Example sentences of "in a variety [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strong ales come in a variety of styles and strengths — winter warmers , barley wines , Christmas Ales , Old Ales — with gravities ranging from 1050 to 1100 or more . |
| 2 | Autumn-sown green manures improve the soil in a variety of ways , depending on the plants used . |
| 3 | Like other symbolic non-verbal devices , the multi-vocal nuances of our uniform were used in a variety of other ways as boundary markers to maintain our cultural identity and define our institutional specificities . |
| 4 | Professor Dudek , as we saw , had been in the van of promoting the post-war interests of poetry in a variety of forms and outlets . |
| 5 | All of this he offered in a variety of poetic forms , from the traditional quatrain to the more controversial prose-poem ‘ Friends ’ . |
| 6 | Specifiedly general objects , such as forms and universals , by their very nature stand for the many things which are instances of them : a single particular may be in a variety of relations — most obviously causal , spatial or temporal - to others , but the nature of a ‘ standing for ’ relation is obscure . |
| 7 | Or is there some Steffi-crazy fan out there inundating the Tennis World office with letters cunningly disguised in a variety of handwriting just to confuse us ? |
| 8 | These come in a variety of shapes and grades , but the silver Karbide Kutzalls are the most powerful , with gold ones offering a finer finish . |
| 9 | One piece that uses more veneer than most — in a variety of flavours — is ‘ Orpheus ’ , by P.R.O . |
| 10 | This book looks at the development of informal education , its theory and practice , in a variety of settings including residential care and community . |
| 11 | These days , GLS lamps come in a variety of designs ( including some with glitter on them ) and in ‘ soft ’ light versions , as well as pastel shades . |
| 12 | Energy can be supplied in a variety of ways but the best source is fat . |
| 13 | Scholes provides a useful table , divided into three columns , showing how linguists and philosophers have agreed in making a tripartite division between signifier , signified , and reference , though they present it in a variety of terminologies . |
| 14 | ‘ . If we assume — and it is probably the right assumption — that students can no longer easily read isolated literary texts , but need to make sense of them in a variety of contexts , much power is given to the teacher who decides which are the relevant cultural codes to be invoked and expounded ; Marxists , at least , are specific on the matter . |
| 15 | Chunky long length bobble sweater , £269 , in a variety of colours . |
| 16 | Other life insurers sought to increase their distribution networks , either increasing their branches or their personnel in a variety of ways in order to market their products in increasingly competitive environments . |
| 17 | Over the years he was involved in a variety of fields from Transport to Defence . |
| 18 | the need to carry out research in a variety of different contexts , environments ( and languages ) . |
| 19 | Clips on each end of the guylines pass through the eyelets to double-up or shorten the guyline so that they can be used in a variety of different ways . |
| 20 | By the late 1970s , the average self-respecting British household expected to have its video recorder or microwave oven ; in a variety of occupations the computer was taking over . |
| 21 | You can do that in a variety of ways . |
| 22 | It had occurred to her that most products came in a variety of sizes and offered a wide choice , but she felt the cosmetic trade was too dictatorial about what the customer should buy . |
| 23 | Since then , however , this fundamental premise has come under attack in a variety of ways and it is true to say that ‘ evolutionism ’ is considered unacceptable by most modern Western anthropologists . |
| 24 | What is often dismissed rather contemptuously as baggy trousers and tunic by English people exists in fact in a variety of styles . |
| 25 | Its function is basically to cover a woman 's hair and hide the shape of her breasts but it can be worn in a variety of ways , draped round the top half of her body and head , folded over her chest and hanging over her shoulders or loosely placed round her neck . |
| 26 | One minute the press room was abuzz with conversation in a variety of tongues , and the next minute it was hushed into a stunned , dumb silence . |
| 27 | A number of activities have to be organised by the following morning so that the TA NCOs from all three detachments can be trained and tested in a variety of skills , from working on a range and map reading to first aid and driving . |
| 28 | Roof trusses , as well as timber floors , can fail in a variety of ways , and failure by crushing at the joint of the principal rafter with the tie is assisted by any decay which affects this area . |
| 29 | In this country foxes are killed in a variety of ways : by hounds , by trapping , by snaring , by gassing and by shooting . |
| 30 | For these trials the six cameras , and a 35mm SLR ‘ control ’ camera , were subjected to 50 separate operations in a variety of conditions . |