Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [prep] a variety " in BNC.
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| 1 | The presumption was that there were certain universals of social organization , functions that could be recognized in a variety of cultural forms ; myths , kinship orders , etc . |
| 2 | A translation may be undertaken for a variety of purposes . |
| 3 | After implementation of any modifications proposed at that meeting , publication of the completed draft will be undertaken in a variety of forms . |
| 4 | Homogenisation — the forces keeping the genes in a family similar to each other — is more subtle ; but the way in which this can occur can now be explained by a variety of molecular mechanisms which ensure , willy-nilly , that one variant copy would replace all other copies . |
| 5 | Although islands may be formed by a variety of processes , such as vulcanism , tectonic movements and accumulation , many of the world 's present islands must have resulted from the Post-glacial rise of sea level . |
| 6 | It possesses , nevertheless , a striking richness and complexity , demanding to be examined from a variety of viewpoints , notably that of musical production ( in relation to general production in capitalist societies ) , that of musical form ( discussed by Adorno in terms of ‘ standardization ’ ) and that of musical reception and function ( which he sees as almost totally instrumentalized , in the service of the ruling social interests ) . |
| 7 | This may be justified on a variety of hard to refute grounds , such as the person is needed to keep production or a service going without disruption . |
| 8 | It includes provisions for full nomination of subcontractors , for fluctuations which can be calculated in a variety of ways , and for partial possession by the employer . |
| 9 | Information may be gathered in a variety of ways , including the use of functional assessment instruments and selective assessment forms . |
| 10 | Lord Ennals will be joined by a variety of eminent speakers looking at the role of the law , and of lawyers in finding legal remedies for people in need of community care services . |
| 11 | That was successfully done and the Labour Party can rest assured that its undemocratic behaviour will continue to be exposed in a variety of ways . |
| 12 | Even more important was his use of lymph taken from a smallpox pustule in its early stage of development , rather than from a mature pustule which was likely to be contaminated with a variety of organisms . |
| 13 | The fairway of a golf course must , of necessity , be a closely mown sward , but the borders can be treated in a variety of ways . |
| 14 | In the present chapter , both of these assumptions will be criticized in a variety of ways and rejected for a variety of reasons . |
| 15 | In addition , the cartographic data can be manipulated in a variety of ways including projection transformation , scale change , mosaicing of adjacent map sheets , polygon extraction , overlay of maps showing different themes and the delineation of buffer zones . |
| 16 | Thus children in a primary school will spend most of their time with the same teacher in any one year , while secondary school pupils will be taught by a variety of different teachers . |
| 17 | Such central government responsibility as exists may be sought to be discharged in a variety of ways . |
| 18 | While I certainly accept that the witchcraft beliefs discussed so far could be considered as a variety of religion , this Lugbara data and certain clues in Evans-Pritchard 's account suggest that witchcraft ( or sorcery ) is only part of Zande religion . |
| 19 | Even I itself can be factorised in a variety of ways ; as one example , if J is the square matrix which has units in its secondary diagonal and zeros elsewhere , which we shall call the reversing matrix , then |
| 20 | This can be approached in a variety of ways : |
| 21 | ( iii ) They should learn that , whereas chronological writing has a straightforward pattern of organisation , non-chronological types of writing can be organised in a variety of ways and so , generally , require more planning . |
| 22 | A list of the different types of special classification schemes may help to indicate how these schemes may be designed for a variety of different purposes : |
| 23 | Accounting information should , where possible , be supplemented with a variety of other information . |
| 24 | Part of the point of an exercise such as this is that it can be supplemented with a variety of additional linguistic models which enable the analysis to be developed in a number of different directions . |
| 25 | The package can be tailored for a variety of databases and applications and comes with variety of tools and libraries including Oracle , Sybase , Informix , Ingres , Oracle Financials , software distribution , security , batch management , back-up management and help desk management . |
| 26 | The package can be tailored for a variety of databases and applications and comes with variety of tools and libraries including Oracle , Sybase , Informix , Ingres , Oracle Financials , software distribution , security , batch management , backup management and help desk management . |
| 27 | 1 A body of systematic and generalized knowledge which can be applied to a variety of problems . |
| 28 | This technique , known as journal-to-journal co-citation , can thus be applied across a variety of subjects . |
| 29 | Ferret boxes can be made in a variety of sizes . |
| 30 | Instead claims by and against third party organisations or individuals may be made in a variety of domestic and regional , formal and informal arenas . |