Example sentences of "series of [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Discussions of academic topics typically involve a great deal of thought and the production of novel utterances , rather than a series of well-practised utterances like ‘ Hello ’ and ‘ How are you ? ’ . |
| 2 | There is a series of complex rules for determining the true length of a lease ( Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 , s38 ) . |
| 3 | Instead we are talking about a series of complex configurations of politics , economics and ideology that recursively interact to guarantee that it is not possible to understand what is happening in the local economies of Glasgow , Liverpool or Birmingham in the UK or Baltimore , New York or Toronto in North America without reference to inner city policies wedded to a particular form of symbolic , frequently spectacular , regeneration . |
| 4 | Speaker K's next contribution exhibits a series of complex ties with the existing topic framework . |
| 5 | Your institute produced a series of powerful critiques of the Czechoslovak economy in the 1980s , although you stressed that its position was much more favourable than that of Poland or Hungary . |
| 6 | The Government have done more than any other Government to tighten the regulation of the City , through a series of powerful pieces of legislation . |
| 7 | Regaining this knowledge involved a long and hazardous series of amphibious raids in which the clandestine activities of SOE and the Secret Intelligence Service ( SIS ) , as well as the commandos , became involved . |
| 8 | This prediction failure is , in turn , the result of a series of unanticipated actions by the monetary authorities , that is , unanticipated departures from the policy rule which had governed the conduct of monetary policy down to period . |
| 9 | They consist essentially of a series of sharp headlands of shingle separated by sweeping bays ( Fig. 8.16 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Using Bury as a ‘ cross-cut ’ , we ensure we are over our ‘ line ’ from a readily identifiable series of sharp bends on the first of those roads , and the pattern of minor roads leading off it ( O ) , later by the pattern of the cross-roads beneath us on the A134 ( P ) plus the twin power-lines . |
| 12 | John Edwards died in the 1780s but James quickly moved the firm into a leading position , issuing a series of elegant catalogues from his fashionable shop . |
| 13 | A royal Commission was appointed to inquire into the condition of Crown woods and forests , and published a series of seventeen Reports between 1787 and 1793 . |
| 14 | Thomas , 43 , was born in a sharecropper 's shack in rural Georgia and was educated in a series of Catholic schools before reading law at Yale . |
| 15 | As well as resisting the imposition of warranties according to the thoroughness of the investigation , the vendor will also seek to make a series of general disclosures against any warranties obtained . |
| 16 | This is distributed in sections which are fed by a series of six rectifiers along the line . |
| 17 | The message behind ‘ How to open and operate a small restaurant ’ — a series of six lectures in Chester organised by Leith 's School of Food and Wine — may well be chapter and verse on ‘ how not to ’ . |
| 18 | They are the first in a series of six sets of Regulations to implement EC Directives which will all come into force on 1st January 1993 . |
| 19 | He was preparing a series of six documentaries with the overall title of Once in a Lifetime and said the situation regarding the Women of the Year lunch fitted in perfectly . |
| 20 | The Reith Lectures , a series of six talks on BBC Radio 4 , start on Wednesday , November 15 at 8.15pm . |
| 21 | It was the third in a series of six meetings on women 's liberation , organised by the women s group in the local Polytechnic . |
| 22 | a series of six meetings about this |
| 23 | The Latin American Institute for Communication Education ( ILPEC ) , based in Costa Rica , has published a series of six books on Christian themes for use by churches , non-government organisations and community groups throughout Central America . |
| 24 | Graham Vincent , a Society Member , took a series of six pictures of the stations on the Bishop 's Castle Railway after demolition had taken place . |
| 25 | Both CD4 and CD8 cytotoxic T lymphocytes have , perhaps unexpectedly , been shown specifically to increase during a series of six immunizations of previously HIV-infected subjects . |
| 26 | Its designated area lay at the heart of one of the most economically depressed cities in Western Europe which had suffered a massive withdrawal of private capital during the previous three decades and endured a series of political traumas in the process ( Parkinson , 1985 , Figure 3.1 ) . |
| 27 | In fact it took a series of political blunders on Callaghan 's part to spoil Labour 's chances of being re-elected , faute de mieux , as the responsible and sober ‘ party of government ’ : the seemingly endless postponement of the election while the party 's parliamentary position crumbled , requiring the prop of transparent chicanery ; the unenforceable wishful thinking of the 5 per cent pay limit , the last straw for the unions . |
| 28 | It would be wrong to suggest that the disturbances were motivated solely by hostility towards Dissent , since they reflected a complex series of political grievances against the current Whig government ; yet that is precisely the point being made here , that antipathy towards Dissent had become deeply politicised . |
| 29 | They were also able without too much difficulty to create a series of possible contexts in which ( they hoped ) the meaning of the forms chosen would be clear from the context itself . |
| 30 | Frenular bristles are absent or small in these insects but there is sometimes a more distally placed series of costal spines ( the pseudofrenulum ) on the hind wing which functions independently of the jugum by pressing against the anal area of the fore wing ( e.g. Sabatinca ) , or a series of interlocking hairs on the basal half of the hind margin of the fore Wing and the fore margin of the hind wing ( e.g. Mnesarchaea ) . |