Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [det] [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it does so the provisions of section 80A apply instead of those in subsections ( 4 ) and ( 5 ) of section 80 and the authority can be given for any fixed period or indefinitely though it can be revoked at any time . |
| 2 | Joe decides to draw up a profit and loss account for this initial period . |
| 3 | The matter may be looked at retrospectively ( ie where the partner has been unable to work for some defined period or periods ) or prospectively ( where it has become apparent that the partner 's health has failed and will not improve ) . |
| 4 | He also has meters on the pipes connecting the reservoirs to the distribution system , and flow gauges on every stream , which measure flow and hence volume passing during any past period . |
| 5 | After this time they were never really separated for any long period , and the course of Dorothy 's life can be regarded as the same as Wordsworth 's . |
| 6 | Such fins are similar , in principle , to those of a whole group of primitive bony fish that were living in that remote period when the move to land was first made . |
| 7 | Deliveries , they warn , are likely to be a little late this year , but rose planting can safely be done in any frost-free period between October and March . |
| 8 | Assuming they lived six to a house , how many houses were built in this short period ? |
| 9 | However , our prayers will be with the Fellowship as you embark on this exciting period of change in the church . |
| 10 | Because they developed a system of mining , whereby once once it was the the the task had begun to clear the coal face of a certain er a certain area of coal , it did n't matter what what happened during that particular period of time , whether all the machinery broke down , etcetera , etcetera , you had to stop u until that amount of coal had been cleared off , you see . |
| 11 | If the tank is well-established , however , they will normally find enough microorganisms to keep them going during this initial period . |
| 12 | Scientists are concerned that a special event , such as a sunspot or supernova might occur during this long period of communications blackout . |
| 13 | In Figures 10 and 11 , below , the number of items requested within each fifteen-minute period on weekdays and on Saturdays is plotted against a scale on the left , while the mean delivery time for items supplied direct to readers within the same periods is plotted against a scale on the right . |
| 14 | The code proposed the creation of a two-tier administrative system to allow for the easier processing of non-controversial mergers and takeovers , the referring of important or unusual cases to a full Takeovers Committee ( which would be renamed the Takeover and Mergers Panel ) , the right of appeal to a new independent Takeovers Appeal Panel , and the retention of 5 per cent as the maximum amount of shares which a person controlling between 35 and 50 per cent of shares in a company could further purchase in any 12-month period . |
| 15 | [ They ] are used in this interim period in providing informal planning advice and guidance . ’ |
| 16 | Moreover , when turning to that short period , the spotlight can not be focused exclusively on the drama of the last two years . |
| 17 | But in a way the nineteenth century was the century of history , because it was erm thought at that particular period of time that in order to understand what was going on in contemporary life , you had to have some historical appreciation , knowledge and perspective , and erm a great deal of the explanation of other subjects in the nineteenth century was , erm if you like , historical in character . |
| 18 | But I stress that this is a negative agreement — B by agreeing not to negotiate for this fixed period with a third party , locks himself out of such negotiations . |
| 19 | But er as much as anything , that in itself was er er one of the ai you know one of the er high points that the er I remember of this particular period . |
| 20 | These do not correlate with any known period of high lake levels in East Africa , although in northern Africa there is evidence for lake transgressions at around 90kyr . |
| 21 | Bateson 's work is seen as challenging a view of literature as the product of " social forces " in favour of an analysis based upon the language poets had to use in any given period . |
| 22 | It is a ledger , the size and solidity of an old-fashioned accounts book , with broken corners and an air of belonging to that grey period which is too far gone to be new but not yet far enough off to be old . |
| 23 | Alternatively , we could generate crude annual wastage rates based on any given period ( figure 11 ) . |
| 24 | The prize , one of the Sheila Mossman awards for piano , is given in each examining period to the highest achievers at the top three grades . |
| 25 | Gloria said that when a person does not receive the right emotional nourishment at a stage in their life , then they can stay in that emotional period . |
| 26 | The observer was asked to move through the wood of his choice at a fixed speed , dividing the time spent into units of 10 minutes each and recording for each 10-minute period all the birds seen or heard , normally within a band of 50 yards ( 46 metres ) from the observer . |
| 27 | It must be remembered that , for all but the ‘ career ’ users , the daily quantity of heroin administered during this early period was generally relatively small . |
| 28 | The malignancies of children whose fathers were monitored for exposure to ionising radiation did not seem to be atypical : all had acute lymphoblastic leukaemia , their ages at diagnosis were not unusual , and the time of their diagnosis was not concentrated in any particular period . |
| 29 | However , although at the upper levels of society locative and other bynames became surnames and survived from this early period , this was not true at the lower levels and certainly there is no uniformity in the development of surnames . |
| 30 | Beyond this it is difficult to go ; something was worth defending in this late period , but the archaeological evidence fails us . |