Example sentences of "and [noun] [prep] the period " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mid-1960s were the watershed of postwar society , and the creativity and anarchism of the period left nothing untouched . |
| 2 | Since the task seemed enormous , as it indeed was , they endowed the feeble human with supernatural powers , and artists of the period reflected this philosophy by glamourising the general public and monumentalising the heroes of the daily toil . |
| 3 | You need panache to carry it off , with carefully selected ornaments and crockery from the period fortunately , there 's still quite a lot of it around ; geometric patterned wallpaper or plain walls with a border pattern in peaches and rusts . |
| 4 | This gave her an opportunity to work in Bradford and she extended her interest and investigations into the period of time between 11 and 14 , when a child becomes a woman . |
| 5 | For Barker Brown and many other gynaecologists and obstetricians of the period , clitoridectomy was the solution . |
| 6 | An important outlet for the growing population , energy and skills of the period were the crusades — religious wars against the Saracens , aiming to free Christian shrines , particularly Jerusalem , from Muslim rule . |
| 7 | Furthermore , it may be difficult to allocate expenditure and income for the period . |
| 8 | Stoll and Whaley ( 199Ob ) analysed returns ( logarithm of the price relative ) over five-minute intervals for the S&P500 and MMI index futures and indices over the period from 1982 to 1987 . |
| 9 | The profit and loss for the period : |
| 10 | Although the Stock Exchange does not specifically require notes to the interim financial information , it does require an explanatory statement that will enable investors to make an informed assessment of a company 's activities and profit and loss during the period . |
| 11 | A statement of total recognised gains and losses , as required by FRS 3 , shows that the profit for the half year of £32.6m is boosted by currency translation differences on foreign currency net investments of £3.2m to produce total recognised gains and losses for the period of £35.8m . |
| 12 | In order not to divert attention from the components of performance of the total of recognised gains and losses for the period , if included as a primary statement , the reconciliation should be shown separately from the statement of total recognised gains and losses . |
| 13 | On Dec. 21 , 1989 , Argentina reached agreement with its " Paris Club " group of creditor countries on the rescheduling of $2,800 million of foreign debt principal , interest and arrears for the period July 1 , 1988 , to March 31 , 1991 [ for 1987 rescheduling agreement see pp. 35562-63 ] . |
| 14 | Unlike the central character struggling in the movement of history in its unfolding , the communist narrator , distanced from the events themselves , coolly and relentlessly exposes the myths and illusions of the period with the hindsight of history . |
| 15 | Although there was a flurry of Jacobite plotting and conspiracy in the period 1689 – 97 , none of it stood much chance of success . |
| 16 | The 19th volume of the Architectural Periodicals Index ( API ) covering periodicals and books for the period Jan–Dec 1991 was published by RIBA Publications , as well as three quarterly issues for 1992 . |
| 17 | A full appreciation of the cemeteries , in this context , demands an understanding of the relationship between the settlements and cemeteries during the period . |
| 18 | Evidence of this can be seen in both Indian painting and architecture of the period , as well as in the rug designs , and Persian aesthetic ideals and compositions remain an integral part of Indian weaving to this day . |
| 19 | Finally , much work of research and exposition during the period had been devoted to an attempt to recover in full what each author meant through exhaustive biography , critical survey , and detailed examination of the author 's particular achievement . |
| 20 | As a result of tight every-day control costs other operating charges at seventy eight point seven million have fallen as the percentage of sales by point nine per cent to twenty four point six per cent and depreciation in the period has fallen by two point three million to eight point four million . |
| 21 | ‘ As we had maintained our large weighting in overseas equities and cash throughout the period of UK membership of the ERM , this cautious perception of the political and economic risks being run has stood us in good stead . ’ |
| 22 | The contrast between the two major opposing historical interpretations is brought out well by comparing two studies of urban Lancashire : Anderson 's ( 1971 ) study of Preston in the mid-nineteenth century based on documentary data , and the study of Roberts ( 1984 ) of Preston , Barrow and Lancaster in the period 1890–1940 , based on oral history . |
| 23 | Visit typical rooms , shops and workshops of the period . |
| 24 | A visit to a country house for instance will probably include reference to some of the social groups and classes of the period under study ( upstairs/downstairs , the estate workers , the craft or factory workers who produced many of the goods seen in the house ) ; the role of the gentry as leaders and rulers of their society can be covered ; there will be ample scope for looking at the economic and technological aspects of life in the period , especially if the house is related to its setting and the surrounding estate and countryside that supported it ; finally there will be objects or rooms in the house which relate to cultural or religious life in the period . |
| 25 | The internally contradictory form , waltzing , as a genre , cuts across classes , and , as a practice , is inscribed in the overall relations of cultures and classes in the period . |
| 26 | A griddle car service will be available on weekdays and Saturdays during the period of daily running . |
| 27 | In the short term it might be expected to gain considerably from the actual construction of the tunnel and figures for the period up to March 1989 show that the South East , including Kent , had gained 27% of the £492m worth of contracts placed in the UK by Transmanche Link : Kent , as a single county , attracted a high share of 9% . |
| 28 | Of the latter group both the United Provinces throughout the century and Sweden during the period of weak and limited monarchy from 1718 to 1772 were examples ; while the destruction of Poland was the supreme warning of the fate in store for any State whose rulers were too weak to repress internal dissension or ward off the attacks of external enemies . |
| 29 | The state of the market can be ascertained by visiting a number of shops and auctions over the period of a few weeks , and carefully noting the prices . |
| 30 | The attackers carry a siege hook , bow , sling , and axe and all combatants utilise armour and weaponry of the period . |