Example sentences of "a wide cross-section of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The collector of the land tax , or cess , was chosen by the gentlemen named as commissioners of supply for the county , and although this might often be a wider cross-section of the county gentry than the parliamentary electors , there was sufficient overlap in membership to make this a political decision . |
| 2 | A wider cross-section of the Italian than the British population avidly follows football . |
| 3 | I 'm convinced the public would be better served by a wider cross-section of journalists . |
| 4 | Have you written it totally from a Jewish perspective or are you aiming at a wider cross-section of the population ? |
| 5 | Harris argues , however , that a van like a Transit has to appeal to a wide cross-section of operators , and that means the design has to be a compromise . |
| 6 | This was brought about in no small degree by the invention in the 1890s of the safety bicycle which gave a wide cross-section of the population real mobility for the first time . |
| 7 | ‘ Democracy Wall ’ immediately attracted a wide cross-section of people . |
| 8 | The aim should be to equip a wide cross-section of staff with the skills , confidence and tools to take this work on . |
| 9 | Surely the ultimate prize of motivating and supporting a wide cross-section of the communities of Wales to care for their local environment in a practical way is sufficient incentive for us to get our collective acts together ? |
| 10 | Since the beginning of the year , I have continued both to meet and to correspond with a wide cross-section of the Northern Ireland business community . |
| 11 | There was a constant flow of MPs to see them , and I began to realise that these were drawn from a wide cross-section of the Party . |
| 12 | The steering group is working with a wide cross-section of the industry to specify Occupational Standards . |
| 13 | At best they serve to legitimize the system , give political experience to a wide cross-section of society and criticize government policy from the perspective of members ' regions and constituencies ( White et al. |
| 14 | Things had come to a head in 1990 when a release extenxded a shut-down by several days at a cost of £250,000. a CAT , involving a wide cross-section of disciplines , was set up and reviewed incidents from 1987 onwards . |