Example sentences of "had [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within the orbit of the late Roman world , Christianity was primarily receptive ; it inherited a set of institutions ready-made , conformed to a social and political structure which had developed over a long period , and learned to live with a culture which it had little part in creating . |
| 2 | The Finance Act 1969 provided , in effect , that on the death of a beneficiary what in 1974 became capital transfer tax , and by the Finance Act 1986 inheritance tax , should be payable upon the proportion of the capital which corresponded to the proportion of the income which the deceased had received within a certain period before his death ( usually seven years ) . |
| 3 | It was important , for instance , to know how the salary profile of Company A or the age profile of Division B had altered over a particular period . |
| 4 | According to US figures on June 7 , up to 6,700 Iraqi refugees , mostly children under five , had died during a two-month period in mountain camps along the Turkish border . |
| 5 | His deification as the patron of craftsmen , but more importantly as a god of wisdom , medicine and healing , had occurred by the Late Period and he was thus identified by the Greeks with their god of medicine , Asclepios . |
| 6 | I later realized that I had posed during a crucial period , and the tiny bronzes that resulted ( for that size prevailed ) continue daily to touch me . |
| 7 | His career had gone into an ignominious period following his deposition and he had spent time in prison in Kansas , fought bulls in Barcelona , performed stunts in circuses , played ‘ Othello ’ across the country and even boxed all-comers in exhibitions at the age of 68 years . |
| 8 | These measures had resulted from a long period of maturation and fitted into Morrison 's 1944 vision of a ‘ legislative programme of social reconstruction ’ after the war had ended . |
| 9 | Black involvement in athletics had continued in the inter-war period , first through a Guyanan , Harry Edward , a prodigious sprinter who was interned in Germany during the war , but returned to England taking seven AAA sprint titles in the 1920–2 period . |
| 10 | They had an agent , they said , who lived close to where he had lived during the short period after his return from Canada . |
| 11 | Dean Acheson responded that the unhappy stalemate which had existed for a lengthy period could not be extended . |
| 12 | As we discussed in Chapter l , it was after the Second World War that the behavioural revolution which had begun in the inter-war period swept the Faculties of Social Science . |
| 13 | What was less obvious was the effect on the system as a whole , which had evolved over a long period of time influenced by a variety of political and economical pressures , and not necessarily in a methodical manner . |
| 14 | And yet many of the attitudes towards the outside world that had flourished in the Tsarist period still play a role in Soviet and now post-Soviet foreign policy today . |
| 15 | The 1972 Oxford survey investigated how far these patterns had changed in the post-war period with all its economic growth and social reform . |
| 16 | The work had changed in the post-war period , and women were less likely to be employed now at setting pages of books . |
| 17 | Government was particularly anxious that neither group should retain the relative economic dominance which it had acquired during the colonial period , and exchange rate management was one means by which this dominance could be restrained . |