Example sentences of "series [prep] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The penultimate leg of the Nunn Shield series for members of both Long Melford and Sudbury is scheduled to take place at Alton Water Reservoir on Sunday . |
| 2 | Grassmuck believes that this communication barrier between parents and children led to a series of killings of parents by their sons . |
| 3 | Hervey , a Breton , was appointed bishop , the first of a long series of members of the English royal court to be provided with a Welsh see : he was also the first bishop in Wales to come under the authority of an English archbishop . |
| 4 | Despite a worldwide protest campaign , the first in a series of shipments of plutonium from Europe to Japan to supply the local nuclear-power industry is going ahead . |
| 5 | Detectives investigating the murder of the prostitute Carol Clark have issued a series of sketches of people they want to talk to . |
| 6 | Their most useful contribution has been a fresh appraisal of his later work created at Moret-sur-Loing where his art culminated in the marvellous series of depictions of the south-west facade of the town 's church ( 1893–1894 ) . |
| 7 | For most reviewers of Auerbach 's work shown in London in 1987 there was no doubt that the series of depictions of heads that dominated the show were portraits . |
| 8 | For the occasion a series of frescoes of around 1267 have been restored , as has the tombstone of Abbot Cotta . |
| 9 | Charles 's failure to call Parliament after 1681 removed the Whig challenge in the Commons , and a series of purges of local corporations , livery companies , and lieutenancies effectively destroyed the local bases of Whig power , both in London and in the provincial towns . |
| 10 | Its advice on planting incorporated some from other writers , but the bulk of the book is a series of descriptions of plants ‘ suitable in any way for the British flower garden ’ , among them many new introductions . |
| 11 | Perhaps we can say that capitalist equilibrium is made up of a series of moments of dis-equilibria . |
| 12 | As sessions were completed by me , a series of certificates of competence was signed for . |
| 13 | We have reported a series of experiments of short term gastrointestinal tract imaging using breathholding to overcome respiratory movement . |
| 14 | Pupils could investigate change by examining a series of articles of different dates , and discussing why changes occurred . |
| 15 | Thence to ways of measuring heat , and a neat series of demonstrations of metal expansion , heat conduction and convection , and their practical effects . |
| 16 | The display , which ran from 29 July to 28 August 1989 , was planned as the fourth in a continuing series of demonstrations of Welsh life and its origins . |
| 17 | His famous series of posters of the distraught zookeeper and his mischievous animals carried the line — My Goodness , — My Guinness — and scored another smash hit with Guinness fanciers . |
| 18 | First , the bidder does not have to deal with a series of forms of acceptance from accepting shareholders , making sure that they have been completed properly and dealing with any lost share certificates . |
| 19 | If the structure is parallel to the coast drowning will result in a series of lines of islands representing the old ridges and long narrow arms of the sea along the old valleys , as in the Yugoslav coast ( Fig. 9.2 ) and the coast of southern Chile . |
| 20 | The increasing complexity of matter forms a series of components of increasing organization as illustrated in Figure 5 . |
| 21 | He broke new ground in musical humour when in 1956 he organized the first of a series of concerts of symphonic caricature at which new music , some of it by respected composers like Malcolm Arnold , was played on ludicrous instruments or to the accompaniment of vacuum cleaners or road rammers . |
| 22 | Before the development of the bristles themselves , a prepattern arises in the tissue : I imagine this as a series of peaks of concentration of some inducing chemical , arising by a ‘ Turing ’ process , but this is not necessary to Stern 's argument . |
| 23 | On to this exceptionally high tide were piled waves of over 6 m ( 20 ft ) amplitude so that wave attack was absolutely excessive ( a series of accounts of the damage is given in Geography , 1953 , pp. 132–89 ) . |
| 24 | Soviet writers contended that the Gulf initiative had been ‘ positively appraised by the statesmen of the series of countries of the region of the Indian Ocean as corresponding to the vitally important interests of the developing and non-aligned states ’ . |
| 25 | Despite his intensive activity on both bibliographical and scholarly fronts , he wrote numerous other works and started a series of facsimiles of the printed sources of western art , for which he collected both books and water-colours . |
| 26 | This approach flourished through into the 1830s , when a series of illustrations of the argument from design was commissioned in the will of the Earl of Bridgewater . |
| 27 | The facial features , as seen from the series of illustrations of the painting in progress , were put in last . |
| 28 | The third part of Mrs Thatcher 's strategy of creating an enterprise culture , which massively rewards those at the top while penalizing those at the bottom of the income pile , has been the launching of a series of reforms of the welfare state . |
| 29 | These were first written down maybe in the twelfth century , but now survive , often in a fragmentary state , only in the Icelandic prose sagas of the thirteenth century and later , the most famous of which is Heimskringla , a series of lives of kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson ( d.1241 ) . |
| 30 | What is meant by quantitative restrictions and measures having equivalent effect in Article 30 of the Treaty has been the subject of a whole series of decisions of the European Court to which the attention of the Court of Appeal ought to have been drawn . |