Example sentences of "[vb pp] a wider " in BNC.

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1 Yet , as we have noted , more recent work has adopted a wider focus and a more analytical approach to the subject .
2 We 've got a wider lunatic fringe than other nations .
3 The SDA has had a wider set of powers than those readily available to UDCs in England , but it has used them .
4 ALBSU has had a wider brief to facilitate literacy and numeracy among the native and non- native speakers of English .
5 Even the more sophisticated tracts , which would have been beyond the comprehension of those on the margins of literacy and were unsuitable for reading aloud , could have had a wider impact than their style might suggest , since their purpose was to furnish people who could read them with arguments which would enable them to go away and convince others of the merits of their party 's cause .
6 The format of the tests themselves is mainly confined to pencil and paper exercises , and within these multiple choice questions dominate , although science tests have used a wider range of exercises including practical work .
7 Teachers who claim to have been highly involved also claim to have used a wider variety of methods and feel more competent to conduct the review , believing it to have been more of a whole-school effort , more thorough and more useful in producing proposals for change .
8 But the removal of barriers will also mean more competition with customers being offered a wider choice of materials .
9 After a few months as a general news reporter I was given a wider range of assignments and when Jim Miller left , my regular beats included the monthly School Board meetings and the daily Police Court and High Court sessions .
10 About 1850 trees of the Orange Pippin were given a wider distribution by Charles Turner , of the Royal Nurseries , Slough , and the fruit soon began to attract attention .
11 But the depth of the speech 's radicalism has not reached a wider public .
12 For this reason , Patterson 's data ( being chiefly polysyllables ) most probably attest to a late stage in the loss of raising before nasals , a change that had formerly affected a wider range of environments .
13 political democracy , urbanization , and education have brought the different sections of the population into more frequent contact with each other and have created even greater mutual awareness , the central value system has found a wider acceptance than in other periods of the history of society . ’
14 Other studies have cast a wider net to embrace other elements in the balance of payments ( Featherstone , Moore and Rhodes 1979 ) .
15 With the collapse of manufacturing employment in the UK and the elevation of services to the position of the major — and in many areas of the country the sole — source of employment , the term ‘ post-industrial ’ has gained a wider currency .
16 The ‘ winter of discontent ’ thus encouraged a wider sense of national enfeeblement and decline .
17 Clearly Auld was of the opinion that the Tyndale incident could have been avoided if the authority had taken a wider view of its role .
18 Cannon J. , who delivered his judgment in French , seems to have taken a wider view since he reached the same conclusion without reliance on the maxims of the civil law or the Quebec civil code : ‘ On peut dire que son droit est né en même temps qu'elle . ’
19 Well , they would have showed a wider picture of the actual picture , and apparently they take , co , the photographers had taken a baby away from it 's mother he 's standing in the middle of a desert , and there 's a picture of them with a baby and all these photographers photographing it !
20 In 1936 Robert Wagner had maintained that Charlie 's pictures are always ‘ proletarian ’ but by this time the politicization of criticism had already assured a wider and more varied critical response to Chaplin .
21 Nicholson failed to make a name for himself once again , though because of some inspired controversy he had at least achieved a wider circle of critics .
22 Duthie , and later Kennedy & Duthie ( 1975 ) , were concerned with general rather than special education and authors who have focused on special needs have suggested a wider brief .
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