Example sentences of "[vb -s] [be] [vb pp] [prep] various " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Much has been lost by various people in many different ways . |
| 3 | While the truly indigenous private sector has been assisted in various ways to play a greater role in the national economy , this has often been at the expense of immigrant communities , who have rights of citizenship based on birth . |
| 4 | Historically , as we have seen , the country has been rent by various upheavals , sometimes of a quite violent nature . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is , it has been pleaded at various points throughout paragraph three in reciting the history , that at the various meetings between Peter and Mr that no advice of this nature was given and it is the plaintiff 's case that failure to give advice of this nature , even if they did not ask for it , which they did not , was a breach of the professional duty owed to them by the defendant . |
| 7 | This has been documented in various Third World countries , notably Nigeria ( see Ihonvbere and Shaw , 1988 ) , Brazil ( Evans , 1979 ) and Egypt ( Gillespie , 1984 ) , and my own research on class forces along the US-Mexican border ( Sklair , 1989 ) and the Hong Kong-China border ( Sklair , forthcoming ) is cast in the same mould . |
| 8 | This finding has been supported by various other firms and factories . |
| 9 | Visual communication has been categorised in various ways but none of them has succeeded in being comprehensive . |
| 10 | This form of analysis has been applied to various periods during the industrial revolution and to more modern developments . |
| 11 | This project is looking at the way in which plant-breeding at public sector institutes in Scotland , Wales and England has been influenced by various interest groups : government ( via the Agricultural Research Council ) , the private sector ( including farmers ' organisations and seed companies ) , and the academic community . |
| 12 | Application for enforcement orders under s 127 ( where the 1974 Act has been infringed in various ways ) ; ss 86(2) and 87(1) ( relating to the death of debtor or hirer ) ; ss 92(2) and 126 ( relating to land ) , are all commenced by originating application ( alternative Ord 49 , r 4(9) — ( 11 ) . |
| 13 | In addition to all this , Professor Learner has been involved at various times in university adult education , and he takes English Literature courses regularly for the Centre for Continuing Education students , usually , but not invariably , at Friends Centre in Brighton , and I am sure that like myself he is happy to see so many adults from outside the university with us tonight . |
| 14 | Hansen has been seen at various shows , demonstrating Jim Dunlop pedals . |
| 15 | To equate this ‘ avowed objective ’ of social policy with its real objective , as Marshall seems to do , involves an acceptance of a particular ideology about the ‘ welfare state ’ that has been challenged by various writers . |
| 16 | To the extent that social research more generally has retained an interest in social reform this has been redirected in various ways . |
| 17 | Only the one chosen background material has been used but it has been presented at various distances and angles . |
| 18 | However , the Leeds system has been criticised on various grounds , the major complaint being that repeated adjournment of individual cases , and randomised outcomes to test whether adjournment or supervision was the more effective , was illegal . |
| 19 | The picture has suffered from drastic cleaning operations in the past , and has been retouched at various times with oil-based paints . |
| 20 | The same device has been used in various areas of government activity where the British public is ignorant or indifferent . |
| 21 | Spines — This expression has been used by various writers with considerable latitude but is here confined to outgrowths of the cuticle which are more or less thorn-like in form . |
| 22 | For large companies in Japan , however , the free market has been controlled in various ways so as to ‘ mitigate the unfettered ravages of a market economy ’ ( Saxonhouse 1979 p.320 ) . |
| 23 | Much research in the pathophysiology of gall stones has been devoted to various molecular species of bile salts . |
| 24 | However , if the nurse takes the time to give information to the patient , it has been shown in various studies to be beneficial ( Hayward , 1975 ; Wilson-Barnett , 1978 ; Boore , 1979 ; Bond , 1982 ) . |
| 25 | In chapter 3 , we noticed that lexical alternants ( of the pull type ) are highly salient in the community , and it has been shown in various studies ( such as J. Milroy , 1981 ) that these alternants encode values of greater and lesser solidarity . |
| 26 | Resistance has been shown in various forms in the worlds of information technology and communications ( although reluctance to learn to work the video does not necessarily stop people buying one ) . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Anti-realism is the theory of understanding which has been mentioned at various points in this chapter . |
| 29 | Similar confusion has arisen in females whereby lichen sclerosus has been described by various now obsolete terms such as leucoplakia and kraurosis vulvae . |
| 30 | However as immigration , at least from the New Commonwealth , has been restricted by various Immigration Acts , so sociological interest has shifted to the inequalities of condition and opportunity of ethnic minorities resident in Britain , many members of which were born in the country . |