Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spain lived through a period of being isolated from Europe and the rest of the world ; González 's biggest card remains the memory of Franco . |
| 2 | Naykene had written an article in which he alleged that all members of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council , which ruled for a period in 1979 , had benefited from an illegal foreign loan . |
| 3 | It has been the deliberate policy of the Supplement to give these the prominence they lacked during the period when the OED was being edited . |
| 4 | Dicey lived during a period of great political and economic change , a period in which the range and the functions of government expanded greatly and in which legislation was used explicitly as a method of changing social conditions . |
| 5 | Annual gate receipts rose during the period from £1,55 to £5,309 , and 1912 saw the first four-figure profit — just over £1,000 . |
| 6 | Owing to reclamation , technological improvements and urbanization , agricultural productivity and the level of production rose during the period . |
| 7 | The finance cost for a period is added to the carrying amount and payments deducted from it . |
| 8 | After this phase there follows what Freud described as a period of latency during which the sexuality of a child lies dormant . |
| 9 | The changes in that country also occurred during a period in which education spread rapidly , fertility declined sharply ( with occasional fluctuations ) and family planning knowledge and methods became widely available . |
| 10 | the accident , occurred during a period of Continental Use previously notified to us . |
| 11 | This section covers legal costs and expenses incurred by the insured in pursuance of compensation or damages against a third party arising from death or personal injury or damage to the home which occurred during the period of insurance ( or in the case of the home within seven days thereafter ) . |
| 12 | He says she was greeted by ‘ long faces ’ and a blanket refusal to consider the idea of a separation in any form before the prince and princess tried for a period to resolve their differences . |
| 13 | It was over a titbit on the floor and occurred after a period when they growled at each other at feeding time . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , the East Suffolk scheme also suffered from a reduction in Board of Education grant-aid for courses which occurred in the period 1931–34 . |
| 15 | Finally , he argues , none of the changes went unchallenged , and the transformations in regulation and domination that occurred in the period themselves resulted in new forms of resistance and , in particular , in the women 's and gay movements of the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 16 | By studying the material on trustees in these enrolments for selected districts of Lincolnshire it is hoped to build up a picture of who they were , the ways in which they changed in the period of the study as well as any specific characteristics of the trustees of different denominations . |
| 17 | We have excluded from these analyses case 14 in table III because this case occurred beyond the period specified in planning the analysis ( see introduction ) . |
| 18 | When questioned at the time , and for some time afterwards , as to what the novel was ‘ about ’ , I would reply vaguely that it referred to a period in my life in the 1960s , when I was married to a successful pop star and spent much of my time travelling up and down motorways , lulled with anti-depressants and sitting , an immobile non-person , in the back of a sealed , silent and chauffeur-driven Rolls Royce . |
| 19 | This success lies behind his translation to Canterbury in the following year ; thereafter , until his death in 1381 , he presided over a period of taxation the scale of which exceeded even that of the early years of the reign . |
| 20 | These are examined with the intention of establishing a ‘ vocabulary ’ of Unionism and to chart how it changed over the period as a whole . |
| 21 | As regards the US domestic market , these changes in profitability are opposite to those of concentration , which rose over the period . |
| 22 | Their savings were indeed high by Western standards ( largely because of poor government welfare provision and high and escalating housing costs ) , and they rose over the period from 9 to 16 per cent of their income . |
| 23 | In many respects , Finniston was ahead of his time in the management policies he adopted during the period he was chairman of British Steel but he stresses that commercial strategy without enlightened personnel policies can never be successful . |
| 24 | Following demobilisation , he opted for a period of higher education at Lamar University in Beaumont . |
| 25 | Mr Hurd appealed for a period of calm for the Royal Family . |
| 26 | This weakness of the banking system came during a period of rapid economic growth . |
| 27 | The first try came after a period of sustained pressure , when Mal Meninga had the strength to force over from close range . |
| 28 | The meeting of the Great Hural came after a period of tension between the government and the opposition over the pace of reform . |
| 29 | Like so many things in that world its origins came from a period in history where everything was deliberately hazy . |
| 30 | For instance , he said that the expression ‘ by hook or by crook ’ came from the period of Charles II when there were two judges called Hook and Crook and ‘ a man of straw ’ he discovered , was one who could be brought to bear false witness — recognisable by the straw in his shoes . |