Example sentences of "a long series [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They refrained from responding to a long series of statements by senior Chinese officials which contradicted both the letter and the spirit of the Joint Declaration - including an assurance , for example , that the post-1997 Hong Kong press would be free for ‘ as long as it did not publish anything detrimental to China 's national interest ’ . |
| 2 | Kuypers then started a long series of collaborative studies in which injuries to some of these connections in the monkey 's brain were correlated with the defects they produced in performance of movements ; the poising of an arm , for instance , to carry out an operation with the fingers could be dissociated from the ability to use the fingers skilfully . |
| 3 | The plan to make unions responsible for unofficial action arose out of the strikes in the summer on the London Underground , where an informal group of drivers and guards led a long series of stoppages over pay . |
| 4 | The BBC found itself embroiled in a long series of disputes with the government , partly over its financing , partly over alleged anti-government reporting of such episodes as the Libyan bombing raids in 1986 ( covered by an able woman reporter , Kate Adie ) . |
| 5 | There had been several local , peripheral wars in which Britain had been engaged , notably that in Korea in 1950–3 , and a long series of conflicts to resolve colonial problems — Malaya in the late 1940s , Kenya and Cyprus in the 1950s , Suez ( most traumatically ) in 1956 , Aden and Southern Arabia in the sixties . |
| 6 | As Ken Plummer observes , whereas once it was the homosexual who was viewed as sick , now it might be the heterosexual who is charged with pathology : ‘ Whereas once the homosexual was identified by a long series of character traits , it is now possible to identify the traits of the homophobe : authoritarian , cognitively restricted , with gender anxieties , ( Plummer , ‘ Homosexual Categories ’ , 62 ) . |
| 7 | That meeting was only the beginning of a long series of meetings , retreats and counselling sessions which formed the stepping stones for a return to an authentic Christian experience . |
| 8 | Rose ( 1868 ) , do not obviously suggest serious historical study , but are rather part of a long series of more popular works on Mary , in which Jean Plaidy and Madeleine Bingham are among the most recent exponents ; and there is a certain charm about the publication , in 1793 , of a work by one J. F. Gaum , Marie Stuart und Marie Antoinette in der Underwelt . |
| 9 | It is more like a slow process of sifting , in which , by a long series of stages , and with many pauses , grains of one kind tend to come together in a heap ’ . |
| 10 | The English climate , having given its clients a long series of warm sunny days , had decided that this must be paid for . |
| 11 | Its fifteen subject committees usually met three times a year and contributed to the development of a long series of projects . |
| 12 | A Circular on this subject ( to appear in July 1965 as 10/65 , probably the best known of a long series of Ministry and Department of Education and Science circulars ) was already in draft , but Tony Crosland was anxious to improve it . |
| 13 | After a long series of preliminary earthquakes , a circular area of ground began to rise slowly and steadily in January 1944 ; by April the area affected was three kilometres across , and had gone up fifteen metres ; by June it had gone up fifty metres , and had taken the village of Fukaba and all its inhabitants with it . |
| 14 | Breeding success , judging from a long series of reports from Rye , has also changed little since 1947 ; the Rye figures show an average brood size ranging from 5.7 to 9.7 , and averaging 7.8 . |
| 15 | Thomas Huxley , the great biologist , whose household was dominated by a long series of cats over a period of forty years , described how one of them , a young tabby tom-cat , developed the alarming game of jumping on the shoulders of his dinner-guests and refusing to dismount until they fed him some titbit . |
| 16 | Not only did it fail to achieve representation ( not surprising at under 1 per cent of the vote ) but it has since fallen apart in a long series of internecine conflicts ( which are too complex to describe here ) . |
| 17 | Jones and Brewer have had a long series of injuries , but both are near enough to fitness and form . |
| 18 | A spokesman for the Bristol-based Chelsea Building Society said : ‘ The timing is not ideal but it is at the end of a long series of events . ’ |
| 19 | There was a long series of public meetings in 1980 and one of these was set up as a sort of week-end rally to which the anti-nuclear people were invited from all over Ireland , and at a big indoor public meeting during that weekend where you would normally have expected about 400 people to turn up , only about two locals turned up and the rest were all outsiders . |
| 20 | It was a natural response to the advent of nuclear weapons to concentrate on means of limiting or even abolishing them ; and this response has led to a long series of arms control and disarmament negotiations at Geneva and elsewhere . |
| 21 | Instead , he argues , one must recognize ‘ a long series of endeavours to resolve persistent questions concerning the duties of the individual , the family and the community in provision for the less fortunate ’ , of which the twentieth-century saga of state pensions is but one chapter . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | One of the first of a long series of attempts to reconstruct the facts behind the records was undertaken by Hermann Samuel Reimarus ( 1694 — 1768 ) in his Apology for the Reasonable Worshippers of God . |
| 24 | These fundamental axioms were refined , clarified and applied through a long series of debates and conflicts with the Liberal Theology in which he had been trained , and which he had earlier enthusiastically followed , with the claims of the Führer to be the chosen instrument of divine providence , and with colleagues , notably Emil Brunner ( 1889–1966 ) , Rudolf Bultmann ( 1884–1976 ) and Friedrich Gogarten ( 1887 — 1967 ) , whose approaches , though having some affinities with his own , he felt in the end to be in varying degrees unsatisfactory . |
| 25 | If such a team is used the required man-hours can be optimised by using the Delphi method rather than a long series of group meetings . |
| 26 | Lining the walls of the display hall are a long series of photographs and displays which trace not just the history of Yakovlev but the whole history of Soviet aviation , both civil and military , from the very earliest days right up to date and covering significant events through the years . |
| 27 | Long experience suggests that magnetic disks have seen off a long series of challenges over the past 15 years — but a review of the survival and thriving of the technology gives a very partial and inadequate view . |
| 28 | The 1989 glitch occurred at 09:36UT on 29 August during a long series of 610-MHz radio observations at Jodrell Bank . |
| 29 | Although the most comprehensive , this was only the latest in a long series of hard-hitting reports on Indian prisons , most of which echoed familiar themes . |
| 30 | For to believe in abstract principles of justice was to face a long series of disillusionments in everyday life , as the Goliardic poems , written by scholars trained in the new learning , amply demonstrated : |