Example sentences of "[verb] [art] long period of " 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 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 . ’
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 After a century there began a long period of sea warfare and skirmishing over the north of Ulthuan .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 Mr Ball urged the Government not to whittle away mortgage relief and to have a neutral Budget to allow a longer period of stability .
15 This was viewed as crucial to end the long period of disruption in schools and to deal with the problems of student demotivation .
16 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 .
17 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 ?
18 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 ) .
19 Second , a large proportion of the older workers had a long period of service with the same company before being made redundant .
20 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 .
21 Pan American World Airways , formerly the largest airline in the USA , announced on Jan. 8 that it had filed for protection from its creditors under Chapter 11 of the US insolvency code , following a long period of almost continuous losses which industry sources put at $3,000 million .
22 It seems natural to assume that as in the twenty-first century more people live to be very old , more of them will necessarily make heavier demands on health and social services ; that people who die in their nineties experience a longer period of dependency and illness before death than those who die in their seventies .
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