Example sentences of "series [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similar trends are apparent in the series for cumulated inflows , suggesting that the observed changes in the stock do not arise from revaluation effects alone . |
| 2 | Miss Perrie , who has starred in the series for 17 years , spoke recently of being shattered by her six-days-a-week work schedule for the show . |
| 3 | Miss Perrie has played the part of Ivy Brennan in the top-rated series for 17 years . |
| 4 | The happy grammar series for young learners |
| 5 | Aberdeen-based series for Scottish viewers , with presenters Carole Baxter and Bill Torrance , and expert guidance from Sid Robertson , Walter Gilmore and others . |
| 6 | Information , needless to say , can be passed to other programs in the series for further operations such as automatic mailing . |
| 7 | By 1969 a complete textbook series from primary one to primary seven ( pupils ' books and accompanying teacher 's guides ) ; a manual for teacher training , Basic Concepts in Mathematics ; and two alternative series for secondary schools had been produced , providing in all 67 volumes of prototype materials . |
| 8 | In his final years he tried to revive his career in an American television series about martial arts called The Master ( 1986 ) but it failed and another series never got beyond the pilot stage . |
| 9 | Wessels hit an unbeaten 95 as South Africa , playing their first full series after two decades of international isolation , comfortably won the third Test against India in Cape Town by nine wickets . |
| 10 | In his view ‘ one of the levers of pressure on the policy of the new states by the West is military cooperation , which expresses itself in rendering military assistance , the sale of modern arms , the dispatch of a significant number of Western military advisers to the developing countries and , finally , the creation of military bases on the territory of a series of non-aligned states ’ . |
| 11 | Discussions of academic topics typically involve a great deal of thought and the production of novel utterances , rather than a series of well-practised utterances like ‘ Hello ’ and ‘ How are you ? ’ . |
| 12 | This was a real benefit , and helps to explain why so many medieval campaigns rapidly declined into a series of fruitless sieges and failed to lead to any deep penetration of enemy territory . |
| 13 | In a clear message to the French , he added : ‘ All of us recognise the importance of reaching agreement on a whole series of complex matters . |
| 14 | Coral reefs and atolls present a series of complex problems , involving ecological questions concerning the organisms involved , most of them species of coral , and geomorphological questions of the ultimate origin and present modification of these features . |
| 15 | This vulnerability increased during 1990 and the first half of 1991 as he grappled unsuccessfully with a series of complex problems [ for his replacement in October 1991 see pp. 38528-29 ; 38558 ] . |
| 16 | A series of complex reactions involving the vessel wall , plasma proteins and platelets occur to reduce the loss of blood following injury to the vasculature . |
| 17 | While the single-centre institutions found it somewhat easier to adopt the mantle of RMC , inevitably some of the multi-centre RMCs found their development delayed by management problems , especially where they were composed of a number of colleges which had to negotiate a series of complex mergers before they could start . |
| 18 | Throughout 1985–86 North continued shipments of arms to Iran in a series of complex deals involving sleazy arms dealers , shady middlemen , Swiss numbered bank accounts , suitcases stuffed with dollar bills , and all the trappings of dishonest behaviour one would associate with drug smugglers and the Mafia rather than a member of the White House staff . |
| 19 | A further step would be to make a series of independent clauses into a series of complex sentences , e.g. : She swept the room . |
| 20 | There is a series of complex rules for determining the true length of a lease ( Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 , s38 ) . |
| 21 | There is now a need to rekindle the idea that teaching is a vocation which makes a whole series of complex demands . |
| 22 | Instead we are talking about a series of complex configurations of politics , economics and ideology that recursively interact to guarantee that it is not possible to understand what is happening in the local economies of Glasgow , Liverpool or Birmingham in the UK or Baltimore , New York or Toronto in North America without reference to inner city policies wedded to a particular form of symbolic , frequently spectacular , regeneration . |
| 23 | The result is often a series of complex compromises that obtains the theoretical advantages of neither system and forms the basis for further argument . |
| 24 | Speaker K's next contribution exhibits a series of complex ties with the existing topic framework . |
| 25 | Your institute produced a series of powerful critiques of the Czechoslovak economy in the 1980s , although you stressed that its position was much more favourable than that of Poland or Hungary . |
| 26 | The Government have done more than any other Government to tighten the regulation of the City , through a series of powerful pieces of legislation . |
| 27 | Regaining this knowledge involved a long and hazardous series of amphibious raids in which the clandestine activities of SOE and the Secret Intelligence Service ( SIS ) , as well as the commandos , became involved . |
| 28 | He starts by looking at longer-term human evolution over the past five or more million years , showing rightly that this is not a simple progressive ladder but a series of adaptive radiations . |
| 29 | In particular , the conviction still remains that what we have in all these experiments is a series of adaptive responses , induced by training , to obtain the numerous rewards on offer throughout the training . |
| 30 | Thus the account of the scourging opens out into a series of extravagant similes to meditate on Christ 's wounded body . |