Example sentences of "series [prep] [noun pl] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This piece essentially consists of a series of arpeggios derived from the A harmonic minor scale , and it 's a very good example of Joe 's inventive approach to scale harmonisation and chordal voice-leading . |
| 2 | It identified a series of constraints impinging on the urban cores and on many of those living within them . |
| 3 | David Wallen ( 11 March ) gave us an interesting account of a series of blunders revealed to the Parliamentary Defence Committee at its annual consideration of the Trident programme . |
| 4 | My hon. and learned Friend has listed a series of initiatives taken by the Government in relation to the member states of the CIS . |
| 5 | In this article Riffaterre argues from a position already developed in a series of papers written in the late fifties and early sixties . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | Watkins fully appreciated this and it is significant that his original ‘ vision ’ was of a series of markers stretched across the landscape rather than trackways as such . |
| 8 | A series of documents carved on the north wall of the theatre 's stage building , featuring copies of decrees , laws and letters emanating from Roman leaders and emperors and concerning Aphrodisias , presented an extraordinary dossier of information for the Roman historian . |
| 9 | The Woodcliffe , New Jersey-based Ascom Timeplex Inc subsidiary of Ascom Holding AG , Berne , Switzerland , last week launched a series of products aimed at the corporate networking market . |
| 10 | This paper , entitled The molecular theory of chemical valency : the significance of equivalent orbitals , was part IV of a series of dissertations published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society , and was written in collaboration with Lennard-Jones . |
| 11 | The English embryologist , John Gurdon , in an extensive series of experiments performed during the 1960s , showed that if he transplanted the nucleus from one of the cells of the blastula of early toad embryo it could function as if it were the toad egg 's nucleus . |
| 12 | This is the fourth in a series of articles looking at the forthcoming changes to community care |
| 13 | This is one of a series of articles looking at the forthcoming changes to community care |
| 14 | This is one of a series of articles looking at the forthcoming changes to community care |
| 15 | This is one of a series of articles looking at the forthcoming changes to community care |
| 16 | This is one of a series of articles looking at the forthcoming changes to community care |
| 17 | In a series of articles published under the title Problems in General Linguistics , Benveniste demonstrates with particular reference to the temporal and pronominal systems of the French language that linguistic items can be distinguished according to whether they include a reference to the moment or position of the utterance of a statement ( énonciation ) . |
| 18 | In December a series of articles appeared in The Times by two journalists , Pat Butcher and Peter Nichols , on drug abuse in athletics . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , in a series of moves capped by the Education Reform Act and the proposals for a national ( or , as some were quick to point out , national ist ) curriculum , the Conservative government had effectively challenged and undermined the fragile liberal consensus Swann had tried to erect in the mid-1980s . |
| 20 | What is persuasive in this case is a consistent series of answers given by the minister , after opportunities for taking advice from his officials , all of which point the same way and which were not withdrawn or varied prior to the enactment of the Bill . |
| 21 | A common agricultural policy had been on the agenda of Europe ever since Sicco Mansholt had put forward an early version to the Council of Europe in 1950 , though its roots lay further back in time in a series of discussions sponsored by the European Movement . |
| 22 | Serialled N240 , the Severn first flew in July 1930 , and a series of trials followed at the MAEE . |
| 23 | Firbas , for instance , suggests that ‘ the basic distribution of CD is implemented by a series of elements opening with the element carrying the very lowest and gradually passing on to the element carrying the very highest degree of CD ’ ( 1974 : 22 ) . |
| 24 | The period immediately before the First World War was dominated by a series of reforms adopted by the Liberal government after 1906 . |
| 25 | Another factor which quickened the change in the status of the Foreign Office was the series of reforms instigated by the Treasury in 1848 which by 1852 , when the Foreign Office applied for additional staff , sparked off an acrimonious controversy between the two offices . |
| 26 | He also made a major contribution to local history through his editorship of the series of pamphlets produced by the local branch of the Historical Association . |
| 27 | Tajfel ( 1972 ) , in a series of studies conducted within the old ‘ experimentalist ’ paradigm , examined the tendency of quite accidentally constituted groups to begin to act against each other . |
| 28 | A further example of the alienating effect national anti-nuclear protestors had on local people was provided by the DUC 's Ralph Shepherd when he described one of a series of meetings organized by the DUC to which anti-nuclear groups nationally were invited : |
| 29 | Subsequently , after a series of meetings initiated by the then Director of Social Services , the Wirral Committee on Solvent Abuse was set up . |
| 30 | But the real decisions will come in June , at one of a series of meetings held under the auspices of the World Administrative Radio Conference . |