Example sentences of "[art] series of [noun pl] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A series of constitutions from AD 529 to 531 brought in new and radical reform . |
| 5 | The novel opens with a series of quotations from well-known works of European literature loosely strung together with third-person narrative . |
| 6 | He said he had been scared to tell the truth after a series of threats from one of the gang . |
| 7 | ‘ It seems his paper 's asked him to write a series of articles from Italy . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The particular search is Herbert Stencil 's attempts to trace V. through a series of appearances from the 1890s through to the present . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Following a series of complaints from readers , ZZAP ! can now confirm that Turbosoft Distribution has ceased trading . |
| 12 | The operation , at Milton Keynes , came after a series of complaints from residents and shopkeepers in the city . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Despite a new border agreement with Indonesia in April 1990 , incursions by Indonesian forces in pursuit of Melanesian separatists from Irian Jaya led to a number of civilian deaths in July and August and provoked a series of protests from Papua New Guinea . |
| 19 | Students may progress through a series of modules from Level One to Level Three , or they may begin at whichever is appropriate to them , depending on qualifications already held . |
| 20 | Figures 2 and 3 were taken from a series of images from a man ( Fig 2 ) and women ( Fig 3 ) volunteer . |
| 21 | The sliding plate brought forth a series of terranes from thousands of miles to the south . |
| 22 | Apart from the huge expense of acceding to the health workers ' demands , defeat for the Government would have brought in its train a series of demands from other workers which it would have found hard to resist . … |
| 23 | When the Balie Swart-Elandre van den Bergh hearing were completed Knight launched a series of attacks from South Africa and , at about the same time , Mayhew complemented those from Auckland . |
| 24 | In a series of books from the 1960s he searched for a theory of world society . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In this first in a series of extracts from the Tennis Workshop ( Crowood Press ) , Alan Jones , with Barry Wood explain the often neglected area of practice once the lesson is over . |
| 27 | Tests in a 5-node seismic processing environment reportedly showed a reduction in the run-time of a series of jobs from 2.5 hours to 43 minutes . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | That speaker 's " Patois " , however , will also be constructed as a series of adaptations from LE , except in relatively rare cases where the speaker has a genuinely native command of the Creole . |
| 30 | Prior to this , he has introduced a series of characters from a great range of settings . |