Example sentences of "wide [noun sg] of tasks " in BNC.
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| 1 | But few dogs make better companions than a well trained Shepherd , and they have been used for a wide variety of tasks , aside from their traditional role of protecting flocks of sheep . |
| 2 | The gang tackled a wide variety of tasks including complete replacement of 80 yards of track west of Quarry Siding . |
| 3 | The four skills of reading , writing , listening and speaking are well-practised in a wide variety of tasks , including scanning , summarizing , categorizing , building definitions , and comprehension . |
| 4 | We have limited the field to stored-program computers , and we further limit the field to general-purpose computers ; that is , to computers with an instruction set rich enough to perform a wide variety of tasks . |
| 5 | A substantial number of women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were homeworkers engaged in a wide variety of tasks , including the making of matchboxes , shirts , artificial flowers , umbrellas , brushes , carding buttons , furpulling , bending safety pins and covering tennis balls . |
| 6 | This involves the creation of small teams who need to be able to turn their hands to a wide variety of tasks . |
| 7 | There is an even cheaper method of starting to use computers for a wide variety of tasks . |
| 8 | Most operators have therefore reduced their labour force to a core of general port operatives who are required to perform a wide variety of tasks , supplemented as and when needed by a periphery of temporary , casual or contract labour . |
| 9 | This involved a very wide range of tasks associated with identifying individual needs , matching people to appropriate service developments , supporting volunteers and helping prepare people and their carers to make use of services ( for example , helping people to develop group living skills in a group home , helping parents plan to ‘ let go ’ and supporting residents in their new homes ) . |
| 10 | If it is suggested that you are not sufficiently flexible to adapt to the reshaped structure that is envisaged , you may be able to challenge that view if your past record shows a steady upward progression and if you have carried out a wide range of tasks without serious mishaps . |
| 11 | These skills can be applied to a fairly wide range of tasks which can be tackled by the lowest achievers . |
| 12 | It is to be hoped that future research into the nature of language processing will continue to relate findings about the performance of both skilled and impaired language users on the wide range of tasks which go together to make up out ability to acquire and use language — for it is only by attempting to do so that it will ultimately be possible for psychologists to develop a comprehensive model of language processing . |
| 13 | This level of provision represents a very substantial commitment of resources to the enterprise bodies and it should be sufficient to enable them to carry through the wide range of tasks expected of them and to build on their excellent first year of operation . |
| 14 | Within the broad categories of usage above , the applications broke down into a wide range of tasks . |
| 15 | As training programmes are made available , and on-the-job experience builds up , it is anticipated that both maintenance and operations staff will take on a wider range of tasks . |
| 16 | Faster production lines and increased labour ‘ flexibility ’ ( so that workers carry out a wider range of tasks ) raise productivity on the whole range of plant . |
| 17 | The wide diversity of tasks carried out by the Departments made it inappropriate to carry out a detailed examination of each function . |
| 18 | The practice of PR covers such a wide diversity of tasks that flexibility is very important . |