Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [prep] [art] [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is simply an agreement by each creditor to hold off and not to press his claim for settlement for an agreed period as long as the other creditors do likewise . |
| 2 | Equally clay moulds may have been produced by carving in the negative directly onto the clay ; while carving a negative is difficult it was achieved with success at other times , for instance in the medieval period with stone moulds . |
| 3 | All of them were ready for action after the long period of training , but when they arrived they found that a gale had brewed up . |
| 4 | Having defended the exclusion of capital punishment at Second Reading , the Home Secretary and his Ministerial colleagues conceded a free vote on a new clause moved at Report stage by a private member , Sydney Silverman , which had the effect of suspending the death penalty for murder for an experimental period of five years . |
| 5 | A case for seasonal adjustment exists where recognisable seasonal variations occur year after year with a fixed period and where the increases and decreases occur at about the same time and in about the same proportion each year . |
| 6 | It will all end up in those grim audio-visual departments where it will eventually be auctioned off for peanuts during a cost-saving period . |
| 7 | Prehistorians have rationalised this recently in the absence of documentary evidence by looking for different ‘ activity areas ’ within settlements and such concepts as food processing , craft areas , food storage areas , etc. could usefully be developed for sites in the historical period . |
| 8 | Lord Keith then seeks to distinguish the approach which should be taken in Webb from the ruling in James v Eastleigh Borough Council on the ground that Ms Webb was not dismissed simply because she was pregnant but because she would be unavailable for work at the critical period . |
| 9 | We know from literature that wood was used for statues in the archaic period , and very early wooden statuettes ( some Daedalic ) have been found on Samos . |
| 10 | Most of the cathedrals and churches have later alterations and additions but , in many cases , Romanesque work is present in quantity ; perhaps due to the depredations of Henry VIII , English abbeys and priories , instead of being given Baroque face-lifts , have survived , more or less , as ruins from the Medieval period ( PLATE 50 ) . |
| 11 | Records may have to be kept for reference over a long period of time and therefore they must be adequately protected . |
| 12 | Under Resolution 44/312 of Nov. 20 , the Assembly elected former Norwegian Foreign Minister Thorvald Stoltenberg as the UN High Commissioner for Refugees for a four-year period from Jan. 1 , 1990 . |
| 13 | A major centre of Diktynna-worship in the classical period was the Diktynnaion , a great temple on a peninsula to the west of Kydonia . |
| 14 | During his reign he added vast territories to the Frankish kingdom that he had inherited ; Lombardy ( the traditional enemy of both Franks and papacy ) , parts of Spain , all of Saxony over a prolonged period of campaigning , and Slavonic regions of the Drave and Elbe . |
| 15 | Second , a number of states in the Hellenistic period reduced the weight of their coinage . |
| 16 | In July 1991 the Ledingham-Smiths ' Trustee in Bankruptcy sought repayment of £16,000 , made up of four monthly payments of £1,000 within the relevant period of six months and the three payments of £4,000 . |
| 17 | Objectives ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) could consist of checks after a preliminary period of revision or practice carried out by the student on her own . |
| 18 | A Centre Re policy would cover the firm for total claims of $10m during the three-year period . |
| 19 | Equally , it is not unknown for a partner gradually to lose interest in mundane administrative matters : often enough the problems that this can cause are exacerbated by his co-partners allowing him to escape his share of responsibility over a long period . |
| 20 | Patients in their 80s now constitute 3.5% of those undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting at the Mayo Clinic ; 79% of 115 survivors were free of angina after a mean period of 29 months . |
| 21 | The men were taken into a tent and allowed to look at a group of objects for a short period after which they had to recall every detail they had observed . |
| 22 | Call rate ( number of calls in a given period ) |
| 23 | Within marriage , in Gorer 's group , the most frequent rate of intercourse — the number of times within a given period in which intercourse generally took place — was once or twice a week , in about a third of the marriages concerned . |
| 24 | The landlord requires security of income for a long period , and this is specially desirable where the landlord is an investing institution which pays out pensions or insurance policies , because a period of twenty-five years ' secure income facilitates the actuarial calculations necessary in order to determine the level of payments which the landlord can make . |
| 25 | The final report of the Royal Commission on the Distribution of Income and Wealth drew attention to the stability in the distribution of income in the post-war period . |
| 26 | First , the payment of this sum of money over a short period would have a considerable inflationary effect . |
| 27 | In 1923 the USA and Britain reached an agreement for repayment of debts over a 62-year period at 3.3% interest . |
| 28 | Our study design explains how we could detect a significant difference in urinary albumin excretion between two treatments in a small number of subjects for a short period of time : monthly measurements over 12 months increased the precision and consequently the power of our trial . |
| 29 | It may also be possible to argue that where the party has failed to respond to a notice of assignment from the purchaser , such lack of action over a long period is an implied consent where that party has dealt with the purchaser after completion . |
| 30 | The current Governor-General , Sir Veerasamy Ringadoo , would assume the functions of president for a transitional period , the duration of which was not fixed . |