Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] a period of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that a child is weaned early ( or undergoes a period of separation , or has minimal brain damage , or loses a parent through death ) will not by itself tell one about the eventual outcome . |
| 2 | This can set a mood or enhance a period of reflection . |
| 3 | In the final analysis the need for a swift response to an immediate housing shortage after the war painted almost inevitably to a large-scale local authority housing programme , rather than face a period of delay while housing associations were geared up to the task . |
| 4 | Because the Australian aborigines still exist at the hunter-gatherer level of culture they have no need for a weaning trauma in early childhood as is found among all primitive agriculturalists , and consequently children , although experiencing a period of oral dependency as they do in the West , linger in that stage , do not have to give it up and , in a sense , remain unweaned until adulthood — or , certainly until initiation , which is essentially the same thing . |
| 5 | To achieve this profile , students have to complete the general SVQ at level II , and undertake a period of work placement monitored by college staff . |
| 6 | With a transplant there is at least a chance that the victim will walk away from the hospital and enjoy a period of tolerable life ( slim though that chance may be ) . |
| 7 | But , in the meanwhile , ’ that hint of a smile deepened , ‘ I must insist that we both forget work , and enjoy a period of respite . ’ |
| 8 | Good fortune was with the government : world economic conditions improved and heralded a period of sustained growth in industrial output and trade . |
| 9 | It may be assumed that the impulse of cruelty arises from the instinct for mastery and appears a period of sexual life at which the genitals have not yet taken over their later role . |
| 10 | In the absence of both the ‘ political will ’ and the social forces which would have been required to go beyond the merely ‘ indicative ’ and technocratic attempt to alleviate the balance of payments constraint , the Wilson government used the only effective levers at its disposal to maintain the external balance : the old standby of fiscal deflation ; incomes policy , to hold down both labour costs of British firms and consumer spending on imports ; and then eventually devaluation of the currency which , although it did not abolish the trade constraint , at least temporarily pre-empted speculative pressure on the pound and brought a period of increased price competitiveness . |
| 11 | Held , allowing the appeal and substituting a period of postponement not to exceed six months ( Sir George Waller dissenting ) , that for the purposes of making an order for sale in favour of a trustee in bankruptcy under s. 30 of the Law of Property Act 1925 no distinction was to be made between a case where a property was being enjoyed as the matrimonial home and one where it had ceased to be so used ; that where a spouse , having a beneficial interest in such property , had become bankrupt , the interests of the creditors would usually prevail over the interests of the other spouse and a sale of the property ordered within a short period ; that only in exceptional circumstances , more than the ordinary consequences of debt and improvidence , could the interests of the other spouse prevail so as to enable an order for sale to be postponed for a substantial period ; and that , accordingly , since the circumstances of the wives and their children , albeit distressing , were not exceptional , the order sought by the trustee should be made . |
| 12 | In Scotland such discipline continued for over a century after it had been abandoned in England , and spanned a period of exceptionally rapid economic development and social change . |
| 13 | Ah yes , but now that 's very interesting because that 's not the same as was the old regulation with the H N D recognition with Napier , and it used to be as I understood it that you had to actually be in membership and leave a period of time between doing the certificate and the diploma . |
| 14 | Under section 245A , where copies of the annual accounts have been sent out , laid , or delivered to the Registrar and it appears to the Secretary of State that there is or may be a question whether they comply with the Act he may give notice to the directors indicating the respects in which it appears to him that the question may arise and specifying a period of not less than one month for the directors to give him explanations or prepare revised accounts . |
| 15 | Darren 's mother had recently been diagnosed as diabetic and had a period of several weeks in hospital . |
| 16 | Students have an opportunity to study the language of an Asian country , and to undertake a period of work experience in the UK with a firm or other organization currently involved in trade with the Far East . |
| 17 | Moses , in the following verses , gives advice about its infectivity and suggests a period of withdrawal from social intercourse during the infection . |
| 18 | So far there 've been no prosecutions but following a period of grace the speeders will now be taken to court . |
| 19 | It was widely held that the Koreans would not be ready for independence when the war ended : memories of the closing phase of the Yi dynasty did not inspire confidence in Korean ability for effective government and the era of Japanese dominance had been so repressive as to necessitate a period of readjustment . |