Example sentences of "series [prep] [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advocate depute , Roderick Macdonald , said : ‘ One of the more unsavoury features of this case is that Badenoch recruited a series of sub-dealers from among the youth of the area who were not previously involved in drugs . ’ |
| 2 | A series of constitutions from AD 529 to 531 brought in new and radical reform . |
| 3 | Under a complicated series of exemptions from the 30-year-old American embargo , exiles can send monthly packages of medicine and clothing , up to a value of $100 , to relatives there . |
| 4 | Based across the border in Sudan , he had formed the MPS with Libyan backing , and had launched a series of offensives from Sudan 's western Darfur region ; the third ( and finally successful ) such offensive began on Nov. 10 . |
| 5 | In the United States the theory that evolved was based on ‘ pitch phonemes ’ ( Wells , 1945 ; Pike , 1945 ) : four contrastive pitch levels were established and intonation was described basically in terms of a series of movements from one of these levels to another . |
| 6 | ‘ It seems his paper 's asked him to write a series of articles from Italy . |
| 7 | But this beautifully illustrated book also provides a wonderful series of anecdotes from Edwards ' life in motor racing . |
| 8 | Orders will be taken for the new series of chips from June this year . |
| 9 | The novel opens with a series of quotations from well-known works of European literature loosely strung together with third-person narrative . |
| 10 | The recent series of disasters from The Herald of Free Enterprise onwards , has led us to believe that Britain is particularly unsafe . |
| 11 | Absolute precision is impossible : there are gaps in the series of accounts from some ports , either because the records have been lost or because the customs had been farmed to the collector for a fixed sum , and there are also some irregularities in the accounting periods , although the customs year normally ran from Michaelmas to Michaelmas . |
| 12 | There are few Western documents , but a series of inscriptions from the reign of Antoninus Pius records the will of Megonius Leo , which includes trust clauses in standard form , first in laconic , then in more expansive fashion : haec ita ut cavi fieri praestarique volo ; and also peto et rogo per salutem sacratissimi principis Antonini Augusti Pii liberorumque eius , hanc voluntatem meam et dispositionem ratam perpetuamque habeatis . |
| 13 | The particular search is Herbert Stencil 's attempts to trace V. through a series of appearances from the 1890s through to the present . |
| 14 | In addition to individual works , he had published series of Studies from Nature every year or two from 1804 onwards , and he continued this work till his death in 1823 . |
| 15 | A series of agreements from 1898 onwards tried to channel the tension between the two powers along ‘ Manchuria for Korea ’ lines , i.e. Russia was to have the dominant interest in Manchuria , while Japan dominated in Korea . |
| 16 | The third part , " Hiroshima Collection " , is a meticulously photographed series of artefacts from the 6,600 articles gathered together in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum . |
| 17 | He said he had been scared to tell the truth after a series of threats from one of the gang . |
| 18 | Broad cultural contrasts emerged as a series of themes from the interview data : living patterns , family networks , sleeping patterns , and concepts of time and dependence . |
| 19 | It will make recommendations on whether the National Grid Company should be allowed to build a series of pylons from Lackenby on Teesside to Shipton , near York . |
| 20 | Breeding success , judging from a long series of reports from Rye , has also changed little since 1947 ; the Rye figures show an average brood size ranging from 5.7 to 9.7 , and averaging 7.8 . |
| 21 | Left : The new 3000 series of dishwashers from Bauknecht features a Clean Controller System which monitors each load and chooses the type of washing programme needed to give perfect results and economical use of water and detergent . |
| 22 | Following a series of complaints from readers , ZZAP ! can now confirm that Turbosoft Distribution has ceased trading . |
| 23 | The operation , at Milton Keynes , came after a series of complaints from residents and shopkeepers in the city . |
| 24 | A series of judgments from the European Court indicates that until Community rules on conduct of business are introduced , the national rules of the host state will continue to regulate that matter . |
| 25 | The Sri Lanka government and armed forces swung from their position in early 1990 of coexistence with the LTTE to the pursuit of military victory over them ( in which regard they achieved a series of successes from mid-1991 — see pp. 38392 ; 38439 ; 38534 ) , while providing sporadic indications of willingness to seek a negotiated settlement . |
| 26 | Help text is arranged in a series of levels from brief prompts displayed on the current page to , in some cases , subsequent levels containing several screens of information , guidance and explanation . |
| 27 | At this hour , the building 's lifts were all in use , crowded with homecoming tenants , and the one she and Florian finally entered stopped on every floor on the way up , prompting a series of grimaces from an impatient Florian and frustrating Maria unbearably . |
| 28 | This series of re-issues from EMI France comes attractively packaged in two-CD sets , all of which are extremely generously filled and very reasonably priced . |
| 29 | Figures 2 and 3 were taken from a series of images from a man ( Fig 2 ) and women ( Fig 3 ) volunteer . |
| 30 | Sprawled on a long-suffering double-bed like a beached whale , she dissected with witty , worldly sarcasm a series of clips from films and television which showed love being suspected , pursued , required and abandoned by performers as disparate as Frank Finlay and Sid James . |