Example sentences of "[v-ing] [art] [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , new colonists in Gran Pajonal are employing a fallow period of only 7 years , which is likely to cause long-term nutrient depletion so that maintenance of crop productivity will only be possible with the addition of artificial fertilisers . |
| 2 | THE innocence of youth will give way to the pressures of adulthood when Duncan Ferguson plays against Germany at Ibrox tomorrow night , ending a nine-month period during which his future at the highest level looked in doubt . |
| 3 | Abe 's death was also a blow for the ambitions of other Recruit-tainted veteran LDP leaders , including former Prime Ministers Takeshita and Yasuhiro Nakasone ( the latter having recently rejoined the LDP after serving a two-year period of atonement outside the party ) . |
| 4 | On contemporary art sales undoubtedly enduring a difficult period at present he noted that even at the highest point of the market , revenue had not amounted to more than about 20% of the house 's total sales . |
| 5 | They went on to form a government led by Edouard Balladur of the RPR thus ushering a second period of cohabitation of a right-wing government with a socialist President ( François Mitterrand ) . |
| 6 | Naturally , losing an order is a serious matter , but with job production it normally means waiting a short period before being asked to quote again for a different job , whereas with flow production it might be two years before the model is changed and the opportunity is provided to quote again ( by which time the buyer might have forgotten the existence of the salesperson ! ) . |
| 7 | Secondly , they may send both the documentation and the program to the potential purchaser allowing a limited period during which the package can be used and evaluated . |
| 8 | Hugh MacDiarmid , who lived at Montrose , and edited the local newspaper while enjoying a fruitful period of his literary life , described Montrose as ‘ a very attractive small burgh with a wide agricultural hinterland ’ , and these fields now began to materialise . |
| 9 | Trade unions , on the other hand , after enjoying a brief period of vigorous growth in the immediate aftermath of their legalization in 1906 , were subjected to a variety of restrictions and reduced to a skeletal and precarious existence . |
| 10 | From 1981 to 1985 the figure had fallen to about 0.33 per cent per annum , and London actually gained population in 1984 , thus reversing a long period of decline . |
| 11 | The CCP itself was experiencing a traumatic period in its development between the break in cooperation with the Kuomintang in 1927 to the retreat from Kiangsi in 1934–35 in the ‘ Long March ’ when Mao Tse-tung assumed the leadership of the CCP . |
| 12 | Following surgery to the heart or lungs , or any operation requiring a long period under anaesthesia , some patients fail to regain the ability to breathe independently and require mechanical assistance . |
| 13 | The rum market in Venezuela is undergoing a difficult period of transition , but Pampero 's performance has responded well to the relaunch . |
| 14 | He had trouble feeding his 40,000-strong army as they reached the north , largely because of Wallace 's scorched earth policy , and was considering a temporary period of recuperation in Edinburgh when two treacherous Scottish lords betrayed Wallace 's whereabouts . |
| 15 | I still remember that Christmas Day — the inspector and I standing there in the drizzle — the city of Belfast enjoying an uneasy period of quietness with the men of violence possibly challenged by their memories of the Christmas Message and declaring a truce [ for Christmas only ] . |
| 16 | Originally the Irish FA considered spending the entire period on tour but making the two trips has proved more financially viable . |
| 17 | Former Sun Microsystems Inc UK marketing manager , John Coon , is now heading-up Data General Corp 's UK marketing operation after spending a brief period at one of Sun 's satellites . |
| 18 | Assuming a generational period of , say , twenty-five years , they would have gone through 5½ million generations — more than fifty times the prehistory of Man . |
| 19 | Now we are entering a third period of change : the shift from the command-and-control organization , the organization of departments and divisions , to the information-based organization , the organization of knowledge specialists . |
| 20 | For instance , a particular type of aircraft with specified engines in established weather conditions will , at a known weight , accelerate to the appropriate speed for take-off in a predetermined distance along the runway , following which it will be accelerated to a specified speed and achieve a pre-established rate of climb during which the landing gear will be retracted , taking a known period of time . |
| 21 | The 1980 Act removed the provisions of the Employment Protection Act which affected small businesses , by increasing the qualifying period for complaints of unfair dismissal . |
| 22 | ( 4 ) If a court determines that any such criteria are satisfied , it shall make an order authorising the child to be kept in secure accommodation and specifying the maximum period for which he may be so kept . |
| 23 | All the above allowances apply to existing employees relocating at company request too but existing staff also receive a payment of 10 per cent of salary ( instead of one month 's salary ) together with an additional three-monthly allowance of £150 per month towards accommodation and/or fares ( that is , making a maximum period of six months ) . |
| 24 | We succeeded in negotiating a further period of tenure , until April 1996 , at a rent substantially lower than we have previously paid . |
| 25 | A particularly welcome aspect of the present disc is that Sarah Cunningham presents us with a survey spanning the entire period of the repertoire — as such it will perhaps be more welcome to the non-specialist than the Savall discs . |
| 26 | In retailing , " seasons " were fairly short , the most important covering the month or two before Christmas and the " sales " period immediately afterwards ; in the holidays industry they could be very much longer , covering the entire period from late Spring to early Autumn . |
| 27 | According to Jean-Pierre Mohén , ‘ The exhibition also breaks new ground in covering the whole period from the eighth century to the early Middle Ages . |
| 28 | Covering the whole period from the 1790s to 1815 , this is a first class reference on a hard-to-find subject , and highly recommended . |
| 29 | The guarantee in cll 9.1 and 9.2 of Precedent 1 is designed ( subject of course to the question of agreeing a specific period for the remedying of defects appropriate to the particular circumstances of the case ) to pass the test of reasonableness imposed by s 3 of the UCTA . |
| 30 | The study provides new evidence to support the conclusions of a 1984 report , covering a twenty-year period from 1963-83 , which showed that the higher incidence of disease was unlikely to be due to chance . |