Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [adj] period " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The maximum period of suspension is one year or the unexpired period of the licence whichever is the less ( subs . |
| 2 | It was formed by altering the topographical aspect of the land immediately north of the River Welland and the running figure of the Bull from east to west across the town is reminiscent of a Cretan bull cult fresco at the Palace of Minos at Knossos or the same period . |
| 3 | where the specific period for which the company was incorporated has expired ; |
| 4 | Note : Where a residential period forms part of a course a higher fee will be charged . |
| 5 | According to the LFS code book , temporary jobs in the first category can include jobs the termination of which " is fixed for , by example , reaching a certain date or completing an assignment , or by return of an employee who has been temporarily replaced " ( our italics ) i.e. jobs that could fit equally well into the second category whilst jobs in the second category are taken to include those with " a work contract for a specific task or a fixed period of time " ( our italics ) i.e jobs that could fit equally well into the first category . |
| 6 | And the outcome of the general election , due next year , would seem to be either a hopelessly splintered parliament or a second period of ‘ co-habitation ’ between a Socialist president and a conservative prime minister . |
| 7 | Float ( i.e. the lapse of time between the end of a work element and the following dependent work element ) or a programmed period of unproductive time within a work element has to be recognized in both the tender and subsequent programmes . |
| 8 | If no play was possible or a prescribed period was lost this premium payment would entitle the holder to get his money back . |
| 9 | There was also the occasional case of petty theft , street fighting or traffic offences which often ended up with a plea of Guilty and a fine of a few dollars or a short period in goal . |
| 10 | Offers week-long stays , mini-breaks ( from 11 am to 4 pm Sun ) , or an individual period tailored to your specific needs . |
| 11 | A legal estate is the right to possess land for a determinate or an indefinite period of time . |
| 12 | 40% of the women interviewed considered pregnancy should be treated as a disease and 87% that the perinatal period was a " highly dangerous " time for them . |
| 13 | SO impressive has been Wigan 's play of late that it seems reasonable to conclude that the transitional period from the control of Graham Lowe to that of John Monie is complete . |
| 14 | He says that the transitional period may be extended . |
| 15 | Similar to that of D. viviparus except that the prepatent period is five weeks . |
| 16 | The most significant are that the proposed SAS requires auditors to be active , rather than passive , and to perform procedures specifically designed to identify circumstances which might call into question the appropriateness of the going concern basis ; that the future period which should be considered by both the directors and auditors in assessing the validity of the going concern basis should be extended to one year from the date the accounts are approved by the directors ; and that emphasis is now placed on the need for adequate disclosures in accounts of matters giving rise to inherent uncertainties that affect a company 's ability to continue as a going concern . |
| 17 | By the late 1960s , it was accepted that the normal period of full-time economic employment would cease for most of the population at these ages . |
| 18 | He found that the only period to be consistent with rational expectations was from 1962 to 1969 . |
| 19 | Moreover , Tucker ( 1987 ) has pointed out that the first period of large-scale deforestation in northern India occurred in the 1850s and 1860s as the British colonisation of India gained momentum and railways were constructed to gain access to the upper Ganges and Indus plains . |
| 20 | The research of Geza Roheim , summarized in my Psycho-analysis of Culture , shows quite clearly that the oral period , for instance , does not have the same significance for Australian aborigine hunter-gatherers as it does for Melanesian agriculturalists ; and further that , in the former instance , the anal-sadistic hardly seems to exist ( with the consequent absence of sado-masochistic perversions or character traits in adults ) . |
| 21 | Prison Wakefield was informed that the Secretary of State ( following consultation with the trial judge and with Lord Lane C.J. ) had decided that his case would not be reviewed by the local review committee until September 2001 , indicating that the minimum period he should serve in custody to satisfy the requirements of retribution and deterrence was 20 years . |
| 22 | In one case , however , a misunderstanding of what are admittedly very unclear social security regulations meant that the minimum period was twice as long as would have been necessary to satisfy this objective . |
| 23 | Candidates for the degree of MLitt ( Faculty of Arts ) or MPhil ( other Faculties ) by thesis pursue a research project under broadly the same conditions as those applying to PhD candidates , except that the minimum period of study is usually not less than 24 months full-time or 36 months part-time . |
| 24 | The fact that the major period of growth for the Church was a result of the political conflict with liberal unionism meant that most of those who were attracted to the Church were aware of its high political profile and either positively endorsed it , or at least did not find it offensive . |
| 25 | To argue that the early period represents a situation of ‘ restricted ’ literacy is simply to beg the question . |
| 26 | The admission that compromise was possible is the first sign that the confident period of Hildebrandine reform — the period of intense conviction and hope of complete success — was coming to an end , and was being replaced by the age of negotiation , undertaken by lawyers and administrators , differing in their briefs , but alike in their methods , and understanding each other very well . |
| 27 | A survey by the working party of the top 100 UK companies indicated that the average period of time from the interim date to the release of the interim results was 53 days . |
| 28 | Manpower calculates that the average period for which a person works for it ( presumably the average of all spells of employment ) is four months , although it also points out that " many " temporary " workers have been continuously employed by Manpower for several years and three and five year service awards for temporaries are a frequent occurrence " ( Manpower , 1985 ) . |
| 29 | Taken in conjunction with his new powers , however , it aroused fears among pro-reform forces and among foreign observers that the recent period of liberalism and growing political freedom , ushered in under Gorbachev since 1985 , was drawing to an end . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , there were older observations that would long ago have shown that the longer period was wrong . |