Example sentences of "series of [noun] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our campaign soon led us to investigate the finances of the National Land Fund , which over the previous twenty years had been used to acquire a whole series of country houses for the nation . |
| 2 | ‘ I narrated a series of school concerts at The Philharmonic and I 'm back in live theatre again . ’ |
| 3 | The event was the latest in a series of breakfast meetings of the newly formed Mid Wales Manufacturing Group . |
| 4 | The first stage of the project involves a series of exchange visits between the Scottish consortium and their project partners from Italy , France and Germany . |
| 5 | In Paraguay , it organised a theatre festival and a series of theatre workshops with the support of WACC . |
| 6 | It also ran a series of weekend schools for the women 's groups , mostly taught by College staff , offering the women the opportunity to situate their own struggles in a wider historical , political and economic context , and develop a more strategic purpose for their actions as well as identify continuing needs for further educational work . |
| 7 | If this topic was to be systematically explored I needed to build up a series of case studies of the appointment procedures associated with women teachers . |
| 8 | Parry says that he has become more pessimistic since about the impact of global warming since he prepared a series of case studies for the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis ( IIASA ) which were published in 1990 . |
| 9 | There was a series of fingernail marks on the neck , and someone had applied central pressure . |
| 10 | Too expedient and un-systematic to be called a philosophy , they comprise even so a kind of official doctrine , rather as though a series of government inquiries on the press had set down an official theory of ‘ the Fourth Estate ’ . |
| 11 | A series of government inquiries in the 1850s and 1860s , precipitated by the Crimean War , testified to the seriousness with which the dual problems of VD and sexual immorality among the lower ranks was regarded in official circles . |
| 12 | Extensive searches revealed a series of tyre marks along the fairway leading to the 15th and there are fears that Sir Vivien , reputed to be one of the seventeen richest men in the country , may have been kidnapped and held to ransom . ’ |
| 13 | The first of these enzymes makes an unusual series of oligonucleotide molecules with the general name of 2',5'-oligoadenylate . |
| 14 | Chen [ 17,18,20 ] has measured actinomycin dissociation kinetics from a series of oligonucleotide sequences of the type ATAXGCYTAT and ATAXGCYATA and shown the following time constants CGCT/AGCG , 600 s ; CGCA/TGCG , 1000 s ; CGCG 850 s . |
| 15 | The group stages a series of day meetings throughout the year in which members present research findings and debate theoretical and practical issues of relevance to contemporary rural society . |
| 16 | This case study was undertaken over a period of two months through a series of day visits to the school . |
| 17 | This national dairy breed was formed during the 1960s by the amalgamation of several red or red-and-white types after a gradual series of breed absorptions over the last 40 or 50 years . |
| 18 | ‘ We saw 16 companies in a series of half-hour meetings over the two days , ’ says FFB 's European director , Roy Edleston . |
| 19 | In the third and thoroughly revised edition in the same year of the famous series of Murray guides in the " Handbook for Travellers in Scotland " there is only a short note on Islay . |
| 20 | In the third and thoroughly revised edition in the same year of the famous series of Murray guides in the " Handbook for Travellers in Scotland " there is only a short note on Islay . |
| 21 | He noted a marked increase in exhibitions devoted to modern decorative arts : in 1995 the Art Institute of Chicago , for example , will be presenting a show on twentieth-century British silversmiths whilst the current series of design exhibitions at the Bauhaus Archive has included one on metalwork . |
| 22 | The last month almost spent on a series of farewell visits to the branches and his many business friends in Melbourne and Sydney . |
| 23 | ‘ You can imagine a series of plastic films with the same chemistry , made of the same material and same thickness , and yet each one having different properties , ’ said Roger Appeldorn , of the 3M Company of America . |
| 24 | ‘ Openness must be central to the policing of a democratic and pluralist society , ’ he said : all too often , the police had retreated behind ‘ one of many walls of silence , ’ giving one of a series of stock excuses to the press and public for refusing to disclose information . |
| 25 | But then the scene was set for the first of Darlington 's structural engineering companies to install a series of iron bridges on the rapidly expanding rail networks . |
| 26 | The supermarket , the fast-food joint , the parking lot have all been projects of the practice : but a Macdonalds which floats , a parking lot with 20 cars deeply buried under asphalt , and its most celebrated work , the series of catalogue stores for the Best company where boxes are smashed into and eroded , with trees growing through them , façades peel or tilt , distorting the relationships between the predictable elements of the landscape . |
| 27 | This became the rallying cry of street demonstrators who held a series of protest meetings against the NSF , culminating in an occupation of University Square in Bucharest on April 22 , which lasted until after polling day . |
| 28 | A series of information leaflets on the Society 's Library service won a Library Association award . |
| 29 | CAMRA has produced a series of fact sheets on the Campaign , how beer is brewed and other aspects of the modern brewing industry . |
| 30 | You 'll find all the necessary papers in a series of manilla envelopes in the top right-hand drawer of the bureau . |