Example sentences of "range of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Santa Cruz Operation was taking a bullish attitude towards the launch of Destiny last week , pointing out that it was a technology , not a product announcement , and saying that it would be a long time before the package would support the large range of peripherals in the SCO catalogue : SCO also claimed to offer pretty much everything offered by Destiny , including DOS/Windows emulation and Motif — which SCO ships , not just supports — claiming its distribution network was mature and widespread , and said it was more interested in the networked and multi-user system market than the PC and Mac replacement that USL is interested in . |
| 2 | Bernard ingeniously proposed a range of dresses in ‘ double cotton ’ , or a double layer of fabric . |
| 3 | An amusement area provides a wide range of entertainment including a giant astroglide , dodgems , crazy golf and many children 's and adult 's rides . |
| 4 | Thatched cottages cluster round the harbour while at the other end of the wide sandy beach Somerwest World offers a complete range of entertainment to holidaymakers and day visitors . |
| 5 | This theory develops the convergence ( also noted by others , e.g. Sutton and Barto 1981 ; Gluck and Bower 1988 ) between standard associative models and connectionist systems of parallel distributed processing ( e.g. Rumelhart , Hinton , and McClelland 1986 ) and it is intended to apply to a range of phenomena in perceptual learning . |
| 6 | The adult worms are susceptible to a wide range of anthelmintics including piperazine , levamisole and the benzimidazoles . |
| 7 | Phoenix presently get their fleece from an Austrian producer and will soon launch a new range of garments for climbers and walkers , made up from Italian fleece . |
| 8 | Major mobile invertebrate predators are to be found in the phylum crustacea which includes crabs and shrimps and in the phylum mollusca which includes a wide range of predators from octopi and squid down to tiny nudibranchs . |
| 9 | First , the range of choice at local level seems , if anything , to have been reduced as a consequence of a series of tighter and tighter rules , first on levels of expenditure and then on activities on which it could be spent . |
| 10 | ( iv ) Individuals choose to belong to national groups ( even if the oppressing force reduces the range of choice to a very narrow one ) and do so as the selection of a strategy for action , not the passive recognition of some primordial ordering . |
| 11 | This , however , need not so much reflect a decline of the village as a social centre ( its past vitality has often been greatly exaggerated ) as the extension of a wider range of choice to those sections of the rural population whose ownership of a car or a motorcycle has granted them easier access to urban amenities . |
| 12 | Thus in Europe , automobiles have been subjected to a good deal of standardization in matters concerning safety and pollution , but that has not precluded the car industry from providing a vast range of choice in terms of styling and performance . |
| 13 | To some extent these changes may be consumer driven , reflecting consumer dissatisfaction with impersonal and bureaucratised welfare systems in contrast with the range of choice in private markets . |
| 14 | However , to benefit from the range of choice in the trade-off between risk and return that options offer , rather more is required of somebody who invests in options than is required of an investor in futures . |
| 15 | In Britain , unlike the United States , there are no residence requirements : hence , parties enjoy a wider range of choice in the selection of candidates . |
| 16 | Can schools offer such a wide range of choice in the curriculum ? erm Will we be able to maintain the erm the levels of staffing erm that 's been possible so far ? |
| 17 | So far as they were concerned traders and sailors who had been blown off course were pirates ; and in the range of activity between purely peaceful traders and pirates who were ready to attack ships of any nation there were some traders who were prepared to use force to make Spanish ports deal with them , and others who were willing to appear to use force in order to provide Spanish settlements with an excuse for trading . |
| 18 | But in that case the very idea of the postman 's work occurring in isolation is incoherent since , as a matter of logic , it can not be separated off from a whole range of activities beyond itself . |
| 19 | Sissons has packed an impressive range of activities into his 39 years — a post-university spell as a professional revolutionary , managing a newspaper edited by fellow cricket enthusiast Tariq Ali , and work for radical publishing houses in Britain and more recently Australia . |
| 20 | The Department has plans to promote a wide range of activities for the community as a whole and to work closely with other bodies in the field to ensure the fullest use of resources . |
| 21 | The Department intends to develop a wide range of activities for the community and to work closely with other bodies in the field to ensure the fullest use of resources . |
| 22 | World Aids Day will be marked on December 1 and a multi-disciplinary group is in the process of arranging a range of activities for the week November 30 to December 5 . |
| 23 | English Heritage , for instance , can offer a range of activities at different sites . |
| 24 | Only able to take part in a limited range of activities at home and particularly seriously , she is only able to hold a conversation by the laborious method of tapping out her comments on ticker tape through using her cannon communicator . |
| 25 | Returning now to the referral and investigation work undertaken by the team between October 1987 and March 1988 , Table 3 provides some detail about the range of activities on which the total time of 253 hours was spent and shows that the bulk of the activity time was spent in direct contact with children and/or their caregivers . |
| 26 | Once declared and approved , authorities were advised to concentrate a range of activities on the IIA , including planning , traffic management and land-assembly functions . |
| 27 | Support care involves detecting deviations from the normal ageing process and noting early signs of ill health , while rehabilitation care is designed to restore individuals who have been ill or disabled to as full a range of activities of daily living as possible . |
| 28 | These six activity books provide children who are beginning to learn English with a wide range of activities through which they can practise English grammar and vocabulary , and develop their reading and writing skills . |
| 29 | After that going for gold involves participating in a wide range of activities over a period of at least 18 months . |
| 30 | Although Johnnies , remains a big player in the property market and is involved in a wide range of activities including township , industrial , office and retail property developments , their business has expanded far beyond its original sphere of holding and administering property . |