflection and greater public sympathy for the beleaguered game of soccer . |
| 13 | If the Minister can identify any objective professional evidence that five years is the period needed , that would be very interesting , but I believe that all the expert evidence that he received supported a period of seven years . |
| 14 | The ‘ ideal ’ pupil is one who is thought to require a period of adjustment coming from a school which has expressed a willingness to take the pupil back . |
| 15 | It will be an achievement to confirm Carrick 's standing in Yorkshire cricket , everlasting statistical proof not only of his ability but of the indestructible qualities which have been needed to survive a period tragically disrupted by internal conflict . |
| 16 | I am unable to cope with the idea of being any heavier than I am now , and would not like to have a period , since I would feel I had ‘ let up ’ control over my body . |
| 17 | Whilst Alison states at the end of Chapter 11 that she would not like to have a period as it would signify that she had ‘ let up ’ control over her body , Freya feels quite differently , realising that getting her periods back would be a good sign of recovery . |
| 18 | We 're going to have a period , before toys start coming in with the EC label , when we 've a gap with very little to sell . |
| 19 | She happened to have a period for most of that week . |
| 20 | Even wine prices , having enjoyed a period of stability in the Eighties , are beginning to rise as an expanding band of consumers chases after a limited pot of quality wine . |
| 21 | Those behind the Feb. 3-4 coup attempt [ see pp. 38759-60 ] , he said , followed a " totalitarian and extremist ideology " ; they would have prevented the holding of the local elections due later in the year , and would have introduced a period of " silence and persecution " . |
| 22 | There is no doubt that Lowe used sign language — during sometime in his career , he must have spent a period or periods in Edinburgh because the Member 's List of Edinburgh 's Congregational Deaf Church lists a John William Lowe of London as Member no. 125 , married to a hearing wife , for the period 1836 to 1838 . |
| 23 | ‘ Furthermore ’ his understanding of City relations will be extremely useful , particularly as the group hopes to see a period of development and growth in the medium term . ’ |
| 24 | Try breaking a period of study into twenty minute blocks . |
| 25 | Measures of magnitude , duration , and extent of oesophageal distention — Occurrence of a pattern of intraoesophageal pressure oscillation identical to that of intragastric pressure during a common cavity episode was taken to indicate a period of communication between the lumina of the esophageal body and stomach . |
| 26 | If we do face a period of declining income then the Council must be prepared to cut its coat according to the cloth available . |
| 27 | By 799 Coenwulf was also in a position to conclude a new treaty of peace with the West Saxons , which seems to have terminated a period of temporary estrangement ( CS 295 : S 154 ) . |
| 28 | And if we do get a period of rapid inflation , because if one looks back at seventy four seventy five , with inflation running at over twenty percent a year , stock market out of control , erm and er and er building society rates very poor , erm you know seventy four begins to look a bit like ninety four to me . |
| 29 | Reports earlier in the month suggested that the government had already planned to impose a period of martial law . |
| 30 | He had endured a period in an animation studio , frustrated by being directed what to draw . |