Example sentences of "a range [prep] [noun pl] of " in BNC.

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1 Since the beginning of the nineteenth century there had been voiced a range of analyses of , and solutions to , poverty .
2 The distinction depends on a range of factors of varying importance and weight depending on the circumstances ; but generally what must be in contemplation is that there will be " an inquiry in the nature of a judicial inquiry " ( quoted from Lord Esher MR in Re Carus-Wilson and Greene ( 1886 ) 18 QBD 7 , at 9 ) .
3 In suggesting programmes according to level we have taken account of a range of dimensions of difficulty .
4 Taking these factors into account , it is possible to list a range of forms of procedure which are , or have in the past been , found in national legislation and in practice under international conventions .
5 A range of souvenirs of your visit to the World Famous City Varieties Music Hall is available from the theatre .
6 true in the actual world iff true throughout a range of groups of worlds reasonably close to the actual world .
7 The wealth and power of the Victorian cities and the civic pride expressed in their impressive town halls , first enabled them to pioneer public services ; later it permitted them to build up teams of technical staff and take on a range of tasks of increasing complexity and sensitivity .
8 The Garden has particular strengths in a range of studies of cryptogamic plants ; these strengths rarely being brought together in other institutions .
9 Far to the east , on the very borders of Europe and Asia between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea , a range of mountains of great beauty and ultra-alpine dimensions holds a central knot of peaks 1,000 metres higher than almost anything in the Alps .
10 As a first stage in this process , she catalogues a range of critiques of positivist approaches to knowledge and suggests alternatives .
11 It is understood that the target groups for an extension of compulsion could be 18-24- year-olds and single people who would have benefits withdrawn if they refused a range of options of schemes offered to those out of work .
12 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 .
13 According to samples taken by both Greenpeace and the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) , the plant is also discharging a range of metals of which authorised levels of zinc , chromium , copper and nickel are all being exceeded .
14 Lack of scattering does not , however , explain the existence of plateaux extending over a range of values of the gate voltage .
15 relative increase in brain size : encephalization quotient 48.8% compared with a range of values of 22 to 41% for eleven species of monkey ;
16 Animals have a range of methods of trying to cope and there are various consequences of failure to cope .
17 When survey data are coded and punched for analysis by computer it is all too easy to ask the computer to carry out a range of cross-tabulations of one factor by another .
18 They include businessmen who have never before committed any substantial crime ; people who make their living principally from fraud ; and other professional criminals who engage in a range of crimes of which long-firm fraud is one .
19 Then there is a range of measurements of the functioning of the physiological systems of the animal ; we can make measurements which tell us how hard a time the animal is having trying to cope with the conditions which are imposed upon it .
20 Half the programme will concentrate on modern teaching methods , but the other half aims to give participants opportunities to observe a range of aspects of British life .
21 Banks therefore hold a range of assets of varying degrees of profitability and liquidity .
22 Although ideally basic competence in moving about independently should be developing by the time the pupil first comes to school , there is likely to be among visually handicapped children a range of levels of skill in independent mobility and in competence in using the environment fully and safely .
23 There is plenty of ordinary play material available commercially that is perfectly suitable for use in shared play by children with a range of levels of vision ; simple shapes , bright colours , strong construction and surfaces that are not too shiny are particularly suitable .
24 In directing subject working groups and TGAT , the Secretary of State at the time , Kenneth Baker , demanded advice on ‘ the measurement and recording at a range of levels of positive achievement in reasonably discrete elements ’ ( DES 1988a : Appendix B ) .
25 The argument put forward above implies employment in a range of sizes of firm .
26 Produce a range of types of non-chronological writing .
27 There is clearly a need for a range of types of graphic devices to support learning , and information and educational materials for older children make full use of such things as photographs of various kinds , maps and charts , graphs , diagrams and technical drawings , flow charts , and other visual means of presenting information , evidence , or data .
28 With more money available to satisfy scientific curiosity , with the development of a range of types of boring equipment and with the adaptation of seismic work , the solid profiles beneath alluvium can more often be determined .
29 Besides the varying effects caused by such economic factors as supply and demand , the basic soil conditions of particular areas provided more fundamental reasons for a range of types of farming .
30 Similarly , a projected exhibition of contemporary African art to be mounted in conjunction with Susan Vogel of the Africa Center in New York , will help to refocus art historical research , and allow a range of points of view to be promoted .
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