Example sentences of "[prep] a variety of tasks " in BNC.

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1 The S3 graphics co-processor and its associated chipset is justly acknowledged to be more than useful for speeding up Windows graphics , offloading much of the graphics work from the CPU as it does , and the speed up with a variety of tasks under Windows and applications is very noticeable .
2 The skills required to carry out enterprise activity at Level Three are complex and require the student to deal with a variety of tasks which are running concurrently .
3 It is also possible to apply coaching skills in a variety of tasks , such as appraisal or job reviews , training , job interviews , target setting , handling meetings and so on .
4 Regular working parties travel to North Wales to help run the Railway , participating in a variety of tasks from dry-stone walling to operating the trains .
5 Pay-workers were occupied in a variety of tasks which included all the ore dressing , i.e. preparation of the ore until fit for market .
6 These employees are involved in a variety of tasks concerned with the manufacture and sale of writing instruments — together with a variety of administrative support functions .
7 The key role of PNP coordinator was applied to a variety of tasks , of which staff development , curriculum development and special needs were pre-eminent over the evaluation period as a whole .
8 When the performance of jungle-born and laboratory-reared monkeys was compared on a variety of tasks requiring a wide range of cognitive abilities , the wise monkeys were superior in every test .
9 In experiments using British schoolchildren of the same age as Barron 's , selected according to similar criteria for being classified as " good " or " poor " readers , we have found that on a variety of tasks the poorer readers do show an ability to use the phonological codes for printed words ( Briggs and Underwood , 1982 ; Underwood and Briggs , 1984 ) .
10 He underlines Nithard 's insistence on what nowadays might be called line-management : he reveals that a manager 's problem in the Carolingian palace was the maintenance of good order and morale among the often unruly yet indispensable " crowd " of young noblemen who were deployed on a variety of tasks and errands , especially of a military sort .
11 These were grouped according to theme and accompanied by a variety of tasks .
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