Example sentences of "[det] [noun] was [verb] [prep] various " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a subsidy assessment of 1554 they estimated their annual income at over £500 : of this some £360 was expended on various charities ( including the salaries of " divers schoolmasters " ) . |
| 2 | This date was adopted by various countries as marking the beginning of the year . |
| 3 | No such correlation was seen with various parameters of lipid metabolism ( Dettori et al , 1983 ) . |
| 4 | ( 1973 ) , however , the success of these efforts was undermined by various factors including the inadequate scale of the original overspill programme , the influx of immigrants from the New Commonwealth and Pakistan , the 1960s baby boom , and a reluctance among both Tory-controlled shires and Labour-held city authorities to countenance the transfer of large numbers of low-income people from town to country . |
| 5 | The need for better , or more planning was mentioned in various ways , by over a quarter of the sample . |