Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A council covers an area with a population ranging from 200 to 600 people and is elected for a six-month or one-year period of office . |
| 2 | The court can specify a longer or shorter period for investigation . |
| 3 | This process is begun more explicitly in Barthes 's S/Z which in its change of direction opens what is now called the post-structuralist era and marks the end of the so-called classical or scientific period of structuralism . |
| 4 | The case has brought to light a ‘ letter of instruction ’ signed by Wallis two weeks before his death in 1986 asking the trustees of his foundation to exhibit the paintings on loan at the Los Angeles County Museum , ‘ whether for a definite or indefinite period of time ’ . |
| 5 | The majority of suggestions have been on the lines that there should be a one- or two-year period in which it should be possible for the capital of discretionary trusts to be distributed tax free provided the settlement was made before 26th March 1974 and the result of the distribution was that there would be either absolute entitlement to the property or an interest in possessing it . |
| 6 | Another approach to presenting a warmer earth scenario , based on past climatic data , has been to reconstruct the climate of the mid-Holocene Altithermal or Hypsithermal period of 8000–4500 years ago when temperatures were 1.5–2.5 °C higher than today in middle latitudes . |
| 7 | The plan calls for government action in six areas : payments for farmers who take measures to manage their land for the benefit of wildlife , landscape and conservation ; an increase in resources for environmentally sensitive farming ; better integration of existing environmental schemes ; the opportunity to enter a voluntary scheme covering the whole of a farm for a five-year or longer period of conservation work ; government pressure on the European Commission to give greater recognition to the potential for production controls and other mechanisms to benefit the environment ; and the introduction of environmental training programmes for farmers . |
| 8 | There is a critical or sensitive period for the introduction of solid food between 7 and 10 months of age . |
| 9 | I actually did three years of that that period of time in in in the Army . |
| 10 | ‘ Break up … ‘ ' is about a string of friends I had who were very intense people and at that age , when your friends talk about the slim separation between life and death — and you set that against the fact that this period of your youth is supposed to be the most playful and reckless — well , if you utilized that period in a very intense way , that feeling never really leaves you . ’ |
| 11 | It is perhaps not coincidental that this period of turmoil was to result in a work described as a ‘ landmark in Mozart 's earlier keyboard works , only paralleled in pathos and intensity by the Fantasy and Sonata in C minor ’ ( K.457 and K.475 ) . |
| 12 | The actual economic situation in Europe in 1918–20 clearly shows that this period of collapse has set in and that the old system of relations of production shows no signs of revival . |
| 13 | In 1963 the hundred largest UK enterprises controlled on average only 40 plants each within the UK : by 1972 this had increased to 72 , and it is clear that this period of domestic expansion and takeovers was also the main period of international expansion by TNCs . |
| 14 | He stamped his authority on the college to such an extent that this period in the College 's history is now labelled ‘ the Darwin era ’ . |
| 15 | Clearly more than one period of fortification is to be implied , with the likelihood that a masonry wall was added to the front of an existing bank , the contemporary ditch of which had to be solidly filled in order to carry its foundations ; a date for the bank of not earlier than c . |
| 16 | The delay referred to in paras ( a ) and ( b ) is the delay between the expiry of the limitation period and the issue of the writ , and not the period between the beginning of the limitation period and the issue of the writ nor any period after the issue of the writ ( Thompson v Brown [ 1981 ] 1 WLR 751 ; Donovan v Gwentoys Ltd [ 1990 ] 1 WLR 472 ) . |
| 17 | Of course , all this assumes that three years is a ‘ natural ’ rather than arbitrary period in which to reach ‘ degree standard ’ . |
| 18 | In the kitchens below , the other group of devotees , those addicted to cuisine and at the moment wondering why , were entering the most vital and concentrated period of Auguste 's schedule . |
| 19 | The number of Acts , statutory instruments , White and Green Papers , consultative documents , guidelines and codes of practice gives the impression of intense activity , and each period of office has been marked by major pieces of legislation affecting health and social services , and by Acts which have brought about the denationalisation of important sectors of industry . |
| 20 | This requires massive investment in maintaining the habitat while the species is propagated in captivity and then a difficult and extensive period of re-introduction , re-stocking or translocation . |
| 21 | As one person put it , ‘ The only ones who knew me from the time I was born have gone , and it 's almost as if that period in my life is less real now that there is no one left alive who shared it with me . ’ |
| 22 | In Britain , this moment has several phases during a long and turbulent period from the late-eighteenth century to the 1840s . |
| 23 | The late 1970s proved to be the start of a new and unstable period for international aviation . |
| 24 | As time passes C t increases to ω and this period of temporary imitation dwindles away as play tends to the full information limit . |
| 25 | In 1854 , three years into that very pompous and sybaritic period of French history known as the Second Empire , Emperor and Empress established Biarritz as a fashionable place to go by their own well-publicized visits there . |
| 26 | Home care is really out of the question now , and another period in hospital is not good for this patient 's emotional well-being ! ’ |
| 27 | Had he done that — and this is advice every sensible lawyer would have given to him — he might have been able to return to public life without the long and painful period of atonement to which he was exposed . |
| 28 | The currently fashionable and oft repeated litany is that although the world air transport industry is presently going through a fundamental and painful period of change , this will ultimately lead to a new and improved deployment of resources , through the creation of far fewer but infinitely larger air carriers . |
| 29 | I know how context influences the effects of alcohol and realise this was a highly artificial situation , but it was still difficult to ignore the terrible predictability of the road to drunkenness : its fixed stages — a brief and seductive period of social effervescence and then the rapid departure of self-consciousness and the ugly appearance of righteousness . |
| 30 | All in all , nesting time is a particularly demanding and dangerous period in a bird 's life . |