Example sentences of "series [prep] different [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 There were differences between lesbians and gay men in those days as there continue to be ; there were differences of race ; there were differences of class ; differences of interest ; so the community is n't a particular thing — it 's a whole series of different things .
2 For those people who want to use a mouse , Windows Bridge also has a way of tracking the speed and direction of the screen cursor using a series of different sounds .
3 the use of a series of different posters on electrically-changed poster sites to tell a story ;
4 A series of different posters , which strongly illustrated the plight of women in potential danger , regardless of age or social class , created enormous press and public interest over the months of the campaign .
5 In between these two bounds there can be a series of different approaches to meet each case on its merits .
6 He then uses much the same repertory of colours and patterns and fin displays as he did for aggression , but in a female these trigger a series of different responses that eventually culminates in the laying of eggs .
7 Another practice fairly common in the sixteenth century , that of the " circular " embassy which visited a series of different states , negotiating with each in turn , also persisted into the first half of that which followed .
8 The ultimate outcome of the SEM and the economic forces therein , at a regional level , will prove to be the result of a series of different processes .
9 She had spent a total of twenty-two months in prison for a series of different offences , mainly theft and ‘ dipping ’ ( pickpocketing ) .
10 Courts , if they had been called upon to investigate people 's employment protection rights , might well have deemed some of them to have had one continuous employment relationship broken only by shortages of work rather than a series of different relationships .
11 Purchase behaviour is motivated by a series of different levels of need or want .
12 In particular , annual sales forecasts may be based on a series of different methods , whether these be subjective , statistical or qualitative .
13 My mother had social pretensions and candidly looked down on most of our neighbours — feckless social casualties like Mary Haslam who picked coal on the slag heaps and was endlessly pregnant by a series of different partners ; like the Races , one of whose children my father caught drinking paraffin .
14 What is more , the same conduct may be subjected to a series of different interpretations as subsequent events show it to be part of a pattern of conduct or as an isolated instance , as implicating a wider or narrower range of social relationships , and so on .
15 It is , of course , possible for a monopoly , to break even at a whole series of different outcomes , at different pricing , output , employment and investment levels .
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