Example sentences of "[adv] [art] series of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty years ago liberal justices on the court laid down a series of laws against discriminatory employment practices . |
| 2 | Finally , not showing in a gallery but in the Roumanian Cultural Centre , Ion Nicodim who was first promoted in Italy by Giulio Carlo Argan in the late sixties , here brings together a series of variations on the theme of clay as a material of memory . |
| 3 | is no longer a series of drills for the body , it is natural movements of the body which exercise children 's limbs in much more rhythmical ways and each individual child is allowed to develop according to his individual needs . |
| 4 | Before , Anderson has attached some seriousness to the question of " bad manners " , telling Hollar that " the history of human calumny is largely a series of breaches of good manners " . |
| 5 | It is always a series of disappointments with highlights in between . |
| 6 | The sliding plate brought forth a series of terranes from thousands of miles to the south . |
| 7 | Some serious incidents occurred during this period on the Broadwater Farm Estate , such as an attack on police by youths which resulted in one officer sustaining a bad head wound , and there was also a series of attacks on an Asian-owned supermarket . |
| 8 | The plaintiff or petitioner drew up a series of charges for the defendant to answer and refute , but the burden of proof was on the plaintiff . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | At first I thought about setting up a series of divisions throughout the length of the hall which would demarcate it rhythmically . |
| 11 | This critic may have been thinking of a well-known passage in one of the Nativity sermons in which Andrewes keeps up a series of puns in Hebrew , Latin and English for three pages on the word Emmanuel : ‘ If it be not Immanu-el , it will be Immanu-hell … . |
| 12 | ASUTRAMES drew up a series of demands in a 27-point petition addressed to the municipal government , The petition included the following Points : |
| 13 | Then he moved into the cinema and , with his customary unflagging energy , set up a series of films in keeping with the jingoistic spirit of the times . |
| 14 | Thus there build up a series of steps with sharp , cliff-like fronts ( Plate 10 ) . |
| 15 | By announcing investigations all over Britain it had set up a series of confrontations with the public . |
| 16 | If a regular daily supply of mated animals is required it is sufficient to set up a series of cages with one male and three females in each , bearing in mind that in theory one in four females should be in oestrus on a particular day . |
| 17 | The High Court in Glasgow heard that Bernard Fielding , who 's thirty four , carried out a series of robberies at Labrokes betting shops in Springburn . |
| 18 | Mr Justice Jowitt commenting at the trial of Ernest Coveley , accused of carrying out a series of robberies with a cucumber The escargot laying season is between June and September . |
| 19 | THE 120-clause Environmental Protection Bill , which was published yesterday , sets out a series of reforms to key areas of pollution control . |
| 20 | In the early 1960s Stanley Milgram , a research psychologist at Yale University , carried out a series of experiments on the extent to which we obey authority . |
| 21 | Thus , McConaghy and his colleagues carried out a series of experiments on what they call ‘ allusive thinking ’ , a concept similar to overinclusive thinking and actually measured by them with a clinical , thought disorder test . |
| 22 | Bickford was determined to make a safer type of fuse , and although he was no scientist he carried out a series of experiments with many different combinations of materials until , having nearly despaired of ever achieving his goal , he visited a friend in his rope walk and suddenly hit on the idea of spinning a light rope or cord round a tightly packed central core of gunpowder . |
| 23 | The government has published a discussion document on climate change which sets out a series of options on how emissions of greenhouse gases can be reduced . |
| 24 | Ranjan Wijeratne , the Plantations Minister and Minister of State for Defence , claimed on July 26 that the LTTE had recently carried out a series of attacks on Sinhalese villages . |
| 25 | Unrest in Aceh province on the northern tip of Sumatra erupted in April when separatist insurgents ( members of the Free Aceh Movement ) carried out a series of attacks on police posts , which prompted a major security operation against the rebels . |
| 26 | Police believe he 's the so-called ’ Fishermead rapist ’ , who 's carried out a series of attacks on the Fishermead estate . |
| 27 | Police belive he 's the so-called Fishermead rapist , who 's carried out a series of attacks on and around the Fishermead Estate . |
| 28 | APLA carried out a series of attacks in the Eastern Cape and Orange Free State late last year in which a number of whites were shot dead . |
| 29 | Melchior Franck brought out a series of collections under fancy titles Recreationes musicae ( 1614 ) , Delitiae amoris ( 1615 ) , Lilia musicalia ( 1616 ) — and at last introduced fa-la refrains in 1621 in his Newes Teutsches Musicalisches Fröliches Convivium ( Coburg , 1621 ) . |
| 30 | Some years ago Radio Luxembourg carried out a series of presentations to agencies on the subject of ‘ visual transfer ’ — a term used in the USA for the more or less observable fact that most of the TV audience recognize TV commercials from their soundtracks , and that , therefore , using the TV soundtrack , or something close to it , on radio can greatly enhance the coverage and frequency of a TV campaign . |