Example sentences of "various [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 There has got to be a willingness on the part of all the groups on this council and the officers of the various connected departments of this council to make sure that those teams are given the utmost support in delivering the youth and community service that the Highfields area needs and deserves .
2 Though I 'd learned that the black abaya dropped the temperature by degrees , and though I 'd worn both veil and coat at various odd times , such as in storms , or in the desert heat , the sight of a European woman in such an outfit on an ordinary day in a compound or town would be more than anyone , including myself , could take .
3 The result of the two intelligence services , army intelligence , the Royal Ulster Constabulary 's Special Branch , and various odd freelancers all having a go at the same time was , not surprisingly , a total disaster .
4 The second half of the project is concerned really with how on earth we get such program to work , such programs are very complicated , they interact in various odd ways , and getting the bugs out , getting the problems out or debugging as the jargon has it , is a really serious problem and we hope to make some advance on the problem of erm developing programs for such distributed multi-processor systems .
5 She was born Katharine Appleton in Gravesend in 1948 into a diplomatic family , and remembers herself as ‘ the girl on the reception line ’ at dull diplomatic occasions in various European embassies while her father carried out his duties as an air attache .
6 Speaking approvingly of his recent meetings with various European leaders , Mr Gorbachev singled out President Mitterrand , whom he met in Kiev last week , for special praise , particularly because of his ‘ respect for present realities and the inviolability of established borders . ’
7 But partly because of the diversity of the French companies involved , and partly because of the distances separating the various European companies working for the CNES and ESA programmes , ‘ catching up with the Americans ’ has been an important unifying goal .
8 As to the involvement of various European states in the international slave trade the old Quaker campaigner , George Harrison , proclaimed the possibilities of inserting material in the foreign press since ‘ The Freedom of the Press , now in good Degree established , affords the Opportunity . ’
9 The power of the various European States was in practice estimated by commentators largely in the crude terms of the extent of territory each possessed .
10 Austin , Texas-based CompuAdd Corp is opening a European headquarters in Bristol , UK , to co-ordinate the company 's various European activities , which will be headed-up by Robert Todd as general manager .
11 Within this tradition , however , there are many different histories of services found in the various European countries .
12 The rules which apply to such flights in various European countries differ quite widely .
13 The two groups completed parallel benchmark implementations , demonstrating two different operational methods for interconnecting suppliers of local , regional and industry sector-specific Electronic Data Interchange services in various European countries .
14 Established as a Schallplatten Spezialhaus as early as 1927 , it derives its name from a once well-known record label on which the HMV catalogue was distributed in various European countries , with a huge manufacturing plant in Czechoslovakia .
15 They had also been joined here by a number of " White " emigres from outside the USSR , that is to say anti-Communists who had gone into exile during or after the Civil War of 1918–20 and had subsequently lived in various European countries .
16 To provide hospitality companies with information and advice on the skills and knowledge requirements of managers working in different sectors of the industry , in various European countries , which will assist them in their reqruitment and human resource development activities .
17 The EFAH accreditation system aims to provide such information and thus assist all those wishing to emply and seek employment in the various European countries .
18 No , various European countries started erm thinking about the same idea at the same time , and there are some interesting questions here about why everybody suddenly lit upon this piece of legislation .
19 On a visit to Hungary in November 1989 a delegation led by the Assembly 's president , Anders Bjorck , indicated that it would support applications from East European countries provided that they ( i ) adopted a democratic constitution ; ( ii ) held free , multiparty elections ; and ( iii ) reformed the penal code to conform with various European conventions .
20 But none of the various attempted explanations has so far proved satisfactory .
21 various ACE schemes , such as St. Teresa 's , where the Action Team has funded a conversion of old stables to provide offices and a training and meeting room ;
22 We have adapted a proprietary computer based data analysis programme for intestinal mucosa to study and assess the distribution of S phase cells and to estimate the crypt labelling index in surgical gastric mucosal biopsy specimens from various anatomical sites .
23 The arrival of the ‘ Extremities , Dirt And Various Repressed Emotions ’ album seemed to provide an apt moment to compile the required discography and , thanks to help from readers John Elliot of Hawick and Mark from Sheffield along with Frank O'Donnell and his valiant cohorts at PolyGram , I 've managed to piece together what would seem to be a complete run-down .
24 This meant addressing various specific requests to the Turks , telling them what the consequences of refusal would be , and informing the major European courts that Russia was giving the Ottoman Empire a last chance .
25 Rather than providing a rounded history of the revolution , historians with libertarian sympathies have concentrated on various specific themes in the revolution .
26 ‘ A computer is like a mechanical human brain which carries out various specific operations .
27 That general interest is neither an amalgam of , nor a compromise between , the interests of various specific groups , nor , as we saw in our discussion of unanimity , can it be equated , in Benthamite fashion , with the sum of the choices of individuals , acting as individuals .
28 Since this chapter is meant as a normative-explanatory account of the core notion of authority , it can be extended to explain reference to authority in various specific contexts .
29 It is very difficult and extremely inefficient to explain the use of various specific tools for information retrieval in the absence of the source materials .
30 In the more severe cases of mental handicap , there are various specific causes , such as the infection of the foetus in the womb , a disease in the parent , or a disease or infection in the first few days of life .
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