Example sentences of "and the [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | The provinces were reluctant to accept the change from casements , but once they did , the whole look of England 's houses changed and the Georgian period of architecture became easily definable . |
| 2 | On the other hand , it should be borne in mind that for all his adolescent encyclopaedic zeal and his years of cultural enthusiasms , his familiarity with European culture was largely restricted to two areas : classical antiquity and the modern period , especially the previous hundred years . |
| 3 | His life can be divided into 3 periods — his childhood , and work in Manchester as a surveyor 1760–95 ; his stay in London , from 1796–99/1800 , and the final period in Ambleside , from 1800–1823 . |
| 4 | Olsen has therefore concentrated on four periods when the paintings connect most directly with historic events : from 1797 to 1814 when Napoleon 's Empire imposed a kind of unity on the country ; from the restoration of the monarchy until mid century when historic Romanticism came into conflict with Realism and gradually waned as a moving force in Italian art ; the triumph of Realism in parallel with the rapid progress towards unification from 1849 to 1870 ; and the final period from 1870 until the end of the century when Realism evolved under wider European influences into Symbolism and Divisionism . |
| 5 | Table E11.1 shows annual changes over the period 1977–85 in the number of live births , the crude birth rate , the general fertility rate , and the total period fertility rate ; seasonally adjusted quarterly rates for 1984 and 1985 are also included . |
| 6 | At the end of November 1973 , over 16,000 were outstanding , and the average period from receipt to decisions ranged up to sixty-five weeks ( for cases decided by the secretary of state after a local inquiry ) . |
| 7 | To simplify , we restrict the analysis to two time periods only : the present period , t , and the future period , t + 1 . |
| 8 | The reader will probably reply that the question is quite otiose because it is obvious that , as Freud himself pointed out , the oral region is of first significance in a new-born baby 's life , the anal zone is significant later , especially with the coming of toilet-training , and the phallic period is last merely because it is only later that increasing awareness of the genitals and the ability to manipulate them and perceive the persons of the parents causes Oedipal phenomena ( which are synonymous with the phallic period ) to come to the fore . |
| 9 | By far the most popular months for marriage were October and November , when harvest was safely gathered in and the annual period of service for farm servants in the corn-growing regions had come to an end and wages had been paid . |
| 10 | Two years later Mr X releases all rights in connection with the property so that it ceases to be property subject to reservation and the relevant period begins to run . |
| 11 | Britain will be able to approach the European Community , and the critical period of our own presidency later this year , with determination to defend British interests and turn back the follies of the Euro-federalists , without the need for a constant backward eye upon political threats and divisions at home . |
| 12 | Although the masses m of the two objects can not be determined uniquely , some information can be obtained from the mass function , calculated from only two observables , the projected pulsar semi-major axis a p sin i , and the orbital period , where subscripts p and c refer to the pulsar and companion respectively and i is the unknown inclination angle of the orbit to the plane of the sky . |
| 13 | During the Battle of Britain and the succeeding period of the so-called ‘ blitz' — the night bombardment of cities throughout the autumn and winter of 1940–41 — it became still more difficult to conduct party activity . |
| 14 | Ayr Raiders were the first stop and the second period saw Devils take a 4-1 lead . |
| 15 | Given the 74 years of Communist dictatorship and the long period of Tsarist dictatorship before that , is it not essential to provide aid and assistance so that at long last Russia and the countries associated with the former Soviet Union can become stable democracies ? |
| 16 | Recent models of Jupiter have been constrained by J 2 , J 4 and the axial period , rather than by the polar moment of inertia . |
| 17 | The parasitic phase is non-migratory and the prepatent period in ruminants is 2-3 weeks . |
| 18 | The parasitic phase is non-migratory and the prepatent period is 15 days . |
| 19 | There is no tissue migration in the calf following infection and the prepatent period is 3-4 weeks . |
| 20 | Total rainfall is low — Belgrade has only 609 mm ( 24 in ) — and the wettest period is March-June . |
| 21 | He said that the official in charge of antiquities at the Nasiriya Museum had received from the Americans a ‘ very small number ’ of terracotta objects dating back to the dawn of mankind and the Babylonian period , some of which had only recently been broken . |
| 22 | It is still difficult to assess accurately what effect the Roman Conquest and the subsequent period of Roman occupation had on the development of the landscape . |
| 23 | The trouble has been , however , that with the longer construction periods for nuclear stations and the further period before their cheaper running costs will allegedly show up , it can take a long time to see which way the scales really tip . |
| 24 | Loss Adjusters generally outline the steps being taken , the reasons for this and the likely period involved . |
| 25 | The first room of the exhibition contains paintings from the two principal periods of Romanian art : the late nineteenth century , which produced painters such as Lucian Grigorescu and Stephan Luchian ; and the inter-war period , made noteworthy by such artists as Gheorgiu Petrascu and Theodor Pallady . |
| 26 | Earlier chapters have demonstrated this assessment , and the inter-war period confirms it . |
| 27 | Resolutions were passed approving socio-economic development tasks for 1992 and the 1991-95 period , the 1992 budget , tax reforms , the redrawing of administrative boundaries of the provinces of Thuan Hai , Hau Giang , Cuu Long and Ha Nam Ninh and an extension of the Assembly 's term of office for three months . |
| 28 | The main strength of the collection lies in the Rajput schools and the Akbari period of Mughal art , before the robust approach to representation had been refined into the imperial style and more formal composition . |
| 29 | Proprietary life assurance companies are no different in this respect but it is very difficult to ascertain the amounts of profit arising from individual contracts and the exact period of time over which they can be said to have been earned . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , the first earnings period still starts on 6th April and the last period still ends on 5th April . |