Example sentences of "it be in [adj] period " in BNC.

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1 It is in this period that English and French work come closest together .
2 It was in this period too that a club 's control over a player was first challenged in the law courts .
3 It was in this period that the first organised adult meetings began to be held , first in Glasgow then in Edinburgh , London , Manchester and Leeds .
4 It was in this period , very roughly between 1050 and 1150 , that we can most readily discern the revival of many independent cities ; and it was in the 1150s that the first serious challenge to their independence was mounted by the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa .
5 It was in this period that Fleischmann and he began to discuss projects , but they did not start working on any until Pons joined the University of Utah , moving to Salt Lake City in 1983 .
6 It was in this period that de Gaulle was anxious to proceed with devising the CAP and it seemed because of this that he might make concessions to his partners .
7 It was in this period that they too were cleared , drained and divided into fields and new patterns of occupation were established within them .
8 During the Second World War dedicated himself to naval research , as a civilian , and it was in this period that made a partnership in a factory of rice cooking pots .
9 Then later when they started coming home his real concern was counting them in , and it was in this period that these pleasant and very charming visitors frequently wanted to get nearer to the operational scene .
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