Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] the period " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | Thus there is no net loss or gain over the period of time . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The employee need not work out the period of notice if he prefers not to , although he loses his right to wages in lieu of notice . |
| 8 | It is clear that the planning meeting was for the purpose of deciding how the period in secure accommodation should be managed . |
| 9 | It will , therefore , be capable of cutting short the period of time available for an activated word detector to generate and transmit a code to the lexical output systems . |
| 10 | In Turkey , the September coup brought to power a military regime headed by General Evren , cutting short the period of civilian parliamentary politics in which the personalities of Ecevit and Demirel were prominent and which was marred by much violence , urban and rural alike , with right- and left-wing extremists involved . |
| 11 | Taking only the period in which this book has been written , and limiting the location to the UK , there have been numerous similar press-provoked scandals in which the homosexual has kept turning up where he or she should not , especially at the ‘ respectable ’ centre of things : in MI5 , the Houses of Parliament , as parliamentary candidate , schoolteacher , council employee , prison chaplain , vicar , guard to the Queen Mother , film star , circuit judge , to cite only some ( and some whose lives have been destroyed by homophobic media harassment ) . |
| 12 | I do not propose to go into the authorities on the matter , but in Foa 's Landlord and Tenant , 6th ed. ( 1924 ) , p. 115 , the law is stated in this way , and , in my view , correctly : ‘ The habendum in a lease must point out the period during which the enjoyment of the premises is to be had ; so that the duration , as well as the commencement of the term , must be stated . |
| 13 | Seasonal variations , of course , normally occur over the period of one year : annual unemployment figures , therefore , can not be seasonally adjusted . |