Example sentences of "[art] period [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was in the Jurassic that the ammonoids achieved their greatest flowering , when the clays and shales of the period may be solid with the remains of their shells . |
| 2 | The charter does not mention this , and the period may still have been imprecise ; but it is not likely to have been above two months at most , which limited its usefulness considerably . |
| 3 | The period may start at different times for different companies . |
| 4 | The play most apt to the period would have been Macbeth , and the ghosts were from Hiroshima . |
| 5 | If exchange rates had remained constant , total turnover for the period would have increased by 18 per cent . |
| 6 | The constituent parts of a top-quality coffin of the period would have been as follows : a 1½-inch inner elm coffin with recessed lid , lined and covered with cambric — no depositum plate ; a lead shell of five pounds — i.e. five pounds ' weight per square foot — diapered and with lead depositum plate ; an outer case of 1½-inch elm or oak , padded and covered with rich scarlet Genoese or black Utrecht velvet ; four pairs of gilt grip-plates and grips ; two rows round of gilt-headed upholstery nails ; and escutcheons , lid motifs and brass or lead depositum plate . |
| 7 | Institutional inertia and the lack of local interest in mental health services could mean that the opportunities of the period would be missed . |
| 8 | Izvolskii , his counterpart in Paris , addressed the minister , S.D. Sazonov , in an offhand and sometimes directly critical tone which no British diplomat of the period would have used to Sir Edward Grey . |
| 9 | The calculus , without which the achievements of engineering and communications of the period would have been impossible , was by now far behind the moving frontier of mathematics . |
| 10 | One of the earliest detailed discussions of how the artefacts of the period might be dated was provided by Åberg ( 1926 , pp. 149–58 ) , although typically there is no consideration of what such chronology could be used for beyond using it to relate the archaeological data to an historical narrative : |
| 11 | Additional information regarding the settlements of the period might be gleaned from the study of place-names . |
| 12 | At this stage it is anticipated that quota trading to secure premium payment on ewes that were already part of the 1993 claim will take place between 15 April and 15 June — although the dates could be put back and the period might be shortened . |
| 13 | Any study of the man and the period must locate and take into account this book . |
| 14 | Thus , if only one or two dated skeletons are excavated , sex , age , disease and measurement may be noted but deductions as to the morphological affinities of these individuals with other peoples of the period could only be very tentative , if they are possible at all . |
| 15 | If this were the case , the drop in population in the first half of the period could have been deeper and the subsequent recovery slower than existing replacement figures suggest . |
| 16 | Sir Alf Ramsey included David as substitute in his England Under 23 side against Wales at Swansea on l November 1967 , but Palace fans of the period will contend that David was worthy of further honours He eventually left us for orient in August 1973 ; his departure was regretted by the fans , who had always held this likeable young man in immense respect and affection . |
| 17 | If either party has the right to extend the period of an instrument , the term should not include the period of the extension if there is a genuine commercial possibility that the period will not be extended . |
| 18 | The term should not include any period for which the instrument might be extended unless such an extension is certain at the time the instrument is issued : that is , there is no genuine commercial possibility that the period will not be extended . |
| 19 | The period will furnish material for some capital books . ’ |
| 20 | If misalignment is present , however , the first effect of the load is to " pull the specimen straight " and the period will then increase dramatically with end load . |
| 21 | We fought as one nation during the war and of course those Englishmen here today old enough to remember the period will recall , I 'm sure , the young American G Is who were part of our community . |
| 22 | Agriculture in the early Anglo-Saxon period appears to have been designed to satisfy immediate , local needs , but evidence that the situation was changing towards the end of the period can be found by comparing the food resources with those of the earliest post-Roman urban and commercial centres in England ; Hamwic , the middle Saxon port of Southampton , and Ipswich have both received large-scale excavation . |
| 23 | As well as being one of the finest and most comprehensive sets of autochromes in existence , these charming images also offers a dimension which few other travel photographs of the period can offer . |
| 24 | It is certainly true that the individual is more sensitive to particular types of influence at some developmental stages than at others , but to say that tells us little , either about the extent to which the period can be shifted or about the reasons for the increased sensitivity . |
| 25 | The period can be extended if continued secrecy is deemed to be in the public interest . |
| 26 | As well as being one of the finest and most comprehensive sets of autochromes in existence , these charming images also offer a dimension which few other travel photographs of the period can offer . |
| 27 | A forecast of the likely total available market for the period can be achieved in one of two ways , thus : a ) the total market : may be estimated from statistics made available by trade associations , government statistical publications and specialist market research agencies . |
| 28 | Any such notice must state whether the current ( or preceding , when allowed ) reference period is to be shortened , so that it will end on the first occurrence of the accounting reference date , or lengthened , so that it will end on its second occurrence , but unless an administration order is in force the period can not be extended so as to exceed 18 months . |
| 29 | The specified period of 80 years is the period referred to in the Perpetuities and Accumulations Act 1964 , but there is no reason why the period can not be less , eg 30 years for a 25 year term . |
| 30 | Any difference between the amounts on which the accounting was originally based and the recalculated amount based on the index at the end of the period should be reflected as part of the finance charge for the period . |