Example sentences of "series of [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taking a series of views across the whole situation , referred to as the hill tops approach by Mcloughlin and Brown , recognises that the wider system could be instrumental in : |
| 2 | Hervey , a Breton , was appointed bishop , the first of a long series of members of the English royal court to be provided with a Welsh see : he was also the first bishop in Wales to come under the authority of an English archbishop . |
| 3 | The National Assembly passed on March 16 a series of revisions to the Temporary Provisions , which for 40 years had superseded the Constitution , enhanced presidential power and frozen in office the mainland-elected members of the various deliberative assemblies , pending hypothetical recovery of the mainland . |
| 4 | Sankara 's government launched a series of onslaughts on the worst ills of chronic underdevelopment : ‘ commando ’ campaigns to immunize children against the common killer diseases , to roll back the desert by planting trees , to encourage peasant farmers and drive towards self-sufficiency in food . |
| 5 | In Sweden , again , there was a series of efforts during the eighteenth century to regulate more rationally the salaries paid to different ranks of diplomat , though there as elsewhere it was easier to do this than to pay the salaries regularly . |
| 6 | Agassi it was who strung together a great series of returns to the big serving Ivanisovic . |
| 7 | Under a complicated series of exemptions from the 30-year-old American embargo , exiles can send monthly packages of medicine and clothing , up to a value of $100 , to relatives there . |
| 8 | It can therefore be said that in a long series of estimates under the same conditions the population mean would lie within one standard error of the mean 68 per cent of the time , or within two standard errors 95·4 per cent of the time . |
| 9 | It can therefore be said that in a long series of estimates under the same conditions the population mean would lie within one standard error of the mean 68 per cent of the time , or within two standard errors 95.4 per cent of the time . |
| 10 | Contributing to the progress was a series of initiatives including the QuIC quality improvement campaign , obtaining the BS5750 quality standard and the ‘ Courtaulds Way ’ continuous improvement programme ( CIP ) . |
| 11 | The originator of this research was the maverick James McConnell , at Ann Arbor , Michigan , who in a series of papers during the 1960s , first in conventional scientific journals and then in his own publication , the exotically named Worm-Runners Digest , reported experiments in which flatworms , trained by pairing light with electric shock , were chopped up and other , ‘ naïve ’ ( that is , untrained ) worms allowed to cannibalize them . |
| 12 | Instead , we prepared with a series of games at the local level here in B.C. ’ . |
| 13 | This is not good news for Leeds who are coming upto a difficult series of games over the next month . |
| 14 | A report to be published later this month is understood to detail a series of shortcomings in the rushed sale of the motor company to the group which was approved by Lord Young , the former Trade Secretary . |
| 15 | And it has suffered an extraordinary series of mishaps over the past decade . |
| 16 | Foucault argues that a whole series of movements since the nineteenth century , including various anthropologizing Marxisms , have developed complicitly with this so as to preserve the sovereignty of the subject against Marx 's and others ' decentrings : positivism , the Hegelian Marxism of Lukács , the Marxist humanism of Sartre , as well as various theories of cultural totalities such as that of the Frankfurt School . |
| 17 | In 1989 the Audit Commission published a series of documents on the local government dimension of urban regeneration and economic development . |
| 18 | The parent company , as it now exists , was formed through a series of mergers in the late 1960s . |
| 19 | It has achieved temperatures of 250 million degrees in its fuel and plans a series of experiments into the early 1990s . |
| 20 | MANY thanks for the excellent series of articles on the proposed Sports Museum they put the situation accurately and can do nothing but help our cause . |
| 21 | His principal allies were the Society of Friends , the Unitarian Church and Picture Post , the popular weekly magazine which published a series of articles on the Czech crisis . |
| 22 | In pursuit of this philosophy , the Railway Magazine in 1900 ran a series of articles on the notable British goods station , preserving for us a picture of these hives of economic activity at the height of the railway age . |
| 23 | In 1911 she won a magazine essay competition and went on to write short stories , newspaper articles , and during the 1920s two long series of articles for the Catholic Fireside magazine . |
| 24 | She went to Germany to write a series of articles for the Daily Herald in 1923 . |
| 25 | ‘ A weekly column , ’ he had suggested , and when some weeks later , looking pale and rather ill , she had visited him and suggested a series of articles about the stunted lives of women and children in the East End , to be written from the inside , she had said , not the outside , he had rapidly agreed . |
| 26 | The new group — ‘ the Disestablishment ’ as they were christened in a series of articles in the Financial Times — was highly fluid . |
| 27 | Deng 's visit followed publication of a series of articles in the official Chinese media suggesting that economic reform , slowed in the aftermath of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre and the austerity drive which followed it , was ready to accelerate . |
| 28 | G.P. Mudge , in a series of articles in The Hidden Hand entitled ‘ Pride of Race ’ , translated the arguments derived from traditions in nineteenth-century anthropology and biology into language racial nationalists could understand . |
| 29 | In a frivolous but fascinating series of articles in the English tabloids , the scorned woman described him as ‘ Ratavennie ’ , saying he behaved like a ‘ rat ’ and his ‘ tactics were firmly offside ’ . |
| 30 | I met R. D. Case afterwards — he was on the Westminster Gazette at that time — and he told me that Stanford was so drunk that he 'd almost fallen into the gravel Apparently he 'd just been caught in time by George Watson-Forbes , who later wrote a remarkable series of articles in the Daily News on the Home Rule question . ’ |