Example sentences of "a variety [prep] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like birds , fish produce a variety of calls to attract a mate . |
| 2 | The children then have to evaluate the information they have , and they should be able to use a variety of criteria to judge the truth , relevance and status of the information they find . |
| 3 | The case law subsequent to Ridge v. Baldwin has used a variety of criteria to determine whether natural justice should be applied . |
| 4 | Essentially , what the communications course does is to bring to the fore issues which had hitherto been considered marginal ; it brings the perspectives of a variety of disciplines to bear on one subject . |
| 5 | It created a variety of services to support the basic structure of primary and secondary education , e.g. transport , free milk , medical and dental treatment . |
| 6 | The government has resorted to a variety of expedients to deal with teacher shortages . |
| 7 | It seems that the teacher can not do much more than demonstrate applied knowledge and nursing skills , applied personal resources , and the skills required in modifying and adapting a variety of procedures to meet particular contingencies . |
| 8 | Based on it management then devises a variety of systems to ensure that , from the employee 's standpoint , the top brass ‘ puts its money where its mouth is . ’ |
| 9 | He was anxious about travelling , and worried that he might miss his train or enter by accident the wrong one : this was a fear that seems to have lingered since his youth when , as he said , " I found a variety of calamities to worry about . |
| 10 | There are a variety of exercises to check understanding at the back of each book and all the readers contain a picture dictionary , illustrating the words that appear in the stories . |
| 11 | If , however , the Chancellor was hoping for a variety of opinions to give him maximum freedom of manoeuvre in next month 's Budget , he will be only too happy with the report . |
| 12 | The early fakers of marble statuary used a variety of treatments to tone down the too obvious freshly carved surfaces , ranging from cold tea to the more sophisticated repeated acid bath treatments used by more recent fakers . |
| 13 | As a sentencing judge you are always looking for options erm a variety of options to impose so that each individual sentence that you impose on a defendant is tailored to either the rehabilitation or the punishment ends of sentencing . |
| 14 | They can reduce these factors to mathematical terms and experiment with them by introducing a variety of inputs to assess what effects they have . |
| 15 | With proposals for a fifth terrestrial channel currently being studied and a variety of plans to introduce pay-TV under consideration , the Government is clearly embarking on a policy of opening up the airwaves . |
| 16 | Managements took steps in a variety of forms to improve communications with employees . |
| 17 | Guo and Bradshaw carried out analyses of the nutrient ( N , P and K ) and energy flow patterns within the village and have conducted a variety of experiments to see how these patterns can be modified to result in a greater retention of nutrients and a more efficient return of energy to the human population . |
| 18 | It is true that , for a variety of reasons to do with the structure of wage bargaining in Britain , Keynes did not consider it very likely that money wages would fall , even in the presence of substantial unemployment . |
| 19 | McLeish nodded , not entirely convinced , but unwilling for a variety of reasons to discourage Catherine . |
| 20 | Lunch was excellent with a variety of dishes to choose from . |
| 21 | If Mr Lamont was expecting them to unite behind a common policy he will be disappointed but if he wanted a variety of views to choose from he will be pleased by the range of forecasts and advice in their preliminary report . |
| 22 | If Mr Lamont was expecting them to unite behind a policy he will be disappointed but if he wanted a variety of views to choose from he will be pleased by the range of forecasts and advice in their preliminary report . |
| 23 | A variety of reforms to build greater flexibility into the system are feasible , but they involve a balance of advantages and disadvantages . |
| 24 | Richard Durrant is a local classical guitar player , he will be using a variety of instruments to play a varied programme of contemporary and other music . |
| 25 | The immense significance of the bureaucracy , politically , economically and socially , in the political systems of countries in the Third World has produced a variety of attempts to explain this phenomenon , including a theory of the post-colonial state which relates the pivotal position of the bureaucracy to the unique role of the state in conditions of underdevelopment ( Hirschmann 1981 ) . |
| 26 | I then turn to draw on a variety of sources to investigate Berlin modernism in greater detail and depth . |
| 27 | Significant also , in the last year or two , has been a variety of moves to evaluate the impact of records of achievement . |
| 28 | Most muscle rubs use a variety of chemicals to produce a superficial heat . |
| 29 | What they each gained separately was a greater individual confidence and capacity for self-determination as women , and each of them fed that confidence back into a variety of struggles to change the position of women , and in the case of the majority of women in that particular group , to a struggle for some kind of socialism . |
| 30 | Kevin McCloud , whose background is in history of art and theatrical set designing , presents 40 individual roomsets in a variety of styles to copy or adapt to your own home . |