Example sentences of "the [adj] period was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The single most important move of the 1938–50 period was the extension of selection to the entire age group , and the 1944 Act actually made this more commonplace , but it did not create the move — only forty-three LEAs , less than half , considered the whole group throughout the selection process , another forty LEAs qualified children by excluding those who did badly in a first exam as part of the selection procedure . |
| 2 | But the most annoying aspect of the early period was the lack of real interest shown by our first council members — at times we could n't muster up the required six members for a quorum at the monthly meetings . |
| 3 | The Second Period was the time during which was laid down the evidence the nature of which has been revealed by men such as Charles Darwin and others , who gave to the world an understanding of the way in which evolution has operated through thousands of millions of years . |
| 4 | A major centre of Diktynna-worship in the classical period was the Diktynnaion , a great temple on a peninsula to the west of Kydonia . |
| 5 | One example of this changed attitude to the role of the newspaper in the post-War period was the readiness of some newspapers to treat all political parties with equal respect . |
| 6 | The major development during the inter-war period was the establishment of English studies as a bulwark against , rather than force for social change and cultural innovation . |
| 7 | But the dominant urban feature in the inter-war period was the growth and spread of London . |
| 8 | Rent-control policy in the inter-war period was the product in the main of three forces : pressure by property owners for complete control ; the Conservative Party belief that the Rent Acts were but a temporary measure to deal with a housing shortage ; and the social reality that without the protection of the Acts many working-class people would suffer considerably . |
| 9 | 40% of the women interviewed considered pregnancy should be treated as a disease and 87% that the perinatal period was a " highly dangerous " time for them . |
| 10 | Spurs ' best effort in the first period was a 25-yard shot from Gray just beyond the far post , though Samways tested Rees with a low effort from the left . |
| 11 | The first period was a one-on-one . |