Example sentences of "[art] period [prep] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was suggested that the extension of the period to three years from one required the attribution of a different meaning because the Theophile construction meant that it did not really matter what the period was ; as long as there was a debt , a bankruptcy petition could be presented . |
| 2 | For present purposes it is sufficient to note that the expression embraces the period of two years prior to the onset of insolvency in the case of transactions at an undervalue and of preferences given to a person connected with the company , provided that at the time of the transaction the company was unable to pay its debts or it became unable to pay its debts by reason of the transaction . |
| 3 | A committee of Privy Counsellors , under the chairmanship of Lord Radcliffe , was set up to ‘ review the arrangements which should govern the publication of memoirs by former ministers during the period of thirty years that official documents are subject to the provisions of the Public Records Act ’ . |
| 4 | The question for Iavolenus therefore is whether the period of sixteen years was supposed to be for the benefit of the trustee ( so that he could enjoy the income from the estate in the meantime ) or of the estate itself ( so that it would fall into the hands of the testator 's son only once he had reached the age of responsibility ) . |
| 5 | In any case , it is not clear why the period of five years has been chosen . |
| 6 | In the period of five years and two months between February 1974 and May 1979 , a Labour Government introduced 20 guillotine motions . |
| 7 | ( 6 ) Subject to the provisions of this Article and Article 4 the Directors are unconditionally authorised for the purposes of Section 80 of the Act to allot shares and grant rights to subscribe for , or convert securities into , shares in the Company up to the nominal amount of authorised share capital with which the Company is incorporated at any time or times during the period of five years from the date of adoption of these Articles . |
| 8 | ( 6 ) Subject to the provisions of this Article and Article 4 the Directors are unconditionally authorised for the purposes of Section 80 of the Act to allot shares and grant rights to subscribe for , or convert securities into , shares in the Company up to the nominal amount of authorised share capital with which the Company is incorporated at any time or times during the period of five years from the date of adoption of these Articles . |
| 9 | In IRC v Plummer [ 1979 ] STC 793 , a " Reverse Annuity Scheme " was entered into under which a charity paid money to the taxpayer who covenanted to make annual payments to the charity for the period of five years or during the remainder of the life of the taxpayer whichever be the shorter . |
| 10 | The debtor can procure cancellation if satisfied within one month ; if satisfied only after , whilst a certificate of satisfaction can be obtained , the registration will remain , for the period of six years . |
| 11 | Coleman was blamed for reducing the period of three years as originally fixed for the course of instruction in Vial 's time , to as little as three or four months , so that some men were sent out into practice at 19 , 18 , or even 17 years of age ( as a contrary example , Coleman 's nephew , E.C . |
| 12 | You will note that my Local Search reveals a repair grant of £704.48 registered on 3rd January 1984 but the period of three years requiring payment have now lapsed . |
| 13 | The partnership agreement sought to restrain outgoing partners over a period of five years from acting as a solicitor , notary , trade mark or patent agent or in any similar capacity in the Colony of Hong Kong whether as principal , clerk or assistant for any person , firm or company who was at the time of his ceasing to be a partner or had during the period of three years prior thereto been a client of the partnership … |
| 14 | Prosecutions under s20 , in common with other consumer protection legislation ( for example s19(1) of TDA 1968 ) , must be brought either by the end of the period of three years from the day that the offence was committed , or within one year of its discovery by the prosecutor , whichever is the earlier ( s20(5) ) . |
| 15 | The governors had placed great trust in him over the period of ten years ‘ during one of which it pleased its liberal Grand Visitor to take me with him to Ireland ’ . |
| 16 | Here , a charge under Schedule E can arise where a manager has acquired shares in respect of which a " chargeable event " occurs while he is the beneficial owner of them and the manager is a director or employee of Newco or Target or an associated company of either of them at some time during the period of seven years ending with the date on which the chargeable event occurs . |
| 17 | Because a company can be an author of a computer-generated work , there has to be a special rule for determining the duration of copyright in such works and the copyright expires at the end of the period of 50 years from the end of the calendar year in which the work was made ( section 12(3) ) . |
| 18 | Some of the later remodelling work was done by Francesco Maria Richini , although what we now see is in Romanesque style , even though it post-dates the period by many years . |
| 19 | Development under a detailed planning approval must be commenced within a period of live years , beginning with the date on which the permission is granted or , where an earlier outline approval has been obtained , the date of that permission . |
| 20 | A 48-YEAR-OLD Angus man was jailed for three years yesterday for using lewd and indecent practices to a girl and her older sister over a period of 17 years . |
| 21 | They would charge £5000 ( ! ) and , because it is for educational purposes , would provide no restriction on sales and extend copyright for a period of 5 years ( 21/6 ) . |
| 22 | Whereas architectural changes in the small country house had been slowly transitional in the last four hundred years , so that you hardly noticed the slipping of one style into another over , say , a period of fifty years , now the changes were radical and sometimes startling . |
| 23 | Barnard inherited a large fortune from his father : over a period of fifty years he devoted himself to the formation of a collection of prints , drawings , and paintings , becoming one of the foremost connoisseurs of his day . |
| 24 | The results of these labours over a period of fifty years were many papers and five influential books , the last two of which were completed by his son . |
| 25 | Alpha , of course , is the nearest of all the bright stars , at a mere 4.3 light-years ; it is a fine binary with a period of 80 years , but the components are too close to be split with binoculars . |
| 26 | On the basis of privately commissioned opinion polls showing an increasing majority in favour of some measure of divorce legislation , FitzGerald agreed with his cabinet to proceed with a referendum on whether to change the constitution so as to allow divorce for marriages irretrievably broken down , though only after a period of five years ' actual breakdown and legal separation . |
| 27 | Different people at different times and in different places , over a period of five years , displayed the same interest in the past , and ( within acceptable degrees of variation ) gave the same account of incidents and conditions , and gave the same weight to it in their explanations of their actions . |
| 28 | Find out the sales figures for a particular item over a period of five years . |
| 29 | It was intended to see if the total programme of instruction-orientation , introduction and advanced courses in information retrieval affected the pattern of use of the library over a period of five years . |
| 30 | If so , the disqualification may be for a period of five years , universally in the case of a corrupt practice or within the particular constituency in which the offence took place in the case of an illegal practice . |