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

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1 All new patterns , but with a wider selection of weights of yarn for all seasons suitability and with styles from the simplest and most stylish to high-drama pieces for electronics .
2 The new range will include a wider selection of hand knitting yarns in Mohair blends , British Wool and synthetic fibres , shirts , socks and suiting lengths plus a collection of knitted garments for all the family .
3 lonnbergii , dominican gulls Larus dominicanus , blue-eyed cormorants Phalacrocorax atriceps , and a wider selection of petrels that breed both at the surface and in cavities among scree .
4 They 're especially keen for young men and people from ethnic groups to come forward to add a wider selection of tissue types to the register .
5 Environmental campaigners constantly try to bring their cause to the attention of a wider public through protests , marches and debate .
6 This was the opening Zborowski had worked for , a chance for Modigliani 's work to be appreciated by a wider public outside France .
7 Apart from famous chateaux like Sanssouci and Rheinsberg , the book covers lesser known country houses , medieval monasteries , historic villages and small towns , as well as twentieth-century villas , estates and utilitarian buildings , most of which have yet to be ( re ) discovered by a wider public in the West .
8 The association of station departures with death and transfiguration ( cf. the Stations of the Cross ? ) is but one aspect of a wider concern with identifying the particular mystique of the station .
9 New programmes for the next three years include a research study on women in the media in some Asian countries , workshops in South Asia for women 's alternative media , and a wider concern for advocacy in women 's media issues .
10 Does my right hon. Friend accept that the anxiety that still persists in Staffordshire about the fate of the Staffordshire regiment is not mere local and parochial concern but is based on a wider concern for the strength of the infantry ?
11 The project is part of a wider concern about how sound impinges uninvited on memory and how material from the eye and the ear are combined by the brain .
12 Yet even in such cases , it is possible that public involvement on specific issues will stimulate a more critical evaluation of such proposals in the future and generate a wider concern in other aspects of their environment , including the nature of the existing mechanisms for decision making .
13 The results will be of interest to food retailers and have a wider significance for other areas of retailing .
14 The Napoleonic model in France , even though it survived virtually unaltered for over a century and a half , eventually had to yield to demands for a wider measure of regional self-government , and over the past years schemes of regional devolution have been instituted .
15 Held on the initiative of Pakistan , its objective ( requiring a rapprochement between Massud and Hekmatyar ) was to reshape the discredited Afghan interim government by forming a wider alliance between Peshawar-based leaders and field commanders in Afghanistan .
16 Then , drawing another five dots with a wider spacing between them , he added , ‘ The same five galaxies sometime later .
17 But it also reflects the failure of feminist art practices and criticism to make a wider mark within women 's studies .
18 The ‘ racialization , of British politics throughout the last 20 years has ensured that most areas of public debate — law and order , the welfare state , unemployment , youth , education , the inner cities , the family — now have a racial dimension and often one in which black communities , but especially black youth , appear as threats in a wider demonology of scroungers , shirkers , muggers , drug pushers , school failures and inadequate parents ( Hall et al . ,
19 There can be little doubt that radicals would have liked to have gone beyond the sale of monastic land to a wider offensive against ecclesiastical property .
20 I hope that this suggestion may stimulate a wider vision of future purchasing arrangements for commissioning services .
21 However , there is a wider dimension to the question , which encompasses fear as well as threats , and this hinges on the distinction between submission and consent .
22 She addresses the tensions generated by two related dilemmas in feminist thinking , and points out why they have a wider relevance in philosophical and political thought .
23 This broad view offers a wider concept of ‘ integration ’ than the narrow educational framework which predominantly confines debate in this area .
24 The first of these was to look at the school with a wider concept of resources than that with which the library project was concerned , and the second was to feed into the library committee a relatively independent group 's view of appropriate resource proposals .
25 Some analysts speculated that Noble 's action was originally part of a wider plot against the Aquino government , and was designed to coincide with revolts elsewhere on Mindanao and , possibly , in other areas of the Philippines .
26 We have a different role , but nevertheless and even , an important one is perhaps in even looking further ahead than the Emergency Planning and therefore I would support er in being brief I would support very much erm Mr 's er motion if you can call it a motion which has been seconded and I hope that other members will will agree that erm we can pass this on to the Chief Executive who obviously will be doing this in any case , but it would give er a a an added er measure if you like er I 'm talking in terms of member involvement in pressing for er a wider look of what has happened after this sad flood has been dealt with .
27 In this chapter on teaching resources , I shall endeavour to aid the reader in the selection and use of materials , production of handouts , worksheets and visual aids , as well as understanding a wider look at resources .
28 Some people thought that a wider look at the problem may provide some answers .
29 Such knowledge could , however , continue to be useful when used in a regional context , which is what the RANs do , enabling members to react to a wider range of human rights violations in any given region .
30 For ornamental carving and small sculpture , there could be a wider range of smaller tools 10mm and under .
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