Example sentences of "have [be] a series " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Since our major programs lasted for a decade or more , some observers have mistakenly , in my opinion , concluded that Highlander has been a series of schools . |
| 2 | For instance in one area recently there has been a series of protests and demonstrations regarding poor and inadequate housing conditions , the majority of the members of the committees which were responsible for organising the protests are members of the IRA . |
| 3 | They too were identified in the Royal Commission and , similarly , there has been a series of developments in the intervening decade . |
| 4 | Since the late 1960s there has been a series of overlapping periods of local government reform , each of which helps to illustrate some key theoretical debates about the state . |
| 5 | There has been a series of trials within the Engineering Branch of the RAF of the technologies related to expert systems over the past 5 to 10 years . |
| 6 | I 've never claimed much ; I 've never claimed to be a great original ; my life has been a series of accidents with me just sort of helping along . ’ |
| 7 | For regulationist theories the history of capitalist development has been a series of phases each dominated by a different combination of regime of accumulation and mode of regulation . |
| 8 | There has been a series of decisions over the past 50 years which , although they are said to be cases of estoppel are not really such . |
| 9 | Among the initiatives which have recently emerged under the QSF umbrella has been a series of ‘ experience exchange days ’ where people involved in the quality programme in one company visit another to study its achievements . |
| 10 | There has been a series on Edinburgh , although only one of them , Sean Connery 's Edinburgh ( 1982 ) , was actually commissioned as such by the City Council . |
| 11 | Right across the company there has been a series of initiatives to make it even more effective . |
| 12 | Michael Crawford 's career , until now , has been a series of brilliant firework bursts which have never quite ignited into an enduring setpiece that sets the sky alight . |
| 13 | and as you well know there has been a series of meetings in |
| 14 | FEBRUARY , May and August could be seen as rehearsals for November 's main event so that what may have been a series of happenings in these months could lead to November 's denouement . |
| 15 | This could easily have been a series of practices such as our own in areas where no education or communication with the local general practitioners took place . |
| 16 | Winter frosts would have annually disrupted the surfaces , as happened to the coach roads of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries before the invention of Mr Macadam ; the end result would have been a series of monumental ruts and pot-holes . |
| 17 | There must have been a series , general knowledge three that 's |
| 18 | His entire career in industry seems to have been a series of opportunities seized with relish . |
| 19 | Joyce began work on the book — which was to have been a series of short stories based on Irish history and mythology — in 1923 , but the project never reached fruition and was abandoned a year later . |
| 20 | The last six years of his life — since Judith , in fact — had been a series of duplicities . |
| 21 | Not only was the demand not to materialize but the revolution in distribution costs introduced by containerization , changes in marine technology and handling methods at docks opened up the world from what had been a series of regional markets to a single one . |
| 22 | There had been a series of rumours about accidents : pods which malfunctioned on impact , leaving their passengers trapped and helpless ; pods which misinterpreted conditions of temperature and air pressure , releasing their human cargo while they were still several kilometres above ground . |
| 23 | Evidently there had been a series of mass extinctions followed each time by the appearance of an entirely new set of species that formed the population of the next stable period . |
| 24 | The Doctor explained that in the late nineteenth century there had been a series of unsolved murders committed in the East End of London . |
| 25 | There had been a series of photographs showing Adam with a series of women , each one more gorgeous than the last , and each one looking up at him with undisguised adoration . |
| 26 | And since October last year there 've been a series of applications at the High Court in London for the company to be wound up . |
| 27 | But there have been a series of large withdrawals since then . |
| 28 | Linked to this have been a series of vigorous campaigns against paedophile organisations , including the use of the conspiracy laws . |
| 29 | This has been strongly resisted by the police and there have been a series of clashes . |
| 30 | Against this , there have been a series of controversial allegations against special police units engaged in covert action . |