Example sentences of "[be] a [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Foster said : ‘ There has been a long period of uncertainty which always causes problems . |
| 2 | If I sound euphoric I make no apologies , It has been a superb period for English rugby and will also be a hard act to follow , but after the weekend of the Irish visit I am sure that we can go on to even greater things from here . |
| 3 | There had been a recent period of about five weeks during which , Alistair came to realize , he had gone clinically insane . |
| 4 | The years immediately following 725/6 must have been a crucial period in the establishment of Aethelbald of Mercia 's domination of southern England . |
| 5 | It had been a hectic period during which we had been under some pressure . |
| 6 | The Government can not say that because , by definition , the Government have to be comfortable with everything , but it has not been a profitable period for teachers in terms of their pay . |
| 7 | His tour of duty as security officer in the Soviet embassy in London had been a miserable period of his life : He had found the English so dull , preoccupied with strikes , a falling balance of payments and high unemployment . |
| 8 | The last years of Henry VII had been a prosperous period for the port — the average annual sum paid in customs dues from 1504 to 1509 was over £10,000 , and in the early years of Henry VIII a group of merchants had maintained voyages to Brazil . |
| 9 | The 12 months prior to the August invasion had been a positive period for Jordan . |
| 10 | The guidelines took effect on 1 August , but there will be a transitional period for the sake of students and members who began their pre- or post-qualification training before that date . |
| 11 | For instance , a year may be a reasonable period for a washing machine , but five years , or even ten , may be expected for building works . |
| 12 | Instead it was understood that there would be a long period of commodity circulation and all that that implied . |
| 13 | The committees are empowered to suggest amendments , and the bill which is returned to the house ( if it ever is ) may be substantially different from its original form ; there may be a long period of debate between representatives of the two houses of the Legislature and the Executive before consensus can be reached . |
| 14 | Under the new proposal for mental health services in mid Essex , there will be a three-month period of public consultation , running until August 17 . |
| 15 | As the time approaches to use published materials , reading schemes or carefully-selected ‘ real ’ books , there may be a preparatory period of sight-vocabulary building , using flash-cards ( word-matching , word-reading , etc . ) . |
| 16 | The first 20 minutes will be a crucial period for a derby that will have a strong bearing on promotion and relegation issues . |
| 17 | There may be a latent period of 30 years before it actually erupts . |
| 18 | On the one hand by 1983 the straight-forward expansionist strategy has been virtually abandoned , but on the other side the French authorities are striving to sustain an active supply-side policy to prevent the fabric of industry being destroyed during what is supposed to be a temporary period of demand restraint caused by international financial problems . |
| 19 | The Review recommended that there be a fixed period within which the parties would be required to set down the case for trial or to report to the court . |
| 20 | Once an action becomes defended there is to be a fixed period within which the parties will be required either to set the case down for trial , on the assumption that it has not been settled or been otherwise disposed of , or to report to the court . |
| 21 | There is said to be a rough period of about 100 days , but I have never been able to confirm this . |
| 22 | In the Berg judgment , Mr Justice Hobhouse considered the timing of Union Discount 's alleged reliance on the 1982 accounts : ‘ Furthermore , there would only be a limited period of time within which it would be reasonably foreseeable that a bank or discount house would rely upon a given set of audited accounts . |
| 23 | Must this period last until an agreement is reached by both parties , or will it be a finite period at the end of which the unions must accept the propositions put forward by their employers ? |
| 24 | Gravity has a similar effect ; a spaceship could skip close to a black hole for what would seem to be a short period of time and then emerge to find that , for the rest of the Universe , millions of years had passed . |
| 25 | This is the start of the heavy banqueting season , leading up to Christmas , which should be a busy period for a lot of hotel restaurants . |
| 26 | Moreover , the 1860s were a great period of standardisation and measurement . |
| 27 | This increase has been associated with a decline in the proportion of life which women spend in bearing and rearing children which has resulted in there being a significant period in women 's later lives in which they lack any major domestic occupation . |
| 28 | Do you know if there 's a deferred period of payments ? |
| 29 | Some months before each series , there is a frantic period of preparation . |
| 30 | In the history of European music the twelfth century is a key period of development , when the unison of Gregorian chant gave ground before polyphony — much to the disgust of conservative intellectuals like John of Salisbury , who complained of " the wanton and effeminate sound produced by caressing , chiming and intertwining melodies , a veritable harmony of sirens " . |