Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would certainly be necessary to make some further enquiries among the tourists , particularly about their activities during the key period between the time Kemp had arrived back in Oxford , and the pre-dinner drinks when everyone except Eddie Stratton , it appeared , was accounted for . |
| 2 | And fifteen minutes later , with all the completed questionnaires returned , there was good reason to suppose that Morse could be right , since three of those concerned , Eddie Stratton , Howard Brown , and John Ashenden , appeared temporarily unable to provide corroboration of their individual whereabouts and activities during the key period of the previous afternoon — the afternoon when the original groups , three of them , had been re-formed slightly ( following Kemp 's telephone call ) , and when anyone wishing to absent himself for some purpose would have been presented with a wonderful opportunity so to do . |
| 3 | This is simply an agreement by each creditor to hold off and not to press his claim for settlement for an agreed period as long as the other creditors do likewise . |
| 4 | The men were taken into a tent and allowed to look at a group of objects for a short period after which they had to recall every detail they had observed . |
| 5 | Routes to England and France are normally flown at flight levels 50 and 40 respectively , and present an opportunity for a reasonable period in cruise mode . |
| 6 | This was the first of two planned sales from the Korthaus collection , which was formed mainly during the 1960s by one of the German industrialists active in the field during the post-war period . |
| 7 | They had a mortgage with the Woolwich and an endowment for a fixed period of twenty five years |
| 8 | As we suggested in the introduction , " temporary workers are normally thought of as those who are not engaged on indefinite contract of employment , and the obvious opposite of an indefinite contract of employment is a contract for a fixed period of time . |
| 9 | The solicitors at the end of the chain are asked to release their contract for a specified period of time to the solicitors acting for the buyer next in line . |
| 10 | In order to obtain consistent results , it is best to expose the board for a timed period , though only the more expensive UV Light Boxes have a built-in timer . |
| 11 | A rates reduction for a certain period is inadequate to compensate for the great disruption that was caused to people seeking to make a living in that area — people who do not have the wherewithal or the ability to use the court system against the Minister . |
| 12 | The difference in motility indices for the total period and the postprandial period did not reach statistical significance . |
| 13 | The customer is given the right to cancel the contract during the cooling-off period . |
| 14 | Without autonomous change in tastes , or in technological possibilities , or in the availability of resources , no one can have any interest in altering his plans for the succeeding period . |
| 15 | The US delegation suggested extending a moratorium on all such operations for an extended period , perhaps of 50 years . |
| 16 | The Bill sought powers of compulsory purchase for a five-year period of all privately owned property on the site . |
| 17 | A logical consequence occurs when the parent intervenes and ( in the example above ) removes the toy while indicating that the child has ‘ chosen ’ or decided to play without the toy for a specified period of time because of his or her actions ( it is a form of response-cost ) . |
| 18 | The worst-affected region was the south-east with fraud cases for the six-year period totalling almost £1.21 billion . |
| 19 | A more informative example is that of samian pottery , produced mainly in factories in France and Germany during the Roman period and exported all over the Roman Empire . |
| 20 | Similarly , in some of the large industrial enterprises in Germany during the inter-war period with the introduction of standardised mass-production techniques a parallel emphasis was placed upon welfare measures ( company housing , provision of leisure activities , etc. ) as a means of motivation , promoting integration and worker commitment to the company . |
| 21 | As for Philip , the prospect of seeing the man who was supposed to marry his sister go off on crusade for an indefinite period seems to have been too much for him . |
| 22 | Indeed , as the indices stubbornly refused to improve , there seemed little prospect that interest rates would not remain at this historically high level for a long period to come . |
| 23 | In the case of architecture it is the idea that is seminal — little or nothing of the form is taken over ; but in sculpture what was to become the dominant type of Greek statue through the archaic period , the naked young man , kouros , owes a direct debt to Egyptian models . |
| 24 | And thirdly we have to satisfy you that in the circumstances of the operation the police were justified in restraining Mr with handcuffs for the short period of time that he was restrained and in addition Mrs who you will remember was restrained in her lounge , she was told she could n't leave the lounge , again for a few minutes . |
| 25 | The favourable labour conditions and the strong commitment of the Attlee government to regional policy resulted in substantial progress in this field : development areas gained 51 per cent of the total new industrial building during the two-year period 1945–7 . |
| 26 | At the same meeting the new CMC Chairman , Jiang Zemin , said that Deng 's " thought and theory on Army building during the new period will remain our treasure " . |
| 27 | As with all groups in Germany many question marks hang over its existence during the Nazi period . |
| 28 | During the CAST investigation , patients who had a proarrhythmia response during the early period of drug exposure were eliminated from the long-term study . |
| 29 | For a discount security with less than six months to maturity , the bond equivalent yield is the same as the simple equivalent yield ( 4.10 ) because the bond will have made only one coupon payment during the six-month period ( on the maturity date ) . |
| 30 | The usual system is for the client to say how much he will spend as a working budget during a certain period of time . |