Example sentences of "range of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Santa Cruz Operation was taking a bullish attitude towards the launch of Destiny last week , pointing out that it was a technology , not a product announcement , and saying that it would be a long time before the package would support the large range of peripherals in the SCO catalogue : SCO also claimed to offer pretty much everything offered by Destiny , including DOS/Windows emulation and Motif — which SCO ships , not just supports — claiming its distribution network was mature and widespread , and said it was more interested in the networked and multi-user system market than the PC and Mac replacement that USL is interested in . |
| 2 | Bernard ingeniously proposed a range of dresses in ‘ double cotton ’ , or a double layer of fabric . |
| 3 | This theory develops the convergence ( also noted by others , e.g. Sutton and Barto 1981 ; Gluck and Bower 1988 ) between standard associative models and connectionist systems of parallel distributed processing ( e.g. Rumelhart , Hinton , and McClelland 1986 ) and it is intended to apply to a range of phenomena in perceptual learning . |
| 4 | The adult worms are susceptible to a wide range of anthelmintics including piperazine , levamisole and the benzimidazoles . |
| 5 | Phoenix presently get their fleece from an Austrian producer and will soon launch a new range of garments for climbers and walkers , made up from Italian fleece . |
| 6 | Major mobile invertebrate predators are to be found in the phylum crustacea which includes crabs and shrimps and in the phylum mollusca which includes a wide range of predators from octopi and squid down to tiny nudibranchs . |
| 7 | But in that case the very idea of the postman 's work occurring in isolation is incoherent since , as a matter of logic , it can not be separated off from a whole range of activities beyond itself . |
| 8 | Sissons has packed an impressive range of activities into his 39 years — a post-university spell as a professional revolutionary , managing a newspaper edited by fellow cricket enthusiast Tariq Ali , and work for radical publishing houses in Britain and more recently Australia . |
| 9 | The Department has plans to promote a wide range of activities for the community as a whole and to work closely with other bodies in the field to ensure the fullest use of resources . |
| 10 | The Department intends to develop a wide range of activities for the community and to work closely with other bodies in the field to ensure the fullest use of resources . |
| 11 | World Aids Day will be marked on December 1 and a multi-disciplinary group is in the process of arranging a range of activities for the week November 30 to December 5 . |
| 12 | English Heritage , for instance , can offer a range of activities at different sites . |
| 13 | Only able to take part in a limited range of activities at home and particularly seriously , she is only able to hold a conversation by the laborious method of tapping out her comments on ticker tape through using her cannon communicator . |
| 14 | Returning now to the referral and investigation work undertaken by the team between October 1987 and March 1988 , Table 3 provides some detail about the range of activities on which the total time of 253 hours was spent and shows that the bulk of the activity time was spent in direct contact with children and/or their caregivers . |
| 15 | Once declared and approved , authorities were advised to concentrate a range of activities on the IIA , including planning , traffic management and land-assembly functions . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | These six activity books provide children who are beginning to learn English with a wide range of activities through which they can practise English grammar and vocabulary , and develop their reading and writing skills . |
| 18 | After that going for gold involves participating in a wide range of activities over a period of at least 18 months . |
| 19 | Although Johnnies , remains a big player in the property market and is involved in a wide range of activities including township , industrial , office and retail property developments , their business has expanded far beyond its original sphere of holding and administering property . |
| 20 | In discussions prior to the final draft of the Treaty of Rome for example , the concept of a specific regional fund was considered , but rejected in favour of the European Investment Bank ( EIB ) which would provide finance for a range of activities including regional development activity . |
| 21 | The Wye is used for a whole range of activities including people who just want to walk the banks or go for picnics . |
| 22 | Facilities at the Templemore Sports Complex are being adapted to allow people with disabilities to take part in a range of activities including swimming , horse riding , shooting and table tennis . |
| 23 | Tool using thus covers a broad range of activities throughout the animal kingdom , from the mindless and mechanical to the considered and imaginative . |
| 24 | What appears to be of more significance for the role of keiretsu in Japan 's economic growth is their objective of diversifying their interests in the widest possible range of activities throughout manufacturing industry , construction , finance and the service sector . |
| 25 | The range of activities in which parents become involved range from repairing curtains , with little contact with children , to active involvement in the teaching and supervision of children in small group work . |
| 26 | If there is any range of activities in which those who possess great power clearly can do better than most people it is in co-ordinating the activities of many people . |
| 27 | This leaves a wide range of activities in an area of unregulated uncertainty , including telephone tapping ; this may be official , under Ministerial approval ‘ in the national interest ’ , which Parliament may be said to have condoned or sanctioned , or it may be unofficial in the interests of , say , commercial or industrial espionage , in which case an offence is committed , if only the misappropriation of electric current ! |
| 28 | Whichever indicator one cares to use of the roles of the government in economic life — government expenditure as a percentage of GNP , total tax revenue relative to income , the range of activities in which the government is involved as producer , the extent to which economic life is subject to some form or other of regulation — all show a similar long-term growth in periods of peacetime throughout the present century . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , our surveys showed schools undertaking a wide range of activities in pursuit of home-school rapport and cooperation , particularly where younger children were concerned , and many schools went well beyond the obvious activities like information exchange , open days and social events to pursue more adventurous and long-term programmes . |
| 30 | Standing Orders govern a wide range of activities from the daily programme of each House to the structure , membership and procedure of a host of committees with various functions . |