Example sentences of "[be] [adv] the period " in BNC.
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| 1 | This time is not the period required overall but the actual time the chemical is in contact with the soil and is known as contact time . |
| 2 | Recently , the Auditing Practices Board ( APB ) suggested in the preface to its Exposure Draft , Going Concern , that ‘ … one year is normally the period during which it is expected that the financial statements can reasonably be relied upon ’ . |
| 3 | It is moreover the period of the newly general modem meanings of ‘ the arts ’ and ‘ the artist ’ , as terms indicating more than specific practices and practitioners and now centrally including conceptions of general ( and then often alternative or oppositional ) values . |
| 4 | The period in which these ideas were becoming general , from the late eighteenth century , is also the period of the attempted distinction between ( ‘ external ’ ) ‘ civilization ’ and ( ‘ internal ’ or ‘ human ’ ) ‘ culture ’ . |
| 5 | It is also the period when poverty in old age was identified as a major social problem and much surveyed ; and when geriatric medicine first became firmly established . |
| 6 | This is also the period when he hired as chauffeur and typist a young man , Alfred Agostinelli , who drove him to the seaside in a closed car , took him by the same means to visit many Romanesque churches in Normandy , and who was killed when the plane he was learning to fly crashed into the sea off Antibes in nineteen fourteen . |
| 7 | This early period is essentially the period of Ramsay 's achievements in ‘ masculine ’ portraiture , in the sense of both the style and the subject matter . |
| 8 | Considering that this was just the period when women were making history , Thompson has got it very wrong indeed . |
| 9 | Strangely enough this was also the period when the Elves came to realise they were a dying race . |
| 10 | This was also the period in which the foundations of sociology were laid . |
| 11 | Significantly this was also the period of Lenin 's importation of the terminology of ‘ avant-garde ’ into politics . |
| 12 | This was also the period beyond which the Tominah priests could allegedly no longer cause the dead to walk . |
| 13 | The height of the cold war was also the period which has come to be known as the golden age of capitalism . |
| 14 | Yet this was also the period during which the United States became the main supplier of the hugely increasing need for raw cotton . |
| 15 | On the one hand , it was simply the period required for the sun , moon , and planets to attain the same positions in relation to each other as they had at a given time . |