Example sentences of "[vb pp] a [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | This school had enjoyed a brief period of success and national distinction in the first decade of the sixteenth century under the Mastership of John Stanbridge , who was well known when he migrated north from Oxford and whose Grammar was prescribed in the statutes of Manchester Grammar School . |
| 2 | But Christianity had so forgotten an earlier period when it was open to discussion and even mockery of its views that it reacted to the modern onslaught with what often amounted to fear and paranoia . |
| 3 | These rules mean that it might benefit the owner of a topography right for him to sit on that right until such a time as it can be exploited to its full potential as long as this is done a reasonable period before the 15 years have expired . |
| 4 | In a debt reduction agreement ratified by the Council of State on May 1 , 1989 , Paraguay was granted a new period of 20 years , with eight years ' grace , for the payment of its $436,000,000 debt to Brazil . |
| 5 | In Britain most children have already undergone a long period of conservative management at the hands of their general practitioners , often with trials of non-operative intervention using long term antibiotics . |
| 6 | They had envisaged a two-month period to put the exhibition together but Central Promotional Services of Leicester , who manage the Centre , offered free exhibition space on 17 August , just ten days after their initial inquiries . |
| 7 | If children have had a long period without normal feeding experiences they find difficulty in accepting oral food , chewing , and swallowing . |
| 8 | Wigan chairman Jack Robinson said : ‘ We have had a long period of success under a lot of good coaches and we are confident John can do a great job for us . ’ |
| 9 | What price would the portfolio manager be prepared to pay for these shares given a holding period of 5 years ? |
| 10 | To conclude that the potential for peasant revolution against the status quo remained undiminished in the decade after 1905 does not of course , dispose of the liberal contention that given a longer period of peaceful development the prospects would have changed . |
| 11 | The outbreak of hostilities had the immediate effect of silencing most of those within Congress who had spoken out against war , and effectively removed the argument that sanctions should be given a longer period in which to work . |
| 12 | Given a sustained period of peace and tranquillity , tension in the countryside would gradually lessen and in the longer term , the population curve could be expected to level out . |
| 13 | Mr Prescott said : ‘ If private capital can not produce the goods as it said it could , they should be given a short period of time to clear the mess up , or we will take it over . |
| 14 | The last few years have witnessed an unprecedented period of economic depression for Wales accompanied by massive youth unemployment . |
| 15 | It is not unknown for senior partners or founding partners to be given an extended period but , whilst opinions may legitimately differ on this , in principle a common retirement age might seem to be less contentious and the lower the age the better . |
| 16 | Either way , the outcome is a marked legacy in the economic landscape , representing today the ‘ continuing influence of Britain 's historical international position ’ ( Massey , 1986 ) : by the time of the 1930s depression , some of the greatest industrial regions of Britain , the specialist production regions of textiles , steel , ships and coal exports , with their ports , had already entered a long period of continuous decline . |
| 17 | Or we might wear the radical ‘ reflexive ’ pair , whose lenses have been recently polished to a fine smoothness by those same trendy academics who have now entered a middle-age period of intellectual enlightenment ! |
| 18 | On May 16 the Collective State Presidency issued a warning clearly directed at Slovenia and Croatia that a " serious breakdown of the system established by the Constitution " and " disregard for existing federal laws " meant that Yugoslavia had entered a critical period of instability . |
| 19 | Australia , he adds , has entered a post-industrial period and without radical alternatives and a revolution of the traditional industrial base its society will crumble . |
| 20 | The meeting was timely because Hamish Kidd , a Cambridge chemical engineer who had spent a long period in general management consultancy with P-E Consulting Group , had developed systems to introduce executive search into P-E when it was sanctioned as an allowable technique by the Management Consultants Association ( MCA ) . |
| 21 | He had spent a short period there as a singer , then formed a reputation at Bordeaux and elsewhere as a gifted opéra director and arranger . |
| 22 | It is conceivable that Kim had spent a brief period with the CCP at Yenan in the later 1930s . |
| 23 | All major political leaders in India expressed their horror at Gandhi 's assassination and the government immediately declared a seven-day period of state mourning . |
| 24 | There is nothing at all romantic about this sympathy for the underdog : as a midshipman , we are told , Aubrey had been disrated for an unsavoury escapade and had served a long period on the lower deck , an experience which he never forgot . |
| 25 | The reader will probably object that a hideous primal trauma of parricide and rape is all very well for purposes of explaining the subsequent guilt and neurotic inhibitions of the perpetrators of these ghastly crimes , but can hardly hope to explain how they succeeded in transmitting their new-found superegos to their children , and certainly will not explain how , when all the primal fathers were gone ( a process which may have taken a considerable period of time admittedly , but which must have happened eventually ) , when there were no more primal parricides to be procured , human societies could still construct their civilization on the acquisition of the superego . |
| 26 | This has created a long period of uncertainty , but in fact it now appears that they do not grant core funding ( and inside information indicates that the NCC element is the dominant one ) . |
| 27 | In two of the engineering companies the unions had insisted that temporary workers be guaranteed a minimum period of employment . |
| 28 | Er our colleagues I think have chosen a different period trend . |