Example sentences of "a [n mass] [prep] different [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | the use of a series of different posters on electrically-changed poster sites to tell a story ; |
2 | 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 . |
3 | She had spent a total of twenty-two months in prison for a series of different offences , mainly theft and ‘ dipping ’ ( pickpocketing ) . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | In between these two bounds there can be a series of different approaches to meet each case on its merits . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | In particular , annual sales forecasts may be based on a series of different methods , whether these be subjective , statistical or qualitative . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Purchase behaviour is motivated by a series of different levels of need or want . |
13 | 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 . |