Example sentences of "[verb] a series of [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Board 's role had been afforced through its assumption of providing powers under the Bedfordshire scheme and through its close co-operative relationships with the Rural Community Council ( RCC ) in Cambridgeshire and for which it provided a series of courses in that county . |
| 2 | At Nicholas 's behest , P. D. Kiselev designed a series of measures in the 1840s whose aim was to quicken the rate at which Jews abandoned the traditions of their fathers . |
| 3 | In the 1960s , Gerald Kerkut , in Southampton , described a series of experiments in which he suspended a headless cockroach above a bath containing a salt solution . |
| 4 | Thus , Mercier and Baker report a series of experiments in which rats pre-exposed to a compound of a clicker and a light acquired latent inhibition to the click just as readily as subjects pre-exposed to the click alone , and this in spite of the fact that the light was a salient event that was certainly noticed and processed by the animals . |
| 5 | In his report on the affair , Counsel to the President , C. Boyden Gray , absolved Sununu of ethical violations , but found a series of errors in the reimbursement , reporting and categorization of the trips . |
| 6 | Biblical Judaism created a series of separations in time and space defined by laws of purity and impurity . |
| 7 | The Brazilian cocoa research organisation , CEPLAC , has organised a series of expeditions in the Amazon region of Brazil , a vast area that will take many years to cover completely . |
| 8 | It would be best procedure if I began to answer a series of questions in a room from which Clements was excluded . |
| 9 | Nationalist groups also organized a series of demonstrations in Bratislava in the week leading up to March 14 , the anniversary of the foundation of the independent Slovak republic under German protection in 1939 . |
| 10 | This is not an outcome that everyone would welcome , and it would bring a series of difficulties in its train as inequalities of income would lead to even greater inequalities in access to health care and education ; but it is a plausible outcome , and would increase the likelihood of the continuance of the Employment Society . |
| 11 | That caused a series of hiccups in the process , and the ripples allowed the Ardakkeans to get wind of the theft . |
| 12 | UBS P & D plans a series of roadshows in Europe to present the proposals to Heron 's many thousands of bondholders who have seen bonds slashed to a third of their face value . |
| 13 | A report to be published later this month is understood to detail a series of shortcomings in the rushed sale of the motor company to the group which was approved by Lord Young , the former Trade Secretary . |
| 14 | The company has made a series of acquisitions in recent years but sold its Skelmersdale Packaging subsidiary , which contributed profits of £1.7m on sales of £12m in 1990 , in a deal worth £11½m in December 1990 . |
| 15 | Although he 's made a series of mistakes in the transfer market only he will decide on his departure from the City Ground . |
| 16 | Detectives in Hartlepool are investigating a series of burglaries in the Welldeck Road area in which electrical equipment and jewellery was stolen . |
| 17 | Police in Seaham are investigating a series of incidents in which three car windows and a shop window were broken in Stockton Road . |
| 18 | I 've been investigating a series of murders in London . |
| 19 | The evening will feature a series of banquets in the park 's six hotels which will last into the early hours . |
| 20 | Shortly afterwards Communists encouraged a series of strikes in France and Italy which were evidently designed to sabotage the Marshall Plan . |
| 21 | ACTRESS Vanessa Redgrave has arrived in Macedonia to try to organise a series of concerts in aid of the child victims of the war in former Yugoslavia . |
| 22 | ACTRESS Vanessa Redgrave has arrived in Macedonia to try to organise a series of concerts in aid of the child victims of the war in former Yugoslavia . |
| 23 | Two major debates surround enterprise zones : there is the whole question of their origin , development and administration , which raises a series of issues in relation to governments ’ ability to bring about radical change ; and , second , and more importantly by the late 1980s , their impact can now be assessed in some detail . |
| 24 | Elsewhere , the previously quiescent Oromo Liberation Front ( OLF ) claimed a series of successes in early January , reporting the capture of Asosa , Mendi , Begio and Bambesi , all Oromo province towns close to the Sudanese border . |
| 25 | This year it includes a series of extravaganzas in sports centres at Omagh , Craigavon , Lisburn and Ballymena and the distribution of a booklet telling children how they can take up a sport . |
| 26 | Arriving the night before to play a series of shows in Japan , Beats International are a fresh example of Western pop to be studied , consumed and assimilated . |
| 27 | They are given equipment and free visits by carefully selected coaches , who give a series of lessons in the school with the class teacher being gradually trained to take a more and more active part . |
| 28 | As work continued to seal the reactor ( whose current condition was the subject of some alarming reports , despite the original claim that it had been " entombed " successfully in concrete by November 1986 — see p. 34749 ) , the Ukrainian Supreme Soviet passed a series of laws in early April which reduced the permissible radiation level , and , as a result , would lead to the evacuation of a further 73,000 people from the Chernobyl area , bringing the total moved since the accident to 250,000 . |
| 29 | The other procedural advantage is said to be that it is open to a prosecutor to include a series of incidents in the one charge , rather than as a series of assaults . |
| 30 | Capt. Valentine E. M. Strasser , the 27-year-old junior officer who had become chairman of the National Provisional Ruling Council ( NPRC ) after leading an April coup [ see pp. 38853-4 ; 38900 ] , made a series of changes in July to both the composition and structure of the government . |