Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] a [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a person completed a year 's hiring in a parish , or served a full period of apprenticeship , then the right of settlement shifted to that parish . |
| 2 | Normally an application must be served at least fourteen days before the hearing of it , though the court has power to extend or abridge time under s 376 , and under r 7.4(6) the court may hear an application immediately , with or without the attendance of the other party , or authorise a shorter period of service . |
| 3 | To conclude that the potential for peasant revolution against the status quo remained undiminished in the decade after 1905 does not of course , dispose of the liberal contention that given a longer period of peaceful development the prospects would have changed . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , we had just missed the 1400 steam departure from Butterley but most of us took the footpath to Swanwick Junction , the main museum site , to view the many and varied locomotives and other items that spanned a large period of railway history . |
| 5 | They may be trying to understand and explain a whole period of the past or they may be concentrating on one individual problem . |
| 6 | The human being ( a far more complex creature inhabiting a far more complex world ) needs to be highly adaptive and has a long period of play in which to build up a vast repertoire of behaviours . |
| 7 | The long-term effect was to damage severely the profitability of the county 's coastal trade , to raise the levels of taxation and to cause a lengthy period of economic decline . |
| 8 | Now , by the chaos of war , and because the exiled Napoleon had returned to France and thrust a new period of battle on Europe , Sharpe was a lieutenant-colonel in the 5th Belgian Light Dragoons , a regiment he had never met , had no wish to meet , and would not have recognized if it had formed line and charged him . |
| 9 | The project aims to document and analyse a formative period in British space policy , civil and military , within the context of European and trans-Atlantic relations . |
| 10 | They have to be outstanding academically , and must show that having served pupillage and completed a limited period of practice in this country they intend subsequently to return to their country of origin , and that the experience of English pupillage and practice will be of significant benefit in establishing a practice in their home country . |
| 11 | The eggs are not immediately infective , but need a short period outside the body to mature . |
| 12 | But following a brief period of panic sales in the immediate aftermath of the turmoil of 1905 , noble land sales slowed down markedly . |
| 13 | Hugh MacDiarmid , who lived at Montrose , and edited the local newspaper while enjoying a fruitful period of his literary life , described Montrose as ‘ a very attractive small burgh with a wide agricultural hinterland ’ , and these fields now began to materialise . |