Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] a [adj] period of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though some minor changes may subsequently be necessary in order to conform with the directive , the government does n't want to risk a further period of delay before bringing these necessary measures into effect . |
| 2 | This has created a long period of uncertainty , but in fact it now appears that they do not grant core funding ( and inside information indicates that the NCC element is the dominant one ) . |
| 3 | EU has a range of from 6 to 7 and is said to have a rough period of 60 days , though I have never found much evidence of it . |
| 4 | Most obviously , both women and men can expect to have a recognizable period of ‘ old age ’ when they have ceased paid work , the creation of a standard age of retirement from work being a twentieth century phenomenon . |
| 5 | Applying these principles , pneumonia need not be treated if , on the facts , to do so would mean that the patient recovered to endure a further period of discomfort , pain , or inevitable , distressing deterioration . |
| 6 | The reader will probably object that a hideous primal trauma of parricide and rape is all very well for purposes of explaining the subsequent guilt and neurotic inhibitions of the perpetrators of these ghastly crimes , but can hardly hope to explain how they succeeded in transmitting their new-found superegos to their children , and certainly will not explain how , when all the primal fathers were gone ( a process which may have taken a considerable period of time admittedly , but which must have happened eventually ) , when there were no more primal parricides to be procured , human societies could still construct their civilization on the acquisition of the superego . |
| 7 | Manufacturing and mining made just as heavy demands on child labour , although here the problem was not seasonal but one of whether parents could afford to buy a brief period of schooling before the child entered full-time employment . |
| 8 | This school had enjoyed a brief period of success and national distinction in the first decade of the sixteenth century under the Mastership of John Stanbridge , who was well known when he migrated north from Oxford and whose Grammar was prescribed in the statutes of Manchester Grammar School . |
| 9 | The document also contains a clause stating that each EC country can continue to give a longer period of maternity leave , which must be paid at 80% of women 's wages . |
| 10 | On May 16 the Collective State Presidency issued a warning clearly directed at Slovenia and Croatia that a " serious breakdown of the system established by the Constitution " and " disregard for existing federal laws " meant that Yugoslavia had entered a critical period of instability . |
| 11 | Wigan chairman Jack Robinson said : ‘ We have had a long period of success under a lot of good coaches and we are confident John can do a great job for us . ’ |
| 12 | In the main , staff have to complete a qualifying period of service ( often two or three years ) before they qualify for this . |