Example sentences of "series of [noun pl] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To implement a network , it is necessary to have a series of pointers at each record occurrence . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Bickford was determined to make a safer type of fuse , and although he was no scientist he carried out a series of experiments with many different combinations of materials until , having nearly despaired of ever achieving his goal , he visited a friend in his rope walk and suddenly hit on the idea of spinning a light rope or cord round a tightly packed central core of gunpowder . |
| 4 | This subject has already explored in a series of articles for this magazine throughout 1991 . |
| 5 | There is a travesty on the Edna Jacques story in a mid-40s publication entitled ‘ Sara Binks the Sweet Song-bird of Southern Saskatchewan ’ which first appeared as a series of articles in several prairie newspapers . |
| 6 | BOSS have set up the ME-6 to work in two different ways : it can be left to recall programmed patches or , by using the manual programming button , be set to operate like a series of pedals with each footswitch activating an effect in real time . |
| 7 | He parted her knees , bending his dark head to kiss both in turn , sliding his mouth in a series of kisses along each smooth inner thigh until Leonora began to plead hoarsely . |
| 8 | Consequently , in contrast to the single set of accounts for a profit-oriented organization , the non-profit organization needs a series of accounts for each service . |
| 9 | Absolute precision is impossible : there are gaps in the series of accounts from some ports , either because the records have been lost or because the customs had been farmed to the collector for a fixed sum , and there are also some irregularities in the accounting periods , although the customs year normally ran from Michaelmas to Michaelmas . |
| 10 | A series of studies of such businessmen have been conducted by Nigerian scholars , and these are particularly significant given the fact that Nigeria accounts for one third of ‘ value added ’ in manufacturing in sub-Saharan Africa as a whole ( excluding South Africa ) . |
| 11 | She married John Hymes , also of Chester , and then lived on a series of farms in this area and in Kent and Lincolnshire . |
| 12 | ‘ One canon ’ , he wrote , ‘ reduced to writing by God himself , two testaments , three creeds , four general councils , five centuries and the series of fathers in that period and two after , determine the boundaries of our faith . ’ |
| 13 | The approaches made in 1759 by the Danish government to the United Provinces for the creation of a maritime union to defend neutral rights were only one of a series of proposals for some anti-British combination of this kind which culminated in the Armed Neutrality of 1780 . |
| 14 | Malta endorsed a series of proposals in this field in the 1980s , which originated in the Soviet Union . |
| 15 | I am making a series of visits to all parts of the country and very much hope to include Derbyshire . |
| 16 | I am making a series of visits to all parts of the country and hope to include Liverpool in them . |
| 17 | I am making a series of visits to all parts of the country and very much hope to visit the Edinburgh area again before too long . |
| 18 | I am making a series of visits to all parts of the country , and very much hope to include Essex among them . |
| 19 | I am making plans for a series of visits to all parts of the country and hope to return to the north-east in the midst of those plans . |
| 20 | The management of the contract will be examined longitudinally by a series of visits to both firms , interviews with technical experts , senior management and a sample of users of the technology . |
| 21 | The Board 's role had been afforced through its assumption of providing powers under the Bedfordshire scheme and through its close co-operative relationships with the Rural Community Council ( RCC ) in Cambridgeshire and for which it provided a series of courses in that county . |
| 22 | The group has issued a series of writs against several former ISC employees , including Mr James Guerin , the head of the company at the time of the merger with Ferranti . |
| 23 | In fact a series of solutions of this type can be used having different values of c and d . |
| 24 | In 1988 and 1989 , a series of measures with many of the characteristics of a ‘ stabilization ’ package forced more drastic cuts in government spending . |
| 25 | Later old age does involve a series of losses for many people which have to be surmounted , whether it is loss of physical activity or sight , hearing , loss of house or home , or the death of those close in affection . |
| 26 | This will be achieved through a number of exchange visits and a series of workshops in each country . |
| 27 | While large enough , the new route , called Cobble Inlet , was still only 14–18 inches high , and comprised an intimidating series of squeezes for some 90 metres . |
| 28 | Then the knot is made even more secure by threading the end between the two twigs and tying a series of half-hitches on each . |
| 29 | Against this background there emerged in the 1620s a new series of troubles in this ‘ quiet commonwealth ’ , the religious and social disagreements which culminated in the Civil Wars of the 1640s . |
| 30 | First there is a whole series of verses with this as their topic ( e.g. 25:8 , 22 , 29:42ff. ; 40:34–38 ) . |