Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [art] wide " in BNC.

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1 Although it is not primarily vocational , the course provides a valuable training in analytical techniques and writing skills which makes it a valuable preparation for a wide variety of careers , including the media , central and local government , and industrial and commercial management .
2 The introduction of new technology creates the opportunity for a wide range of choices to be made about how work should be organised .
3 Health authority staff , not unreasonably , felt that this was at the cost of forgoing routine casework support for a wide range of people ( horizontal efficiency ) and from their point of view , therefore , the developmental role of the CMHTs represented an unacceptable opportunity cost .
4 With the abandonment of sectarian politics and the adoption of the popular front strategy , he was forced to relinquish the tactics of undifferentiated confrontation and engage instead in a complex ideological process in which unequivocal condemnation of the agents of fascism was interspersed with sophisticated and complex support for a wide range of liberal fellow-travellers who only a short time previously would have been roundly condemned as class enemies .
5 As part of its £11 million programme of support for a wide range of community activities , Barclays Bank has pledged £150,000 between 1989 and 1991 to fund Young National Trust Theatre , a professional Theatre-in-Education company .
6 I do not find in this decision a sufficient support for the wide proposition for which Mr. Collins contends .
7 Such techniques can be applied to establish clash and function for a wide range of engineering assembly problems .
8 He became Channel 4 's first Commissioning Editor for Sport when the channel opened in November 1982 and went on to become Senior Commissioning Editor with responsibility for a wide range of programmes including documentaries and children 's .
9 That in France , about which most information is available , had at various times responsibility for a wide variety of technical services — couriers , diplomatic bags , codes and , much more significantly , personnel and appointments .
10 The cluster in European studies provides a flexible means of introducing a European dimension to the school or college curriculum for a wide ability range .
11 Heavy demands are placed on schools to find time in the curriculum for a wide range of individually worthwhile activities and difficult decisions have to be made about priorities .
12 Indian fishermen use dolphin oil to lure catfish into their nets , and in Nepal , dolphins are netted by fishermen and marketed for their oil , which is used as a remedy for a wide range of diseases .
13 Then on the Sunday there will be observed trials and a race programme for a wide range of ages and standards .
14 POLICE in County Durham are stepping up the fight against crime after a wide ranging shake-up in senior personnel .
15 The new berth will also be used for the import and export of a wide range of other cargoes .
16 She looked ravishing , dressed in a light blue Summer dress of rayon , which fitted snugly over her perfect breasts , and flared out into a pleated skirt below a wide belt .
17 This is perhaps best demonstrated by citing three specific and very different examples , which should also give some indication of the wide range of problems which can be illuminated by an appropriate statistical analysis .
18 Theoretically , halls should be easy to design , since there is generally little to purchase in the way of furniture and accessories unless you are blessed with the luxury of a wide , spacious and well-lit area .
19 Ten feet wide , the car was long enough to accommodate six oblong tables down each side of a wide aisle with four chairs at each : forty-eight seats , as promised .
20 The dark bulk of St Catherine 's faced him on the other side of the wide road .
21 Cattle and sheep in pens , rabbits and hens in cages , stalls for food , clothing and cheap toys , all higgledy-piggledy down either side of the wide street .
22 Here , at the front , on this side of the wide road , a woman hurried along , having crossed from the houses behind .
23 From it you can look across to the well-occupied slopes on the other side of the wide river valley , where there are numbers of small villages and some fine agricultural land , because these glaciated valleys are celebrated for their fertility .
24 Upstairs the bedrooms ranged either side of the wide straight corridors .
25 Pairs of RIC men were patrolling on each side of the wide thoroughfare and , though to Jacob they were of no more account than any other pedestrians , he realised that Deirdre could not feel so unconcerned .
26 She got as far as the other side of the wide bed before being dragged back and pinned beneath fitzAlan 's forceful weight for the second time that night .
27 It is clear from these brief analyses that the nature and scope of the context that is constructed for each individual poem does not simply depend on the choice of deictic expressions in the text , but rather results from the combined effect of a wide range of variables , including the content of the text as a whole , and the attitudes and experiences that readers bring to the text or develop during reading .
28 The farming lobby has also pursued a policy of agricultural exceptionalism when it has come to the institution of a wide range of welfare and safety measures .
29 SPECIFICALLY designed to improve the usability of a wide range of personal computers by raising the back to a calculated level .
30 Large families and the recognition of a wide network of kinship ties is a feature of Latin American life .
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