Example sentences of "[vb pp] a series " in BNC.
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| 1 | His political troubles deepened at the weekend after conservatives had won a series of victories at an emergency session of the legislature , the Congress of People 's Deputies , which had paved the way for his powers to be curbed . |
| 2 | Explaining how he had instituted a series of business briefs , which go out to CBI members by fax every week , he said each message ‘ should be conversational , it should be easily accessible and it should have some value to the reader or the listener ’ . |
| 3 | We need the information the last Labour government er when they were banking er banking crisis in the early er in the early seventies , instituted a series of inquiries , there was an inquiry into London and counties , there was one into London and capital , a series of inquiries which were published , the information was there , we knew what had gone wrong and we knew therefore how to deal with it . |
| 4 | Alternatively , Small and Hoy have tabulated a series of group molar attraction constants from which a good estimate of δ for most polymers can be made . |
| 5 | It is gratifying to note that Kaye and Mackintosh ( 1990 ) have recently reported a series of conditioned suppression experiments in which initial conditioning was prolonged ( the subjects received a minimum of 80 shock-reinforced trials in each context during acquisition ) showing just such ‘ supertransfer ’ when the context is changed . |
| 6 | We have reported a series of experiments of short term gastrointestinal tract imaging using breathholding to overcome respiratory movement . |
| 7 | The Daily Mail , the Sun and many other such papers have contained a series of unpleasant , vituperative stories against individuals in the past few months . |
| 8 | Left governments in Australia , New Zealand , France , and Spain have pursued a series of economic and social policies that are not dissimilar from those that Mrs Thatcher 's government has pursued since 1979 . |
| 9 | But the diocese , seeking to realize maximum financial gain for the valuable site , has pursued a series of schemes for wholly unsuitable uses . |
| 10 | The DHAC was a coalition of radicals from the local Republican Clubs and the left wing of the NILP ; they had organised a series of imaginative protests in Derry to draw attention to bad conditions and discrimination in housing . |
| 11 | The Brazilian cocoa research organisation , CEPLAC , has organised a series of expeditions in the Amazon region of Brazil , a vast area that will take many years to cover completely . |
| 12 | The Laboratoire de Conservation de la Pierre , now in its tenth year , has organised a series of lectures on how science can contribute to the restoration of works of art . |
| 13 | This usually all works well with a large one-off competition , but if you have organised a series of regional newspaper competitions , for example , you will need to have a foolproof system to ensure that winners receive their prizes shortly after winning and you do not have irate editors ringing up saying that their readers are growing angry at the lack of delivery . |
| 14 | The Whitbread Education Partnership has organised a series of ‘ French Fiesta ’ events with their prestigious Landsbury Hotels providing the setting for a three-day French food project . |
| 15 | The Whitbread Education Partnership has organised a series of French Fiesta events with their prestigious Landsbury Hotels providing the setting for a three-day French food project . |
| 16 | Gillian Darley has written and presented a series of books and television programmes . |
| 17 | Until the 24th there are recent watercolours by Niasami Teraoka at Pamela Auchencloss which mix traditional Japanese techniques with contemporary subject matter ( the artist has done a series , for instance , on AIDS ) and watercolours , pastels and ink drawings by George Baselitz are at Matthew Marks until the 26th . |
| 18 | The students I talked to here were Bryony Langworth who had designed an attractive coffee and tea service ; Christina Kirk , whose glass I admired ; Steven Keegan who had done a series of animal sculptures , one of which he sold to Dame Mary Soames ; Julie Sellars whose water sculpture for Shaftesbury Avenue 1990 looked most attractive ; Theresa Czyzewicz whose jewellery entailed the finest workmanship and was very pretty ; Clive van Heerden who was in a wheelchair near his exhibition as I arrived . |
| 19 | Sudan has , meanwhile , suffered a series of calamities during the 1980s : drought has caused severe economic problems , loss of life and massive movements of people , exacerbated by the rekindling of the civil war between the north and the south . |
| 20 | The Kaifu government had recently suffered a series of political humiliations , culminating in a major financial scandal and the forced retraction of numerous political reform proposals [ see pp. 38528-29 ] . |
| 21 | Newton Aycliffe 's industrial estate has suffered a series of burglaries and car crime this week . |
| 22 | Earlier in 1912 Apollinaire had written a series of articles for Les Soirées de Paris and these were gathered together with some additional material to form the bulk of his Les Peintres Cubistes which was issued in March of the following year . |
| 23 | The Bakers , Food and Allied Workers ' Union had threatened a series of one-day strikes . |
| 24 | In particular , the shift from Fordism to neo-Fordism has wrought a series of structural changes : |
| 25 | At a dinner for Liberal candidates on March 1st , Lloyd George announced that the Liberal Party had prepared a series of public-works projects , which could be put in hand the moment a Liberal Government came to power , and which would reduce unemployment to ‘ normal proportions ’ in a year . |
| 26 | As a result of working on these matters , the Legal Services Committee has prepared a series of papers and has been preparing advice on the steps the profession needs to consider taking in the future in relation to such issues as direct access , partnerships , split fees , cab rank rule and how to compete with solicitors in a brave new world . |
| 27 | Described by the authorities as an " informal organization " , the MDU had been formed in December 1989 [ see p. 37124 ] and had subsequently organized a series of peaceful demonstrations in Ulan Bator to press for political and economic reforms , including the introduction of a multi-part system [ see p. 37186 ] . |
| 28 | Nationalist groups also organized a series of demonstrations in Bratislava in the week leading up to March 14 , the anniversary of the foundation of the independent Slovak republic under German protection in 1939 . |
| 29 | Meanwhile Sue has recently accepted a series of temporary secretarial posts offered to her by other companies . |
| 30 | It was profitable almost from day one — and now Koch has built a series of these plants . |