Example sentences of "a period and " in BNC.
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| 1 | In studying a period and a phase in which what could be proved at the time to be shadows were so determinedly pursued , is he after all studying not an aberration , not a deviation from the normal , but the common behaviour of mankind ? |
| 2 | About 700m ecus are still waiting to be collected , partly because spending tends to bunch at the end of a period and partly because Britain 's system of local-authority finance means that some councils can not use the money . |
| 3 | While it may be strategic for a juvenile male to appease larger ones for a period and while he may learn elaborate social skills in the process , his ultimate strategy is to replace the dominant animal in terms of access to required commodities — especially mates . |
| 4 | It is , however , less effective over a period and tends to be more expensive . |
| 5 | The latter are sometimes forgotten and left in the vagina at the end of a period and may be responsible for a persistent , foul , vaginal discharge , which is , however , easy to treat . |
| 6 | We are talking of a period and of a class in which nutritional deficiencies were commonplace . |
| 7 | Moreover , this was a new form of imprisonment whose aims were not confined to con-taining offenders for a period and deterring the populace from crime . |
| 8 | ‘ 6(1) A person appropriating property belonging to another without meaning the other permanently to lose the thing itself is nevertheless to be regarded as having the intention of permanently depriving the other of it if his intention is to treat the thing as his own to dispose of regardless of the other 's rights ; and a borrowing or lending of it may amount to so treating it if , but only if , the borrowing or lending is for a period and in circumstances making it equivalent to an outright taking or disposal . |
| 9 | It is not entirely clear why the end of such features grows for a period and then is recurved back towards the coast . |
| 10 | All examples show similar characteristics ; they are generally stone vaulted — an unusual feature in so early a period and rare in southern Europe — the majority have cupolas supported on squinches and/or intersecting barrel vaults ; the stonework is solid but crude ; ornament generally includes interlacing in bands of carving on stone borders and the patterns are made up from circles , diamonds or zig-zags — the interlacing is like a prototype of the later Romanesque basket work patterns . |
| 11 | it is n't necessary , well it is the same as saying it is n't true , it is n't necessary er because this will be built up over a period and it will be for er the Government in all the normal ways in the public expenditure round to decide how much goes into the passenger franchises and through that therefore into the Briti the Rail Track investment . |
| 12 | The concept is explained in s.6(1) : A person appropriating property belonging to another without meaning the other permanently to lose the thing itself is nevertheless to be regarded as having the intention of permanently depriving the other of it if his intention is to treat the thing as his own to dispose of regardless of the other 's rights ; and a borrowing or lending of it may amount to so treating it if , but only if , the borrowing or lending is for a period and in circumstances making it equivalent to an outright taking or disposal . |
| 13 | Chairman can I er suggest to these results of course over a period and I 'd like to see |
| 14 | So deep was the division on the " entrist tactic " that the unified body reached the compromise of working within the Labour Party for a period and then withdrawing for a time and continuing independent activity . |