Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would be much more interested in holding period returns , which depend on the bond 's price when it is sold ( in relation to the purchase price ) and on the coupons received during the holding period . |
| 2 | Add to this cost the growth in government expenditure , and we are a long way in explaining why the real value of the tax threshold , or the level of income at which tax begins to be paid , has fallen during the post-war period . |
| 3 | These data are given for the post-war period in Figure 2.1 . |
| 4 | ( iii ) If the panel member 's firm merges or splits during the five-year period of membership the member would be required to undergo reselection for the balance of the original five-year term . |
| 5 | ( iii ) If the panel member 's firm merges or splits during the five-year period of membership the member would be required to undergo reselection for the balance of the original five-year term . |
| 6 | Ohrid , the deepest lake in Yugoslavia ( 286 m ( 935 ft ) at its greatest depth ) is of great scientific interest , as it contains a species of trout which , like the omul in Lake Baikal , has survived from before the last Ice Age , the lake having being formed during the Tertiary period . |
| 7 | However , many of the features of the pub as we know it today were developed during the Georgian period ; at the same time , many Georgian pub buildings — or at least Georgian architectural fittings — still survive today . |
| 8 | Drop-leaf tables which could be placed against the wall when not in use developed during the pre-Commonwealth period , but the method of framed ‘ joined ’ construction necessitated the use of a securing pivot at the top and the bottom of the swing-out supporting leg . |
| 9 | The statutory power to recommend a minimum period might , in practice , have been used to create a tariff among the judges for all murders , so that the recommended minimum came to be regarded as the appropriate period of detention , subject only to the question whether the prisoner was a danger to the public when it expired . |
| 10 | Approval can not be given after the six-month period has elapsed . |
| 11 | All sorts of schemes were thought up to keep people busy and occupied during the trying period of ‘ waiting to be demobbed . ’ |
| 12 | The trial judge granted the possession order , holding that , although the premises had been occupied for the requisite period , there was no adverse possession here because there was an implied licence . |
| 13 | In the year it joins the group , its results are included for the whole period . |
| 14 | However , the proportion of women who are full-time housewives has significantly dropped during the post-war period and , since married women who have paid employment spend less time on housework than those without paid work , this means that overall , there has been a significant decline in the amount of time the average woman will spend doing housework . |
| 15 | First , the number of firms which moved during the post-war period . |
| 16 | Because the clinical signs appear during the prepatent period faecal egg counts are of little value in diagnosis which is best made on grazing history , clinical signs , and is possible , a post-mortem examination . |
| 17 | The provision of permanent waters led everywhere to overgrazing and consequent soil erosion , and veterinary quarantine regulations which interfered with the free movement of cattle both within and into and out of the reserves almost certainly contributed to the spread of tsetse fly which occurred during the colonial period . |
| 18 | 3 to carry out preparatory procedures in order to minimize the risk of mistakes or complications occurring during the peri-operative period . |
| 19 | To these titles various laws were added during the Merovingian period , and indeed later . |
| 20 | This , in the event , was wildly optimistic : but it was , by contrast with Melby 's extraordinary projection , what the State Department 's Policy Planning Staff considered as the maximum period which France would have to grant independence if it were to satisfy ‘ genuine nationalism ’ in Indo-China . |
| 21 | In most cases , this initial period will count towards the minimum period of study for the degree . |
| 22 | Applicants are registered in the first instance as supervised postgraduate students ; this initial period will count towards the minimum period of study for the degree . |
| 23 | A first interim order may last up to eight weeks which corresponds with the usual period allowed for investigation under s37 ( s38(4) ) . |
| 24 | This will be beneficial in the long run , but the EC must assist in the transitional period . |
| 25 | Xerox Corp chairman Paul Allaire said yesterday that profit in the second quarter from its document processing business ‘ could be somewhat below ’ the $1.12 per share the unit earned in the year-ago period : Xerox said nine-tenths of its total business is in document processing , and the remainder is in insurance and financial services , and that it is in the midst of realigning its US sales force for document processing , which along with continued weak economic conditions , are affecting its results ; it expects sales momentum to increase as it realises benefits of the sales reorganisation and still expects profit growth in document processing . |
| 26 | The noise amplitude distribution was obtained using zones of the same duration and separation , but both located in the pre-stimulus period . |
| 27 | Increasingly in some areas it can be seen that settlement sites occupied in the Roman period continued through post-Roman times to form the basic framework of medieval and modern villages and hamlets . |
| 28 | Although most existing powers and responsibilities over the delivery of health services and the production of utilities , such as electricity and gas , were effectively removed by post-war nationalization , within the welfare state the role of councils was substantially increased , building on responsibilities some of them had already claimed in the inter-war period . |
| 29 | While the Jakarta meeting was taking place the SOC Foreign Minister , Hor Nam Hong , sent a memorandum to the co-chairs of the PICC insisting that the powers of the UNTAC should be " very clearly defined " and that the two rival Cambodian governments should not be dissolved in the transitional period before elections . |
| 30 | St. Peter 's and the adjacent castle site form part of the bull 's head , as these important pagan sites were the first to be rebuilt in the medieval period . |