Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] a period " in BNC.
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| 1 | People sometimes find that their housing requirements change and seek after a period to move on to different kinds of residence , particularly into flats of their own . |
| 2 | Some individuals , even when living in normal society , do not remain in synchrony with the 24-hour day and instead free-run with a period of about 25 hours . |
| 3 | Think about how people look after a period of sickness and diarrhoea . |
| 4 | Yet few people know about a period of even greater invasion panic which spread during the Napoleonic wars , when a militia of Cornish miners dug defensive trenches to keep the French out of Plymouth . |
| 5 | The Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , is expected not to accept the report 's recommendations and instead opt for a period of public consultation . |
| 6 | By contrast , the legends concerning Atlantis and the others refer to a period of time only a few thousand years ago . |
| 7 | Pre-menstrual tension covers a range of emotional or physical problems that many women suffer before a period . |
| 8 | Pre-menstrual tension covers a range of emotional or physical problems that many women suffer before a period . |
| 9 | Danish kings emerge from a period of obscurity in the middle of the tenth century , when a dynasty based on Jelling in Jutland , and represented by Gorm the Old and his son Harald Bluetooth , seems to have extended its authority over the whole country , which then included the province of Skåne in modern Sweden . |
| 10 | While most young male dogs go through a period of excessive sexual behaviour and can be a little too pushy for their own good with older males between the ages of about ten months and two years , they usually calm down and become more sociable with other dogs and less strife to have around the home . |
| 11 | Infants go through a period of being completely self-centred . |
| 12 | Reptilian blood systems go through a period of self-adjustment permitting the conservation of heat as required , and allowing the creatures to distribute it when needed . |
| 13 | As well as these individual homework tasks , all clients , whether phobic or non-phobic , carry out the relaxation exercises , and go through a period of self-monitoring of their levels of anxiety . |
| 14 | Certainly a large proportion of young boys and girls go through a period in which they lose evident interest in the opposite sex and profess a fine disregard or contempt for it ; but this may well be due to the importance and priority of non-sexual behaviour and childhood tasks rather than any true decrease in underlying sexual interest and preoccupation . |
| 15 | ‘ Elephants do have long memories , ’ Daphne says , ‘ and they go into a period of deep grieving that will often last three or four months , which is when the really intensive care comes in . |
| 16 | Er , colleagues , before we turn to a period of , er , rule amendments and general motions , could I just advise congress that a pair of spectacles have been handed in er , Vision Express , look like , well they could be ladies or gents , multi-sexual these days , colleagues . |
| 17 | In hide-and-seek , a number of people agree for a period of time to abstract from living what they know of the ‘ hiding ’ function ( i.e. that people can be ‘ hiders ’ and ‘ seekers ’ and that places can be ‘ hiding places ’ ) and to behave , for the time being , as if only that function mattered . |
| 18 | They date from a period of cataclysmic turmoil , when Palestine was ravaged by war , the Holy City and most sacred shrine of Judaism was destroyed , all records were scattered and people 's memories of events were blurred or modified by more recent occurrences . |
| 19 | It is precisely because such a code does not exist , that we live in a period of uncertainty and experimentation . |
| 20 | ‘ We live in a period of transition to the market . |
| 21 | Apart from demonstrating one of the unwavering laws of British journalism , that nothing sells newspapers like royalty , and nothing makes a better editorial column than declamations of simple patriotism , the curious thing about these assaults is how much they belong to a period . |
| 22 | These paintings follow from a period of two years in which Chevallier examined the potentialities of the colour red . |
| 23 | Perhaps general practitioners wishing to provide some diabetic care should have a period of training in the specialty and work for a period in a diabetic clinic to enhance their experience . |
| 24 | Whilst there were obvious similarities between this tradition and nazism , its inspiration and origins occur in a period before anybody in England had heard of Hitler . |