Example sentences of "[verb] [art] long period [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The human being ( a far more complex creature inhabiting a far more complex world ) needs to be highly adaptive and has a long period of play in which to build up a vast repertoire of behaviours .
2 In Britain most children have already undergone a long period of conservative management at the hands of their general practitioners , often with trials of non-operative intervention using long term antibiotics .
3 When Anthony Crosland declared that the ‘ party is over , he can not have realized that the Government 's cuts presaged a long period in which the Labour Party itself would be seriously threatened — partly because of its association with supposedly spendthrift urban policies .
4 Wigan chairman Jack Robinson said : ‘ We have had a long period of success under a lot of good coaches and we are confident John can do a great job for us . ’
5 If children have had a long period without normal feeding experiences they find difficulty in accepting oral food , chewing , and swallowing .
6 To conclude that the potential for peasant revolution against the status quo remained undiminished in the decade after 1905 does not of course , dispose of the liberal contention that given a longer period of peaceful development the prospects would have changed .
7 The outbreak of hostilities had the immediate effect of silencing most of those within Congress who had spoken out against war , and effectively removed the argument that sanctions should be given a longer period in which to work .
8 However , there is an equally wide body of opinion , expressed mainly by manufacturing industries , which oppose such a move because it believes that it would disrupt the long period of uninterrupted production between the August holiday and the Christmas break .
9 But this preoccupation can do little to illuminate the long period of non-divorce and tends in the end to convey a linear development , implied also by the title of the book , notwithstanding Stone 's concern to stress the variability in the meanings of divorce , marriage , and morality .
10 From 1981 to 1985 the figure had fallen to about 0.33 per cent per annum , and London actually gained population in 1984 , thus reversing a long period of decline .
11 After a century there began a long period of sea warfare and skirmishing over the north of Ulthuan .
12 The document also contains a clause stating that each EC country can continue to give a longer period of maternity leave , which must be paid at 80% of women 's wages .
13 Following surgery to the heart or lungs , or any operation requiring a long period under anaesthesia , some patients fail to regain the ability to breathe independently and require mechanical assistance .
14 There then followed a long period of muddle and confusion not helped by the fact that no one had a recent photograph of Blake and that it was a Saturday evening .
15 There followed a long period of explanation of what we did followed by negotiations on what we would have to do to meet the standard .
16 Either way , the outcome is a marked legacy in the economic landscape , representing today the ‘ continuing influence of Britain 's historical international position ’ ( Massey , 1986 ) : by the time of the 1930s depression , some of the greatest industrial regions of Britain , the specialist production regions of textiles , steel , ships and coal exports , with their ports , had already entered a long period of continuous decline .
17 However , where the assumption is a letting for a term expiring after the actual term on the terms of the actual lease , the hypothetical lease may have a long period without review .
18 The meeting was timely because Hamish Kidd , a Cambridge chemical engineer who had spent a long period in general management consultancy with P-E Consulting Group , had developed systems to introduce executive search into P-E when it was sanctioned as an allowable technique by the Management Consultants Association ( MCA ) .
19 Clarkson 's account of his entry into his antislavery role stressed the long period of crisis in which he indecisively debated with himself and James Ramsay what to do .
20 The Secretary of State has power to allow a longer period for the giving of a notice of appeal but he will not normally be prepared to exercise this power unless there are special circumstances which excuse the delay in giving notice of appeal .
21 Mr Ball urged the Government not to whittle away mortgage relief and to have a neutral Budget to allow a longer period of stability .
22 There is nothing at all romantic about this sympathy for the underdog : as a midshipman , we are told , Aubrey had been disrated for an unsavoury escapade and had served a long period on the lower deck , an experience which he never forgot .
23 This was viewed as crucial to end the long period of disruption in schools and to deal with the problems of student demotivation .
24 These long-term priming effects are explained , within the logogen model , by assuming that after threshold has been reached activation dies down rapidly at first over a period of a second or so , but does not quite reach the normal resting level : there follows a long period during which there is very slow decay of residual activation — a period measured in hours or even days .
25 It takes time for UV to penetrate all the way through the etch-resist , so a thicker coating of sprayed-on resist will require a longer period of UV exposure .
26 Even if he had got the kind of constitution that he wanted , could he have stomached the long period of economic rebuilding — with all its attendant constraints — that lay ahead of France in 1946 ?
27 This has created a long period of uncertainty , but in fact it now appears that they do not grant core funding ( and inside information indicates that the NCC element is the dominant one ) .
28 Second , a large proportion of the older workers had a long period of service with the same company before being made redundant .
29 Following this we have the long period of isostatic emergence , rapid weathering of the new mountains with the formation of molasse-type deposits , widespread red bed sedimentation and also perhaps a period of glaciation , before peneplanation , widespread marine transgressions and the recommencement of the cycle in new troughs .
30 Even after the Union of the Crowns there remained a long period during which old traditions and suspicions simmered uneasily , and old local enmities flared up at the slightest provocation .
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