Example sentences of "series of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taking a series of views across the whole situation , referred to as the hill tops approach by Mcloughlin and Brown , recognises that the wider system could be instrumental in : |
| 2 | A further advantage is that whereas with a series of debentures with a charge on the company 's assets it will be necessary to say expressly in each debenture that it is one of a series each ranking pari passu in respect of the charge ; debenture stock achieves that result without express provision . |
| 3 | A rapacious British land taxation policy was partly responsible for a series of famines in Bengal in the second half of the eighteenth century , while elsewhere in India the staple foods of the poor such as millet and pulses were displaced by the production for export of grains and commercial crops ( Bagchi , 1982 , pp. 79 , 84 , 86 ) . |
| 4 | Grassmuck believes that this communication barrier between parents and children led to a series of killings of parents by their sons . |
| 5 | To implement a network , it is necessary to have a series of pointers at each record occurrence . |
| 6 | He runs a series of adverts in the Sunday Sport offering pairs of ‘ soiled librarian 's knickers ’ for a tenner . |
| 7 | I am sure it will be a highlight in their series of matches in the North of England . ’ |
| 8 | Furthermore , pollinators are directed to suitable target sites for deposition of pollen by a series of rewards at those sites , whereas dispersers are not and indeed , jettisoning of the ‘ ballast ’ from their food as rapidly as possible is to their advantage : food may take 10 to 20 minutes to pass through a bat or small bird , though up to several months in animals like the rhinoceros . |
| 9 | His aim is simple : to write a series of commentaries on the novels of Jane Austen which would say everything that could be said about them , from every conceivable angle : |
| 10 | Hervey , a Breton , was appointed bishop , the first of a long series of members of the English royal court to be provided with a Welsh see : he was also the first bishop in Wales to come under the authority of an English archbishop . |
| 11 | For there , hard at work dubbing the soundtrack on to a new series of Minder at Anvil Studios , was the Lotus Elan-hero-turned-De Lorean cohort I 'd been longing to unmask . |
| 12 | In 1983 , however , the MCC was able to make the following confident series of resolutions to the CNAA . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The U.S. Open Champion is one of seven golfers who earned in excess of $1 million in the 12 months leading up to the World Series of Golf at the end of August . |
| 15 | In Kenya , for instance , in the second phase of the Exploration for Geothermal Energy Project , a series of maps at 1:50 000 in the northern Rift Valley was completed , along with draft reports on the geology and geothermal activity for each . |
| 16 | The two resident staff concerned with Phase II of the Exploration for Geothermal Energy Project completed a series of maps at 1:50 000 of four dormant volcanoes — Korosi , Paka , Silali and Emuruangogolak — in the northern Rift Valley , and prepared draft reports on the geology and geothermal activity for each . |
| 17 | The advocate depute , Roderick Macdonald , said : ‘ One of the more unsavoury features of this case is that Badenoch recruited a series of sub-dealers from among the youth of the area who were not previously involved in drugs . ’ |
| 18 | Detectives in Hartlepool are investigating a series of burglaries in the Welldeck Road area in which electrical equipment and jewellery was stolen . |
| 19 | Police are warning householders to beware of sneak thieves after a series of burglaries in Newton Aycliffe . |
| 20 | A subscription was taken out to Repertoire international de la presse musicale , a substantial new series of indexes to 19th-century European music journals . |
| 21 | The National Assembly passed on March 16 a series of revisions to the Temporary Provisions , which for 40 years had superseded the Constitution , enhanced presidential power and frozen in office the mainland-elected members of the various deliberative assemblies , pending hypothetical recovery of the mainland . |
| 22 | It is part of a series of revisions to existing WHO guidelines on the quality of drinking water which are due to be made public in mid 1993 . |
| 23 | A series of constitutions from AD 529 to 531 brought in new and radical reform . |
| 24 | A series of constitutions in the Code disposes of all formality in the law of succession . |
| 25 | The clerk , Robert Clive , was able not only to take Arcot by a surprise attack but also to inspire his little force to hang on to it during a 50-day seige in which a series of onslaughts on the citadel was beaten off . |
| 26 | Sankara 's government launched a series of onslaughts on the worst ills of chronic underdevelopment : ‘ commando ’ campaigns to immunize children against the common killer diseases , to roll back the desert by planting trees , to encourage peasant farmers and drive towards self-sufficiency in food . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Harry Enfield 's Television Programme , his second series of sketches about characters we have grown to know and loathe , is back on BBC2 on Thursdays with an even wider selection for the rogues ' gallery . |
| 29 | Detectives investigating the murder of the prostitute Carol Clark have issued a series of sketches of people they want to talk to . |
| 30 | LNER Flying Scotsman became an old age pensioner in style with a series of runs over its old haunts from Peterborough to York . |