Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [prep] the period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had it always been so in the period of the conflict with England ? |
| 2 | The Authors jointly and severally warrant to the Publisher that the Company is entitled to the relevant services of the Authors and is therefore in as position to contract in this way with the Publisher , and that this will continue to be so throughout the period of the Publishing Agreement . |
| 3 | Being still in the period of Stafford Crippsian austerity , I know it was rather plain and dull . |
| 4 | That he did not depart of his own free will is abundantly evidenced by the fact that he left behind all his belongings and expressed the intention of being back within the period of four hours . |
| 5 | What detailed changes were there during the period when D was formed ? |
| 6 | At Dunyveg there is a castle built on a rock almost surrounded by the sea and possibly on the site of a much older dun , but this important Macdonald stronghold is not of the period we are considering . |
| 7 | At Dunyveg there is a castle built on a rock almost surrounded by the sea and possibly on the site of a much older dun , but this important Macdonald stronghold is not of the period we are considering . |
| 8 | However nicknames today are used mostly in the place of christian names and the hey-day of this use in Halling was probably during the period of the late 19th century and the early 20th century . |
| 9 | It was also during the period 1924–35 that a forging of closer relationships between the WEA and the Trade Union movement was attempted . |
| 10 | It was also during the period when the Tourist Trophy races were in full flight on the old Ards circuit . |
| 11 | Therefore , I decided that I had the clue to something that had long baffled me , that whereas Levis 's strict division of the world into sensuous particulars and more intellectual abstractions — I hope I 'm being fair to him , I 'm caricaturing and shortening _ whereas this was applicable to the modern period , it probably was n't to the period I decided , I think , roughly before the eighteenth century , and with this in mind I then turned to the mysterious last plays of Shakespeare that we 've been talking about earlier and tried to see whether the sense one gets in those plays of love , for example , not as simply a logical construction for talking about the way people behave in relation to each other , but as some kind of spiritual entity existing prior to the human subjects in the play , whether that sense could be in some degree confirmed and explained by an investigation of the general use of universals in the period and earlier . |
| 12 | Therefore , I decided that I had the clue to something that had long baffled me , that whereas Leavis 's strict division of the world into sensuous particulars and more intellectual abstractions — I hope I 'm being fair to him , I 'm caricaturing and shortening — whereas this was applicable to the modern period , it probably was n't to the period , I decided I think roughly before the eighteenth century . |