Example sentences of "[adv prt] various " in BNC.
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| 1 | After filling in various forms for insurance , I was weighed and my weight written down on my hand along with the colour of the Bungee Cord I was to use — the colour varies according to weight . |
| 2 | They have numerous subdivisions , defined along various dimensions . |
| 3 | In the Nutricia case the court laid down various guidelines . |
| 4 | Archbishop Fisher and Archbishop Garbett of York started to look around for scholarly clergymen and hovered over various names , ail of whom taught then or had taught in universities . |
| 5 | The affairs of the sub-continent since 1600 had been administered by the East India Company from its headquarters in Leadenhall Street in the City of London , but after 1784 , a Cabinet Committee , usually known as the Board of Control , gradually took over various administrative functions from the Company . |
| 6 | Already the local people were disposed to make over various small sums for the use of the Schoolmaster . |
| 7 | In the last section reference was made to the way in which the Unemployment Assistance Board , which was renamed the Assistance Board in 1940 , took over various functions from the public assistance committees in the early part of the war . |
| 8 | In the introduction , Blake skims over various stylistic approaches and attempts to justify his own . |
| 9 | The Privy Council is then found referring to arbitration a dispute between two foreigners , hearing the submission and apology of a merchant for speaking offensively about the Queen , instructing sheriffs to send up a note of the number of prisoners in their gaols , ordering mayors of seaports to prepare private ships to serve in the navy against the expected Spanish invasion , telling its agents at the Hague to arrange for the purchase of matches for guns , sending off various warrants , organizing the acquisition of copper for the Queen 's service , delegating the decision in a legal action to the J.P.s of Bedfordshire , permitting the taking of a collection on behalf of a Cornish village despoiled by Spaniards , and writing to the Lord Mayor of London about a complaint against his predecessor . |
| 10 | On the scale we mark off various landmark points . |
| 11 | He had only a second to stare at a page before setting off various alarm spells , but that was time enough for one spell to leap from it and settle in his memory like a toad in a stone . |
| 12 | The house had been designed to make the most of natural materials , from the hand-hewn greenish slates of the roof to the cool grey stone walls which set off various shrubs and some of the roses he had spoken of . |
| 13 | It is not normally used between two complete sentences ( where a semicolon or colon is used instead ) , but is used to separate off various supplementary things in a sentence . |
| 14 | ‘ Reports are being prepared which suggest cash could be raised by selling off various plots of land . |
| 15 | They had put up various posters ; a British Museum poster from the Koran , intricate and geometric , a Tate advertisement for a Turner exhibition . |
| 16 | Publishers ' casings are unsuitable for heavy library use , and many public librarians take up various options for strengthened editions offered by the library suppliers . |
| 17 | He opened up various prostitute rings , and later extended his business interests to car thefts , burglary , the drugs market , and practised every ‘ con-trick ’ he could dream up . |
| 18 | A variation on this is to tie up various small items , such as toys or candies in wrappers inside a bag made of fairly strong paper . |
| 19 | This month I 'm going to give you some common licks that demonstrate how to link up various positions on the fretboard using pentatonic scales . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , it was able to take up various causes from Chilean refugees to the RUC complaints procedure . |
| 21 | From here he could see the two talking men quite clearly , and he picked up various objects on display , looking at them quite interestedly , and keeping only half an eye on the scene outside . |
| 22 | Muayyad Said also accused American forces camped outside the city of Nasiriya in the south of Iraq of stealing antiquities from the locality of Tel El-lahm , saying that ‘ while the American forces were digging in , the soldiers used their bayonets to dig up various artifacts from the site . ’ |
| 23 | All that was in essence known to HQ 5 Corps was that the greater number of these people were " Cossacks " or " Russians " making up various units who had found themselves in Austria because to a greater or lesser extent they had been associated with the Germans , and had surrendered to the British in the hope that they might thus avoid falling into the hands of the Communists . |
| 24 | Yet every afternoon , a group of journalists weaves its way along several gloomy corridors and up various flights of stairs to a cold , windy place with impressive views over the gilded roof of the Houses of Parliament , Westminster Bridge and the River Thames . |
| 25 | Among these , AEA is actively helping the countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union clean up various types of contamination resulting from Chernobyl and a variety of other nuclear and non-nuclear activities . |
| 26 | The Agnes has been picking up various cargoes from North African and some West African ports . |
| 27 | They would be from Canada , from her sister Louise who would suggest that she might put up various old acquaintances passing through London , or find a suitable family for a darling Austrian boy , not so very much older than Martha , whose father was a kind of Count , but was also in the import-export business , or try to recall a splendid person , the friend of a friend of hers who had had a very , very sad story . |
| 28 | She gave him a wry smile , and sipped the hot liquid while he moved about the office like a whirlwind , gathering up various bits and pieces . |
| 29 | You know it seemed to be that we had a working rule that had functioned reasonably well over the years and all of a sudden he was tearing up various paragraphs that did n't suit him , and altering bits you know and changing them round just to suit the company , and all to our disadvantage . |
| 30 | It is the responsibility of the offline manager to log on to LIFESPAN and to set up various parameters for the offline run . |