Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet it is known that between one third and one half of mentally handicapped people currently resident in mental handicap hospitals should not be in hospital and could be either immediately discharged or discharged after a short period of training . |
| 2 | If the site chosen is in the opinion of the local authority not suitable for the carrying on of an offensive trade , being for example too near to residential properties then consent may be refused , or granted for a limited period or subject to conditions . |
| 3 | However , it is unclear whether survival rates of those with dementia have increased or decreased over the post-war period . |
| 4 | Concentrations of two other heavy metal pollutants , cadmium and zinc , were more than halved during the same period . |
| 5 | Another reason for our inability to give accurate figures is due to the prevalence of several other types of population movement , some of them on a huge scale , although extended over a longer period . |
| 6 | Moreover , both total exports and exports of manufactured goods increased more than GDP , which more than doubled over the whole period . |
| 7 | Such further offer shall be made in the same manner and limited by a like period as the original offer . |
| 8 | Such further offer shall be made in the same manner and limited by a like period as the original offer . |
| 9 | Secondly , anything suggested by the Progressive Democrats has to be automatically suspect , on the grounds that the Pee Dees are a miserable bunch of motherfuckers who , when Sam Snort grasps the reins of power , will all be rounded up and interned for an indefinite period . |
| 10 | Hence the focus is on local politics , on the ways in which these have changed and developed over the post-war period and on the concepts and theories used to account for such changes . |
| 11 | All sorts of schemes were thought up to keep people busy and occupied during the trying period of ‘ waiting to be demobbed . ’ |
| 12 | Hall gives special significance , though , to ‘ popular morality ’ and the ways in which ‘ new kinds of commonsense ’ have been established and imposed in the recent period . |
| 13 | In the Chandni Chowk shopkeepers boarded up their premises , buried their treasure and prepared for a long period of unrest . |
| 14 | Signatories of GATT could institute tariff changes which might discriminate against third parties only if done over a long period of time , so giving those third parties the opportunities of adjusting to the change without suffering severe economic disruption . |
| 15 | The New Oxford English Dictionary Project requires a sophisticated and novel computer system to be built and commissioned in a short period of time . |
| 16 | Corticosteroids , if used for a prolonged period , can cause a type of dependency . |
| 17 | Although mistrusting children , he showed an absorbed interest as he took the photographs and gazed at Henrietta ( fourteen ) , Samantha ( just ten ) and the baby Jacqueline ( now three and born after a long period during which Hugh had displayed a lack of interest in physical contact ) . |
| 18 | In East Berlin , the well-known opposition figure , Pastor Rainer Eppelmann , said the talks set an example for the whole country , and called for a two-week period of calm on the streets . |
| 19 | As in most parts of Britain the Hercynian movements at the end of the Carboniferous were accompanied and followed by a long period of erosion . |
| 20 | This pleasure would appear to have been remote from the adult satisfactions mentioned in the previous paragraph and is a manifestation of the ‘ joie de vivre ’ which is at the very heart of the urge for life , which is itself the product of ‘ desire ’ as introduced and discussed in the Second Period . |
| 21 | Short-term wage work is work that is paid for and contracted for a specific period of time , whether that be a day or a season . |
| 22 | ‘ In the reign of the Most Gracious Sovereign , George III and under the auspices of the Right Hon. William Fettes , Lord Provost of Edinburgh , the Harbour of Leith , though formed at a remote period and as commerce in the course of ages increased often repaired and extended , yet being still narrow and incommodious , Robert Dundas of Melville , Esq. , in absence of the Right Hon. Charles , Earl of Dalkeith , Grand Master of Scotland , laid the foundation stone of these docks in which the numerous vessels arriving from every quarter of the globe might receive ample and secure accommodation on the 14th day of May in the year of our Lord 1801 and of the Aera of Masonry 5801 , John Rennie being Engineer . |
| 23 | In particular , the Company promised in the advertisement to pay £100 to anyone who contracted influenza after using a carbolic smoke ball as instructed for a specified period . |
| 24 | Mrs. Carlill saw the advertisement , purchased a smoke ball , used it as instructed for the specified period and nevertheless caught ‘ flu . |
| 25 | Tree removal in such a system , as occurred in the 1607–1900 period of US history , will inevitably lead to forest demise , but if the ecological system is carefully managed there are large-scale opportunities to reap a timber harvest without jeopardising sustainability . |
| 26 | Coal-and gas-powered stations are more economical when used for a shorter period . |
| 27 | A spokesman at IBM Corp 's East European headquarters in Vienna claimed that the company exceeded the internal sales targets set for the first quarter of 1993 , and succeeded in increasing its turnover in the region by around 30% when compared with the same period last year . |
| 28 | Beer consumption fell as compared to the pre-war period , and did not pick up again to 1945 levels until 1968 . |
| 29 | The problem has been yet further exacerbated in the modern age as compared with the patristic period by what one must see as the demise of the doctrine of the trinity and its replacement by a tritheism . |
| 30 | The cut was due in part to a recent series of pipeline ruptures and oilfield accidents and to a 4 per cent drop in Soviet oil production in the first half of 1990 ( as compared with the same period in 1989 ) . |