Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [adj] period " in BNC.

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1 Using this same period as a basis for comparison with the general population and examining available records ( including the Icelandic Who 's Who ) , he was able to show that the relatives concerned significantly more often entered creative occupations .
2 Given this shorter period of experimentation with other drugs prior to heroin use , it could be expected that these informants would have exhibited less variety in their pre-heroin polydrug use .
3 ‘ I propose to halve that qualifying period to six months , ’ Mr Lamont said .
4 BMK 's own book ‘ From London to Lathe ’ covers this exact period .
5 The emphasis will be on needlecraft and allied skills , as the house has many fine period pieces of such work .
6 Scholars can now be considered fortunate if they manage to find " one unworked field " , Three years later , McKerrow describes this great period as constituting a " revolution in literary history " in the course of which everything previously taken as axiomatic has been questioned or disproved .
7 It is clear from this expression that the difference between full information output and actual output can be made zero each period ; that is , perfect stabilization policy can be achieved , if the government sets the policy parameter γ 2 equal to - 1 .
8 Assuming a fair wind on major infrastructure , access , and drainage , it is unlikely that a new settlement would be producing a significant group of housings until somewhere around , at the very best , end ninety six into the of ninety seven period , in that context , what is happening in that short intervening period , assuming certain planning guidance comes forward to help that intervening period , and will that new settlement actually be built out prior to two prior to two thousand and six , will the fourteen hundred dwellings be built in that period , question mark , probably not , it will lap over , therefore in that context of a gap at the beginning , and a potential overlap at the end , it is very important again to revisit the peripheral land issue .
9 Coloured tins were used to identify each two-hour period of the day .
10 Each course requires one double period per week and leads to a SCOTVEC qualification .
11 One of the reasons I forgot about Ohio was that I wanted to forget that unhappy period of my life .
12 I mean , I 'm really looking forward to I mean most of your bloody time within a year I 'm getting out you can start doing what you want then , but when you do n't have that regular period you do n't know how you 're gon na react to your own , you 've got
13 We were never given any long period free from a fight from the coast to a target and hack …
14 We call this first period of recording the baseline which tells us how bad the problem is before intervention starts .
15 The new rule is also a clear victory for the environmentalists against a proposal by the Bush administration that would have eliminated any waiting period .
16 The day was a continuous series of interruptions so that it was difficult for clients to have any real period of rest and quiet .
17 And only two amazing misses , one of those candidly coming er just before scored the second Notts goal , with a headed chance headed wide when er had come and missed it , and when on forty four minutes on the watch but not a minute before the end of half time if you get the meaning because we had that long period of extra time , er missed the chance completely , he 'd made the er Pisa goal brilliantly with a cross from the right hand side , deep cross , pulled back brilliantly , but left with a chance , the number eleven in front of the post , well what was he doing ? again had come and again he 'd missed it and left with an open goal was wide of the target .
18 It may reflect some prolonged period of stress at any level of being ; physical , mental or emotional .
19 John Quinn 's death in 1924 closed this happy period , and brought genuine financial insecurity .
20 By updating this one period we can derive the process for next period 's price , , as which , after substituting for m t and t from equations ( 5.3 ) and ( 5.4 ) respectively , we can write as
21 We can weather this bad period . ‘
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