Example sentences of "a series of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | At this point , it would have been pleasant to record a series of strategies by which they had been facilitated . |
| 10 | THE 120-clause Environmental Protection Bill , which was published yesterday , sets out a series of reforms to key areas of pollution control . |
| 11 | The third part of Mrs Thatcher 's strategy of creating an enterprise culture , which massively rewards those at the top while penalizing those at the bottom of the income pile , has been the launching of a series of reforms of the welfare state . |
| 12 | For those who argue that the 1925 legislation represents a series of reforms in order to facilitate conveyancing the foundation of the legislation lies in s. 1 , Law of Property Act , where Parliament reduced the number of estates and interests capable of existing at law : |
| 13 | It is useful to conceptualize referral as a process depending upon a series of linkages between different organizations and individuals who bring cases to public attention ( Gough et al . , |
| 14 | Pinay was at first reluctant to pursue the project , which in all probability would have died an administrative death , had de Gaulle not let off a series of explosions of impatience with the footdragging of the Finance Ministry . |
| 15 | Over 100 people were estimated to have been killed , and about 7,000 made homeless , by a series of explosions at an ammunition dump in the southern Addis Ababa suburb of Bekulo Bet on June 4 . |
| 16 | Four firemen were killed and three seriously injured by a series of explosions at a Russian chemical plant in the Urals . |
| 17 | A series of explosions on Dec. 19 , 1989 , on board an Iranian supertanker , the Kharg-5 , carrying 285,000 tonnes of crude oil , had caused 70,000 tonnes of its load to be discharged into the sea some 500 km north of the ( Spanish ) Canary Islands . |
| 18 | A series of judgments from the European Court indicates that until Community rules on conduct of business are introduced , the national rules of the host state will continue to regulate that matter . |
| 19 | The breaching of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 opened the doors to a series of revolutions in Central and East European countries which , from November 1989 to January 1990 , saw the toppling of Communist dictatorships , and their gradual replacement by governments relying in most cases on popular support given at free elections . |
| 20 | Please turn to page 366 of the Old Testament section of the Bibles ; today we have the second of a series of sermons about the life of Elisha . |
| 21 | Over the past few months , we have been following a series of sermons on the last few chapters of Paul 's letter to the church in Rome . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Naville also identified a series of problems with work with automated technology which he characterises as arising from a marked increase in mobility . |
| 24 | Again , Fry 's study of difficulties confronted by disabled people in voting in the 1987 general election ( Fry , 1987 ) indicates a series of problems in the exercise of democratic rights which are to large degree sui generis , and can only be understood through specific knowledge of disability . |
| 25 | It will make recommendations on whether the National Grid Company should be allowed to build a series of pylons from Lackenby on Teesside to Shipton , near York . |
| 26 | Modern law , Lowi has observed , ‘ has become a series of instructions to administrators rather than a series of commands to citizens ’ ( 1979:106 , italics omitted ) . |
| 27 | A program ( issue 44 ) is a file containing a series of instructions for the computer which cause it to do a particular job ( such as behave like a word processor or a flight simulator ) . |
| 28 | repetition of a closed loop containing a series of instructions for a fixed number of values in an arithmetic sequence |
| 29 | The government gave a series of reasons for its decision , some of them more plausible than others ; but the main aim seemed to be to acquire cash or foreign credit for the rehabilitation of its industries . |
| 30 | ‘ The result , ’ Lehmann has written , ‘ surprised my expectations : a series of tail-pieces in which classical motifs were married to John 's romantic lyrical fantasy . ’ |