Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] [art] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well as an association , we naturally get ourselves involved with many other aspects of the university activities in that erm both the students are applicants of ours and come and talk to us about projects which they may like to see emerge , and other departments of the university , the music department etc. , sometimes find that our knowledge of the area , or certain aspects of some of the schemes that we 're operating , coincide with what they 're trying to do and it turns out to be that campuses like this are often useful places for residencies and artists will come and take up residency in a university for a period of time , and that 's often been exploited by the Association . |
| 2 | Barbarossa 's second wife , the Empress Beatrice , depicted on a coin of the period . |
| 3 | Taken on around Whitsuntide , such men were provided with a cottage for the period of the hire , and in return were expected to supply from their own meagre resources a ‘ bondager ’ — a woman who would perform field-work or any other menial farm duty required of her . |
| 4 | Erm as a candidate and as a pre-candidate in the period up to the campaign , I have been a er a parliamentary candidate twice , in nineteen eighty seven in Stockport and in nineteen eighty three in Denton and Reddish . |
| 5 | Every Buddhist boy became a monk for a period , it might be for a lent , or a year or two , it might continue for a lifetime or be as short as a week . |
| 6 | Many aspects of our environment show a rhythm with a period of 24 hours as a result of this solar day . |
| 7 | Emulex Corp , Costa Mesa , California will be taking a charge against its third quarter figures for the period to March 28 that could result in a loss for the period : operating profit will be lower than the $2.6m reported in the second quarter because of lower revenues in the Network Systems Division ; the unspecified restructuring charge stems both from costs associated with the further consolidation of manufacturing operations to Puerto Rico from Costa Mesa , and from some lay-offs in the sales administration sector ; the charge will be less than $1.0m . |
| 8 | The cost of all this will be a restructuring charge between $95m and $110m to be taken against the third quarter figures , leading to a loss for the period of over $100m or $2.00 per share . |
| 9 | But the fiction is that which denies the living creature which became the plaintiff a persona in the period prior to birth . |
| 10 | To avoid scope for argument , the purchaser should ensure it is expressly stated in the sale agreement that rescission is available as a remedy for the period between exchange and completion ( see clause 13.8 of the standard sale agreement — Appendix III ) . |
| 11 | It is perhaps too early to reach a conclusion on this point , but a repeat of the period of inaction between 1982 and 1985 seems to be evident , within the current political context . |
| 12 | THE WEST Lancashire Light Railway , the passenger-carrying narrow gauge line at Hesketh Bank between Southport and Preston , moves into the twentieth century with the introduction of a telephone after a period of twenty-four years . |
| 13 | Checklists are not appropriate for people who do not have inti-mate knowledge of a child over a period of some weeks . |
| 14 | In developing countries particularly , early marriage has as one consequence a lengthening of the period that women spend in childbearing . |
| 15 | The amnesia , it seems , was not a matter of political persuasion — politicians on the left and right are now calling for a re-examination of the period — but the reflex of a generation . |
| 16 | You wo n't be granted a divorce until a period of a year has elapsed and during that period you 'll have to work out access and maintenance for the children . |
| 17 | With the new proposals it seems the needs of the children will be put first because you wo n't be granted a divorce until a period of a year has elapsed and during that period you 'll have to work out access and maintenance for the children and put their needs first and that seems very good . |
| 18 | With the election out of the way , the Commission has called a halt to the period in which British questions were either postponed or handled with kid gloves . |
| 19 | A child may appear before a hearing for reasons other than offences ; and he will have a disposal tailored to his needs for care rather than to the seriousness of the offence ; and a child may not only be put under a supervision requirement for reasons other than an offence , but he may remain under such a requirement for a period of years for reasons completely unconnected with breaches of the criminal law . |
| 20 | The speed with which immense transformations took place became legendary — and an occasion for wry humour ; a cartoon of the period shows a respectable man looking at a heap of rubble and saying : ‘ But this is where I live and I ca n't even find my wife . ’ |
| 21 | That would result in a return to the period when 29 million days were lost to strikes and when substantial burdens were imposed on British industry . |
| 22 | In practice , the average is usually a time average ; one observes and averages the velocity at a point over a period long enough for separate measurements to give effectively the same result . |
| 23 | The Minister did not answer me earlier when I tried to raise a point about the period of between six and 16 months . |
| 24 | Anthropologists , for example , are able to interpret a culture , at first sight inexplicable to those from a different culture , by living with , talking to and observing people in a community over a period of years . |
| 25 | Manual workers made up a large proportion of the TUC membership , and the health of many of these was depicted as having been destroyed by their employment ; and , moreover , it was held that all workers had a right to a period of leisure in later life supported by-a full subsistence pension . |
| 26 | That Act , as has been stated ( above , p.64 ) allows disclaimer within limits and provides that a Member or candidate shall not be disqualified by reason of inheriting a peerage during the period allowed for disclaimer . |
| 27 | RATE ( DEMOGRAPHIC ) — The relative frequency of occurrence of a demographic even ( e.g. births , deaths , etc. ) in a population during a period of time ( usually a calendar year ) . |
| 28 | The company may therefore elect to treat the whole surplus of the scheme as a credit in the period in which it is received , that is , in the financial year ended 31 December 1993 . |
| 29 | Because we believe in stable democratic government supported by a majority of the British people , we shall not only campaign wholeheartedly for fair votes in the coming weeks , we also make a pledge for the period after the election . |
| 30 | Longer-term effects were studied in four young couples , three who normally slept about 8 hours every night , and one who slept 6.5 hours a night , who volunteered to attempt to reduce their sleep progressively to 4.5 hours a night over a period of between six and eight months . |