Example sentences of "[verb] as a period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wihtred 's long reign , though devoid of known incident , is distinguished as a period of close co-operation between the royal court and the Church in Kent under Archbishop Beorhtwald . |
| 2 | This reiterated the belief , common among all those concerned with the youth question , that ‘ adolescence ’ should be regarded as a period of education , supervision , control , and guidance . |
| 3 | For example , W. A. Speck 's work on division lists for Queen Anne 's reign shows that the vast majority of MPs voted consistently either Whig or Tory , with a mere 12.2 per cent wavering in their allegiance , whilst in a similar analysis of division lists for William 's reign , usually regarded as a period when party conflict was less clearly defined , Henry Horwitz found that only 14 per cent of MPs voted across party lines . |
| 4 | After this phase there follows what Freud described as a period of latency during which the sexuality of a child lies dormant . |
| 5 | It emerged that when oestrogen was taken on its own , the lining of the womb would build up each month and remain there instead of being shed as a period . |
| 6 | The trench warfare of the early 1980s was replaced by more subtle forms of guerrilla conflict , in which the guiding principles are no longer so straightforward , yet the consequences of change may be rather more significant , to the extent that the '80s as a whole might justifiably be seen as a period of structural change . |
| 7 | The nineteenth century has been seen as a period of transition from a largely amateur ‘ natural history ’ to a professionalized science of ‘ biology ’ . |
| 8 | An era of ultranationalism had withered the fragile plant of democracy whose seed had been sown in the 1890 constitution , and the 1930s was interpreted as a period of aberration in Japan 's progress towards a democratic society . |
| 9 | Thus the process of convergence to the play in the full information game can be interpreted as a period of temporary reputation . |
| 10 | Elizabethan England could be portrayed as a period before emigration to the American colonies began , before the ruptures between a British and American way of life existed . |
| 11 | This is known as a period of incapacity for work ( PIW ) . |
| 12 | In short , if life was always harder in the inner cities than elsewhere , and if conditions may temporarily have been alleviated by the impact of the welfare state and rising incomes , the last decade has been widely represented as a period of deterioration . |
| 13 | Typically , old age is viewed as a period of ‘ inevitable deterioration ’ and ‘ irreversible decline ’ , with older people becoming increasingly frail and sick . |
| 14 | Sixty odd years separate this work from The Birth of Tragedy and compared with a similar span of years since Winckelmann 's revolutionary study of Greet art , the later period , viewed as a period of German Hellenism , is anti-climatic . |
| 15 | Sleep can be defined as a period of reduced consciousness usually occurring at night , during which most body functions are slow or inactive . |
| 16 | 11.1.1 either party commits any material breach of this Agreement and fails to remedy it within a reasonable period ( which , where the breach consists of non-payment of sums due under clause 5 , shall be construed as a period of one ( 1 ) calendar month ) after receiving written notice from the other party , |
| 17 | Not to mention his composition Four Minutes 33 Seconds , technically described as a period of ‘ apparent silence ’ . |
| 18 | His reign is often described as a period of revival of interest in Classical themes and modes of expression , but the profound change in the social composition of the court did not outlast the emperor . |
| 19 | This period of time has been described as a period of consensus . |
| 20 | And so it was that all Hollywood 's difficulties led somewhat accidentally to what Ralph A. Bauer has described as a period whose movies ‘ were perhaps as varied and intriguing ’ as the movies produced in any comparably short period in American history . |
| 21 | Jamie and Becky Blandford made the announcement this morning , just two years after their wedding.The Marquis 's solicitors say they have entered what is described as a period of separation in their marriage.Their first child is due in August . |