Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [art] succession " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Middle East Economic Digest of Oct. 23 was also sceptical of the Sunday Times report , claiming that it ran counter to the " general view in Damascus that it is the president 's son Basel al-Assad> who is now favoured for the succession " . |
| 2 | Soaring like a sharp wedge , its sandstone rocks have defied the storms of ages but have been split and shattered into a succession of strange pinnacles requiring the skill of rockclimbers to surmount although , by trial and error , walkers can make progress by avoiding the crest of the ridge in places of difficulty , using stony gullies for descent and re-ascent . |
| 3 | Layered bodies of rock , such as might have come from a succession of lava flows , are rare on the Moon , and those observed might be the result of other processes , such as impacts . |
| 4 | The prolific striker added to a succession of first-half near-misses with another spectacular shot on the turn which just went over the Ipswich bar . |
| 5 | It may be that a gene 's effects , as a matter of fact , turn out to be confined to the succession of bodies in which the gene sits . |
| 6 | For four hundred years it was owned by a succession of wealthy aristocrats … the valley , woodland and lakes seen as private possessions for their eyes only . |
| 7 | Again , good temperament will be essential , as the dog is likely to be approached by a succession of strangers , in unfamiliar surroundings . |
| 8 | The glen is deeply enclosed by lofty mountain ranges , each side formed of a succession of peaks linked by ridges . |
| 9 | Life is presented as a succession of ‘ ages ’ : from birth , through babyhood , infancy , childhood , adolescence , adulthood , middle age and finally old age . |
| 10 | Such claims have been made for a succession of international exhibitions since the first , the Great Exhibition , opened in Hyde Park in 1851 . |
| 11 | This labour force was regimented through a succession of intermediaries — bailiffs on the largest farms , foremen and charge-hands elsewhere — in order to co-ordinate the frenetic periods of often complex and arduous activity , such as seed-time and harvest . |
| 12 | As early as 1196 Henry , a ruler of very considerable foresight , had prepared for the succession . |
| 13 | My life and that of Benstede are under threat from God knows whom , for people believe we are here on a secret mission connected with the succession to the Scottish throne . |
| 14 | Their findings were attractively presented in a succession of studies : The first five years of life ( 1940 ) , The child from five to ten ( 1946 ) , and Youth : the years from ten to sixteen ( 1956 ) . |
| 15 | As well as domestic markets , increased sales to industry for steam raising instead of fuel oil have been sought by a succession of major advertising campaigns . |
| 16 | A few half-hearted attempts at brightening the place up with posters have been made by a succession of teachers , but it does n't really help because the huts suffer from terminal damp and the posters quickly go all brown and blotchy making the general appearance of the hut 's interior more , not less , gloomy . |
| 17 | It is too reminiscent of the routine , hack-produced illustrations of the past , the kind that were found in school stories and boys ' adventure stories , the kind supplied by a succession of artists for the stories of Enid Blyton . |
| 18 | As I have already noted , some kind of political change goes on at all times , produced by the succession of generations , the rise and fall of dynasties , competition among various social groups , economic and cultural developments , changing external circumstances , and more idiosyncratic factors , which can only be understood fully through detailed historical studies . |
| 19 | Rumours that a number of horses had been ‘ got at ’ had swelled following a succession of below-par performances by short-priced favourites . |
| 20 | Since then he has played with a succession of famous names in rock history , including Joe Cocker , Tim Hinkley , Frankie Miller , Roy Harper , Paul McCartney , Ronnie Lane etc . |
| 21 | They were shown round Farnham Castle and the nearby villages , and were invited to a succession of matches in tennis , football and badminton and other sporting activities . |
| 22 | Algae that are capable of photosynthesis at very low levels of light intensity proliferate early in the season , to be replaced by a succession of other species as light intensity increases ( Kalff , 1970 ) . |
| 23 | The acute political problems raised by the succession issue can be seen particularly clearly in the experience of Kenya , Cameroun and Senegal . |
| 24 | Swiftly expelled , he returned to the comprehensive system , but a sequence of petty crimes meant that his formal learning was completed in a succession of borstals and detention centres . |
| 25 | The teaching force , disillusioned and aggrieved at the treatment it has received from a succession of Secretaries of State , has been less willing in recent years to devote unpaid hours to community bridge-building . |
| 26 | Where lava erupts from a single vent a low exogenous dome may be formed from a succession of flows , but basaltic lava flows so readily that such features will only develop on nearly level surfaces . |
| 27 | It is not true to say of oral cultures that there is a peculiar ‘ directness of relationship between meaning and referent ’ , that ‘ the meaning of each word is ratified in a succession of concrete situations ’ only , that meanings in oral cultures are always particular and specific . |
| 28 | During the trial the court had heard from a succession of alleged victims , all now adults , who claimed they had been ill-treated by the Hanbys . |
| 29 | Some fundamental steps in the constitutional development of the country were the Bill of Rights 1689 which limited the power of the monarch to rule by virtue of the royal prerogative and the Act of Settlement 1700 which further strengthened the power of Parliament and provided for the succession to the English throne . |
| 30 | Nonetheless , the Senegalese system has dealt with the succession problem impressively , and sustained a multi-party tradition which allows a wide range of opinion to be expressed in public , and in doing so has avoided the most acute problems of localism . |