Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a [adj] series " in BNC.
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1 | Latterly his painting has shown a new freedom of expression , developed through a complex series of preliminary works to final canvas . |
2 | Thomas Huxley , the great biologist , whose household was dominated by a long series of cats over a period of forty years , described how one of them , a young tabby tom-cat , developed the alarming game of jumping on the shoulders of his dinner-guests and refusing to dismount until they fed him some titbit . |
3 | He needs to work furiously to rebuild his reputation and authority , shattered by a humiliating series of U-turns and political defeats which have all but torn asunder his party and even his Cabinet . |
4 | Long experience suggests that magnetic disks have seen off a long series of challenges over the past 15 years — but a review of the survival and thriving of the technology gives a very partial and inadequate view . |
5 | These fundamental axioms were refined , clarified and applied through a long series of debates and conflicts with the Liberal Theology in which he had been trained , and which he had earlier enthusiastically followed , with the claims of the Führer to be the chosen instrument of divine providence , and with colleagues , notably Emil Brunner ( 1889–1966 ) , Rudolf Bultmann ( 1884–1976 ) and Friedrich Gogarten ( 1887 — 1967 ) , whose approaches , though having some affinities with his own , he felt in the end to be in varying degrees unsatisfactory . |
6 | Now it has been made into a four-part series called The Life And Times Of Henry Pratt by Granada . |
7 | EAP has been evaluated in a small series of patients with locally advanced unresectable tumours . |
8 | Play , Dreams and Imitation in Childhood may be related to a whole series of studies of cognitive development by piaget . |
9 | Moreover , as extracellular cyclic nucleotide concentrations could reflect changes in their intracellular metabolism , plasma , and urine cyclic nucleotide values were also assessed in a large series of coeliac patients studied at different stages of their disease . |
10 | They are based on a regular series of expert conferences , each on a major theme of policy . |
11 | The BBC found itself embroiled in a long series of disputes with the government , partly over its financing , partly over alleged anti-government reporting of such episodes as the Libyan bombing raids in 1986 ( covered by an able woman reporter , Kate Adie ) . |
12 | The jaws are armed with blunt papillae which are not arranged in a regular series . |
13 | A subfamily of the Ophiuridae characterised by the disk comprising scales completely or partially covered with a coat of granules sometimes also covering the radial , adoral and oral shields ; the teeth are papilla-form and arranged in a single series ; the second oral tentacle pore opens within the mouth slit ; the adoral shields are usually long and flared distally ; the oral shields are small , triangular or arrow shaped ; the arms are long , often flat and wide , tapering slowly to the end of the arm ; the dorsal and ventral arm plates are large and successive ones may be contiguous ; the tentacle pores are variable in size , sometimes enlarged , armed with one to several scales . |
14 | A Circular on this subject ( to appear in July 1965 as 10/65 , probably the best known of a long series of Ministry and Department of Education and Science circulars ) was already in draft , but Tony Crosland was anxious to improve it . |
15 | The American economist and demographer , Richard Easterlin , has suggested ( 1961 , 1968 , 1980 ) that population and economy are linked in a perpetual series of fluctuations , powered by income expectations , alternations in cohort size , and autonomous cycles in the economy itself . |
16 | Literature is not reduced to a spectral series of disembodied texts , but is seen to be a point of mediation in a developing dialectical process . |
17 | During the following months five judges presided over a new series of perambulations in the counties of Northampton , Huntingdon , Rutland , Oxford and Surrey . |
18 | However , it is worth noting that the London Basin is interrupted by a well-known series of uplifts stretching from the Thames Estuary to Windsor which it is difficult to account for without postulating a further line of basement dislocations , possibly Variscan in origin . |
19 | Because of their chain-like structure , polymers are not perfectly elastic bodies and deformation is accompanied by a complex series of long and short range co-operative molecular rearrangements . |
20 | Full employment will not by itself be sufficient to achieve this objective ; it will need to be accompanied by a whole series of other strategies , some of which are detailed in this final section . |
21 | SIR DAVID Frost 's transition from anti-establishment figure to pillar of the broadcasting hierarchy is charted in a three-part series starting tonight . |
22 | It was a natural response to the advent of nuclear weapons to concentrate on means of limiting or even abolishing them ; and this response has led to a long series of arms control and disarmament negotiations at Geneva and elsewhere . |
23 | This had led to a lengthy series of negotiations over the sort of contracts which should bind printers in his new plant . |
24 | A high-performance clothing system , Vent-A-Layer , was successfully introduced to the market , and has led to a whole series of further product introductions during 1993 . |
25 | In Soho , Karsten Schubert 's exhibition of Keith Coventry 's ten Suprematist paintings , which were previewed at the Cologne Art Fair and superimpose the colours of the leading racist football clubs as identified in a Fascist magazine over a recreation of Malevich 's white Suprematist painting , ends shortly ( to 6 February ) , and is followed by a new series of sculptures designed by Michael Landy ( 10 February-6 March ) . |
26 | The Gallery , a new permanent exhibition space on the first floor , opened in May with ‘ Model Architecture ’ , followed by a new series of exhibitions which included ‘ The World of Peter Rice , Engineer , 1992 Royal Gold Medallist ’ , to coincide with the presentation ceremony , and the work of Stanton Williams . |
27 | My idea of heaven is a meal starting with champagne and smoked salmon and then followed by a whole series of pudding trolleys rolling up one by one ! ’ |
28 | The maid fled to her room but could still hear Mrs Putt 's shrill voice until there was a brief , muffled scream , followed by a whole series of sounds that might have been a fight . |
29 | A subfamily of the Ophiuridae characterised by the disk usually covered by plates sometimes with thickened skin ; radial shield usually conspicuous ; arm combs sometimes present ; one to many apical papillae flanked by a continuous series of oral papillae ; second oral tentacle pore opening outside the mouth slit or opening outside but entering the mouth slit via a furrow ; oral shield variable in shape and size ; arms varying size ; arm spines usually less than an arm segment in length and usually appressed . |
30 | But he had inherited his father 's ability , and he was just getting things straight again when he was badly hit by a prolonged series of dock strikes that tied up his ships and prevented them from earning anything . |