Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [art] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Designed by John Carr of York and built over a period of thirteen years between 1759 and 1772 , its spectacular interior boasts exquisite plasterwork ceilings by the Scottish architect Robert Adam decorated by Angelica Kaufman , Biagio Rebecca and Antonio Zucchi . |
| 2 | Four Minor Project schools were selected for closer investigation by the evaluation team and visited over a period of one or two days . |
| 3 | This may have occurred in the western Pacific Ocean where the age of the lithosphere presently being subducted indicates that cooling over a period of about 180 200 Ma is required for this process of spontaneous subduction to occur . |
| 4 | We interpret the moderate dispersion and dual polarity ( except for Tsm ) of palaeomagnetic data to indicate that cooling and remanence acquisition occurred over a period long enough to average palaeosecular variation . |
| 5 | The parricide committed by human beings occurred over a period of perhaps thousands of years , and was repeated innumerable times all over the globe , for it was the primal horde that marked humanity off from nature , and began the social , historical and cultural evolution of man . |
| 6 | The plagues probably occurred over a period of about a year . |
| 7 | If the damage occurred over a period of time , there is no cover . |
| 8 | The partnership was successfully liquidated over a period of years and it was left to John Baring to rebuild the business in the form of a limited company . |
| 9 | To avoid settlement problems at this location a surcharge embankment was constructed and monitored over a period of 8 months . |
| 10 | However , there was some evidence that events could act over a period as long as six months or even a year , particularly in the patient series . |
| 11 | If hypnotics are prescribed , enough tablets for only a few nights should be given at any one time and the medication stopped once the period of distress is over . |
| 12 | The significant points to note from this passage are firstly the way in which the blood of delivery is unclean ; secondly the way in which in the case of a boy 's birth circumcision intrudes in the text and interrupts both the period of the mother 's pollution and the account of that pollution ; and thirdly , the way in which the woman is finally cleansed of her impurity through the blood of sacrifice as administered by a circumcised male . |
| 13 | When you ask for damages on a continuing cause of action , do you know precisely the period for which you are claiming , so as to help the judge in framing his judgment ? |
| 14 | My colleagues and I in Wales Link were greatly looking forward to her visit , planned over a period of 18 months . |
| 15 | The London County Council had found that it simply was not worth trying to recover the cost of milk from the 25% of London parents whose income was high enough to make them liable for the full billeting contribution , since ‘ the few pounds they had succeeded in recovering over a period of several months were far less than the cost of its collection ’ . |
| 16 | While it is a fact that we often eat much more than we imagine we do ( try writing down everything you eat over a period of a week and prove the point ) , it is a fact that some people put on weight far more quickly than others . |
| 17 | Now it seems that the disease builds over a period of years . |
| 18 | Thus there is no net loss or gain over the period of time . |
| 19 | If the water coming out of taps ( mainly hot ones ) slows over a period of time , the problem is likely to be scale in the pipes — especially if you have a direct hot water system ( see page 48 ) . |
| 20 | He conducted research into how artefacts gradually develop over a period of time , the study of which is known as typology . |
| 21 | And at times of new issues , they will often be committed to purchasing very large amounts of stock which they can only expect to sell over a period of weeks ; during which period they are exposed to the risk of capital loss if prices fall . |
| 22 | Innsite Hotel Services , for example , recommends , for its Innfront front office system , an on-site training package of 11 days spread over a period . |
| 23 | The government would compensate the nobility immediately and the peasantry would repay the government with annual redemption dues spread over a period of forty-nine years . |
| 24 | The government provided compensation for the nobility , while the peasantry were to repay the government in annual redemption dues spread over a period of 49 years . |
| 25 | Eggs hatching over a period like this presents no problems for the megapodes . |
| 26 | Out of a total of seventeen boys from this group interviewed over a period of one year , no fewer than ten had been in trouble with the police for offences not connected with activities at football matches . |
| 27 | The bronze obelisk is 22 metres high and is decorated with the names of the dead of the Five Days together with a group of five weary people symbolizing both the period and the spirit of the Milanese . |
| 28 | They cover mainly the period since 1950 in order to allow for the full return to peacetime economic conditions which occurred largely during the reconstruction period after 1945 . |
| 29 | Income is usually defined in terms of the amount of money an individual can spend over a period while leaving his or her net wealth position unaltered . |
| 30 | Fertilisations may occur over a period of a month , but the most recent foetuses have the best chance to develop . |