Example sentences of "[vb base] a [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Organised at state level , the Guard is composed of part-timers who undergo a statutory period of training with the regular Army . |
| 2 | Towards the end of Year II , some students undertake a six-week period of placement or work experience in a record office , museum or folk park ; others follow a specially-designed short course which prepares them for Year III and for the world of work beyond graduation . |
| 3 | Towards the end of the second year some major or joint students of History undertake a six-week period of placement or work experience in a record office , museum or folk park ; others follow a specially-designed short course which prepares them for the final year and for the world of work . |
| 4 | The acquisitions cover a four-year period until 1991 and fall into three categories : paintings and works on paper , including graphics , sculpture and crafts . |
| 5 | The results show an initial period of maintained growth and then an oscillatory decline , presumably due to water stress . |
| 6 | ( Duncan Cubitt ) Above : Warbird reflections as the fighter Collection 's Hellcat , a pair of Beech 18s and the Dutch B–25 Mitchell enjoy a brief period of sunshine during Sunday 's display . |
| 7 | Whatever the arguments , teachers face a challenging period of adjustment — not just to the procedural formalities of the National Curriculum and its prescriptive content , but also to the psychology of regulation . |
| 8 | These Regulations give effect to a Directive of the European Community and , broadly speaking , give a cooling-off period of seven days to a customer who enters a contract ( to buy goods or services ) as a result of doorstep canvassing . |
| 9 | Others , including the DHSS in their last report on the subject favour a gradual period of change with a move to small home-like settings , believing that radical changes could place unfair burdens on the families of mentally handicapped people if they are simply unable to place their children , on leaving school , in any other form of residence . |
| 10 | Set a limited period for a trial and establish what you will try out and how you will test the results . |
| 11 | This is symptomatic of much more important weaknesses — Charles did not as Gale states ‘ hypothesise a glacial period in the distant past ’ as a stop gap for ignorance — James Smith of Jordanhill and others had already shown that there was good evidence for a cold period on actual fossils . |
| 12 | Normally an application must be served at least fourteen days before the hearing of it , though the court has power to extend or abridge time under s 376 , and under r 7.4(6) the court may hear an application immediately , with or without the attendance of the other party , or authorise a shorter period of service . |
| 13 | The new Regulations define a transitional period of 2 October 1992 to 31 December 1998 ( coinciding with the introduction of corporation tax Pay and File due in 1993 ) , during which provisional repayments in respect of accounting periods ending before 1 January 1999 are to be reduced by a prescribed percentage . |
| 14 | Allow a short period of silence when the first reading is finished . |
| 15 | In order to prevent the company from being sold beneath the management 's feet , it is essential that the parties agree an exclusive period of time during which the vendor agrees not to negotiate with third parties . |
| 16 | Patients who require a short period of removal from stress . |
| 17 | You have a reasonable period of time to decide whether or not to give up your job , but it is not easy to forecast what will be regarded as ‘ reasonable ’ . |
| 18 | we have a quiet period for a while and then all of a sudden they all crop up together . |
| 19 | Some eurobonds have a lock-up period of 90 days before they can be sold through the secondary markets to domestic investors . |
| 20 | At the end of the exercise have a short period of conversation while you concentrate on the fingertips on your larynx and on feeling the right degree of voice volume , your friend keeping check for you on the right amount of voice volume and indicating if it becomes too loud or too quiet . |
| 21 | They spend a short period at home full time while their children are small , then look for a job that will fit in with their family commitments . |
| 22 | The eggs are not immediately infective , but need a short period outside the body to mature . |
| 23 | The four months from March to July , 1989 , represent a crucial period in the research . |
| 24 | Mortar is applied to such areas as will be tessellated within a few hours , and certainly within the day ( hence giornata , for mortar patches which represent a completed period of work ) . |
| 25 | It seems natural to assume that as in the twenty-first century more people live to be very old , more of them will necessarily make heavier demands on health and social services ; that people who die in their nineties experience a longer period of dependency and illness before death than those who die in their seventies . |