Example sentences of "in a series " in BNC.
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| 1 | An example of an artist acting directly as a critic is Bridget Riley , who selected a show of pictures from the collection at the National Gallery in London , in a series called ‘ The Artist 's Eye ’ . |
| 2 | Writing about a small bust on a column , a thin sculpture in a series of four busts of which the others were fuller in form , she comments that ‘ the extremely thin proportions of the head contrast with the solidity of the base . |
| 3 | He seems to be talking in a series of jumpy thoughts . |
| 4 | Lawrence trained in London hotels and then worked in a series of upmarket casino restaurants before leaving the West End four months ago . |
| 5 | Reports about light aircraft landing accidents often say that the aircraft bounced or ballooned , pitched nose-down and then flew into the runway in a series of worsening crashes , smashing the nose gear and engine . |
| 6 | When Ronald Gregory , the ex-chief constable of West Yorkshire , said little or nothing new about the ‘ Yorkshire Ripper case ’ in a series of newspaper articles , he was castigated in Police Review ( 1 July 1983 ) and they republished a 1979 photograph of him when ‘ his loyalty was unquestioned ’ . |
| 7 | On a more phenomenological level , if we wanted some visual analogue to the associationist view of mental life we could not do much better than think of one of those ‘ psychedelic ’ slide-shows popular in the late 1960s , in which lights were projected through oil , producing coloured globs which met , merged and repelled in a series of kaleidoscopic patterns . |
| 8 | In this first in a series of extracts from the Tennis Workshop ( Crowood Press ) , Alan Jones , with Barry Wood explain the often neglected area of practice once the lesson is over . |
| 9 | for example , in her solo in Ashton 's Cinderella the Winter Fairy moves across the stage in a series of pas de bourrée en tournantà terre , the feet weaving their in-and-out pattern as the arms flick to and fro sparkling with frost . |
| 10 | Norris 's book is , in fact , more than adequate as a title in a series on Modern Masters . |
| 11 | In the first act , where the action is presented in a series of tableaux , the dance enhances the spectacle superbly . |
| 12 | In any other part of the country , police would have apprehended the drug dealers in a series of dawn raids . |
| 13 | The professor was closely involved in a series of benevolence programmes for Israel , including the B'nai B'rith charity organisation , and was recently in Poland to negotiate a settlement in the row over the presence of a Catholic convent on the site of the former Auschwitz concentration camp . |
| 14 | But the Chancellor said in a series of television and radio interviews that he did not believe in ‘ trying to play silly games , political games ’ — and he would not rule out a further increase if it became necessary . |
| 15 | Given this background , the minister of posts , telecommunications and space , Paul Quiles , was treading on eggshells when he met the unions this week for the second in a series of talks concerning the reform of the country 's post office , the PTT . |
| 16 | It is difficult to deal sensibly with the craze unless we remember that it is the latest in a series of recognisably similar phenomena , which the law has had difficulty in regulating : the early ‘ happenings ’ , influenced by LSD ; the ‘ blues parties ’ , which were the last to hit the headlines ; the continuing ‘ northern soul ’ craze , and no doubt others which even the participants have long since forgotten . |
| 17 | When Warner Bros , the company with which she had signed an exclusive long-term contract , squandered her potential during the Thirties in a series of amusing but , for her , unfulfilling potboilers ( eg Fashions of 1934 , The Big Shakedown , Jimmy the Gent , Fog over Frisco ) , she took the unprecedented step of departing for England , where she could continue working outside of American jurisdiction . |
| 18 | Tomorrow he delivers a lecture Beyond the Rhetoric : a cool look at architectural judgement as the first in a series by new professors at Leeds Polytechnic . |
| 19 | They also predicted abortion would overwhelm all other issues in a series of gubernatorial elections this autumn and in the state legislative and US Congressional elections next year . |
| 20 | The barrage was the most devastating in a series of recent rocket attacks on Kabul by the Western-backed mujahedin . |
| 21 | Mr Lamont is engaged in a series of behind-the-scenes negotiations with the major spending ministers at the conference to reduce £10bn in excess bids . |
| 22 | But in a series of remarks broadly encouraging to solicitors , Lord Mackay said the lay-dominated advisory committee would be likely to consider what happens in other countries where there was no enforced separation of the two functions . |
| 23 | ROBIN Leigh-Pemberton , the Governor of the Bank of England , sent shivers through an already-nervous property sector yesterday when he issued the latest in a series of warnings about the record level of property company borrowing . |
| 24 | Faith and Reason : Why God suffers but is unchanged : In the fifth article in a series on God 's mutability , Canon Roy Porter argues that the idea that God suffers can exist side by side with the idea that He is unchanging |
| 25 | Chris Hall of the RA said this will be the first in a series of ‘ mini-trespass guides ’ to closed land around the country . |
| 26 | V-Baffle : filling is in a series of overlapping tubes — bags tend to be warmer as more filling can be used . |
| 27 | David Steel , the Liberal leader , was anxious to enhance his , and his party 's , authority following the damaging departure of the former leader , Jeremy Thorpe , in a series of scandals involving accusations of homosexuality , fraud , and even attempted murder . |
| 28 | We are caught in a series of mimeses which push Burbank into the focus of ritual , his actions sliding imperceptibly into reactions to and reenactments of a past rite whose origins we can never witness . |
| 29 | The weir is the latest in a series of improvements on the Wye which have included the creation of reed beds , tree planting and habitat improvements to protect the native crawfish . |
| 30 | Downstairs Clytemnestra let out a howl that ended in a series of urgent yelps . |