Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [art] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , the view of style as manner : I mean by ‘ manner ’ the way in which a text , or an author 's work as a whole , or the work of a group of writers , or even a period of literature , may be distinguished by typical patterns of language-use , a repeated preference , for instance , for a certain kind of construction or a certain class of word . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | On waiting lists , he points out that these only measure the time spent waiting patients have seen a hospital consultant and not the period leading up to that appointment . |
| 4 | So to impress him I told him briefly of the four stages of polio — first the porodomal , second the muscle pain , then the period of muscle destruction which usually took no longer than fourteen days , and finally the period of repair . |
| 5 | Government give them a grant ( i.e. ‘ new ’ industries ) , cut the rent and all the rest and once the period of , you know , free rent period , free taxes … they move out . |
| 6 | Socially and demographically the period has been dominated by two factors — the fall in the size of families and the increase in the expectation of survival to retirement , the effects of which are still far from having exhausted themselves . |
| 7 | This was also a period of rapid industrialisation , and hence a period of high labour demand . |
| 8 | This slow-down can also be related to the economic hiccoughs of the later 1970s and particularly the period of deep recession in 1979–82 ( Townsend , 1983 ) . |
| 9 | In order to clear the bowel for the investigations , Mr Reynolds had a low residue diet and then a period of time before each investigation where his intake consisted only of fluids . |
| 10 | He identified two periods — firstly a period of budgetary growth ( until 1976 ) , and secondly a period of reduction in growth leading to a standstill and in some cases cutbacks ( 1976 onwards ) . |
| 11 | But both the period of the ancien regime and the period of change in East Germany have revealed another German characteristic — that of going along with authority . |
| 12 | The mean period is 331 days , but both the period and the amplitude change from one cycle to another . |
| 13 | The 1830s was not only the most successful decade abolitionists in England experienced in their history but also the period in which the fluctuating interaction of agitation in the country with manoeuvre by and within the political class was most nearly resolved into parliamentary and administrative activity as a direct expression of mobilised grass-roots attitudes . |
| 14 | I appreciate that for justices the obligation to provide a reasoned judgment at the conclusion of an application under the Children Act 1989 is one that no doubt presents all sorts of practical difficulties , but inevitably the period during which they reserve should be kept to the minimum in accordance with the whole philosophy of the Act which seeks to abridge time for procedural steps . |
| 15 | There is a primary period of around 140 days , but neither the period nor the amplitude is constant . |