Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] [prep] [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had never lived there , although in my early childhood I had stayed for short periods ( but then my mind was occupied in forming pictures ; the time had not yet come for looking at those pictures , for interpreting them ) . |
| 2 | The vast majority of these fish I have kept over long periods and know to be reliable , easy to keep and in the case of some , very long lived . |
| 3 | Before trying to link the legal model of corporate managerial power to a particular conception of the company a sketch of three conceptions of the company which have vied at different periods for dominance in corporate law doctrine and scholarship will be given . |
| 4 | Clearly , gifts of precious metal were something in which Cnut delighted , and it has recently been argued that the magnificently-illustrated gospel books which have survived from this period , and others which have not , were commissioned by Cnut and Emma for donation to favoured individuals and churches . |
| 5 | Women who were currently taking the pill or who had stopped taking it in the last 12 months had a significantly lower rate of endometriosis than those who had stopped for longer periods . |
| 6 | While one can not always rely on Taskopruzade for precision in regard to dates , nor for that matter even in regard to the reigns in which various events occurred , as has been seen , it is hard to accept that he is in error by some twenty or twenty-five years , especially in a period close enough to his own to allow him access to people who had lived in that period . |
| 7 | Whatever benefits were conferred by the phenothiazines , they gave little help to patients who were suffering from excessive mood swings or who had entered into long periods of helpless depression . |
| 8 | Many of the most committed Calvinists , who had wrestled for lengthy periods with the doctrine of predestination before finally convincing themselves of the assuredness of their salvation , reacted with fury and outrage to Arminius 's teachings , and in the United Provinces the resulting theological controversy provoked a major political crisis , culminating in the defeat of the Arminians at the Synod of Dort in 1618 . |
| 9 | ‘ What has predominantly improved race relations in this country over the last 25 years has been the firm , fair immigration controls we have sustained throughout that period . |
| 10 | The Hospital quickly became unable to cater for all the victims of ill health , disaster and old age , and eligibility became restricted to merchant seamen only if they had served for some period in the Royal Navy . |
| 11 | 4.33 Similarly , when lost earnings have meant that on return to work the plaintiff is free of tax for a period , having fallen below the level of earnings on which tax is payable , the tax that he has escaped during that period is a compensatory gain that must be taken into account in the assessment of his lost earnings ( Brayson v Wilmot-Breedon [ 1976 ] CLY 682 ) . |
| 12 | I mean has it ch is it , is it 's changed during that period ? |