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

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1 As with other holders of potential power , the strategies open to presidents are limited through a variety of factors — the president is constrained through his formal constitutional powers , the degree of popularity he enjoys and the limitations imposed by relations with other countries , for example .
2 It was received for a variety of voluntary input in Scotland and nationally , but most notably , I gather , in respect of Education and Professional Development , which leads on to my other purpose in writing .
3 The form of T k has been given for a variety of cosmological models in refs 19 , 28 .
4 But information may be treated by the speaker as given for a variety of other reasons .
5 Applicants ' ability to benefit is assessed flexibly and credit is given for a variety of qualifications beyond conventional O/GCSE and A level successes .
6 Also , optical fibre sensors are being developed for a variety of applications including gas , pressure and strain sensing and water monitoring , while special planar waveguide lasers in glass , crystal and thin films are being researched as a potential medium for integrated optical circuits .
7 Invariably the cases studied had been referred for a variety of concerns and worries about the children but there was no unequivocal evidence that the children were abused according to any definition .
8 A translation may be undertaken for a variety of purposes .
9 From Lovell 's Marxist perspective the feminist debates outlined above are misdirected for a variety of reasons .
10 A list of the different types of special classification schemes may help to indicate how these schemes may be designed for a variety of different purposes :
11 Systems have alreeady been designed and installed for a variety of chilled products , including sandwiches , poulty and poultry products , prime cuts of meat , meat products , such as pies and pasties , pizzas and so on .
12 To the ancient Egyptian this diversity was easily acceptable , being inherent to divine powers who were approached through a variety of images related to nature and animal and human life .
13 While I certainly accept that the witchcraft beliefs discussed so far could be considered as a variety of religion , this Lugbara data and certain clues in Evans-Pritchard 's account suggest that witchcraft ( or sorcery ) is only part of Zande religion .
14 Today , gold is mixed with a variety of alloys to enhance these qualities , and it is this mixture which determines its value and purity .
15 Mature striated muscle cells make muscle-specific proteins and when such a cell is fused with a variety of other cell types which include liver and cartilage cells , then muscle-specific genes are activated in these cells leading to the production of muscle-specific proteins .
16 In this context , adult educators have responded with a variety of educational and vocational training measures , some of which were discussed earlier in this chapter .
17 The bower is decorated with a variety of mosses , ferns and human artefacts .
18 Accounting information should , where possible , be supplemented with a variety of other information .
19 Part of the point of an exercise such as this is that it can be supplemented with a variety of additional linguistic models which enable the analysis to be developed in a number of different directions .
20 This can be approached in a variety of ways :
21 Funding has come from a variety of sources including the Wolfson Foundation and Charitable Trust , the Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund , the Worshipful Company of Glass Sellers of London , the British Glass Education Trust and private donations .
22 Loans have come from a variety of country houses such as Nostell Priory , Goodwood , Saltram , Ickworth and Burghley House and are fairly evenly divided between portraits and classical mythology ; frequently both are combined .
23 Those taking part come from a variety of backgrounds and have spent several months or in some cases years receiving instruction in the faith , usually as part of a parish group .
24 Pay-workers were occupied in a variety of tasks which included all the ore dressing , i.e. preparation of the ore until fit for market .
25 The programmers responded in a variety of ways — by attacking the competence of the ‘ dilutees ’ whom management brought in to fragment their work , and by habitually withholding their most important resource : information .
26 Data on morbidity were reported in a variety of ways , and the results in table III are a mixture of prevalence , incidence , and episode duration ( measles studies ) .
27 The bedrooms are decorated in a variety of colour schemes .
28 Most are egg shaped , made of enamel and decorated in a variety of designs .
29 This room was decorated in a variety of vivid greens , blues and yellows .
30 Over the years these have come in a variety of shapes ‘ sizes and materials : mild steel , galvanised steel , cast iron , copper , aluminium and stainless steel .
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