Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] various " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ten l.e.d.s concerned here are placed at various positions in the ‘ field ’ , each representing a number of runs or a no-score , plus a couple which may lead to a catch or an appeal for lbw . |
| 2 | Pitfall traps are placed in various sorts of sites around the garden to catch ground beetles , spiders , harvestmen , woodlice , centipedes and millipedes . |
| 3 | Before Morris introduced this type of maze , it had become common practice to study spatial learning in a more conventional version of the same task , in which rats are placed in various forms of radial mazes with four , six or eight arms , and must learn to run to a goal box containing food or water at the end of one of the arms . |
| 4 | Polyester fibres are treated in various ways to produce fillings which can trap a great deal of air . |
| 5 | At present there are considerable disparities between the way in which the right to vote and the right to stand as a candidate are treated in various member states . |
| 6 | To the extent that social research more generally has retained an interest in social reform this has been redirected in various ways . |
| 7 | Such information is of greater intelligence importance than the photographs of IRA suspects , usually given the lowest levels of security classification , which have been leaked to various newspapers in recent weeks , triggering a political row and a big police investigation . |
| 8 | The story of a plot had been leaked to various newspapers , and on Sept. 19 the authorities put on public display various small firearms , improvised grenades , loudhailers , photocopying equipment and other items which they claimed were being used to make weapons . |
| 9 | Others think that the obligation is based on the sort of reasons that philosophers have adduced in support of an obligation to obey , which have been refuted by various writers in recent years , and will be briefly considered below . |
| 10 | He has been toying with various possibilities ( we suggested he could come to us & repeat the year at Oban High — a somewhat unlikely proposition , I admit ) but seems likely to plump for a 4-year course at Birmingham , leading to a BSc in Computer Engineering . |
| 11 | The first limb is universally accepted as legitimate ; the second , though having the merit of expanding the scope of the Convention , has been criticized on various grounds . |
| 12 | On its own it has been explained in various special ways , but considered in the general setting of Mediterranean stratigraphy , some more general explanation seems to be needed . |
| 13 | It is in accord with Morton Kaplan 's System and Process in International Politics , where different rules are formulated for various international systems . |
| 14 | Historically , as we have seen , the country has been rent by various upheavals , sometimes of a quite violent nature . |
| 15 | They are distinguished by various combinations of attributes — occupation , money , manners , education , power , jobs , standard of living , possession of material items . |
| 16 | In an attempt to improve the effective provision of intelligence to decision makers , some companies , particularly in the USA , are experimenting with various ways of developing a process of gathering information , analysing and interpreting the information and ensuring that it is used effectively in the decision-making process . |
| 17 | A host of new political parties had already been formed in various parts of the Soviet Union [ for February-March 1990 multiparty elections in the Baltic republics see pp. 37299-300 ; 37321-22 ; for October elections in Georgia see below ] . |
| 18 | This general principle has however been circumscribed in various ways by decided cases , not least by the rule that money paid under a mistake of law is not recoverable , a rule which , though heavily criticised in academic writings and elsewhere , is in my opinion too deeply embedded in English jurisprudence to be uprooted judicially . |
| 19 | In plating , components are dropped into various solutions to coat them with a metal such as zinc or aluminium . |
| 20 | Is it , can we attribute this sort of thing to the erm areas of drought , the areas of flooding that are occurring in various parts of the world at the moment , and all these sorts of things , and we have branches looking into this . |
| 21 | This international course will emphasise organisation of communication and non-formal education programmes that are designed for various sectors of society ranging from policy-makers to villagers . |
| 22 | Microphones are designed in various styles and sizes according to the particular application . |
| 23 | Although early and middle Iron-Age pottery has been located at various points , there is no evidence for any late Iron-Age settlement underlying the town , where the earliest levels are apparently military . |
| 24 | Sheep netting has now largely been superseded by various forms of electric fencing . |
| 25 | It seems to me that lot of it 's been dominated by various sort of rather obscure sounding Germans . |
| 26 | Technical innovation had slipped ; markets had been eroded in various ways ; some of the products were too mature for growth . |
| 27 | For this reason , computers are programmed in various subsets of English known as computer languages . |
| 28 | It is potentially an unequal conflict , as rural councils are dominated by various combinations of local and newcomer middle classes ( Newby et al . |
| 29 | Since a project at Leeds University was established in 1982 , more than 400 short courses have been organised with various groups of unemployed people . |
| 30 | Maps that use these peculiar motions to build up pictures of the amount of matter in space have been prepared by various researchers over the past year or so . |