Example sentences of "[noun] to the period " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question that began this examination of the mid-seventeenth century was how can we explore the relations of Milton 's and Marvell 's poetry to the period ? |
| 2 | That would result in a return to the period when 29 million days were lost to strikes and when substantial burdens were imposed on British industry . |
| 3 | In this case , only a proportion of the gain will be exempt by reference to the period of actual occupation and to the last 36 months of ownership . |
| 4 | With the election out of the way , the Commission has called a halt to the period in which British questions were either postponed or handled with kid gloves . |
| 5 | It can be deduced by the prisoner if his local review committee date is less than 17 years after he was first detained , by adding three years to the period that he will have served at that date . |
| 6 | The balance of Lady Antonia 's very long and extremely well-researched book reflects this exactly ; she devotes 75 pages to the period of Mary 's personal rule from 1561–5 , compared to 137 for the years 1565–8 and 81 for 1586–7 . |
| 7 | The House of Lords applied the but for test to restrict the defendant 's liability for loss of earnings to the period before the onset of the disease . |
| 8 | Though punctuated by frequent flash-backs to the period before , during and just after the war , temporal progression in the present is clearly marked by the development of two narrative lines which weave their ways in and out of the novel . |
| 9 | I the defendant Doctor David against a decision of the taxing master , taxing master of right , er given on the thirteenth of August nineteen ninety three , whereby the taxing master disallowed interest on plaintiff 's bill of the cost in the action for a period from the first of November nineteen ninety one to the twenty seventh of May nineteen ninety three , the defendant in his notice of appeal , claims that the taxing master should have disallowed interest for a longer period , in addition to the period he actually al disallowed int namely there should be additional disallowance for the period from the twenty forth of April nineteen ninety one to the thirty first of October nineteen ninety one or for such other periods as the court deems just . |
| 10 | Adding two hours to the period within which night visits may be claimed has caused a clear rise in claims , and this accounts for most , but not all , of the increase observed since the 1990 contract . |
| 11 | Alternative methods of protecting the original tenant include : ( 1 ) limiting his contractual liability to the period of his tenure as tenant ; ( 2 ) stipulating for a tenant 's break clause at regular intervals throughout the term ; ( 3 ) limiting the landlord 's right to impose retrospective liability on the original tenant without warning ; ( 4 ) requiring the landlord to exhaust other remedies first ; ( 5 ) reserving a right of re-entry on any assignment ( Shiloh Spinners v Harding [ 1973 ] AC 691 ) . |
| 12 | Again , the term implies an essential uniqueness to the period , a time of conflict marked out as distinct from other periods of social , political and religious fracture . |
| 13 | But when Mexican stations moved from the era of foreign capital to the period of nationalist fervour , they took on a new self-conscious national grandeur , complete with the acres of frescos which Aldous Huxley noted on his visit to Mexico . |
| 14 | We will see how the development of Anglo-Saxon archaeology , in which the number of practitioners has always been relatively small , has engendered a conservative approach to the period which was not suited to answering the fundamental questions relating to human social evolution . |
| 15 | Bukharin 's work The Economics of the Transition Period has a special place in his writings and in relation to the period in which it was written . |
| 16 | The authority invested in the ideological judgements within the text arises from the superior ( because later ) historical position of the narrator in relation to the period under scrutiny . |
| 17 | The shorter the period over which prices are sticky in relation to the period over which government policy instruments are sticky , the more likely it is that the policy implications of chapter 4 will remain . |
| 18 | How we colour that time will have a huge bearing on how we see their works in relation to the period . |
| 19 | Some of these considerations are sometimes valid , and must be taken into account , but surely they should not excuse us from seeking out such evidence as does exist in relation to the period and style we are performing ? |
| 20 | It follows , therefore , that there is no end to the period of acquisition . |
| 21 | The tomb stands today as a telling memorial to the period . |
| 22 | On the level of social meaning , the transition could be seen as associated with the move from a period dominated by the modernist critique of mass culture to the period of ‘ post-modernism ’ . |
| 23 | At its distance from the cluster core , any contribution to the period derivative from acceleration in the cluster gravitational field is negligible . |
| 24 | The backcloth to the period is dominated by the restructuring of the labour force during these years , and the geographic redistribution of the population . |