Example sentences of "of the variety of [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Another problem is the sheer eclecticism of progressive rock , both in terms of the variety of sources on which it drew and the range of styles contained within the genre .
2 The law 's requirement for information on entry is an attempt to take account of the variety of policies operated by schools .
3 The need for confidentiality between intermediary and client means that an investor is generally unable to assess the worth of the variety of services made available to him .
4 Similarly , importing a bitmapped graphic in any of the variety of formats DW1.2 supports gives the opportunity to use the very simple tracing tool to trace only selected shapes and pick them out of the bitmap — the second screenshot shows the Windows 3.1 window being picked out of the 3.1 opening logo screen .
5 Peter Samuel of Kingfisher , who quoted the names of nine search firms he had employed ( including two major international consultancies , Heidrick and Struggles and Norman Broadbent ) , argued that he used both large and small firms because of the variety of assignments he handled .
6 Because of the variety of systems and equipment , a specialist can not always be available and the service personnel have to solve the problem .
7 They continued to proliferate in the Ordovician , although many of the Cambrian kinds had died out ; in terms of the variety of forms present this period was perhaps their heyday .
8 Candidates should be made aware of the variety of forms of writing used in business life , so that they will be able to select most appropriate form — notes , summaries , memoranda , telex , quantification displays , etc — according to circumstances .
9 Of the variety of amps I used with the Teardrop , the one which felt most compatible was , guess what , a Vox AC30 .
10 Another effect of the variety of starting-points , in history , philosophy , literary studies , linguistics , aesthetics and social theory , as well as in sociology itself , is that there is always a problem of overlap with other distinct and still necessary disciplines .
11 There in the course of the next hundred and fifty years rapid progress was made in classifying the properties of the variety of metals included in the group .
12 One might imagine , perhaps wrongly , that there would have been few craftsmen who either alone or in a group would at any one time have been capable of producing such an item because of the variety of skills required in its production .
13 One has only to think of the variety of positions that can be taken with respect to qualitative and quantitative research .
14 During the past 15 years , important discoveries of new kinds of extinct agnathans have been made worldwide which considerably increase our knowledge of the variety of agnathans and , at the same time , question some of the traditional ideas about the interrelationships of these early fishes and the history of vertebrate specializations .
15 Week by week Joan Sallis and others gave advice and placed the description of what were regarded as new problems against the background of why powers were changing and why the best use should be made of the variety of forces , pressures and influences which supported governing bodies .
16 In practice , however government at the local level is particularly confusing because of the variety of agencies which help to shape and administer local services .
17 Here are some examples which give an indication of the variety of structures which can be listed .
18 ‘ I know some of the other jocks here fancy her rotten , and it was the same story in Sydney , ’ Florian told Luke crudely , genuinely unaware of the variety of reactions he was eliciting .
19 It has been clear for some time that there are a number of significant practical problems with the interpretation of SSAP 6 , Extraordinary Items and Prior Year Adjustments , particularly in respect of the variety of treatments of apparently similar events as sometimes ordinary and sometimes extraordinary items in the p&l account .
20 To stay alive as a teacher , it is necessary to be aware of the variety of perspectives and the fact that they are very deep rooted .
21 In the week during which I read my way through this long , exhaustive study , I was continually aware of the variety of masculinities which coexist uneasily within our culture .
22 Most staff were not aware of the variety of facilities available on AEA 's network or even on their own telephones .
23 How do people make sense of the variety of ideas coming to them about food ?
24 These 14-year-olds are doing just some of the variety of jobs done by teenagers that are either illegal or just terribly underpaid .
25 Number four , do you avoid tropical hard woods and are you aware of the variety of alternatives ? ; there 's huge alternatives to tropical hard wood er again recycled plastic makes a very good alternative to er tubs for plants in the public er parks .
26 Because of the variety of possibilities at each move , the ability to predict who will win from a given move becomes less and less reliable , the longer the game has to run after that move .
27 The view of the House of Lords in Davies v Sumner [ 1984 ] 1 WLR 1301 failed to take sufficient account of the variety of situations in which the phrase " dealing in the course of a business " appear .
28 If you think of the variety of commercials you see on TV , there are many different things you can do in commercials : animation ; live action , used in perhaps the majority of commercials ; puppetry ; mixed live action and animation ; computer graphics and picture modification ; a variety of special effects .
29 These are scattered throughout the country and include most of the variety of habitats in Japan .
30 Viewed now , nearly half a century later , these studies — attractive though they are — seem remarkably dated , for children 's rate of development has increased over the years and we are now more aware of the variety of kinds and degrees of development to be found among the individual boys and girls in one age group .
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