Example sentences of "for a [adj] range " in BNC.

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1 For a greater range of communication , it is more efficient to channel the light signal along an optical fibre .
2 Hyde mentions a program that can automatically provide precis of news stories , but does not point out that it can attempt to do this only for a restricted range of stories .
3 In recent years , a quiet revolution has been taking place as technical changes and new marketing methods for a vast range of home products have increased consumer choice and introduced alternative ways of home building .
4 via satellite and telecommunication links , sophisticated means of communication for a vast range of purposes including the control of spacecraft , weather forecasting and news transmission , and has provided us with vast and easily accessible data banks .
5 This was certainly the view of the Justices ' Clerks ' Society ( 1992 ) , which conducted a comparative survey of the use of custody in the two levels of court for a selected range of offences .
6 The research aims , by controlling and monitoring the use of personal work stations for a selected range of social science research computing projects , to answer the question : to what extent should computing facilities for social scientists be provided by personal work stations ?
7 As a result the need for a comprehensive range of standard form letters is obvious .
8 Are there , we ask knowingly , plans to sell advertising on the backs of our bank-notes for a limited range of tasteful products such as fine textiles , whiskies , golf clubs and top people 's hotels ?
9 Regular or prolonged contact between two groups who speak mutually unintelligible languages may result in the formation of a pidgin — a language which is nobody 's native language but serves as a means of communication for a limited range of purposes related to the contact situation .
10 This is especially the case where we have an instruction set defined for a compatible range of computers , since it will be difficult to implement economically at the lower ( and cheaper ) end of the range the complex facilities required at the upper end ( though microprogramming may be an answer ) .
11 Nicholas slipping and sidestepping deftly , set up Creaney for a close range shot which Hamilton one-handed , just turned round .
12 Indeed , the White Paper maintained that there would , in fact , be enhanced local accountability as the more accessible boroughs and districts would be responsible for a fuller range of services .
13 Located in Bilston in the Black Country , Perry Poultry buys oven-ready poultry , which it processes for a prestigious range of customers including Marks & Spencer , Sainsbury 's and Kentucky Fried Chicken ( Perry makes Zingers , Kentucky 's new line of spiced burgers ) .
14 ‘ This recognition from the British radio industry was for a phenomenal range of programming — sport , specialist speech , comedy , local radio personality , local radio station , current affairs and documentary . ’
15 Europe 's supercomputing industry has received a boost with unveiling by German company Parsytec of plans for a new range of parallel machines .
16 Look for a new range of nail files called Lazers from Eylure .
17 Look out for a new range of shampoos and conditioners called ShiKai , which means ‘ fruit for hair ’ , and aptly so because the main ingredient for this range originates from shikaki fruit in the Far East .
18 If he genuinely felt her designs could form the basis for a new range to lift the company 's fortunes ?
19 Colchester , UK : Packs jointly developed by Betts Plastics , part of Courtaulds Aerospace , with The Robert McBride Group are being used for a new range of shower gels ( below ) sold by the Superdrug retail chain .
20 There are possibilities for a great range of skills to be used in volunteering and for a lot of enjoyment to be had into the bargain .
21 And for a great range of hair grooming products for guys , look out for Silvikrin 's Active Care , this range of styling products is popular with boys in the bathroom .
22 They wrote for a small range of specialist titles , some of them bright and poppy , others resoundingly self-important , and all of them perfectly arcane to anyone outside a specific , like-minded clientele .
23 Ideally some of the training centres should be phased out with a view to developing more flexible training arrangements for a wider range of young people who may or may not be mentally handicapped .
24 Write in a wider variety of forms , eg notes , personal letters , formal letters , instructions , essays , newspaper articles , reviews , biographies , stories , poems , playscripts , radio and TV scripts , for a wider range of purposes , eg to plan , to formulate hypotheses , to inform , to explain , to compare and contrast , to persuade , to entertain , to express attitudes or emotions , to shape experience imaginatively , and for a range of audiences .
25 ( iv ) Pupils should have opportunities to write for a wider range of communicative or informative purposes , including : describing , explaining , giving instructions , reporting , expressing a point of view , persuading , comparing and contrasting ideas , arguing for different points of view .
26 But legislation in 1987–88 has also brought an increase in moves towards more explicit privatization by making competitive tendering compulsory for a wider range of activities , including refuse collection , street cleaning and vehicle maintenance .
27 When wireless communications become available for a wider range of portables , the prevalence of Notes and applications like it will go a long way towards tying into networks PCs that are being under-utilised as little more than personal information managers .
28 But Protestant orthodoxy in the generations after the Reformation had inclined to treat the Bible in a rather hardened and absolute fashion , and to search in it for a wider range of information than the Reformers were looking for .
29 Possibilities for a wider range of incentives linked to service development include :
30 Like Debbie , Fay starts from the premise that the point of doing a degree is to get a job , as we can see in her statement that science students are able to apply for a wider range of jobs than arts graduates .
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