Example sentences of "has been [vb pp] [prep] a series " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since then , the debt crisis has been handled through a series of temporary rescheduling agreements financed partly by the IMF and partly by private banks , each guaranteed creditworthy by the country 's acceptance of an IMF adjustment programme designed to generate a foreign exchange surplus through cuts in imports and export production . |
| 2 | The presumption of innocence has not been toppled ; rather , it has been corroded by a series of laws on alcohol and tobacco , football hooliganism , drugs , videos and even badgers . |
| 3 | Since 1973 the threshold of what amounts to dominance has been widened by a series of European Court decisions and the Court has also interpreted abuse less strictly . |
| 4 | The importance of environmental issues has been raised by a series of articles in Chartered Builder . |
| 5 | The direction of technical change has been explored in a series of papers initiated by the work of Kennedy ( 1964 ) , von Weizsacker ( 1966 ) and Samuelson ( 1965 ) . |
| 6 | This has been emphasised by a series of British chiefs of the defence staffs , by the chairman of NATO 's military committee , by former US Defence Secretary Robert McNamara , and by Lord Zuckerman , formerly chief scientific adviser to the minister of defence and to the prime minister . |
| 7 | With regard to the United Kingdom 's special treatment in the context of Economic and Monetary Union , it is sometimes forgotten that the EEC Treaty has from the outset required , under Articles 103 and 105 , co-ordination of economic policy and exchange rate policy , and in Opinion 1/91 the European Court also suggested that the attainment of Economic and Monetary Union was already a Community objective ; it should therefore hardly be a surprise that the ECU has been defined in a series of regulations enacted under Article 235 . |
| 8 | The essential feature of these results , that partial reinforcement tends to maintain orienting to the light , has been sought in a series of further experiments by Pearce and his collaborators and has been amply confirmed ( e.g. Pearce , Wilson , and Kaye 1988 ) . |
| 9 | A complex of outhouses and stables has been converted into a series of self-contained flats , with a total of 21 bedrooms , four halls , 12 bathrooms and six kitchens . |
| 10 | A thirteen-year-old school boy has been charged with a series of motoring offences after a stolen car crashed into a row of parked vehicles . |
| 11 | Since opening the gates to the Magic Kingdom a little more than a year ago , Euro Disney has been beset by a series of much-publicised problems : poor attendance , labour disputes , French snobbery and pan-European discontent over high prices and long queues . |
| 12 | Pilots have complained that airlines force them to work long hours , new jets are being grounded or sent back to the manufacturers for modification , and the government has been attacked for a series of embarrassing lapses at major airports . |
| 13 | As a matter of principle , the bank in such circumstances should not be entitled to rely on the transaction and this is the view which has been taken by a series of authorities going back to the beginning of this century . |
| 14 | The job of keeping them together has been entrusted to a series of ‘ confidants ’ who write his books , churn out his articles , furnish his quotes , capture his image and sweeten the sour , and when I once asked Niki why he would n't ever do a serious — and in consequence , a truthful — book about himself , he replied , why should he ? |
| 15 | He has been booked for a series . |
| 16 | Even the widespread belief that decisions on industrial location are ( or were before the introduction of the uniform business rate ) heavily influenced by the level of local taxation has been undermined by a series of research reports ( including Crawford , Fothergill and Monk ( 1985 ) which was commissioned by the Department of the Environment ) . |
| 17 | This politics matters and has been addressed by a series of locality studies , notably that of Dickens et al. |
| 18 | The emigration has been encouraged by a series of British Nationality Acts stripping even the 3.25 million people holding Hong Kong ‘ British ’ passports of any rights to residence in Britain . |
| 19 | The international legal system has been described as a series of bilateral consensual relationships within which rights , commitments and obligations are formulated , and values are allocated between parties inter se . |