Example sentences of "[noun] had [vb pp] a series " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier in 1912 Apollinaire had written a series of articles for Les Soirées de Paris and these were gathered together with some additional material to form the bulk of his Les Peintres Cubistes which was issued in March of the following year . |
| 2 | Gyggle had obtained a series of computer-visualisation models from an extra-sensory perception researcher in Texas . |
| 3 | Throughout the early and mid-1950s when national fuel policy emphasized volume of production this remained , but by the late 1950s with a national shift towards cheap oil the NCB had began a series of closures . |
| 4 | The system created in 1945–9 — when Stalin had established a series of puppet regimes in power in the East , and Europe had become ideologically , economically and militarily divided — now unravelled itself with astonishing speed . |
| 5 | Earlier in November right-wing police elements had perpetrated a series of attacks and assaults which resulted in four police officers being placed before the courts by Gen. Rodolfo Stange , the police director-general ( and then junta member ) . |
| 6 | His political troubles deepened at the weekend after conservatives had won a series of victories at an emergency session of the legislature , the Congress of People 's Deputies , which had paved the way for his powers to be curbed . |
| 7 | Thus in the UK the Natural Environment Research Council had initiated a series of working groups to advise on the needs for future research . |
| 8 | In his early years Reza Shah had reached a series of agreements with Moscow and ended the system of extraterritoriality , by which Westerners in Iran were outside the jurisdiction of the Iranian courts . |
| 9 | Police said : ‘ The BMW had overtaken a series of vehicles while . |
| 10 | As the years had progressed a series of petty crimes had seen him in remand homes , borstals and finally prison . |
| 11 | They also confirmed that an American named David Lovejoy had made a series of calls to Hussein Niknam , the Iranian chargé d'affaires , about a team of American agents , led by Charles Dennis McKee and Matthew Kevin Gannon , who had arrived in Beirut on a mission concerned with the hostages . |
| 12 | By 1983 the SLOA Pullman Scenic Land Cruise had become a series of oneand two-day charter trains with overnight hotel accommodation , embracing a variety of destinations — but most significantly , the Scottish rail routes to Mallaig , Oban , Inverness and Kyle of Lochalsh . |
| 13 | Since 1983 the United Kingdom had taken a series of measures to tackle the problem of quota hopping . |
| 14 | Though Coleman found out nothing more about him from Franks/Schafer and his friends , he would remember his conversations with them later when , after the Lockerbie disaster , it emerged that US intelligence agencies had intercepted a series of telephone calls to the Iranian Embassy in Beirut from an arms dealer and presumed double agent by the name of David Lovejoy ( Loo Choy ? ) advising the chargé d'affaires of the movements of the American intelligence team who died on Flight 103 . |
| 15 | Since the Newton disaster in July 1991 , BR had introduced a series of measures to make rail travel safer , the inquiry was told . |
| 16 | Since the Newton accident in July 1991 , BR had introduced a series of measures to make rail travel safer , the inquiry was told . |
| 17 | The decision was taken after the paper had published a series of articles alleging nepotism in job appointments and an unfair distribution of funds in the district . |
| 18 | But the Liberal Democrat leader , Paddy Ashdown , who once lived in the colony , said the governor had taken a series of moves which were supported in the territory and should be supported in Britain . |
| 19 | A manager had led a series of employee involvement projects that improved productivity in his region and boosted the firm 's overall profits . |
| 20 | The Bakers , Food and Allied Workers ' Union had threatened a series of one-day strikes . |
| 21 | All life had become a series of promises unfulfilled . |
| 22 | His whole life had become a series of unanswered questions in the past few days . |
| 23 | In September 1989 , it was reported that the Home Secretary had begun a series of private discussions with public officials including the Lord Chancellor , the Lord Chief Justice ( who had hitherto been reluctant to participate in such discussions lest they were seen as prejudicing judicial independence ) and the senior Lord Justice of Appeal . |
| 24 | During the final year of office of the previous Director , Ralph Youngman , Charles had given a series of public lectures at the school on Canaletto . |
| 25 | Under her direction , and with Virgin money , Sting had recorded a series of demos which had led to his association with the Police , a recording contract with A&M and , ultimately , the hit parade . |
| 26 | Pro-independence groups had submitted a series of similar declarations in March and April , each of which was defeated . |
| 27 | Before that , in 1854 , Bradbury and Evans had published a series of twenty-one plates with the title A few leaves from the Newly-Invented Process of Nature-Printing . |
| 28 | Throughout 1990 and the first half of 1991 the SLORC had imposed a series of legal restrictions on the NLD and other opponents which effectively frustrated their political ambitions . |
| 29 | At a dinner for Liberal candidates on March 1st , Lloyd George announced that the Liberal Party had prepared a series of public-works projects , which could be put in hand the moment a Liberal Government came to power , and which would reduce unemployment to ‘ normal proportions ’ in a year . |