Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [prep] the [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | And fifteen minutes later , with all the completed questionnaires returned , there was good reason to suppose that Morse could be right , since three of those concerned , Eddie Stratton , Howard Brown , and John Ashenden , appeared temporarily unable to provide corroboration of their individual whereabouts and activities during the key period of the previous afternoon — the afternoon when the original groups , three of them , had been re-formed slightly ( following Kemp 's telephone call ) , and when anyone wishing to absent himself for some purpose would have been presented with a wonderful opportunity so to do . |
| 2 | I shall therefore devote the substance of my lecture to a study of the cultural connections between Greeks , Romans , Celts , Jews and Iranians in the Hellenistic period . |
| 3 | In the same way , he might have looked at the conflicts between institutions , genres and styles during the 1890–1930 period ( for instance , between old-fashioned vaudeville and new syncopated styles ; or between the requirements of public dance and private listening ) , rather than just the more homogeneous synthesis established by the time it ended . |
| 4 | The picture does not really change if we turn from the Bible to those seals and bronzes from the Persian period with which the Archaeological Museums of Jerusalem have made us familiar . |
| 5 | On this basis English became more closely attuned to producing individual citizens capable of full and critically evaluative responses , rather than the professional scholars and readers of the pre-war period . |
| 6 | Intergovernmental relations in Britain : development and crises in the post-war period |
| 7 | Moves to return to management the right to manage , increasingly eroded by trade unions and governments during the post-war period , have been encouraged . |
| 8 | The Trust regrets that after a year of negotiation it was n't possible to assemble a complete package which would have allowed for purchase price , future management and costs for the extended period necessary . |
| 9 | In the 19C the synagogue was restored by Josef Mocker and its picturesque qualities attracted many architects and painters during the Romantic period . |
| 10 | In February 1991 Laos and Vietnam signed an agreement on exchange of goods and payments for the 1991-95 period , under which future trade transactions between the two countries would be settled in hard currency , rather than in Soviet roubles as hitherto . |
| 11 | ( a ) the student has been ordinarily resident in the UK and Islands throughout the three-year period preceding 1 September , 1 January or 1 April closest to the beginning of the first term of his/her course ; AND |
| 12 | ( a ) the student has been ordinarily resident in the UK and Islands throughout the three-year period preceding 1 September , 1 January or 1 April closest to the beginning of the first term of his/her course ; and |
| 13 | A more exotic course on the menu can be sampled at the Ashmolean Museum which is displaying until February 7 Indian paintings and drawings of the Mughal period ( 16th to 19th century ) from the collection of the painter Howard Hodgkin , one of the most individual and visually exciting in private hands . |
| 14 | It may be that causewayed enclosures and henges of the Neolithic period were used in this way , and current ideas about hillforts suggest that they should also be viewed in this light . |
| 15 | And if a work as trite , foolish and offensive to women as Now , Voyager should , after 40 years , remain as watchable today as on its initial release , when equally feeble plays and novels from the same period have vanished into a limbo of neglect from which they can never be retrieved , it is a tribute less to the very questionable ‘ artistry ’ of its writer and director than to the enduring fascination of its leading actress . |