Example sentences of "series [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They took to calling his specimens ‘ buffons ’ , their attention having been drawn to the word by the sight of Huxley 's copy of Buffon 's Natural history , which in a series of many volumes , displayed the name repeatedly in large gilt letters on a shelf in the chart room . |
| 2 | Havel 's remarks followed a series of such incidents in various parts of the country , especially North Bohemia . |
| 3 | Because a prolonged series of such jumps can seriously unhinge a human nervous system . |
| 4 | When sufficient thermal energy is present in the system the vibrations can cause a segment to jump into a hole by co-operative bond rotation and a series of such jumps will enable the complete polymer chain eventually to change its position . |
| 5 | After a series of such surveys , developments begin to show , and changes in the emphasis of the advertising can be planned . |
| 6 | At Imperial College 's field station at Silwood Park , Mick Crawley is setting up a series of such experiments as part of Prosamo , a research programme funded by the Agricultural and Food Research Council , the Department of Trade and Industry and a consortium of companies . |
| 7 | To master the French verb system a series of such drills would have to be constructed for a wide variety of common verbs and their tenses . |
| 8 | The war of 1689 – 97 saw a long series of such contacts between the belligerents almost from its outbreak ; and the final settlement stemmed from protracted discussions between French and Dutch emissaries in 1694 – 96 . |
| 9 | Internal moulds of fossil nautiloids often reveal a series of such lines marking the boundaries of the chambers — these are known as suture lines . |
| 10 | The documents are the longest surviving series of such records in Britain but a third of them have been unusable because of their delicate state . |
| 11 | If , however , a whole series of such objects was encountered , the child might be forced to accommodate its basic concept of what a table was in order to take in these experiences . |
| 12 | Domal uplifts with rifts cutting across them are particularly common in East Africa where the East African Rift System comprises a whole series of such structures ( Fig.4.11 ) . |
| 13 | He describes the progress of an individual human life , necessarily rooted in its social context , as a series of such crises , the goal of each being a further step towards wholeness , towards a complete identity . |
| 14 | The decision followed strong reactions by the US administration and the UN to an incident earlier in the day , when Iraq troops had fired shots in the air allegedly to deny UN inspectors access to a nuclear weapons site , which was itself the culmination of a series of such refusals by Iraq . |
| 15 | There may even have been a whole series of such usurpations , but the original replication process must have been sufficiently simple to have come about through what I have dubbed ‘ single-step selection ’ . |
| 16 | Taking a series of such courses enables you to qualify for the Professional Certificate in Management , the Professional Diploma in Management or the Master 's in Business Administration ( MBA ) . |
| 17 | A series of such oscillations , aided perhaps by marine erosion , is probably an important cause of island formation . |
| 18 | In France , where already in 1793 the revolutionaries had placed consuls , hitherto supervised by the ministry of marine , under the control of the foreign ministry , the questioning of the country 's institutions which followed the catastrophe of 1870 – 71 produced a series of such suggestions . |
| 19 | At different points of time , one set of ideas may be abandoned and another adopted , and the history of any society consists of a series of such adjustments , some more radical than others . |
| 20 | The traditional Freshers ' Ball is one of a series of such events . |
| 21 | The traditional Freshers ' Ball is one of a series of such events . |
| 22 | When a series of such images , running vertically down a strip of film , is projected at 24 frames a second ( fps ) in the cinema , or 25 fps on ( British ) TV , an illusion of movement is created because of a retinal property known as ‘ persistence of vision ’ , which in normal life enables us to perceive the world as a continuous flow , not an infinite series of separate moments . |
| 23 | After a long series of such measurements I add up the number of instances in which a particular combination of results has occurred . |
| 24 | A scale like this will normally consist of a series of such statements tapping the same attitudinal dimension . |
| 25 | It was broadcast in the middle of the evening 's entertainment , which also included Larry Grayson 's Generation Game and a new series of All Creatures Great and Small . |
| 26 | He is announced in nature from the first appearance of organized beings ; and each important modification in the whole series of these beings is a step toward the definitive term of the development of organic life . |
| 27 | At each stage the client is encouraged to recite either one or a series of these statements . |
| 28 | It was profitable almost from day one — and now Koch has built a series of these plants . |
| 29 | Ware , widely regarded as Britain 's top TV stunt artist and arranger , ran an agency called Havoc , which advised Crawford on his dangerous routines throughout the first two series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em . |
| 30 | Although Crawford had intended to do only one series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em , for fear of becoming typecast , the impact of Frank Spencer persuaded him to make another six episodes , which were broadcast at the end of 1973 . |