Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [art] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | The years 1945–5 I were not a period for new ideas , but for remedial action . |
| 2 | The 1890s were also a period in which deaf art flourished . |
| 3 | Thus , while the 1950s and 1960s saw a growth in employment , they were also a period of significant delocalization and the manufacturing sector was increasingly composed of ‘ branch plants ’ . |
| 4 | The seventies were certainly a period of great change in attitudes within the Customs & Excise in general , and on the cutters in particular we saw great improvements in many ways with the acquisition of better technical equipment such as highly sophisticated radio communication , and the development of international relations . |
| 5 | " The first six months at the ICO were definitely a period of strange readjustment . " |
| 6 | The so-called ‘ age of reptiles ’ was merely a period when there were more reptiles than mammals because the earth had enjoyed uniformly hot conditions . |
| 7 | The eighteenth century was thus a period of slow evolution rather than radical change in military affairs . |
| 8 | Considering that this was just the period when women were making history , Thompson has got it very wrong indeed . |
| 9 | These disputes were once described as ‘ British sociology 's wars of religion ’ , and , while sociology emerged in the late 1970s as a stronger discipline than it had been previously , this was not a period which was very productive in terms of sociology 's public image . |
| 10 | This was not a period in which the British suffered defeats gladly , however much their lack of preparation in peacetime might seem to invite them . |
| 11 | The eighteenth century was not a period of gradual progress towards democracy in Britain , as Whig historians have tried to suggest , but of a determined retreat from it . |
| 12 | But this was not a period of straightforward centralized rule . |
| 13 | Indeed , in insurance the eighteenth century was generally a period of establishment rather than of rapid growth . |
| 14 | The purpose of the dance panel was to assess applications for degrees in dance , and as Brinson emphasizes , 1975–76 was still a period when it was possible to envisage the development of subjects and the availability of resources . |
| 15 | Since this was also a period of great affluence , it can only be assumed that the wealthy customers who commissioned the Kamares cups — aristocrats and priestesses among them — could now afford cups of precious metal instead . |
| 16 | This was also a period of rapid industrialisation , and hence a period of high labour demand . |
| 17 | But it was also a period of remarkable creativity , in which he wrote his novels Inclinations ( 1916 ) , Caprice ( 1917 ) , and Valmouth ( 1919 ) . |
| 18 | It was also a period when British industries recorded lower levels of output than comparable sectors in other countries . |
| 19 | He describes this period of work as one of , of terrible strain , it was also a period in which he was personally very unhappy , and I get the impression that he really did use the best of his mind on this problem , and that for the rest of his life he found it difficult to press his thinking home with the kind of ruthlessness that many of the problems that he then assumed required . |
| 20 | Strangely enough this was also the period when the Elves came to realise they were a dying race . |
| 21 | This was also the period in which the foundations of sociology were laid . |
| 22 | Significantly this was also the period of Lenin 's importation of the terminology of ‘ avant-garde ’ into politics . |
| 23 | This was also the period beyond which the Tominah priests could allegedly no longer cause the dead to walk . |
| 24 | The height of the cold war was also the period which has come to be known as the golden age of capitalism . |
| 25 | Yet this was also the period during which the United States became the main supplier of the hugely increasing need for raw cotton . |
| 26 | On the one hand , it was simply the period required for the sun , moon , and planets to attain the same positions in relation to each other as they had at a given time . |
| 27 | This was indeed a period , under the Labour government of Harold Wilson , when regional policy was strong . |
| 28 | There was certainly a period when I found myself TWW 's guinea pig in Wales . |