Example sentences of "[vb pp] by [art] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | The publication of this document was preceded by a period of nationwide discussion and consultation which began in 1987 with the publication of Scottish Education Department Circular No.1157 indicating the Secretary of State 's intentions with regard to the development of S.C.E. Short Courses for implementation into the curriculum in Scottish Secondary Schools . |
| 2 | The initial crisis of the reign was succeeded by a period of prolonged negotiations . |
| 3 | Over the next twelve months , the Agency will be working intensively with Glasgow companies to ensure they are fit to compete and to handle the particular business challenges presented by a period of growth . |
| 4 | It has often been precipitated by a period of considerable exposure to cold , especially very cold dry weather and then ill the same day , that is soon after the exposure . |
| 5 | 1n 1911 the ports had been prepared by a period of intensive propaganda for strike action and a " spontaneous " movement for a withdrawal of labour had followed . |
| 6 | It was also true that the reformers were more interested in what practical achievements could be made by a period of liberalisation . |
| 7 | In addition , the proffered certainties of Calvinism had great appeal for the many men and women who were suffering from the dislocation and anxiety produced by a period of unpredictable economic development and rapid social change . |
| 8 | We want to be judged by a period in government . |
| 9 | They may also be interrupted by a period of unsettled weather — when the winds blow from anywhere at any strength ! |
| 10 | In 1867 , the young scholar 's career was temporarily interrupted by a period of military service which resulted in a serious chest injury . |
| 11 | Withdrawal from southern England , therefore , may have been accompanied by a period of consolidation in the more immediately adjoining territories around the Mercian heartland , analogous to processes at work in northern and southern England . |
| 12 | Frequent use of search was often marked by a period of experimentation with a variety of firms in the first instance , followed by a settling down to regular work with a smaller number of firms with whom the client had achieved a modus vivendi . |
| 13 | He gives us a picture of a firm conversion to theism in the summer of 1929 , followed by a period in which he believed in God , but not in the doctrines of Christianity . |
| 14 | ‘ Whenever I have had some sort of public success , ’ he reported in his autobiography , ‘ it has inevitably been followed by a period of personal financial distress and prolonged unemployment . ’ |
| 15 | The question , ‘ Why do you have the farm ? ’ often evoked a look of surprise followed by a period of silence . |
| 16 | This is followed by a period during which he is trapped in London 's underworld of pickpockets , burglars , safe-breakers , and prostitutes , although the fence Fagin , who exploits these lesser criminals , is unable to destroy his innocence . |
| 17 | When a proposal or statement is followed by a period of silence , the person who breaks the silence loses — wrong ! |
| 18 | Structural studies of the shales and greywackes of the Skiddaw Group have refined the understanding of the deformational history : the early episode of major slump folding identified previously now appears to have been followed by a period of upright folding that has been subsequently modified by south-directed thrusting . |
| 19 | This time is followed by a period in which the chances of becoming dry are low ( MacKeith et al . |
| 20 | Examination of the debate on Buxton 's resolutions for gradual emancipation of 15 May 1823 , of his resolution for parliament to take up general emancipation of 15 April 1831 ( the resolution was interpreted in the debate by other speakers as being immediatist ) and , more briefly , of the debate on Stanley 's government resolutions for emancipation followed by a period of apprenticeship of 14 May 1833 indicates a clear shift to acceptance of abolitionist assumptions . |
| 21 | Marjanov 's early training as a machine-fitter was followed by a period of study with Megert at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf , where the artist now lives and works in the Ratherstrasse artists ' collective . |
| 22 | However , the swift rout of China in 1894–95 was followed by a period of tense rivalry between Russia and Japan culminating in the war of 1904–05 . |
| 23 | That structure of international regulation broke down in the 1970s and has been followed by a period of instability where it is uncertain whether US hegemony can be re-established or whether a different mode of regulation under Japanese or European domination will be constructed . |
| 24 | The first , consecutive pattern , in which a period of theoretical study is followed by a period of supervised practice , is associated mainly with some of the traditional professions such as medicine , dentistry , veterinary science , law and to a large extent engineering . |
| 25 | A net outflow from the UK until the 1931 Census was followed by a period of net inward migration which culminated in the early 1960s in the peak arrivals of migrants from the ‘ new Commonwealth ’ , chiefly the Caribbean and the Indian sub-continent , reflecting a UK shortage of labour in the long ‘ post-war boom ’ . |
| 26 | The searing impact of recession left behind the raw legacy of redundant sites and workers in all of the northern conurbations , above all because it was followed by a period of jobless growth in industry ( 1982–87 ) . |
| 27 | POST-PARTUM ABSTINENCE — Normal sexual relations will obviously not be resumed immediately after termination of a pregnancy , which is naturally followed by a period of abstinence . |
| 28 | The collapse of the ceasefire agreement reached in Gbadolite ( Zaire ) in June 1989 [ see p. 36726 ] was followed by a period of intense fighting between the MPLA-PT government and UNITA in the first half of 1990 , centred on the battle for control of Mavinga , a strategic UNITA base near its Jamba headquarters in the south-east of the country . |
| 29 | In primary sclerosing cholangitis standard liver function tests may improve after diagnosis — a result of diagnosis tending to be at times of maximal abnormality in a fluctuating course and likely therefore to be followed by a period of partial remission . |
| 30 | There is some evidence that Cornish tin-mining maintained a reasonable level of production , although with some fluctuations : a sharp drop just after the Black Death and a boom at the end of the fourteenth century were followed by a period of depression in the half-century after 1430 , with a considerable recovery by the early sixteenth century . |