Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [prep] a series " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Middle Ages were punctuated by a series of earlier revivals usually centred round courts like those of Charlemagne and Frederick II . |
| 2 | The new group — ‘ the Disestablishment ’ as they were christened in a series of articles in the Financial Times — was highly fluid . |
| 3 | Repeated attempts to start up a newly refitted reactor were delayed by a series of minor faults , including a small fire , insulation problems , and pump failures . |
| 4 | Casmance separatists fighting for the independence of the southern province were blamed for a series of attacks in mid-1990 in which civilians as well as armed forces personnel appeared to be the targets , with 13 deaths reported by the end of July . |
| 5 | These protests were added to a series of crippling miners ' strikes which had begun in early March . |
| 6 | The increases were met by a series of strikes and protest demonstrations which , together with the threat of a national strike , led the government to withdraw the second price rise on Dec. 10 . |
| 7 | At least 24 people died and 300 were injured after a series of tornadoes and storms ripped across Texas , Louisiana , Mississippi , Alabama , Georgia , Tennessee and Kentucky on Nov. 21-22 . |
| 8 | Mainplanes were separated by a series of sturdy , upright , interplane struts , while similar struts formed mounts for the three 650hp Rolls-Royce Condor III liquid-cooled engines located mid-way between the upper and lower mainplanes . |
| 9 | Scottish Enterprise said it had carried out an audit at Lothian and Edinburgh Enterprise Ltd after the allegations were made in a series of unsigned documents passed to the press and the SE chairman , Prof Donald MacKay . |
| 10 | The mean attitude scale scores were used to present the attitudes of the Solihull secondary school teachers overall and the factor scores were used in a series of analyses of variance ( ANOVA ) to test the significance of differences between the attitudes of the various subgroups , towards the Solihull scheme and towards SSE generally . |
| 11 | Forteen thousand items were sold during a series of auctions over twenty five days . |
| 12 | To study changes in rectal mucosa that might be attribtable to the effects of gluten , rectal biopsy specimens from untreated and treated gluten sensitised subjects were analysed morphometrically and by immunohistochemical techniques and were compared with a series of disease control mucosae . |
| 13 | Opponents of the two locomotives for each train concept were vindicated by a series of stress defects and overheating of the Paxman Valenta 2,250hp power units , and it was agreed to re-engine four Western Region examples with Mirrlees units . |
| 14 | The days leading up to the fifth anniversary of the accident at Chernobyl nuclear power station , in the Soviet Ukraine , were marked by a series of reports on the consequences of the accident ( which occurred on April 26 , 1986 — see pp. 34460-62 ) . |
| 15 | Reagan 's formative years were spent in a series of small Illinois towns — Tampico , Monmouth , Dixon and finally Eureka where he attended the small church-related Eureka College from 1928 until 1932 . |
| 16 | Thirteen people are being questioned after drugs and stolen property worth tens of thousands of pounds were seized in a series of dawn raids . |
| 17 | Having suggested that the 1960s were characterised by a series of discrete panics around moral issues , there is neither an account — other than an essentially economistic one — of the aetiology of such panics , nor an explanation of the way(s) in which they can be considered to be discrete . |
| 18 | The photographs were printed in a series of features about celebrities ' wives and who they were and how they coped . |
| 19 | These data were held in separate files , which were converted via a series of filter programs into a canonical file format , listing just the clones positive for a given probe . |
| 20 | It was not Sussex backwardness alone that brought trouble but the collapse of the artificial prosperity across England when the wars ended in 1815 and were followed by a series of disastrous harvests . |
| 21 | The sea trials , which were successful , were followed by a series of lectures and practical training at the Guangzhou Survey Base with a young and enthusiastic team of geologists and technicians . |
| 22 | The judicial institutions of Europe were governed by a series of contradictions , Jurisdiction and administration were regarded as essentially one process , and the court in which they were carried out was the central institution of any monarchy or principality : the maintenance of justice and law was in many people 's eyes the king 's supreme function . |
| 23 | Participants were led through a series of ‘ real life ’ situations , which might be expected to arise during validation , by group leaders experienced in external validation . |
| 24 | Figures 2 and 3 were taken from a series of images from a man ( Fig 2 ) and women ( Fig 3 ) volunteer . |
| 25 | For the first time the fictional works were complemented by a series of important essays : ‘ The Dorsetshire labourer ’ ( 1883 ) , ‘ The profitable reading of fiction ’ ( 1888 ) , ‘ Candour in English fiction ’ ( 1890 ) , ‘ The science of fiction ’ ( 1891 ) . |
| 26 | In the same winter , six walkers were killed in a series of accidents , most involving simple slips but including one case of hypothermia . |
| 27 | A further estimated 50 people were killed in a series of bomb explosions in Hyderabad on July 15 , and the Guardian of July 16 reported that about 3,000 people had been killed in communal violence in the province since 1985 . |
| 28 | The crucial data of interest were obtained during a series of post-training transfer tests . |
| 29 | For long chains , co-operative motion can not be expected to extend along the entire length , and the polymer tends to act as if it were composed of a series of interconnected , but independent , kinetic units . |
| 30 | The results of his experiments were published in a series of papers in the Annalen over the years 1860–6 , entitled ‘ On a New Class of Organic Compounds in which Hydrogen is Replaced by Nitrogen ’ . |