Example sentences of "period was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The greatest missionary of our whole period was the Devonian St Boniface . |
| 2 | Perhaps the most important stimulus to the musico-liturgical development of this whole period was the introduction of Roman chant under Pepin III , father of Charlemagne , at Metz cathedral where a saintly ancestor ( Arnulph ) had been bishop in the previous century . |
| 3 | The great achievement of this period was the eradication of the very large hacienda from the countryside . |
| 4 | But the most annoying aspect of the early period was the lack of real interest shown by our first council members — at times we could n't muster up the required six members for a quorum at the monthly meetings . |
| 5 | For one seasoned Whitehall figure involved in the build-up to the Falklands War , in the conflict itself and its aftermath , among the starkest lessons of the greatest trauma of the Thatcher period was the way in which the shortcomings of contemporary Cabinet government were thrown into sharp relief . |
| 6 | The T'ang period was the main flowering of culture in China , and more poetry was written during that time than any other . |
| 7 | One of the points that distinguishes Green from many of the artists who made prints of the Lake District at this period was the fact that he was one of the few who prepared and drew on the plates and etched the images himself . |
| 8 | The Second Period was the time during which was laid down the evidence the nature of which has been revealed by men such as Charles Darwin and others , who gave to the world an understanding of the way in which evolution has operated through thousands of millions of years . |
| 9 | Lenin 's theme in this early period was the need to install an efficient system of accounting and control , and to bring all factories and mines back to full production as soon as possible , even if this meant employing former owners and managers at high salaries . |
| 10 | A new feature of memoirs of this period was the introduction of photographs illustrating geological features . |
| 11 | Most striking in the immediate postwar period was the alacrity with which official Labour leaders discarded the patriotic card . |
| 12 | A very significant change in the towns of the First or Old Temple Period was the development of the temples as major craft centres . |
| 13 | A standard vessel in the later Greek period was the peniekonier , the fifty-oar ship , thought by Bury ( 1951 ) to have come into use in the eighth century BC , and it may be that the seal showing a vessel with thirty oars was intended to represent the Minoan forerunner of this Greek type of warship . |
| 14 | A major centre of Diktynna-worship in the classical period was the Diktynnaion , a great temple on a peninsula to the west of Kydonia . |
| 15 | One example of this changed attitude to the role of the newspaper in the post-War period was the readiness of some newspapers to treat all political parties with equal respect . |
| 16 | Central to the so-called ‘ Great Reforms ’ of the period was the abolition of serfdom . |
| 17 | He thought his best period was the pictures he did in the Thirties , when he worked in France ’ . |
| 18 | One of the last examples for this period was the conscious creation of a further naval base at Granville , in western Normandy , called the ‘ clef du pays par mer et par terre ’ by Charles VII in the charter by which he granted privileges to those who would come to settle there to keep it for the good of France . |
| 19 | Yet the major achievement of the Nixon period was the improvement in relations with the Communist powers through the policy of " d e tente " , the deliberate lowering of tension . |
| 20 | The major development during the inter-war period was the establishment of English studies as a bulwark against , rather than force for social change and cultural innovation . |
| 21 | An outstanding feature of the interwar period was the sprawl of suburbia into the surrounding countryside , especially in the South East . |
| 22 | The wealth of diamonds incorporated in her regalia reflected the fact that Catherine presided over a realm that for a short period was the world 's leading producer . |
| 23 | I would say the thing that kept me sane during that period was the fact that I had a part time job , and erm we were able to pay for some home help . |
| 24 | An accompanying central government preoccupation about local government in this period was the fact that it was becoming an increasing spender ( not surprisingly , in the light of central government 's expectations of it in areas like education , personal social services and housing ) . |
| 25 | But the dominant urban feature in the inter-war period was the growth and spread of London . |
| 26 | One of the most important new groups to emerge during this period was the Council for the Preservation of Rural England ( CPRE ) , formed in 1926 as an initiative in part , of the President of the Town Planning Institute , Patrick Abercrombie . |
| 27 | The most significant development in this period was the profound shift in attitudes towards the State : against the exercise of public control and more sympathetic towards the operation of the free market . |
| 28 | The penalty which had the greatest proportional increase over this period was the fine , roughly doubling in its proportionate use from 27 per cent to 53 per cent while probation also declined from 15 per cent of all sentences to 7 per cent ( Bottoms 1983 ; see Table 7.1 ) . |
| 29 | His first and most spectacular project in this period was the new Antrim coast road of 1832–7 , which involved much blasting and tunnelling in the cliffs between Larne and Ballycastle . |
| 30 | William Gray , junior , the older son , had a nursery garden in Fulham , at Parson 's Lane , later Peterborough Road , but the better known Fulham garden of the period was the one established before 1700 by the elder William Gray and later taken over by Christopher . |