Example sentences of "of a variety of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I rambled aimlessly for about an hour , in and out of dirty narrow streets , their only saving grace being their brevity , in and out of a variety of shops , bought some oranges from the market stalls , the most interesting feature of the wretched place , then went in to see an ‘ explicit sex ’ film and was presented with a badly mutilated and heavily censored version of some third-rate continental film which I left within the first fifteen minutes . |
| 2 | Some vets also claim acupuncture has aided considerably in the treatment and control of a variety of other disorders , including false pregnancies , non-specific vomiting , ear diseases , nerve degeneration , kidney problems and auto-immune joint disease . |
| 3 | Perhaps , for them , the introduction of a variety of deliberately partisan television channels might be a more attractive if less than perfect solution . |
| 4 | This is so to the extent that the claim for a structurally distinct postmodernist mode of signification breaks down in the face of a variety of historical avant-garde practices ranging across Europe from London to Vienna and Moscow in the hands of such as Eliot , Joyce , the Cubists , Surrealists and others ( including , somewhat surprisingly , Kokoschka ) . |
| 5 | This growth in membership , which had been fairly rapid since about 1906 , was the result of a variety of factors , particularly the improved economic conditions , the high demand for labour and the high wages which were paid in war time . |
| 6 | This should promote the co-ordinated and ‘ consumer-led ’ development of a variety of provision in every area , especially since financial incentives favour projects which show evidence of user participation at the planning stage . |
| 7 | The idea of an ‘ internal world ’ is not however new in ethology ; it was indeed a prime preoccupation of one of its key founding fathers , Jacob von Uexküll , who through studies of the perceptual apparatus of a variety of species deduced the nature of the experiential worlds to which they gave rise . |
| 8 | It is not until the Carboniferous that we start to find evidence of a variety of forms including the putative ancestors of some of the living dominant groups . |
| 9 | In the evenings , you can take your pick of a variety of bars and restaurants in Costa Teguise . |
| 10 | In their quest for meaning , children need to be helped to become confident and resourceful in the use of a variety of reading cues . |
| 11 | 16.33 Pupils should be taught how to handle , and be given experience in using , information and media texts of a variety of kinds . |
| 12 | Okahata and his colleagues coated their balance with an artificial lipid bilayer , enclosed the balance in a sealed chamber and injected vapours of a variety of odorous substances , including commercial perfumes . |
| 13 | We have recently begun to license overseas distributors of our materials to make local duplications of a variety of ELT videos , including A Weekend Away , A Week by the Sea and Mystery Tour . |
| 14 | Dick had persuaded himself ( and so had I ) that a good solution would be a middle school for 9–13-year-olds , and an informed choice of a variety of upper schools thereafter : this would open up a rigid system and preserve the best in the grammar-school tradition , as a counterpoise to the strengths of the Public Schools . |
| 15 | The failure of the strikers to achieve their aims was the result of a variety of factors , but to the fore amongst these was the way in which the police and the law were employed against them . |
| 16 | Or is development just the accretion of a variety of different mechanisms ? |
| 17 | Next I would lay out pictures of a variety of TV people and characters , ranging from presenters like Cilla Black or Philip Schofield , through soap characters such as Bobby from Home and Away or Todd from Neighbours , to puppets such as Edd the Duck , who appears alongside the presenter in children 's BBC television . |
| 18 | France has an array of measures , some EEC funded , some not , to assist the establishment and running of a variety of cooperative agricultural ventures . |
| 19 | In certain areas , particularly on islands and in places where there are species which are not at all adapted to cope with cats as predators ( and that includes the whole of Australia ) , there have been dramatic adverse effects on populations of a variety of species of small animals because cats are allowed to roam around . |
| 20 | This permits the introduction of a variety of characters , on the road and in London , and although the central figure is pathetic , most of those surrounding her are grotesque or comic , the most appealing of the latter being the lively scapegrace , Dick Swiveller . |
| 21 | As one of a variety of possible techniques to develop self-confidence , it is sometimes suggested that ‘ assertiveness training ’ is helpful , the idea being that stress is reduced if one knows , in appropriate circumstances , how to be assertive rather than aggressive . |
| 22 | However , tests on the effects of a variety of conservation measures , including the incorporation of grass strips in cultivated maize fields and mulching with leaf litter from undisturbed forest , showed that the latter was particularly effective and reduced erosion by more than 90 per cent while , due to the nutrient input , productivity was increased by c. 30 per cent . |
| 23 | A major feature of these applications is the extent to which they involve overlays of a variety of information drawn from different sources on a topographic map base . |
| 24 | If Scouting was about imperialism and militarism , it was also about ‘ citizenship ’ — that repository of a variety of moral precepts . |
| 25 | Enjoy the lively atmosphere of a variety of craft fares and street entertainment which will be held throughout the season . |
| 26 | In work on anaphor resolution , the democratic approach seems to have originated with the non-computational work of Kantor ( 1977 ) , who defined ‘ concept activatedness ’ as the net effect of a variety of different factors . |
| 27 | Over the next 2 weeks she telephoned the therapist two or three times a week complaining of a variety of physical symptoms and demanding to be seen straight away . |
| 28 | The Health , Welfare , and Advice Centre was established to co-ordinate the work of a variety of voluntary agencies and statutory social services in an area characterized by severe social problems and high rates of attempted suicide . |
| 29 | It is not surprising , therefore , that much of the clinical teacher 's time is spent in teaching combinations of a variety of skills . |
| 30 | Programmed learning can be carried out by the user of a variety of media — books , automatic projection of slides , or by means of a computer-aided instruction ( CAI ) . |