Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [det] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two described here were of that period and were most likely to have been inspired by our invisible mentor , Charles Hayward , the then editor of The Woodworker . |
| 2 | ‘ We congratulate Miss Edis on being one of the pioneers in this country ’ said the journal The Amateur Photographer and Photography 1992 , without referring to her sex and to the number of women cinematographers there actually were in this period . |
| 3 | The three organizers , however , and many of the painters most directly concerned , were at this period working in a Cubist idiom . |
| 4 | It was during this period that he formed a mixed media trio called Feathers comprising himself , Hermione and John Hutchinson who came from Hull . |
| 5 | It was during this period that it became the second major party in British politics , and Britain 's leading progressive party . |
| 6 | As was indicated in Chapter 1 , it was during this period that Britain officially returned to the gold standard and free trade . |
| 7 | It was during this period that a young buyer for Adidas based in Liverpool ( but originally from Yorkshire ) set up shop in a small back-street in Liverpool City Centre . |
| 8 | It was during this period that the wheel and most of the machinery was stripped out . |
| 9 | It was during this period that horoscopic astrology was invented , probably in the fifth century BC . |
| 10 | It was during this period that the boroughs of Bethnal Green , Stepney , Mile End and Poplar witnessed a net loss of population for the first time . |
| 11 | It was during this period of political passivity that the middle class and petit bourgeoisie , with the tacit approval of the local industrial bourgeoisie , cemented an alliance in the movement toward incorporation of West Ham . |
| 12 | It was during this period of considerable stress and pressure that we began to move towards a multi-oppression analysis as a basis for training and for the work . |
| 13 | It was during this period that Caledor oversaw the building of the fortresses at Griffon Gate , Phoenix Gate , Eagle Gate , Dragon Gate and Unicorn Gate . |
| 14 | It was during this period that with the cooperation of the US Occupation , parts of the bureaucracy , elected conservative politicians and private employers sought to alter the extent of labour rights in order , it was argued , to maintain internal political stability . |
| 15 | It was during this period that he conceived the idea of an airline devoted to small package shipments . |
| 16 | It was during this period of what used to be called the Dark Ages that the ethnic map of Europe began to assume a character which in the main survives today . |
| 17 | It was during this period that savage Turkish reprisals against Balkan nationalist movements gave the last of the sultans an unsavoury reputation for religious persecution which has coloured the writings of some western historians in their assessment of the whole record of the Ottoman empire . |
| 18 | And it was during this period that he published , in fair French , his monograph on artificial daylight ( Lettre sur les moyens de produire , la nuit , une lumière pareille à celle du jour , 1785 ) and his second essay on light and vision ( Théorie de la lumière , applicable aux arts , et principalement à la peinture , 1786 ) . |
| 19 | It was during this period that he took into his service Perkin Warbeck [ q.v. ] , who later claimed to be Edward IV 's son , Richard , Duke of York [ q.v . ] . |
| 20 | It was during this period that the main lower peat of the Fens , with its bog oak , was formed . |
| 21 | Astonishing though it may seem , it was during this period of external and internal tension that Franco found the time and tranquillity necessary to write a novel , which was later converted into a film script . |
| 22 | In January 1936 he joined Imperial Airways and quickly became known as the " Boy Wonder " and it was during this period , he later admitted , that he committed the only error of judgement in his entire flying career . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , it was during this period , just after her son was born , when Rose had opened her first shop . |
| 24 | Although the number of births might fall , there was throughout this period an excess of births over deaths — and , indeed , an excess over deaths plus the loss by emigration . |
| 25 | Keith was able to appoint officers even to the coveted rank of captain , which was in that period for all practical purposes the ultimate promotion , since admirals were drawn automatically from the more senior members of the captains ' list . |
| 26 | It was in this period too that a club 's control over a player was first challenged in the law courts . |
| 27 | It was in this period that the first organised adult meetings began to be held , first in Glasgow then in Edinburgh , London , Manchester and Leeds . |
| 28 | It was in this period , very roughly between 1050 and 1150 , that we can most readily discern the revival of many independent cities ; and it was in the 1150s that the first serious challenge to their independence was mounted by the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa . |
| 29 | It was in this period that Fleischmann and he began to discuss projects , but they did not start working on any until Pons joined the University of Utah , moving to Salt Lake City in 1983 . |
| 30 | It was in this period that de Gaulle was anxious to proceed with devising the CAP and it seemed because of this that he might make concessions to his partners . |