Example sentences of "[art] series of [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 After the series of disasters with the female graduate assistants the organisation hired Tom Watt .
2 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 ’ .
3 Others are less successful , in particular the series of letters by the late 18th-century mother to her Newgate-sequestered son , and the Victorian ploughman 's stream of consciousness .
4 Among the outstanding work in the gallery must be the series of panels of the Passion painted for the Cistercian monastery of Vyšší Brod in 1350–5 .
5 The facial features , as seen from the series of illustrations of the painting in progress , were put in last .
6 When the series of sessions with the advisory teacher came to an end , Betty said that she thought that the work had gone well and that the children had enjoyed it , although she had noticed that the response of the ‘ difficult ’ children , whom she also described as ‘ poorly motivated ’ , was much the same as usual .
7 More detailed information is given in the series of Handbooks on the Regional Geology of Great Britain and Northern Ireland published by HMSO for the British Geological Survey .
8 If there is a bias in the proportions of left and right lesions entering the series of patients in the literature then this will influence the dominance proportions inferred for the normal population .
9 Apart from wanting the law or whatever to catch up with him ( which it did n't ) , I had taken little notice , and no interest , in John 's furtive and elaborate preparations for travel — the series of interviews with the Reverend Kreditor , for example .
10 The series of arrays to the right are present-day arrays produced by variable increases in μ and ( 232 Th/ 238 U ) at 130Myr .
11 Made in the reign of Calixtus , it was obviously seen fitting that it should end the series of pictures of the popes involved in the struggle .
12 For Louisa Coutts Trotter , whose hypochondriacal father was constantly on the move seeking new cures , her grandmother 's Edinburgh house was a fixed point in their peregrinations ; while Willoughby de Broke eccentrically opens his autobiography with a series of chapters on the family 's houses , rather than on its people .
13 BELGIUM is pressing ahead with plans to generate half its electricity from nuclear power by 1985 , despite a series of mishaps at the country 's biggest concentration of nuclear power at Doel , near Antwerp .
14 The People 's Democratic Republic of Yemen became independent in 1967 as the People 's Republic of Southern Yemen , comprising Aden , which had been under British rule since 1839 , and the former Protectorate of South Arabia , which had been developed by a series of treaties between the United Kingdom and local leaders .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 Please turn to page 366 of the Old Testament section of the Bibles ; today we have the second of a series of sermons about the life of Elisha .
18 Over the past few months , we have been following a series of sermons on the last few chapters of Paul 's letter to the church in Rome .
19 Again , Fry 's study of difficulties confronted by disabled people in voting in the 1987 general election ( Fry , 1987 ) indicates a series of problems in the exercise of democratic rights which are to large degree sui generis , and can only be understood through specific knowledge of disability .
20 A program ( issue 44 ) is a file containing a series of instructions for the computer which cause it to do a particular job ( such as behave like a word processor or a flight simulator ) .
21 But the problem continued to get worse and a series of surveys in the 1950s , 1960s and 1970s established the main characteristics of these single , homeless people .
22 The contemplation of the manhood is organised as a series of meditations on the Passion attached to the Canonical Hours in the same order of events as in the Primer but in a more extended form .
23 Nevertheless , it came after a series of disagreements with the government over the previous 18 months .
24 A series of constitutions in the Code disposes of all formality in the law of succession .
25 In the permanent income hypothesis , Friedman makes a series of assumptions regarding the statistical relationships that exist between permanent and transitory consumption , permanent and transitory income and transitory income and consumption .
26 In Sweden , again , there was a series of efforts during the eighteenth century to regulate more rationally the salaries paid to different ranks of diplomat , though there as elsewhere it was easier to do this than to pay the salaries regularly .
27 This prompts a series of speculations about the nature of poetic change : how far does language-change , and specifically , phonological change , govern and/or enable changes in poetic form ?
28 I mean I can give you a little example erm I was once trying to add up a series of figures in the middle of an admissions exercise , and one of the other one of the men said to me ‘ oh , come on , you 're far too pretty to do mental arithmetic ’ and I completely lost my train of thought , I got rather confused .
29 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 .
30 It is the outcome of a series of contracts between the founding shareholders : in so far as the state has a role in corporate creation it is not materially different from its role in enforcing contracts in general .
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