Example sentences of "series of [noun] [conj] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The maid fled to her room but could still hear Mrs Putt 's shrill voice until there was a brief , muffled scream , followed by a whole series of sounds that might have been a fight . |
| 2 | You are also about to embark on a series of exercises that will start you on the road to a more beautiful body — a body of which you will be proud . |
| 3 | John suggests a series of moves that will bring her closer and closer to Otto with each phrase . |
| 4 | WESTERN EUROPE is to decide this month on a series of satellites that will provide data for weather forecasts until well into the 1990s . |
| 5 | We set about a series of innovations that would give them access to that understanding , by means that were practicable within an already existing framework . |
| 6 | But his dream of reaching the White House was haunted almost from the start by a series of disclosures that would have wrecked the career of another politician . |
| 7 | I had to construct a model that would lead me to a series of questions that would have empirically testable answers which would allow me to deduce an answer to my original question . |
| 8 | It it 's satisfied with this , a low-volume maker will enjoy a series of waivers that should ‘ significantly ’ reduce the cost of gaining national Type Approval . |
| 9 | This week Social Services Secretary Tony Newton announced a wide ranging series of proposals that will strengthen the rights and privileges of company pension scheme members . |
| 10 | But I could hear the breathy snarl that Mala makes when she is about to hurt someone quite badly , and with it a menacing series of grunts that could only be Gharrgoyles . |
| 11 | Too many Whitehall battles were fought because , for example , tourism had to stay with trade , with the result that a whole series of issues that should have been in the consumer department were not . |
| 12 | The other possible way of answering your question is to think in terms of having a large project in which you would write a whole series of poems that would add up into a book , which as it happens I have just done , since I have just published a book of poems which are all retellings of bible stories , and there the subjects quite clearly came from the outside , though I mean unless they latch onto something inside you they wo n't make poems . |
| 13 | Sequent Computer Systems Inc , Beaverton , Oregon , has introduced DecisionPoint/Relational Query System which is the first in the series of announcements that will bundle the Sequent hardware with third party software intended to fill a specific niche market . |
| 14 | I had to achieve an impression of London ; to find a series of marks that would give a visual cue rather than deliver a mass of topographical detail . |
| 15 | This is a complex series of events that may involve various altered cellular properties , such as secretion of proteolytic enzymes , alterations in cell motility , and altered growth properties , as well as possible changes in adhesiveness . |
| 16 | New regional chairman Neil McCrae , of Design Publications in Banbury , said : ‘ We want to see an end to the beer-and-skittles approach and arrange a series of events that will be relevant and attractive to professional communicators . |
| 17 | Her part in Share My Lettuce had done as much for her own theatrical career as the show had done for Ken , and she was embarking on a series of films that would make her an international reputation . |
| 18 | If political struggle takes place for specific purposes and anticipated results , here Sartre seems to condemn it to an unending series of detours that will never arrive at their destination . |
| 19 | Knowing that it was a basic railway practice to use detonators in foggy conditions to protect signals , etc , and as the sound they emitted carried some distance , the men awaited the series of bangs that would herald the presence of a train . |
| 20 | A tragic process began to unfold and faced with a entrancement they could not understand , officials made a series of misjudgments that would end in an even greater loss of life . |
| 21 | A film is made up of a series of shots that may be photographed over various periods of time ; a ‘ take ’ that may have originally started out as three or four minutes in length may eventually be edited to a ten second shot . |
| 22 | They 've devised a series of guidelines that will enable the beauty spot to stay both commercially viable and beautiful . |
| 23 | All available statistics relating to population , employment , family household structure , and electoral patterns will be gathered for a sample series of municipalities and will then be analysed by computer . |
| 24 | John Wiley and Sons , prolific publishers of computer books , have announced a new series of books that will , they claim , change the face of computer book publishing . |
| 25 | It will include a series of seminars that will discuss key issues facing the waste management industry . |