Example sentences of "[vb -s] a series [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As previously mentioned , the top panel display has a series of boxes with a description of the effect and a status LED showing if the effect is on or off . |
| 2 | The bottom half , known as the maie , is made from oak and has a series of ducts around the inside rim at the base , through which the juice runs out . |
| 3 | Consequently , in contrast to the single set of accounts for a profit-oriented organization , the non-profit organization needs a series of accounts for each service . |
| 4 | It has achieved temperatures of 250 million degrees in its fuel and plans a series of experiments into the early 1990s . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | PARENTS and governors will be initiated into the mysteries of mathematics as New College Durham mounts a series of courses on the National Curriculum . |
| 9 | Figure 3 shows a series of options for producing energy from biomass . |
| 10 | The period affects all young people and involves a series of stages over a number of years , which are influenced by social and economic status . |
| 11 | The challenge he sets himself grows from the nature of his materials and their relationship to an evolving form , and the outcome often involves a series of variations on known or familiar objects . |
| 12 | For those who argue that the 1925 legislation represents a series of reforms in order to facilitate conveyancing the foundation of the legislation lies in s. 1 , Law of Property Act , where Parliament reduced the number of estates and interests capable of existing at law : |
| 13 | During his death he takes a series of trips in different vehicles : the airplane-like ‘ vehicle of communication ’ , a boat , a car , a horse-drawn buggy and finally the cranial spaceship from which he is ultimately ejected back into life . |
| 14 | The increasing complexity of matter forms a series of components of increasing organization as illustrated in Figure 5 . |
| 15 | It is believed in India , as in most ancient civilizations , that the process of spiritual evolution in its pure natural form demands a series of rebirths through reincarnation . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | Finally , Marie-Helene Montenay presents a series of paintings by Eva Hesse from the period 1960–64 . |
| 18 | The technology itself — originally developed by IBM to produce a higher speed packaged dye on silicon for its thermoconduction module — takes multiple silicon or ceramic wafers and lies a high density raw dye on top of it , which binds a series of chips in a single package . |
| 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 | Ten of their 13 opponents in the Rio de Janeiro championship are minor teams , which means a series of games in tiny stadiums on bumpy , pot-holed pitches and rarely more than a couple of thousand fans . |
| 21 | The Government report identifies priority areas for action , such as smoking and diet , and sets a series of targets for improving the health of Scots . |
| 22 | The stream of particles generates a series of pulses of current , up to 5,000 s -1 , which may be automatically recorded as numbers and particle volumes . |
| 23 | In order to do this , LIFESPAN defines a series of states through which an SPR progresses : |
| 24 | In order to do this , LIFESPAN defines a series of states through which an SPR progresses : |
| 25 | But once a job becomes a series of chances with restrictions built in , all of what we struggled for becomes a thing of the past . |
| 26 | Then Susan comes in , and when she has put down the tray she is carrying , she turns the light on beside his chair and draws the curtains so that the room becomes a series of pools of light , isolating each of us . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The eye does not sweep smoothly from left to right when reading but instead makes a series of fixations with rapid movements ( saccades ) between fixations . |
| 29 | With it , however , comes a series of dilemmas over team selection . |
| 30 | A system where the user presses a series of buttons without thought and gets exactly what he needs ( rather than what he at that stage thinks he wants ) is efficient but not entirely educational , any more than one so difficult that the user could only throw himself at the mercy of the person sitting at the reader 's adviser desk . |