Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] the period " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bronze obelisk is 22 metres high and is decorated with the names of the dead of the Five Days together with a group of five weary people symbolizing both the period and the spirit of the Milanese . |
| 2 | It is clear that the planning meeting was for the purpose of deciding how the period in secure accommodation should be managed . |
| 3 | It will , therefore , be capable of cutting short the period of time available for an activated word detector to generate and transmit a code to the lexical output systems . |
| 4 | In Turkey , the September coup brought to power a military regime headed by General Evren , cutting short the period of civilian parliamentary politics in which the personalities of Ecevit and Demirel were prominent and which was marred by much violence , urban and rural alike , with right- and left-wing extremists involved . |
| 5 | Taking only the period in which this book has been written , and limiting the location to the UK , there have been numerous similar press-provoked scandals in which the homosexual has kept turning up where he or she should not , especially at the ‘ respectable ’ centre of things : in MI5 , the Houses of Parliament , as parliamentary candidate , schoolteacher , council employee , prison chaplain , vicar , guard to the Queen Mother , film star , circuit judge , to cite only some ( and some whose lives have been destroyed by homophobic media harassment ) . |