Example sentences of "[v-ing] a period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , the magazine took the opportunity to address the whole post-1960 transformation : " The elections of 1960 and 1988 are brackets enclosing a period of astonishing transformation — change that has placed the two campaigns in different eras . |
| 2 | Reports of continuing disagreement suggested that while the EC was pressing for a period of 15 years for the transition from the MFA-governed quota system to GATT rules , developing countries were seeking a period of 6@1/2 years . |
| 3 | ( 2 ) The offer shall be made by notice specifying the number of shares offered , and limiting a period ( not being less than fourteen days ) within which the offer , if not accepted , will be deemed to be declined . |
| 4 | ( 2 ) The offer shall be made by notice specifying the number of shares offered , and limiting a period ( not being less than fourteen days ) within which the offer , if not accepted , will be deemed to be declined . |
| 5 | He hoped that the government would set an example to the nation by inaugurating a period of change , but he did not believe that the estates of the realm should be given extensive political rights or that the power of the tsar should be dramatically reduced . |
| 6 | He has been at Charlton for ten months after completing a period of secondment at Shaw 's in the USA . |
| 7 | The lower scale figure should continue for older cars : although the current four-year break period is acceptable , consideration might be given to using a period of three years . |
| 8 | The suggestion of using a period of ‘ watchful waiting ’ is accepted and in widespread clinical practice . |
| 9 | If there are regular fluctuations ( e.g. weekly , seasonal ) , these will be eradicated by using a period equal to the length of the fluctuation . |
| 10 | On Sept. 16 , in his first report as UN Secretary-General , Boutros Boutros-Ghali defined the UN 's mission as one of " transforming a period of hope into an era of completed tasks " . |
| 11 | With Labour facing a period of confusion , the Liberal Democrats will seek to offer ‘ leadership ’ to demoralised anti-Tory voters who now fear that the Conservatives can not be beaten . |
| 12 | With Labour facing a period of confusion , the Liberal Democrats will seek to offer ‘ leadership ’ to demoralised anti-Tory voters who now fear that the Conservatives can not be beaten . |
| 13 | ‘ In LASMO , we are facing a period of consolidation . |
| 14 | There were to be brief respites from the prolonged drought , one of which Gould was to be most fortunate to encounter , but the settlers were still facing a period of unparalleled hardship . |
| 15 | The rural areas of developed countries are experiencing a period of rapid restructuring in their economies and societies . |
| 16 | Because the Australian aborigines still exist at the hunter-gatherer level of culture they have no need for a weaning trauma in early childhood as is found among all primitive agriculturalists , and consequently children , although experiencing a period of oral dependency as they do in the West , linger in that stage , do not have to give it up and , in a sense , remain unweaned until adulthood — or , certainly until initiation , which is essentially the same thing . |
| 17 | The subjects to be covered were diverse , scanning a period of over a century , but they could be arranged in an approximately chronological order . |
| 18 | De Valois too is wonderful at reconstructing a period . |
| 19 | Just as the old national differences in styles of play are being gradually erased by the globalisation of football , so the cultures around spectatorship are undergoing a period intensified mixing and matching . |
| 20 | The Commission recognises that many schools are undergoing a period of rapid and difficult change , in the wake of the 1988 Education Reform Act . |
| 21 | 1993 and 1994 will see the Company undergoing a period of restructuring and product development , but we already have a comprehensive product and supply package and this should provide good medium term prospects within the principal oil field markets worldwide . |
| 22 | It is an exciting time for Douglas Reyburn which is undergoing a period of change that is the most significant in its sixty year history . |
| 23 | On 1 January of that year Kenneth Tynan , then its most eminent drama critic , saw Bertolt Brecht 's Mutter Courage in Paris , and portentously told his wife ‘ I am a Marxist ’ — initiating a period of left-wing licence-to-bore almost as deadly as James Bond 's licence-to-kill . |
| 24 | Try breaking a period of study into twenty minute blocks . |
| 25 | They argue further that it should be possible to eliminate the long-term effect by a procedure designed to extinguish a context — stimulus association — the procedure they used was that of giving a period of exposure to the context alone between initial exposure to the target and the conditioning phase . |
| 26 | Shutting the book he said suddenly , ‘ So you did n't fuck Masha because she was having a period . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Nothing abnormal about not having a period for two years . |
| 28 | The palazzo was built in the early seventeenth century and after spending a period as one of the centres of Milanese high life it was taken over by a prestigious academy , the Accademia dei Fenici . |
| 29 | The practice of placing a jade representation of a cicada on the tongue of the deceased probably stemmed from a knowledge of the life history of this insect , which re-emerges after spending a period underground . |
| 30 | And then our own facilities , as Carlos has already mentioned , have been used for conferences of Third World First and other development groups occasionally have met in the Institute , and of course erm our own staff and students , and indeed sometimes Third Worlders spending a period at the Institute have given local talks and participated in local meetings . |