Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] a series " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first wave , Freud said , a child goes through a series of phases centring on various erogenous or erotogenic zones of the child 's body . |
| 2 | Legislation in the nineteenth-century Russian Empire looks like a series of royal fiats , but the laws whch freed the serfs emerged from a process which the tsar barely understood and over which he had only partial control . |
| 3 | This tough and challenging rural course finishes with a series of hills , which seem to grow steeper and more demanding as the time to challenge them comes around . |
| 4 | Every training session starts with a series of health exercises . |
| 5 | The project extends into the early part of the fifth year , which concludes with a series of industrially-oriented modules using innovative teaching methods . |
| 6 | Altdorf stands on a series of islands amongst the broad mud flats which surround the confluence of the rivers Reik and Talabec . |
| 7 | Singer SHEENA EASTON , 33 , who thanks to a series of shrewd property deals in California is 36th richest with £39.4 million . |
| 8 | If this notion of looking ahead in order to see behind is understood temporally , it can be recognized as the constitutive structure of narrative itself , which Genette describes as a series of ‘ déterminations rétrogrades ’ in that the action of a story is a function of its outcome ( 1969:94 ) . |
| 9 | In each case the experience of being wrenched out of the familiar instigates an identity crisis which results in a series of ‘ rebirths ’ as the protagonist grapples with the problem of selfhood and strives to construct some form of coherent identity out of the scraps of other peoples ' languages which penetrate his or her consciousness . |
| 10 | 7 HE features in a series of US TV cartoons , including the Super Mario Bros Show . |
| 11 | He keys in a series of numbers on a phone which generate letters on a screen which Ray can read . |
| 12 | Development occurs in a series of stages , the conclusion of each stage being the starting-point of the next . |
| 13 | This suggests that kaolinisation is a hydrothermal process in which acid solutions move upward , changing the hard rock into kaolinite while leaving mica and quartz unaltered , The kaolin , then , lies in a matrix of mica and quartz and occurs in a series of funnel or trough-shaped deposits . |
| 14 | The exhibition ends with a series of engravings of dismantled bicycles and broken violins fragments of our civilisation to be discovered by the archaeologists of the future . |
| 15 | ‘ It is assumed that scientific knowledge grows in a series of discrete steps , each corresponding with a specific advance which can be precisely located in time ’ . |
| 16 | Every year the Irish national broadcasting service , RTE , buys in a series of Radharc programmes and their high quality has ensured that a number of them have appeared on other national TV networks . |
| 17 | He exists in a series of time-capsules , deeply aware of personal responsibilities , of demands made on his time , of kindnesses he wishes to offer , but nonetheless often unable to escape from the maelstrom he has created around himself . |
| 18 | It appears far below , framed by near-vertical cliffs on both sides of a vast hollow into which the narrow road plunges in a series of sharp zigzags . |
| 19 | The first phase of the project concentrates on a series of questionnaires , sent to all general practitioners and practice nurses working in Sheffield , and to a sample of 2,000 women . |
| 20 | This leads to a series of return maps , for r-values like those shown in Fig. 6.5b . |
| 21 | This hypothesis suggests that governmental expenditure grows by a series of relatively sharp leaps caused by some form of emergency or crisis . |
| 22 | Summary : This fits into a series of initiatives which have been organised by the Islamologists in Paris . |
| 23 | The novel opens with a series of quotations from well-known works of European literature loosely strung together with third-person narrative . |
| 24 | The longer one opens with a series of petitions in which the meditator prays for grace to serve God with his whole being . |
| 25 | The convection divides into a series of layers ; nearly all the variation of each quantity occurs close to the edges of the layers . |
| 26 | The left photograph best shows the front face ; the right section of the crag that breaks into a series of vertical weaknesses to turn a sharp corner . |
| 27 | In the previous section , we sought to show that the black population suffers from a series of multiple disadvantages and is often , moreover , heavily geographically concentrated in inner-city areas . |
| 28 | Grundrisse consists of a series of notebooks which were never finally prepared for publication and are therefore somewhat untidy and unsystematic . |
| 29 | The final room consists of a series of three roomsets from Sandringham , Balmoral and Windsor . |
| 30 | The oldest mechanical conservation measure is the bench terrace which consists of a series of steps cut into the slope on the contour , of which the forward edge can be lined with stone or planted with bushes , trees or grasses . |