Example sentences of "of a period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attempting to capture the spirit of a period is another planning strategy for a survey , though this philosophical notion of a Zeitgeist is notoriously elusive . |
| 2 | The availability of a period pub , particularly one representing the highly popular 1930s , could create a new market where none existed before . |
| 3 | To move from ‘ art ’ to ‘ craft ’ is rather plainly a further contraction , or diminution : and it will be radically misunderstood unless we remember that for Pound the level of craftsmanship ( not just in letters , but in supposedly humbler trades also ) is a register , a thermometer-reading , of the good or ill health of a period or of a society . |
| 4 | Motion will have to do better than this if he seriously intends his series of novels to capture the feel of a period . |
| 5 | It was recognised that the vagaries of the weather make pre-selection of a period for a close-down impossible . ’ |
| 6 | He did not believe in the 1952 Global Strategy paper 's concept of a period of ‘ broken-backed war ’ after an indecisive nuclear exchange in Europe that would give the Navy a worthwhile role in the Atlantic in global war . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Another variant is the shorthold tenancy , created by the Housing Act 1980 , whereby the lessor and lessee agree to a fixed-term letting of a period not less than one and not more than five years certain , carrying with it automatic security of tenure for the period agreed . |
| 9 | ‘ We are in the midst of a period of considerable change , ’ said breed society president Wilson McCracken , Co Antrim . |
| 10 | In Les Gommes ( 1953 ) , Robbe-Grillet adopts a mock-Oedipal detective story format : the detective Wallas , at the end of a period of 24 hours , kills the man whose ‘ murder ’ he had been sent to investigate . |
| 11 | The end of the campaign in North Africa marked the end of the ‘ classic ’ phase of SAS warfare and the beginning of a period in which Stirling 's high-level contacts were to be sorely missed . |
| 12 | The Robbins Report , and its acceptance in broad terms by the Conservative government of the day , marked the beginning of a period of rapid expansion . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The exact truth as to material fact ceases to be of importance in art — it is a student 's style — the style of a period when the mind is serene and unawakened to the tragical mysteries of life . ’ |
| 15 | In the event , the ending of their two Dorset years came with dramatic suddenness , and brought not a narrowing of their lives , as they might have feared , but the beginning of a period marked by profound and creative friendship . |
| 16 | Indeed at secondary level the timetable of the week seems to blind one to considerations of the length of a course : the number of periods in a week or six days is debated , rather than the length of a period or the number of hours in a course . |
| 17 | This is the inevitable product of a period during which the adults have failed to instil in the children truly effective consciences , resulting in an increase in uncivilised behaviour in all its endlessly varied forms , from the unfair ‘ jumping ’ of otherwise orderly queues waiting for goods or services , to acts of great cruelty and violence . |
| 18 | TELEVISION STUDIO IN GHANA IN 1966 AT THE END OF A PERIOD OF FAIRLY HIGH SPENDING ON THE MASS MEDIA BY THE GOVERNMENT OF KWAME NKRUMAH . |
| 19 | President Allende took office at the end of a period of economic recession . |
| 20 | If there is any possibility of a period of supervised practice before returning to work it is worth taking , in addition to any period of standard reorientation . |
| 21 | Following assessment and successful completion of a period of consolidation the nurse is then encouraged to proceed into a two part professional studies programme which leads to the National Board for Scotland Diploma in Professional Studies . |
| 22 | Gotz Adriani 's latest show for the Tübingen Kunsthalle , ‘ Cezanne 's paintings , masterpieces from four decades ’ marks the beginning of a period of radical reassessment of the artist 's career . |
| 23 | We are talking of a period and of a class in which nutritional deficiencies were commonplace . |
| 24 | In essence there were two general scenarios leading to the award of a DFC : firstly , an instance/incident considered worthy of an immediate award ; and , secondly a non-immediate award in recognition of a period of distinguished service , sometimes highlighting one or two instances . |
| 25 | This represents the very abrupt onset of a period of sustained high productivity and diatom mat flux . |
| 26 | Whilst legislative reforms such as changes in the abortion laws and the law governing homosexuality are viewed as essentially liberal measures , we are not to assume therefore that this was indicative of a period of unproblematically increasing sexual liberation . |
| 27 | They allow us to describe , as the episteme of a period , not the sum of its knowledge , nor the general style of its research , but the deviation , distances , the oppositions , the differences , the relations of its multiple scientific discourses : the epistemic is not a sort of grand underlying theory , it is a space of dispersion , it is an open field of relationships and no doubt indefinitely specifiable . |
| 28 | Even though the Treaty of Brêtigny represented a retreat from the terms Edward had offered in 1358 , it was the culmination of a period of outstandingly successful warfare . |
| 29 | The 1560s marked the beginning of a period of economic dislocation and social upheaval which stunted the development of Muscovy 's fragile ‘ proto-bourgeoisie ’ . |
| 30 | The completion of the computer system for Phase 1 of the New OED Project marks the end of a period of intensive and innovative software development . |