Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] a wide " in BNC.

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1 The Corporation Road building offers a wide range of options for the unemployed , including woodwork , motor vehicle engineering and needlecraft .
2 The University offers a wide range of courses of study leading to these Master 's degrees .
3 The European parliament has a wide range of electorate per member and the electoral quota would not be extraordinary were Cornwall to get its own seat .
4 Furthermore , sometimes the government expressly delegates public administrative functions to non-governmental bodies : for example , under the Financial Services Act 1986 the Securities and Investments Board exercises a wide range of regulatory functions delegated to it by the Secretary of State ; the Board of Deputies of British Jews plays an important role in policing certain Sunday Trading laws ; the Wood Green Animal Shelter in North London runs the government 's computerized register of fighting dogs ; and the Rowntree Trust ( a private charitable organization ) administers the Family Fund ( a public fund to assist families of severely handicapped children ) .
5 You see a university has a wide spread of expertise and facilities , which is well beyond the finance of a small company , and even sometimes a larger company , especially when the expertise or facility required is out of the ordinary .
6 Each HCI Club offers a wide range of activities and daily entertainment for adults and children alike .
7 The department produces a wide range of reports relating to aspects of company manpower .
8 The department offers a wide variety of degrees : honours in Fine Art in which half the student 's time is devoted to practical art ; honours in the History of Art which studies the subject as an academic discipline like English Literature or History , involving no practical work but stressing the relationship between the study of the arts and their practice ; and a variety of joint degrees such as those with French or Italian .
9 But within these categories , each cell has a wide range of potentialities : we have already seen that an ectodermal cell can give rise to skin or , if induced by the eye cup , to lens .
10 In the neotropical Lecythidaceae for example all species have large circumscissile capsules , but such uniformity disguises a wide range of variation in the texture of the mesocarp , degree of dehiscence , and development of the aril into a fleshy or winged structure , with the result that different species are dispersed by birds , bats , monkeys , rodents , wind , water and possibly fish .
11 These provisions only apply to settlements but that term has a wide meaning .
12 Central St Martin 's College has a wide variety of BA degree courses .
13 The current instrument has a wide angle of view , with the view field not sharply defined .
14 Philippa Russell 's chapter reviews a wide spectrum of ideas and work , but it is clear that disability is an area in which much more research is needed and that policy and practice should both be reviewed in the light of such research as it becomes available .
15 This chapter reviews a wide range of literature which bears on relationships between arousal and memory .
16 The Social Work Department provides a wide range of services to the public .
17 The department provides a wide range of courses in Old Testament Studies for the BD degree , involving a general insight into the world of ancient Israel and ancient Semitic culture and thought , detailed attention to the problems of understanding and interpreting Old Testament texts , and the study in depth of Old Testament theology and ethics .
18 The International Club organises a wide range of activities , including speakers , videos , visits , etc .
19 The curriculum allows a wide choice of special interests and provides for the dissertation to be completed at home if appropriate .
20 For those who have never been involved in the arts the exchange offers a wide range of opportunities to invest money with the aim of obtaining hard currency under a transfer deal system .
21 As the largest LEA in the country , the ILEA offers a wide range of provision for bilingual students wanting to continue their general or vocational education ( see Hoadley- Maidment , section 2 ) and is able to provide a variety of in- service staff development courses as part of this development .
22 Giardia lamblia produces a wide spectrum of infection in man ranging from asymptomatic carriage through acute to persistent diarrhoea with intestinal malabsorption .
23 The addition of the ribber offers a wide range of double bed fabrics and textures which can not be produced on the single bed — one of which is double jacquard .
24 In fact , English criminal law has a wide range of such offences , of which those involving firearms , offensive weapons , motor vehicles , and other endangerment will be outlined here .
25 I shall be brief , Mr. Speaker , but this question covers a wide subject .
26 The Institute has a wide range of specialised research facilities including glasshouses , growth rooms and chambers , an environmental wind tunnel , animal metabolism and animal behaviour facilities , an animal surgery , facilities for carcass and meat evaluation , and provision for the individual feeding and care of animals .
27 But this argument will seem less persuasive when we have discussed cases of manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility : where a murder is reduced to manslaughter , the judge has a wide sentencing discretion and may , according to the facts of the case , select a determinate prison sentence , a hospital order , or life imprisonment .
28 The faculty has a wide range of links with other law faculties in European universities .
29 The Institute possesses a wide range of data logging , micro- and mini-computing equipment and has access to the computing facilities of the Edinburgh University Computing Service and to national and international networks .
30 The amount paid depends on the disability the Plan features a wide range of payments , from £80,000 if your disability prevents you from ever working again , to £8,000 for the loss of a forefinger .
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