Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [prep] a period " in BNC.

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1 By s12 of the Solicitors Act , the Law Society is given discretion to grant or refuse an application for a practising certificate in the following cases : ( 1 ) a first application ; ( 2 ) an application by a solicitor who has never held an unconditional certificate since admission ; ( 3 ) where 12 months or more will have elapsed since a practising certificate was last held ; ( 4 ) after the disciplinary tribunal has ordered a penalty or costs against the applicant or delivered a reprimand ; ( 5 ) after failure by the applicant to offer sufficient explanation for his or her professional conduct after being called upon so to do ; ( 6 ) after failure to deliver an accountant 's report in due time ( and an additional fee will be payable if the discretion is not invoked to refuse the application ) ; ( 7 ) after the expiry of a period of suspension ; ( 8 ) after the name of the applicant who has been struck off is restored to the roll ; ( 9 ) while the applicant is an undischarged bankrupt ; ( 10 ) after the applicant 's discharge from bankruptcy or after the applicant has entered into a composition or deed of arrangement for the benefit of his creditors ; ( 11 ) while the applicant is a patient as defined by s94 of the Mental Health Act 1983 or a person as to whom powers have been exercised under s104 of the Mental Health Act 1959 or s98 of the 1983 Act ; ( 12 ) where the applicant has received a sentence of imprisonment ; ( 13 ) where the applicant has failed to satisfy a money judgment against him or her which is not a judgment limited to costs and which is not a judgment in respect of which indemnity or relief from some other person is available .
2 7.6.5 If upon the expiry of a period of [ 3 ] years commencing on the date of the damage or destruction the Premises and the Retained Parts have not been rebuilt or reinstated so that the Premises are fit for the Tenant 's occupation and use either party may by notice served at any time within [ 6 ] months of the expiry of such period invoke the provisions of clause 7.6.6
3 The third pattern is the post-experience one in which students come to theoretical or systematic study of the field after a period of practice .
4 That the document containing the statement was produced by the computer during a period over which the computer was used regularly to store or process information for the purposes of any activity regularly carried on over that period , whether for profit or not , by any body , whether corporate or not , or by any individual ;
5 Nylon bristles are not to be recommended because they are likely to create static electricity in the coat and may actually damage the hair over a period of time .
6 Marshall ( 1974 ) , for instance , insists on the necessity for a period of " scrambling " ( others call it " gestation " ) between the experience or stimulus and the writing .
7 She was followed soon afterwards by Dr Greenaway , the BDA 's President who had rendered magnificent service to the Association over a period of thirty years .
8 The term of the grant is sixteen years , but where it appears that a patentee has been insufficiently remunerated , the Court may extend the term for a period not exceeding five , or , in an exceptional case , ten years .
9 In Technograph Printed Circuits Ltd v Chalwyn Ltd [ 1967 ] RPC 339 a restrictive covenant prevented the employee for a period of two years after the end of his employment from being associated with any company in the UK concerned with manufacture of " printed electrical circuits " .
10 be required to work in the industry for a period in order to improve his management competences before undertaking a project on a new topic area .
11 I the defendant Doctor David against a decision of the taxing master , taxing master of right , er given on the thirteenth of August nineteen ninety three , whereby the taxing master disallowed interest on plaintiff 's bill of the cost in the action for a period from the first of November nineteen ninety one to the twenty seventh of May nineteen ninety three , the defendant in his notice of appeal , claims that the taxing master should have disallowed interest for a longer period , in addition to the period he actually al disallowed int namely there should be additional disallowance for the period from the twenty forth of April nineteen ninety one to the thirty first of October nineteen ninety one or for such other periods as the court deems just .
12 It was the prelude to a period of closer co-operation in the Middle East which began to break up only in the later 1960s when the British government decided to retreat from most of its " East of Suez " commitments .
13 The delay had been the result of a period of frantic bargaining between the Likud and its smaller orthodox or nationalist coalition partners .
14 It matters little whether the " facts " have been produced by questionnaires , found by searching through records , or are the result of a period of participant observation .
15 Eight mother-infant dyads are participating in the study for a period of two years , starting when the infants are six months old .
16 The rural development centre CEPROR ( Centro de Romocion Rural ) ran special courses for young women , Sister Asuncion , who was in charge of the programme over a period of two years ( 1975–7 ) , helped train approximately 2.000 young women in community work .
17 Erm we also wanted to implement a plan er and this is an ongoing er situation of admitting er young blood to the partnership over a period of of erm five years or so , again that 's a rolling programme
18 Er but in order to introduce reasonable facilities for shop stewards , we had to make approaches to the management over a period of time .
19 David Stirling felt that this was a waste of time and resources and that it should be possible for a large group to maintain itself in the desert for a period of several weeks .
20 By a notice of motion dated 14 February 1992 the local authority appealed against those parts of the order which directed that there should be no contact between the father and the girl until after the local authority review and that there should be supervised contact between the girl and her half-sister , on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had been wrong in law in failing to invite the parties to comment on the agreed proposals for contact ; ( 2 ) the justices had been wrong in law in failing to indicate to the parties the nature of the orders for contact which they proposed to make , thereby depriving the parties of the opportunity to make submissions relating to those proposals ; ( 3 ) the justices had wrongly exercised their discretion in authorising the local authority to refuse contact to the girl by the father for only six months when they had found as a fact , inter alia , that the father had abused the girl over a period of at least 18 months ; ( 4 ) the justices had been wrong to impose the condition of supervision on contact between the girl and her half-sister when there had been no application for such contact to be supervised , the evidence was that the half-sister had been enjoying unsupervised contact and that there was no evidence that there was any risk of the girl coming into contact with her father while having contact with her half-sister , and the justices had heard evidence that the local authority were considering placing the girl with her half-sister and by their order they had precluded the local authority from making such a placement and had fettered the discretion of the local authority ; and ( 5 ) the order was therefore contrary to the girl 's best interests .
21 In areas of endemic haemonchosis it has often been observed that after the advent of a period of heavy rain the faecal worm egg counts of sheep infected with H. contortus drop sharply to near zero levels due to the expulsion of the major part of the adult worm burden .
22 After the grubs have eaten extensive ‘ galleries ’ in the wood over a period of years , with the resultant dust being emitted in bun-shaped pellets , the larva enters a pupal stage lasting three to six weeks and emerges as a fully grown beetle .
23 Birth parents may relinquish their child for adoption at the time of birth or at a subsequent date , possibly having cared for the child over a period of months or years .
24 On the other hand , they are probably less likely to join the transient homeless moving out of the area , and a number may well have returned to the sub-continent for a period , thus masking levels of continuing illness .
25 ‘ a condition contained in debentures … is not invalid by reason only that the debentures are thereby made irredeemable or redeemable only on the happening of a contingency ( however remote ) or on the expiration of a period ( however long ) any rule of equity to the contrary notwithstanding . ’
26 The beginning of that evolution is usually dated to the constitution which Solon produced for the city in or around the year 594 BC.Solon 's intervention was itself the outcome of a period of conflict between " the masse and " the notable , according to the account given by Aristotle in The Athenian Constitution .
27 On the level of social meaning , the transition could be seen as associated with the move from a period dominated by the modernist critique of mass culture to the period of ‘ post-modernism ’ .
28 This thesis describes work undertaken by the author over a period of four years in the Department of Computing at Nottingham Trent University .
29 A recent report by the National Radiological Protection Board ( NRPB ) said the iodine-131 may have killed 13 people through cancer of the thyroid over a period of decades .
30 But what will be the effect of extending the interval to a period of days or even weeks ?
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