Example sentences of "[prep] a wide [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , the separation of the great house from its neighbours , which had developed in Jane Austen 's lifetime , became the rule in Queen Victoria 's reign : ‘ A solitude in the centre of a wide park is now the only site that can be recognized as eligible . ’ |
| 2 | Unskilled manual workers were also considerably less likely than average to know of a wide selection of credit sources ; sources which came higher up their list than average were moneylenders , mail order , tallymen , loans from finance companies , electricity or gas board schemes , and HP . |
| 3 | Theda had been obliged to retire from the room after receiving a deluge of dust over her person when attacking the top of a wide dresser . |
| 4 | The metal road that left the highway twisted between pine-clad hills for more than a mile before it dropped to the lower level of a wide plateau that stretched along the river cliffs . |
| 5 | There , a gale of competition swept Britain from a Soviet-style queueing system to one in which people could quickly and conveniently borrow as much as they were able to service , from any of a wide choice of lenders . |
| 6 | Both lustre and blue-on-white wares were made from the mid-thirteenth century to the late fifteenth century at Malaga and a typical example of a wide dish decorated in lustre and blue is shown in Figure 6.1 . |
| 7 | ‘ Michael Stich has definitely told us he will play and all the indications are that Boris will do so this time as well ’ said Mr Meyer-Wolden , who spent several hours on a flight back from Australia earlier in the year , putting Becker in the picture of a wide range of his views , ideas and objectives . |
| 8 | The more you hunt around Saxon or medieval churches , scrutinising the roof and tower with binoculars , the more evidence you will find of a wide range of pre-Christian beliefs . |
| 9 | In recent months , after the computerisation of employment records , the service has been the focus of a wide range of stoppages over staffing . |
| 10 | Many cuisines that are based on grains and pulses make extensive use of a wide range of spices to flavour their foods and this can clearly be seen in Indian and Far Eastern cookery . |
| 11 | Maybe , but at least it is Budapest rather than Vienna shopkeepers who benefit from Hungarians ' urge to splurge ; and the availability of a wide range of goods has encouraged people to hold forints , the Hungarian currency . |
| 12 | For many years Barnhaven produced seed strands of a wide range of hardy and very beautiful polyanthus , primroses and auriculas . |
| 13 | The Task Force set themselves a tall order , comprised as they were of a wide range of largely voluntary community groups diverse experience of land-use issues and perceptions of the problems — spanning local issues to National land-related policies . |
| 14 | The section on the analysis of anti-infectives and their metabolites covers the analysis of a wide range of anti-infectives — from β-lactam drugs to antivirals such as AZT — by using both chromatographic and immunoassay techniques . |
| 15 | Plus points include the availability of a wide range of standard sizes — you should be able to find at least one to fit your site — and the fact that the manufacturers have gone to great lengths in recent years to improve the poor appearance that older prefabricated sectional buildings traditionally suffered from . |
| 16 | Ehrenpreis goes on to consider how the distinction between deserving and undeserving poor operates in the work of a wide range of writers . |
| 17 | Leapor 's poetry on domestic service is part of a wide range of eighteenth century writings concerned with this type of work . |
| 18 | Make a more assured and selective use of a wide range of grammatical constructions that are appropriate for topic , purpose and audience , eg alterations of word order , lexical or structural repetition , passive constructions , adverbial connectives ; and of a varied and appropriate vocabulary , eg colloquial , formal , technical , poetic or figurative . |
| 19 | Make an assured and selective use of a wide range of grammatical constructions that are appropriate for topic , purpose and audience , and that enable the writer to vary sentence beginnings , achieve the desired emphasis etc , eg alterations of word order , lexical or structural repetition , passive constructions , adverbial connectives , elliptical constructions , non-finite subordinate clauses , and of a varied and appropriate vocabulary , eg colloquial , formal , technical , poetic or figurative . |
| 20 | Make an assured , selective and appropriate use of a wide range of grammatical constructions and of an extensive vocabulary , producing a suitable variety of , eg sentence length , sentence structure , sentence openings . |
| 21 | They found themselves squeezed by either Labour or the Democrats depending on local patterns of party competition , and they lost control of a wide range of district councils . |
| 22 | In the two West Midlands boroughs there was a clear tendency for the Conservatives to do better and Labour worse than a similar examination of a wide range of ward social characteristics would lead one to expect . |
| 23 | Johnston 's Communism , therefore , had been transmuted into a nationalism which emphasised economic independence , state planning and the unity of a wide range of social groups in the tasks of nation-building . |
| 24 | So it was , I assume , that he felt immediately able to talk to me in a businesslike and trusting way , and by the end of our meeting , he had left me with the administration of a not inconsiderable sum to meet the costs of a wide range of preparations for his coming residency . |
| 25 | The mineral fraction of soil consists of a wide range of particles from boulders through gravel , sands , and silts to clays . |
| 26 | Within each chapter the chemical and physical properties and applications of a wide range of surfactants are succinctly and lucidly described ( toxicological and environmental data is left to an appendix ) . |
| 27 | As this is not a book on criminological theories , what follows will be a brief overview of a wide range of theories and explanations . |
| 28 | Thus , the structuring of a wide range of task-related paths through a GIS has formed one of the main development objectives in this project . |
| 29 | The author was an Assistant Keeper of the Public Records and his book , in addition to being lucid and well-illustrated , contains a structured bibliography under the headings : general , materials and instruments , languages , abbreviation , publications in record type , miscellaneous and transcribed facsimiles , this last illustrating the appearance of a wide range of documents . |
| 30 | Thus , although a school library may be able to give instruction in the technique of using the library , eg use of catalogues , classification schemes etc , the experience of the exploitation of a wide range of stock is limited , and the public library has a role in extending this experience . |