Example sentences of "a variety " in BNC.
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| 1 | Home care Coordinator , Margaret Gillies , currently has a team of 20 volunteers from a variety of churches providing practical help to a number of clients already referred . |
| 2 | These include : pedal cycles for a clinic allowing nurses to get out to outlying villages ; health care kits to help with the care of patients in their own homes ; training for different agencies ; and a variety of education initiatives . |
| 3 | I have in recent years edited a self-help journal for people with AIDS , written for the national press and researched a variety of medical material for television . |
| 4 | I have in recent years edited a self-help journal for people with AIDS , written for the national press and researched a variety of medical material for television . |
| 5 | 4.00pm — We set off again ; this time via Tony 's home to collect a variety of possessions , finally arriving at hospital no.3 . |
| 6 | What is clearly a dealers ' market is often signalled by the invention of a brand name to group together a variety of material , perhaps rather disparate . |
| 7 | Nor did they plan portfolios of prints , as Die Brücke did ; a practice , by the way , followed by a variety of artists ' organisations including the Senefelder Group in England , which has sold its members ' lithographs from the nineteenth century to the present day . |
| 8 | Those who pursue comparisons of the kind I am referring to are likely to be impressed by the staying-power of a literary preoccupation to which a variety of temperaments and compulsions has been attracted , and could well be inclined to believe that Pechorin 's duel and indifference may have been among the precedents that weighed , a century later , with a woman bent on contriving her appointment with destiny . |
| 9 | Far example , madam , my life ; my life , madam is a perpetual stream of pleasure , that glides through such a variety of entertainments , I believe the wisest of our ancestors never had the least conception of any of 'em . |
| 10 | Any programme of final drama school productions will present a variety of styles and the casting is aimed at giving students a chance to do well in suitable roles . |
| 11 | The Actors ' Centre in Covent Garden has functioned since 1980 , and offers a variety of professional classes in a relaxed atmosphere . |
| 12 | Also cosmopolitan in outlook are a variety of traditional professions , particularly university lecturers . |
| 13 | The family had changed , and its various functions of education , food production , and the manufacture of clothing were already in part relinquished to a variety of institutions whose smooth functioning rested on the intervention and guidance of the nation state . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | These offered a variety of recreational activities , swimming , sports , dancing and so on in addition to basic victualling , and borrowed from the ordinary pub the opprobium of encouraging immoral behaviour . |
| 16 | The code was agreed by a variety of organisations including the AA , RAC , BHRCA and British Resorts Association . |
| 17 | Cole has worked at a variety of catering units run by High Table in his five years with the company and has now been promoted to executive chef . |
| 18 | Screenings of recent work from a variety of schemes funded by the Artists Film and Video Committee at the Arts Council . |
| 19 | Who could resist ‘ One acre of reclaimed wilderness populated by a variety of plants that can withstand ignorant malpractice , all planted by the ad hoc topsy school of garden design ’ ? |
| 20 | Providing the planting is done correctly , a variety of receptacles can be used : old baking bowls , fruit dishes , even chamberpots . |
| 21 | Autumn-sown green manures improve the soil in a variety of ways , depending on the plants used . |
| 22 | Plants for a variety of shades |
| 23 | Enjoying a variety of foods gives you all the nourishment you need . |
| 24 | For most it 's a temporary phase , caused by a variety of factors — not least tiredness . |
| 25 | The Social Services department has a variety of equipment which can be on free loan to you if you are assessed to need it . |
| 26 | Motability has arranged special schemes with motor manufacturers , wheelchair manufacturers , insurance brokers , and other so that today a variety of schemes can be offered which not only help disabled people become mobile but also give them a chance to be truly independent . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | These were amplified by a variety of non-verbal sign-systems such as gesture , posture , music , clothing , gender relationships , as well as other aspects of the hippie life related to an alternative political and social belief which were alien to our experience . |
| 29 | ‘ Experts ’ from a variety of European agencies were brought together to discuss and report on the various cross-cultural attitudes to drug-taking among young people . |
| 30 | One year older than Leonard , he went through the varying experiences of adolescence with him , sharing not least Leonard 's musical interest ( Morton played both the banjo and the trombone ) , as well as a variety of pastimes and a healthy interest in the fairer sex . |