Example sentences of "series of [noun] [prep] the " 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 | He runs a series of adverts in the Sunday Sport offering pairs of ‘ soiled librarian 's knickers ’ for a tenner . |
| 3 | I am sure it will be a highlight in their series of matches in the North of England . ’ |
| 4 | 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 : |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In 1983 , however , the MCC was able to make the following confident series of resolutions to the CNAA . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Detectives in Hartlepool are investigating a series of burglaries in the Welldeck Road area in which electrical equipment and jewellery was stolen . |
| 10 | The National Assembly passed on March 16 a series of revisions to the Temporary Provisions , which for 40 years had superseded the Constitution , enhanced presidential power and frozen in office the mainland-elected members of the various deliberative assemblies , pending hypothetical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 . |
| 11 | A series of constitutions in the Code disposes of all formality in the law of succession . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This pays for a series of searches by the Patent Office to make sure your claim is original , and a similar idea has not been lodged before . |
| 15 | By 1292 the comté had been sequestrated by philip , and a series of hearings in the paris parlement began . |
| 16 | Their most useful contribution has been a fresh appraisal of his later work created at Moret-sur-Loing where his art culminated in the marvellous series of depictions of the south-west facade of the town 's church ( 1893–1894 ) . |
| 17 | In Sweden , again , there was a series of efforts during the eighteenth century to regulate more rationally the salaries paid to different ranks of diplomat , though there as elsewhere it was easier to do this than to pay the salaries regularly . |
| 18 | Forty provides abundant examples of the complex manner in which commerce developed new goods around perceived divisions in the target population and a series of beliefs about the nature of hygiene , domesticity , science and modernity which become enshrined in and reproduced through the appearance of everyday objects , although again the transformation of goods in consumption is largely ignored . |
| 19 | A series of improvements at the site in Barcelona have resulted in the annual rate of three day lost time accidents being reduced by a third . |
| 20 | The weir is the latest in a series of improvements on the Wye which have included the creation of reed beds , tree planting and habitat improvements to protect the native crawfish . |
| 21 | Agassi it was who strung together a great series of returns to the big serving Ivanisovic . |
| 22 | The MRT are hoping to create a series of excursions during the year which will conclude with two further charter trains to London for Christmas 1993 . |
| 23 | Under a complicated series of exemptions from the 30-year-old American embargo , exiles can send monthly packages of medicine and clothing , up to a value of $100 , to relatives there . |
| 24 | It can therefore be said that in a long series of estimates under the same conditions the population mean would lie within one standard error of the mean 68 per cent of the time , or within two standard errors 95·4 per cent of the time . |
| 25 | It can therefore be said that in a long series of estimates under the same conditions the population mean would lie within one standard error of the mean 68 per cent of the time , or within two standard errors 95.4 per cent of the time . |
| 26 | Contributing to the progress was a series of initiatives including the QuIC quality improvement campaign , obtaining the BS5750 quality standard and the ‘ Courtaulds Way ’ continuous improvement programme ( CIP ) . |
| 27 | This is the latest in a series of papers on the reaction of children and adolescents to the stress of major disasters ( see Abstracts , BJSW , 19912,21,419–25 ) . |
| 28 | The originator of this research was the maverick James McConnell , at Ann Arbor , Michigan , who in a series of papers during the 1960s , first in conventional scientific journals and then in his own publication , the exotically named Worm-Runners Digest , reported experiments in which flatworms , trained by pairing light with electric shock , were chopped up and other , ‘ naïve ’ ( that is , untrained ) worms allowed to cannibalize them . |
| 29 | Starting in the 1920s she became increasingly interested in floral morphology ; in a long series of papers in the Annals of Botany and the New Phytologist she recorded her observations on vascular and carpelary structure in a wide range of flowers . |
| 30 | The results of his experiments were published in a series of papers in the Annalen over the years 1860–6 , entitled ‘ On a New Class of Organic Compounds in which Hydrogen is Replaced by Nitrogen ’ . |