Example sentences of "series of [noun pl] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His aim is simple : to write a series of commentaries on the novels of Jane Austen which would say everything that could be said about them , from every conceivable angle : |
| 2 | Starting in the 1920s she became increasingly interested in floral morphology ; in a long series of papers in the Annals of Botany and the New Phytologist she recorded her observations on vascular and carpelary structure in a wide range of flowers . |
| 3 | That policy is being pursued in two ways : first , the DES is publishing a series of documents on the objectives to be sought in the different areas of the curriculum . |
| 4 | Instead , Offa 's direct personal participation in Kentish affairs is revealed in a series of documents across the years 785–9 ( CS 247 : S 123 ; CS 248 : S 125 ; CS 254 : S 128 ; CS 253 : S 129 ; CS 257 : S 130 ; CS 244 : S 131 ) , and in 792 it was Offa who confirmed the immunities from secular obligations of Kentish churches ( CS 848 : S 134 ) . |
| 5 | If this extraordinary statement involved a blindness to reality , it provided no warning of the storm of anger and abuse which my series of articles in The Times was to generate among Israelis and their supporters in Britain . |
| 6 | In a series of articles in The Times to celebrate Mrs Thatcher 's ten years as leader ( 11 , 12 , and 13 February 1985 ) he wrote that she had inherited ‘ forty years of muddled policy ’ . |
| 7 | The gardens he created were seldom visited until 1851 , when a series of articles in the Gardeners ' Chronicle created a sensation by describing the transplanting operations , the grafted conifers , the avenues of multiple rows of different species , the architectural topiary , and the series of formal gardens enclosed by hedges . |
| 8 | The battle broke up into a series of duels across the skies of Scotland , from Edinburgh to North Berwick . |
| 9 | Between 1934 and 1937 it invalidated a string of measures initiated by President Roosevelt and passed by Congress to attempt to deal with the economic depression , while between 1954 and 1963 it made a series of decisions regarding the rights of blacks far in advance of anything that could obtain strong presidential and congressional support . |
| 10 | The first of a regular series of meetings of the chiefs of staff of all participating countries was held on April 10 . |
| 11 | On Thursday there was a series of meetings between the leaders of the Government and the opposition parties , the General Council of the TUC and the National Executive of the Labour Party . |
| 12 | This committee held a series of meetings with the commons , and the commons , led by de la Mare , appeared before the lords on a number of occasions , with John of Gaunt presiding in place of the king who was too ill to attend . |
| 13 | Meanwhile the Prime Minister is understood to be arranging a series of meetings with the leaders of all the main constitutional parties in Northern Ireland . |
| 14 | The team will collect information on work and life histories of 1,000 inhabitants in Rochdale which will be utilized to examine a series of hypotheses about the causes and direction of current changes in the behaviour and attitudes of people living in Rochdale . |
| 15 | The CNIAG later took part in discussions with the Raybestos workers and continued to share information with the workers by producing a series of leaflets on the hazards of asbestos and on the need for workers to organize autonomously from the trade union in order to defend their health and safety . |
| 16 | The days leading up to the fifth anniversary of the accident at Chernobyl nuclear power station , in the Soviet Ukraine , were marked by a series of reports on the consequences of the accident ( which occurred on April 26 , 1986 — see pp. 34460-62 ) . |
| 17 | After they have had a reasonable length of time to browse , the folder is taken back and they are asked a series of questions about the ads . |
| 18 | The drive to increase productivity resulted in a series of conflicts with the unions as Sir Michael sought the right to manage . |
| 19 | During the following months five judges presided over a new series of perambulations in the counties of Northampton , Huntingdon , Rutland , Oxford and Surrey . |
| 20 | He was among the founders of the Association of Cricket Statisticians in 1973 , playing a prominent role in their series of publications on the players of each first-class county and producing the A to Z of Cricket Records in 1976 : ‘ I had seen a book on the football records and persuaded the publisher to try a similar volume on cricket records — not only listing them by explaining them . |
| 21 | For the hygienist alliance was forced to operate through a series of negotiations with the women 's movement . |
| 22 | He was commissioned to write one of a series of monographs on the settlements of Roman Britain , and he took the almost completed text with him when he left England . |
| 23 | ‘ She wrote a series of poems about the dolls , ’ said Maud , in a kind of dreadful whisper . |
| 24 | THE council of the Royal Yachting Association , the British power boat authority , have ratified a series of measures against the organisers of the Cowes-Torquay Classic , the biggest race on the British calendar . |
| 25 | One very lively looking book provides typical examples of the features I would criticize : a focus on the history of the science dealing with the main discoverers who all seem to be men ; a use of the pseudo-generic ‘ man ’ and ‘ he ’ when the reference is to men and women ; more pictures of men than women ; a series of cartoons in the margins which portray boys more frequently than girls to illustrate some concept or show active participation in scientific experiment . |
| 26 | Panic and Vernon ( 1975 ) ran a series of tests in the mid-1970s relating GDFCF in six manufacturing industries to a number of variables . |
| 27 | The principal method of data collection will be a series of interviews with the members of the cohort . |
| 28 | Ever since 1969 , when he had his first show , his cartoonish black-and-white paintings have managed to comment without mercy or a smidgen of socially redeeming tact on , among other things , men 's — and women 's — looks ( Warhol 's nosejob painting must be an important icon in his private gallery ) ; issues of health ( a hilarious series of men in the throes of having heart attacks ) ; bestiality ( pert Fifties housewife on her knees doing something unspeakable to a poodle with her arm ) and religion ( famous Biblical figure on the cross getting a pie in the face ) . |
| 29 | It was therefore decided to mount a series of raids on the airfields in the Benghazi area . |
| 30 | In addition to Benghazi , a series of raids on the airfields in the vicinity had been planned , but these proved to be a disappointment . |