Example sentences of "the [noun sg] of [art] [adj] months " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since a residence order was in substance what the foster mother sought , it was agreed between counsel for her and the local authority : ( a ) that the local authority would not object to the foster mother 's application for a residence order being made before the expiry of the six months period ; ( b ) that the hearing before the judge should be treated as the hearing of that application ; ( c ) that if , in the event , the foster mother were to be given leave to apply for a residence order she would agree to the formal dismissal of her application for judicial review without any penalty as to costs ; but ( d ) that , if leave under the Act were to be refused , it would be open to the foster mother to continue the judical review proceedings . |
| 2 | Later , those who were to piece together the events at the camp of the early months of that year , from the time of snow till the approach of spring , were to wonder what was the ambition of Michael Holly , prisoner of Hut 2 in Zone I of Camp 3 in the Dubrovlag complex . |
| 3 | Those few studies [ … ] that have reassessed parental characteristics at various ages of the child have shown that even in the course of a few months during infancy there may be drastic changes in a mother 's behaviour-sometimes resulting from changes in the infant 's behaviour , sometimes brought about by extraneous factors . |
| 4 | More often than not you get a refund cos of course you have personal allowances for a whole year but you 've not er not er lived a whole year as often as not and therefore there usually spaced over the twelve months and you 've paid a bit too much tax if you 've died in the course of the twelve months . |
| 5 | During the course of the coming months , the terms of what Henry could obtain in concessions from the French ( or at least from that branch of the body politic which was , at that moment , dominant ) were worked out . |
| 6 | Had she imagined the violence of the previous months ? |
| 7 | If this declaration is not made within two months of the day of election and delivered to the chief executive or clerk of the council within that two months then the office at the expiration of the two months automatically becomes vacant and the local authority must declare the office vacant and signify the vacancy by notice signed by the proper officer of the authority and affixed to the offices of the authority . |
| 8 | After the influenza of the early months , he contracted further feverish colds , with attendant bronchial trouble , right up to the early summer . |
| 9 | As the law is complex to apply in some cases where the notice period needs to be calculated and perhaps added to the three months limit or , as in the Sen case , the adviser simply got the calculation of the three months wrong , the claim should be presented and the Tribunal asked to consider the facts before exercising its discretion . |
| 10 | Norman Lamont has learned nothing from the debacle of the past months . |
| 11 | Quite remarkably , within the space of a few months , the industry reshaped and refashioned itself in advance of 27 October 1986 , the day on which the deregulation of commissions was to take place . |
| 12 | Rookies were all the same in the beginning , eager to please and desperate to be judged favourably by their superiors , but within the space of a few months they had become as bitter and cynical as the seasoned policemen they had been trying to impress . |
| 13 | In the space of a few months in late 1925 , Nizan joined and left the French fascist movement , Le Faisceau , led by Georges Valois , and in an equally short space of time in early 1926 , he joined the French communist party for the first time and subsequently left . |
| 14 | In 1939 history intervened and in the space of a few months the work of a lifetime was in ruins . |
| 15 | Now his awareness of the new pictorial possibilities which Picasso had instinctively hit upon in the Demoiselles and his study of the work of Cézanne ( whose influence , indeed , can already be sensed in the Baigneuse ) were to make him , within the space of a few months , a major force in twentieth-century painting . |
| 16 | There he was force-fed poppy-water , an extract of opium guaranteed to leave the drinker crippled and quite insane within the space of a few months . |
| 17 | It was the second suicide connected with the university in the space of a few months . |
| 18 | Where else would one be teaching black Robotic dancers , a dancer from the Stuttgart Ballet , seven pretty Chinese girls , a female weightlifter , a University oarswoman , ex-dancers , ex-aerobicists , with the rest of us , in the space of a few months . |
| 19 | This is that the King is showing signs of not having learnt the lesson of the past months . |
| 20 | The demise of the 12 months a year man is due mainly to the extra pressure , and greater financial rewards , in both sports . |
| 21 | But the shock of John 's kidnap and the strain of the subsequent months had taken its toll on him . |
| 22 | The only time we may ask you to make out a new schedule is , if at the end of a twelve months period , the amount owing on your Home Management Account is higher than one monthly transfer . |
| 23 | In order to protect my interests , I 've included a clause that states that , unless you produce suitable , usable designs , the debt , alas , will remain outstanding and will be required to be repaid in full at the end of the eighteen months . ’ |
| 24 | By the end of the six months , Edouard 's old resolve grew fiercer : he would restore that empire to its former glory , and then he would develop it , increase it , expand it . |
| 25 | At the end of the six months , he had introduced £1,811,996 of ‘ new ’ money to the Royal Bank and achieved 141.25 per cent of target . |
| 26 | Well now , at the end of that six months I 'd had varied success , sometimes I had poor periods when I was n't detecting much , then I would have a little break , do better , but at the end of the six months nobody told me whether I was stopping there , but twenty years later I did go back to uniform as an inspector . |
| 27 | Before the end of the six months was up the other judges were trying to steal the devices and put their own people on it . |
| 28 | And I could n't remember whether she said at the end of the three months or |
| 29 | Towards the end of the 12 months , we will need to review your needs with you and , if appropriate , renew the overdraft arrangements at the same level or at a higher or lower figure . |
| 30 | Common sense told her that by immersing herself in work the memory of the last months would recede , and with it would go her bitterness and sense of loss . |