Example sentences of "in a series of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speaking at the latest in a series of milk producer meetings , Alan Wiseman said that the firm had just exchanged contracts on a nine-acre site . |
| 2 | He was quickly involved in a series of crashes which earned him the nickname |
| 3 | Talking of reruns Madam er deputy speaker , er I almost feel I 'm involved in a series of reruns with the er with the minister himself because er in a series of bills er committees in the eighties , standing committees on the building societies bill , on the banking bill , on the financial services er bill , as they all were , er he was speaking at that time er in favour of more effective regulation , backing the votes of this side er for kind , the kind of policies it 's introducing today . |
| 4 | Despite a worldwide protest campaign , the first in a series of shipments of plutonium from Europe to Japan to supply the local nuclear-power industry is going ahead . |
| 5 | An example of this more sophisticated biological approach is the work of Hans Eysenck , who has argued in a series of studies , that there is a link between genetically based personality characteristics and criminal behaviour . |
| 6 | Tajfel ( 1972 ) , in a series of studies conducted within the old ‘ experimentalist ’ paradigm , examined the tendency of quite accidentally constituted groups to begin to act against each other . |
| 7 | In a series of studies , Dockrell ( 1981 ) showed that the immediate context of the contrast influenced the inferences children made in assigning a meaning to an unfamiliar word . |
| 8 | In a series of studies in the late 1970s and early 1980s , Robinson and Robinson ( e.g. , 1983 ) drew attention to the critical connection between the message and the listener 's perception of it . |
| 9 | In a series of studies using time series data on fertility and female employment ( Joshi , Layard and Owen , 1985 ; De Cooman , Ermisch and Joshi , 1987 and 1988 ; Ermisch , 1987 ) the following account has emerged . |
| 10 | It is the latest in a series of studies aimed at determining the cause of especially poor health statistics in parts of the North-East . |
| 11 | In a series of studies with synthetic DNA fragments Chen has shown that actinomycin dissociates very slowly from TGCA in the sequence ATATGCATAT ( ) , about four times slower than from similar decamers containing AGCT and CGCG sequences and over 100 times slower than from GGCC [ 17 ] . |
| 12 | Given this background , the minister of posts , telecommunications and space , Paul Quiles , was treading on eggshells when he met the unions this week for the second in a series of talks concerning the reform of the country 's post office , the PTT . |
| 13 | In a series of talks in New York on June 18-23 the UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali and representatives of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council met separately with the President of Cyprus Georgios Vassiliou and with the president of the self-proclaimed Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus , Rauf Denktash . |
| 14 | In a series of chapters edited by Hewitt ( 1983 ) it is demonstrated how natural hazard is not uniquely dependent upon geophysical processes , human awareness is not dependent upon the geophysical conditions , and reaction to disaster may be dependent upon ongoing social order rather than explained by conditions or behaviour to calamitous events . |
| 15 | The initial results are summarised in a series of chapters and conference papers available authors , and a book Representation in Britain : Class , Race and Gender in the British will be forthcoming in 1994 . |
| 16 | In the same winter , six walkers were killed in a series of accidents , most involving simple slips but including one case of hypothermia . |
| 17 | The explosion was the latest in a series of accidents at Hoechst plants , and Environment Minister Klaus Töpfer called for tougher application of safety controls enforced by the state inspectorate . |
| 18 | ‘ American Art in the Twentieth Century ’ is the fourth in a series of reassessments of national schools and follows Rosenthal 's presentations of German , British and Italian art . |
| 19 | The deal , which was designed to reduce inflation , was the latest in a series of accords between the ALP government and the trade union movement . |
| 20 | The effect of the former set of pressures can be seen first in the ‘ fifties and especially in West Africa in a series of attempts , all politically inspired and none of them entirely successful , to introduce universal primary education — with all the over-extension of resources consequent on such a decision — and second in the popular pressures felt everywhere towards adopting a curricular content similar to that in ‘ European schools ’ . |
| 21 | The action was the latest in a series of attempts by sections of the military to unseat the transitional government appointed by the national conference in August [ see pp. 38379 ; 38518-19 ; 38562 ] . |
| 22 | This is direct evidence for the pulsating cusp model and that reconnection was taking place in a series of bursts ( FTEs ) at the subsolar magnetopause . |
| 23 | It is , of course , possible to schedule a campaign in a series of bursts through the year , if the cash is available , and major bursts can be interspersed with minor ones — or the gap between TV bursts can be filled by using print media in the intervals . |
| 24 | Detailed breakdown on wealth figures in Australia are set out in a series of tables in Australian Society include comparative figures for 1984 and 1986 where the total wealth of the richest 118 has increased by 250 per cent — over A$5,000 million — at a time when the total wealth has increased by 20 per cent . |
| 25 | An especially impressive moral philosophy of this period was that developed by Joseph Butler ( 1692–1752 ) , later Bishop of Durham , in a series of sermons . |
| 26 | My original concern with these problems was expressed in a series of papers on African and Asian weaver birds culminating in a monograph in 1964 . |
| 27 | In a series of papers Stewart and colleagues have shown a significant association , now widely accepted as causal , between obstetric radiography and childhood leukaemia and other cancers . |
| 28 | The originator of this research was the maverick James McConnell , at Ann Arbor , Michigan , who in a series of papers during the 1960s , first in conventional scientific journals and then in his own publication , the exotically named Worm-Runners Digest , reported experiments in which flatworms , trained by pairing light with electric shock , were chopped up and other , ‘ naïve ’ ( that is , untrained ) worms allowed to cannibalize them . |
| 29 | The results of his experiments were published in a series of papers in the Annalen over the years 1860–6 , entitled ‘ On a New Class of Organic Compounds in which Hydrogen is Replaced by Nitrogen ’ . |
| 30 | The King model of pediplanation provided a framework for an interpretation of the vegetation patterns of the savannas of the southern hemisphere and in a series of papers Cole ( e.g. 1963 ) reviewed the climatic , edaphic and morphologic controls upon the types of savanna vegetation and concluded that the broad vegetation patterns related to the age of landsurfaces as expected from the King pediplanation model . |