Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Often refers to persons in the age group between puberty and young adulthood , that is about 14–17 years or some similar period in the teens ; the limits of which depend on the timing of puberty and adulthood in a particular population ) . |
| 2 | Around 1920 when Eliot , with anthropological ideas in the forefront of his mind , had attacked Gilbert Murray 's translations of Euripides , Pound tried to persuade him to translate Aeschylus ' Agamemnon , but Eliot ‘ sat on it for eight months or some longer period ’ . |
| 3 | The bankrupt must submit a sworn statement of affairs containing the prescribed particulars ( Form 6.33 in Sched 4 to the rules ) within twenty-one days of the bankruptcy order or such longer period as the official receiver may allow ( s 288(1) ) . |
| 4 | If at the end of the specified period , or such longer period as he may allow , they have not satisfied him in one way or the other , the voluntary process ends and he may apply to the court . |
| 5 | 7.3.2.2 the loss of Rent and Service Charge payable under this Lease from time to time ( having regard to any review of rent which may become due under this Lease ) for [ 3 ] years or such longer period as the Landlord may from time to time [ reasonably ] [ consider to be sufficient or deem to be necessary ] for the purposes of the planning and carrying out the rebuilding or reinstatement |
| 6 | Shareholders will know that any subsequent bid made within three months ( or such longer period as the Panel may require in order to ensure equality of treatment for all shareholders ) may not be made on less favourable terms than the tender offer because of Rule 6.1 ( see para 7.2.3 below ) and , because the buyer will ( usually ) have acquired 10 per cent of the target 's voting rights for cash , any bid within the next 12 months must be for cash ( or include a cash alternative ) at the highest price paid by the bidder ( whether under the tender offer or in respect of market purchases ) during the 12-month period in accordance with Rule 11 ( see para 7.2.2 below ) . |
| 7 | Certain tender varieties of narcissi , like ‘ Paper White ’ and ‘ Grand Soleil d'Or ’ , are naturally early flowering and do not need a natural or artificial cool period in order to flower quickly and healthily indoors , but they can not be planted outside afterwards . |
| 8 | This might be because the time-cues are too weak , the transmission of them to the body clock is poor , the clock itself is insensitive to time cues , or it possesses an abnormally long or short free-running period . |
| 9 | For purposes of this subsection ‘ land ’ does not include incorporeal hereditaments ; ‘ tenancy ’ means a tenancy for years or any less period and includes an agreement for such a tenancy , but a person who after the end of a tenancy remains in possession as statutory tenant or otherwise is to be treated as having possession under the tenancy , and ‘ let ’ shall be construed accordingly . … |
| 10 | This is paid over the outstanding period of the original loan or any shorter period that the new loan might involve . |
| 11 | Therefore , it was not until 1890 that this erroneous period was revised , not by an hour or so , but to about 88 days prograde . |
| 12 | It was made clear in a further policy statement that in those cases where the tariff was 20 years or more the reference to the local review committee would be made after 17 years had been served , though a warning was given that this did not imply that any particular period had been set for the prisoner 's tariff . |
| 13 | Dustin always had the consolation that any painful period he lived through could be used to inject reality into a role . |
| 14 | Obviously , this is too valuable a tradition to be allowed to die out in the century that has seen more restriction of public access to land than any previous period of history , including the Enclosures . |
| 15 | And er oh he he was he erm during the war now come nineteen thirty nine and that stale period when er there was nothing doing really in France , between the time that er our expedition to the to the Maginot line and all that . |
| 16 | ( 4 ) In this paragraph ’ financial year ’ means the period beginning with the date on which the Funding Council is established and ending with the second 31st March following that date , and each successive period of twelve months . |
| 17 | This meant , inter alia , that a provision in the contract which allowed him to solicit once employment was over did not come into effect until that contractual period was up . |
| 18 | Life at home is a bit of a battlefield and work is sadly staging a go slow but you have survived worse difficulties before and this tough period is nearly over Ugly what are you ? |
| 19 | If this new period brought with it a phase of Spenglerian pessimism after the long years of Victorian optimism , Toynbee did not himself assume that the West was in decline as such , but rather that paradoxically the globalization of Western civilization was being accompanied by a self-consciousness of its own cultural relativization , a process to which Toynbee 's own equally totalizing and relativizing history was designed to contribute . |
| 20 | The central event of the former 's pontificate can hardly fail to be seen as Humanae Vitae in 1968 , central because its publication marked a watershed separating the first years of enthusiasm , of an optimistic post-conciliar implementation in which Rome and leading Catholic theologians were still working more or less hand in hand ( as they had done in the latter years of the Council ) from the far more contestatory and unsure later period . |
| 21 | Between 1971 and 1987 total period fertility rates declined by almost 22 per cent in the United Kingdom . |
| 22 | the period of time covered by this policy as shown in the schedule , and any further period we accept your premium for |
| 23 | the period of time covered by this policy as shown in the schedule , and any further period for which we accept your premium1 |
| 24 | the period of time covered by this policy as shown in the schedule , and any further period we accept your premium for |
| 25 | the period of time covered by this policy as shown in the schedule , and any further period we accept your premium for |
| 26 | the period of time covered by this policy as shown in the schedule , and any further period we accept your premium for |
| 27 | the period of time covered by this policy as shown in the schedule , and any further period we accept your premium for |
| 28 | A class doing the Home Front , for example , could borrow a box containing gas masks , ARP ( Air Raid Protection ) equipment , a ration book and other associated period objects . |
| 29 | I look back with great thankfulness to God and deep affection to Holy Cross students for what was a most happy and satisfying central period of my life . |
| 30 | In 1985 Tipperary County Manager John McGinley told a Magill reporter that the County Council did not find out about the lake until after this five-year period had elapsed . |