Example sentences of "of [art] variety of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Another problem is the sheer eclecticism of progressive rock , both in terms of the variety of sources on which it drew and the range of styles contained within the genre .
2 Candidates should be made aware of the variety of forms of writing used in business life , so that they will be able to select most appropriate form — notes , summaries , memoranda , telex , quantification displays , etc — according to circumstances .
3 It has been clear for some time that there are a number of significant practical problems with the interpretation of SSAP 6 , Extraordinary Items and Prior Year Adjustments , particularly in respect of the variety of treatments of apparently similar events as sometimes ordinary and sometimes extraordinary items in the p&l account .
4 Because of the variety of possibilities at each move , the ability to predict who will win from a given move becomes less and less reliable , the longer the game has to run after that move .
5 The view of the House of Lords in Davies v Sumner [ 1984 ] 1 WLR 1301 failed to take sufficient account of the variety of situations in which the phrase " dealing in the course of a business " appear .
6 These are scattered throughout the country and include most of the variety of habitats in Japan .
7 I hope I have demonstrated some of the variety of ways in which Credits can be used and as I write perhaps some genius is thinking up yet another variation to deal with a particular problem .
8 After describing the first three , involving speech , reading and writing , the fourth aim was described as being : ‘ to teach pupils about language , so that they achieve a working knowledge of its structure and of the variety of ways in which meaning is made , so that they have a vocabulary for discussing it , so that they can use it with greater awareness , and because it is interesting . ’
9 These examples show something of the variety of ways in which social collectivities can be formed , ‘ within ’ some aspects of the division of labour grid while cutting across others .
10 How far present-day societies are likely to proceed along this road is a matter of debate ( and I shall return to the question in Chapter 6 ) , but at the least it has to be recognized that in recent years the idea of political action has been very substantially broadened , so that there is already a quite widespread awareness of the variety of ways in which individuals and groups of individuals can assert their dissent from the policies of government at all levels ( for example , the revolt against the poll tax in Britain ) and bring into the arena of public debate alternative policies .
11 Following from a series of previous studies of knowledge producing communities , the research aims for detailed documentation and explanation of the variety of ways in which the ‘ practical utility ’ of health economics is portrayed and assessed .
12 Cell walls are made up of a variety of substances of which only one , cellulose , is truly fibrous in the sense of being filamentous or threadlike .
13 A similar view of the importance of social movements is taken by Touraine ( 1973 ) in his account of the Popular Unity Government of Salvador Allende in Chile where , he argues , the activities and influence of a variety of movements within the governing coalition made it possible for the poor to express their grievances directly and continuously , instead of having them diverted ( and perhaps stifled ) in the official channels of a monolithic ruling party .
14 It is not until the Carboniferous that we start to find evidence of a variety of forms including the putative ancestors of some of the living dominant groups .
15 What this difference means is not clear ; it could be a manifestation of a variety of factors including the very different financial circumstances of the two groups !
16 The Canberra group had begun to study the effect of a variety of drugs on memory formation in the chick , using a novel learning task they had adapted from work done in Los Angeles by the veteran neurobiologist Art Cherkin .
17 This project aims to investigate the intonation structures of a variety of languages of different types , particularly with regard to these interactions with tonal and accentual features .
18 The presence of a variety of concepts in the statement of one subject area has been referred to in Chapter 12 as a means of defining syntactic relationships .
19 Rather , its significance lies in the fact that the pluralist position in the community power debate represented a particularly coherent expression of a variety of strands within political science which were well established before Dahl or Polsby s involvement in the community power debate .
20 The issue of cost was to be tackled head-on in this research programme , so that guidance could be offered on the cost-effectiveness of a variety of approaches to a variety of local circumstances .
21 After these relatively brief accounts of a variety of approaches to the study of consumption as a social phenomenon , one particular perspective demands more substantial resumé and analysis .
22 Under the influence of a variety of thinkers including Thomas Carlyle , Saint Simon and Tocqueville , the younger Mill came to share and articulate the doubts felt about democracy by so many nineteenth-century liberals .
23 Rolle 's gifts as a writer enable him to convey the flavour of a variety of levels of religious awareness and all his English writings are worth exploring with this in mind .
24 The origins of modern ethnography are to be found in the late nineteenth century , when men like Boas and Rivers studied the ways of life of a variety of tribes by then included in the British Empire .
25 The list is composed of a variety of types of problem including those traditionally accepted as legal by both lawyer and client , those regarded as legal by lawyers but not necessarily by clients and those not normally viewed by either as legal .
26 Although this branch years later became closely associated with participant observation , during this period researchers in the Chicago School made use of a variety of methods in their research , including observation and , to a degree , survey type methods .
27 They fix or determine the fees payable by applicants to the Health and Safety Executive in respect of a variety of applications for the approval of plant , equipment or protective equipment .
28 The Germans have thus had the choice of a variety of packages of measures for use in various situations .
29 In two experiments combining total sleep deprivation , Stage REM deprivation and Stage 4 sleep deprivation , Julie Moses and others at the US Navy Health Research Center in San Diego have compared the effects of a variety of regimes of total and selective sleep deprivation on recovery sleep and performance .
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