Example sentences of "a series of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While much was achieved in improving safety standards , towards the decade 's end there was a series of accidents that perhaps shocked the public more than anything since Harrow & Wealdstone in the very early days of nationalisation . |
| 2 | Owing , however , to a series of accidents , including bad weather , the head of one small clan , Macdonald of Glencoe , a wild valley in Argyllshire , was late in taking the oath , and those on the spot seized the chance to make an example of him and pay off some private scores . |
| 3 | Niki got himself into a series of accidents , some from ill judgement , some from overanxiety , some from inexperience . |
| 4 | In the same winter , six walkers were killed in a series of accidents , most involving simple slips but including one case of hypothermia . |
| 5 | Having slipped in this normative bias , Plekhanov goes on to consider whether a series of accidents might not change the course of history . |
| 6 | I 've never claimed much ; I 've never claimed to be a great original ; my life has been a series of accidents with me just sort of helping along . ’ |
| 7 | Her job at Garfield , her three days a week in Whitehall , the house in Wandsworth , her furniture , Sam 's school , a series of accidents . |
| 8 | Unless and until we find a deterministic control , presumably deep inside the earth , I can see only a series of accidents , most of these accidents seem to be the collisions of continents on the earth 's surface . |
| 9 | We are gravely worried that a series of accidents seem to have taken place in which trains simply run into each other . |
| 10 | An unpublished report prepared for the Supreme Soviet in 1990 by a commission of independent experts states that 437,000 people have been affected by a series of accidents and contamination at the nuclear weapons production plant at Kyshtym in the southern Urals over the past 45 years . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A dangerous junction in Darlington could soon be closed to motorists after a series of accidents . |
| 13 | For Louisa Coutts Trotter , whose hypochondriacal father was constantly on the move seeking new cures , her grandmother 's Edinburgh house was a fixed point in their peregrinations ; while Willoughby de Broke eccentrically opens his autobiography with a series of chapters on the family 's houses , rather than on its people . |
| 14 | The first is The English Medieval House by Margaret Wood ( London , reprint 1985 ) which , although dealing mainly with larger houses , is well organised into a series of chapters dealing with features , such as porches , fireplaces , staircases , windows , and so on . |
| 15 | Peter van Soest starts Nutritional Ecology of the Ruminant with a brief historical resume of the study of ruminant nutrition and the development of food analysis and then moves through a series of chapters which describe with great clarity the mathematics involved in the measurement of throughput rate and digestibility . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The remarkable Victorian garden at Biddulph in Staffordshire , created by the orchid-loving James Bateman , was laid out as a series of continents and countries — Egypt with a temple in clipped yew and China hidden away behind great rocks . |
| 19 | It is the story of a philologist ( said to be loosely based on Tolkien , but in fact fairly unlike him : Tolkien recognized some of his own opinions and ideas Lewisified in the character ) who , by a series of mishaps on a walking tour , comes to a house where two sinister scientists , Weston and Devine , are planning a visit to outer space . |
| 20 | BELGIUM is pressing ahead with plans to generate half its electricity from nuclear power by 1985 , despite a series of mishaps at the country 's biggest concentration of nuclear power at Doel , near Antwerp . |
| 21 | Shortly after setting up home he ran into a series of mishaps . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The People 's Democratic Republic of Yemen became independent in 1967 as the People 's Republic of Southern Yemen , comprising Aden , which had been under British rule since 1839 , and the former Protectorate of South Arabia , which had been developed by a series of treaties between the United Kingdom and local leaders . |
| 24 | Agents for the Duchess of York have signed a series of deals which will make her at least £3 million for her Budgie the Little Helicopter books , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 25 | The Maastricht deal is under threat as Premier John Major struggles to get agreement on a series of deals . |
| 26 | Scottish fishermen 's representatives are opposing an all-out ban and are calling for a series of restrictions on imports until there is a balanced supply at the markets . |
| 27 | At this point , it would have been pleasant to record a series of strategies by which they had been facilitated . |
| 28 | They were exactly characteristic of the era of ‘ modernization ’ ( I am grateful to Tim Blackman , 1987 , for this usage ) in which the leadership of the local Labour and Trade Union movement actively collaborated with regional capital , regional representatives of trans-national capital and the central state in promoting a series of strategies designed to facilitate the operations of trans-national capital , while simultaneously providing jobs and improving the environment . |
| 29 | THE 120-clause Environmental Protection Bill , which was published yesterday , sets out a series of reforms to key areas of pollution control . |
| 30 | A series of reforms , heralded by the Local Government Planning and Land Act ( 1980 ) , developed further controls on capital and current expenditure . |