Example sentences of "and it be [prep] [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second half of the 18th century began to see some big changes in the parish and it is from this period , which was one of expansion and moderate prosperity , that the present houses and buildings begin to date . |
| 2 | And it was during this period that he published , in fair French , his monograph on artificial daylight ( Lettre sur les moyens de produire , la nuit , une lumière pareille à celle du jour , 1785 ) and his second essay on light and vision ( Théorie de la lumière , applicable aux arts , et principalement à la peinture , 1786 ) . |
| 3 | In January 1936 he joined Imperial Airways and quickly became known as the " Boy Wonder " and it was during this period , he later admitted , that he committed the only error of judgement in his entire flying career . |
| 4 | During the Second World War |
| 5 | Then later when they started coming home his real concern was counting them in , and it was in this period that these pleasant and very charming visitors frequently wanted to get nearer to the operational scene . |