Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | The generally optimistic tenor of this debate provides a revealing comparison with those public views examined for the earlier period . |
| 2 | The first-years , after a first term filled with the medieval period and a second with the Renaissance , were now going to learn about the Baroque . |
| 3 | While the constitutional and legal changes laid the foundations for a breakdown of the dominance of the household and for greater individual rights , especially for women , considerable importance still attaches to some of the characteristics noted in the prewar period , albeit with modifications . |
| 4 | In addition , complaints to electricity watchdog Offer in the first quarter of 1993 were down by 44pc compared with the same period of 1992 . |
| 5 | The growth of population and commensurate expansion of settlement is reflected by the increasingly varied soil environments settled through the Anglo-Saxon period . |
| 6 | North Korea reiterated its demand for compensation not only for Japan 's colonization of Korea from 1910 to 1945 , but also for damage suffered in the post-war period , for which Japan disclaimed responsibility . |
| 7 | Ninety per cent of the houses built in the inter-war period were of low rateable value , not exceeding £26 ( £35 in Greater London ) . |
| 8 | The help given in the first period of Addenbrookes , when the plaintiff had her own room and was for much of the time still in a coma , was clearly signifidant , significant , not only in caring for the plaintiff 's physical needs , but in giving the support and encouragement which no doubt contributed greatly to the plaintiff 's emergence from that coma . |
| 9 | Further , it may suggest a drift away from the shallow , light soils favoured in the early period to heavier soils which are more fertile and produce a greater yield per acre . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Barro presents some evidence that no such pattern exists : this evidence is from the Durbin-Watson statistic ( see Johnston , 1984 , pp. 314–17 ) which tests the null hypothesis that the error in predicting DM in any period t made by equation ( 6.7 ) is unrelated to the error made in the previous period . |
| 12 | This is a reduction in the quantity of work done in the relevant period by the same resources . |
| 13 | The SQQ for the Monday to Thursday period ended 29 october was calculated at 73.51p per kg lw , which represents a fall of 0.79p compared with the corresponding period last week . |
| 14 | It may be recalled that it is suggested that the origin of ‘ -desire ’ could be also the origin of life , and is one of the timeless mysteries relegated to the pre-life period of the story of the universe . |
| 15 | Many of the 900 General Improvement Areas announced in the 1969–73 period were ‘ urban rooms ’ on the Buchanan principle , though their size was small and not all of the levels of the road hierarchy were present . |
| 16 | Added to these was another important element , for the period of the festival was a time of licence : this was a necessary outlet in the community for the tensions repressed after the long period of hard physical toil . |
| 17 | In most of the non-militant fields , on the other hand , ballots were held , support for the strike was low , and the majority of miners worked through the entire period of the dispute . |
| 18 | It is no doubt an old road , though no older than most , whose importance developed in the medieval period as the main route between Oxford and Banbury . |
| 19 | According to explanations based on the critical period model , early events have such great impact that one need not take anything else into account . |
| 20 | He noted , in his journal in October 1919 , that there had been an increase of 37 vagrants attending the institution as ‘ casuals ’ in the previous two weeks compared with the same period the previous year ; six of them were discharged soldiers . |
| 21 | Those over 65 years declined in the same period from 13% of all farmers to 10% . |
| 22 | In the three months to the end of April , housing starts rose 16pc compared with the same period in 1992 . |
| 23 | Fascinating because it has been brought together by one of Britain 's leading painters ( although Hodgkin denies that the bright colours and strong forms employed by the Mughal period artists have influenced his art ) it is also an important entity in its own right . |
| 24 | Investment in the monitoring and evaluation of social policy changes made during the post-war period in the UK has been very limited , relative to the vast costs of actually making the changes . |
| 25 | However , the large number of castles erected in the eleventh and twelfth centuries ( Fig. 12 ) and the hundreds of new monasteries founded during the same period also became the administrative centres of their estates , even if only for brief periods . |
| 26 | If you have one of the thousands of barley twist-legged tables produced from the Edwardian period onwards , the chances are that it will be coated with a dark , almost black varnish . |
| 27 | Economic indicators from the RF State Statistics Committee reported in Ekonomika i zhizn issue 17 , April 1992 , showed that in all sectors the first quarter of 1992 showed a fall in output compared with the similar period in 1991 . |
| 28 | Net profits slumped by 41% to $12.3m compared with the same period a year ago . |
| 29 | Subsequent radar observations , plus Earth-based telescope observations guided by the 60-day period , ultimately established beyond doubt that the axial sidereal period of Mercury is 58.64 mean solar days . |
| 30 | In the first nine months of 1989 , British companies spent £2.1bn on buying continental companies , up on the £1.6bn recorded in the comparable period . |