Example sentences of "a series [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are having a series on professional women at work . |
| 2 | Norris 's book is , in fact , more than adequate as a title in a series on Modern Masters . |
| 3 | Tonight we start a series on architectural follies around the region.A folly is a building with no special purpose … often built at the whim of a wealthy landowner.We begin by peering into a concrete grotto … and touring some mock medieval cloisters , all built in the 1930s by the man who invented reflective road signs . |
| 4 | She remembered one of the ideas chucked around at the brainstorming session a week ago : a series on Eligible Males . |
| 5 | A series of mechanical difficulties in setting up the car caused further problems and on Friday he had constant braking problems ; an experiment on Saturday did little to change matters for the better — Emerson finished practice in sixth place . |
| 6 | More fundamentally , the humiliation of the defeat by Japan in 1905 , exacerbated from 1908 by a series of diplomatic reversals in the Balkans , built up a widespread sense of frustration over foreign affairs . |
| 7 | In light of this , Mehta proposed a series of diplomatic steps intended to create an outer belt of neutrality as a precondition for the ‘ Finlandisation ’ of Afghanistan . |
| 8 | A series of two-seat conversions were undertaken , both for training and also to carry observers on test work . |
| 9 | During the Thatcher years , James Hanson built up a £10bn business empire through a series of audacious takeovers and acquired a peerage in the process . |
| 10 | The resulting knitting is a series of six-stitch floats ( swatch 2. card 2 . |
| 11 | These changes are so recent that it is difficult to know if we are beginning a series of cyclical changes or a once-for-all transition to a new , low fertility regime . |
| 12 | He starts by looking at longer-term human evolution over the past five or more million years , showing rightly that this is not a simple progressive ladder but a series of adaptive radiations . |
| 13 | In particular , the conviction still remains that what we have in all these experiments is a series of adaptive responses , induced by training , to obtain the numerous rewards on offer throughout the training . |
| 14 | A few weeks later , on tour in the USA , a series of violent incidents raised questions about the wisdom of their being included in the World Cup squad . |
| 15 | The Japanese government on July 27 asked its 131 aid workers to leave the country with their families following a series of violent attacks on Japanese nationals and on Peruvians of Japanese descent . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , a series of violent attacks were committed against refugee centres during 1991 , including two particularly serious assaults in Basel on Aug. 7 . |
| 17 | The arrests were thought to be in connection with a series of violent attacks . |
| 18 | AMESSY match disgraced by a series of violent tackles and subsequent scenes of inflamed confrontations between players was , quite out of context , settled by a breathtaking goal by Martin Allen 10 minutes from time . |
| 19 | But she filed for divorce in June last year after a series of violent rows . |
| 20 | Then the ground was gone , dropping away in a series of gentle jerks . |
| 21 | The objects in Braque 's painting like the Still Life with Fruit Dish ( Moderna Museet , Stockholm ) , which is roughly contemporary with the Compotier , are more faceted , and the whole surface is broken up in terms of the same angular but subtly modulated planes which carry the eye back into a limited depth and then forward again on to the picture plane in a series of gentle declivities and projections . |
| 22 | Probably it went up the hill in a series of gentle planes . |
| 23 | The European Fighter Aircraft ( EFA ) is merely the latest in a series of collaborative projects that have produced radars , missiles and aircraft for the alliance . |
| 24 | The history of communist cultural politics after 1934 is the history of a series of collaborative enterprises involving communist intellectuals and a wide range of fellow-travellers . |
| 25 | The wide angle X-ray diffraction patterns obtained from pastes of either artificial granules of PHB-rich whole cells of Alcaligenes eutrophus show only an amorphous halo , whereas crystalline PHB powder gives a series of sharp peaks ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 26 | The blocks were placed in a long tray which was just wide enough to accommodate them and the tray was then subjected to a series of sharp shocks , very similar to the succussion process . |
| 27 | They consist essentially of a series of sharp headlands of shingle separated by sweeping bays ( Fig. 8.16 ) . |
| 28 | Artisans ' nominal earnings , which had hardly changed from the 1720s to the 1790s , then experienced a series of sharp increases . |
| 29 | After a few moments of silence there was a series of sharp raps on the door , and a voice called out , asking if anyone was inside . |
| 30 | It appears far below , framed by near-vertical cliffs on both sides of a vast hollow into which the narrow road plunges in a series of sharp zigzags . |