Example sentences of "series [prep] [noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our campaign soon led us to investigate the finances of the National Land Fund , which over the previous twenty years had been used to acquire a whole series of country houses for the nation . |
| 2 | ‘ I narrated a series of school concerts at The Philharmonic and I 'm back in live theatre again . ’ |
| 3 | The insistence by scientists that the World is merely a series of chance collisions of indifferent forces of nature is to him a dangerous road , since they believe they can discover and harness those indifferent forces through determining Nature 's ‘ laws ’ . |
| 4 | FATIMA MANSIONS frontman CATHAL COUGHLAN and comedian SEAN HUGHES are joining forces to record a series of cover versions for a forthcoming album . |
| 5 | The event was the latest in a series of breakfast meetings of the newly formed Mid Wales Manufacturing Group . |
| 6 | The first stage of the project involves a series of exchange visits between the Scottish consortium and their project partners from Italy , France and Germany . |
| 7 | The inquiries will focus on a suspicious series of share transactions by Derbyshire County Council prior to the bitterly contested takeover by the Miss World group of Piccadilly Radio in Manchester earlier this year … |
| 8 | Gary Gavin , who 's twenty-four , has been given three life sentences for a series of sex assaults on women , girls and young boys . |
| 9 | A HARLEY Street doctor jailed for seven years for a series of sex attacks on women visiting his surgery may have had 100 victims . |
| 10 | BUS stop rapist Oscar Messam — who staged a series of sex attacks on young women then tried to date his victims — was jailed for a total of 12 years today . |
| 11 | As part of the company policy to inform all employees of the results , Ralph Ellis , Chief Executive , held a series of Communication Meetings during August . |
| 12 | Also , there is a series of specialist leaflets on management , publishing , recording contracts , work abroad , and agents . |
| 13 | The conference will offer a series of specialist tutorials in addition to speakers from the logic programming community . |
| 14 | In Paraguay , it organised a theatre festival and a series of theatre workshops with the support of WACC . |
| 15 | It also ran a series of weekend schools for the women 's groups , mostly taught by College staff , offering the women the opportunity to situate their own struggles in a wider historical , political and economic context , and develop a more strategic purpose for their actions as well as identify continuing needs for further educational work . |
| 16 | He has been running a series of weekend courses in dry-stone-wall building which have attracted people from all walks of life , including a surgeon , doctors , millionaire businessmen and nurses . |
| 17 | The initiative taken by the B.B.C. and the National Extension College in Cambridge , which resulted in a series of T.V. programmes for minorities called The Language of Business and the publication of several books also confirm the need for recognising the importance of the community languages in businesses . |
| 18 | These include flower pieces by Monnoyer and the series of grisaille modelli for Van Dyck 's Iconography , the status of which is championed by Michael Jaffe . |
| 19 | A MUSICIAN who wrote a unique series of music books for physically disabled people has found himself in their shoes after suffering a stroke . |
| 20 | Not only did Robert Recorde write the first series of mathematics texts in English : he expressed ( in his Ground of Artes of 1543 ) a very modern viewpoint . |
| 21 | If this topic was to be systematically explored I needed to build up a series of case studies of the appointment procedures associated with women teachers . |
| 22 | The principal method of investigation is a series of case studies of organisations who have made or who are considering making changes in their time and attendance policies . |
| 23 | It will comprise a First Stage neighbourhood ethnographic survey and a Second Stage series of case studies of households selected from within each neighbourhood . |
| 24 | Parry says that he has become more pessimistic since about the impact of global warming since he prepared a series of case studies for the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis ( IIASA ) which were published in 1990 . |
| 25 | Based on a series of case studies in seven counties , it confirms that the most significant change in the arable landscape has been the loss of hedgerows and trees , but the authors argue that the present landscape is not always inferior to that of the past . |
| 26 | Thus the signified tree is not the expression or reflection or product of the series of vegetable objects to which it is conventionally attached in English usage . |
| 27 | The ‘ Cerene ’ glaze has enabled Inax to commercialise a new series of tile glazes with a high degree of surface perfection and gloss . |
| 28 | FOUR people accused of a series of deception offences at post offices were committed for trial by Whitby magistrates yesterday . |
| 29 | Canadian radio listeners may remember a weekly hour-length feature on the national network called ‘ Night Shift ’ , which was a series of actuality broadcasts from a plant , factory , organization or other active centre of interest . |
| 30 | Data General Corp is expected to reveal the addition of a standalone 20Gb tape array system to its Clariion series of storage subsystems on March 17th ( UX No 403 ) . |