Example sentences of "[verb] a [adv] wide [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The visits to the colleges provided a much wider perspective on the provision of accounting courses as opposed to the narrow single college viewpoint . |
| 2 | By bringing it out as an A-format , £4.99 , mass-market paperback we hope to attract a much wider readership . |
| 3 | However , as I suggested in Chapter 1 , the basic assumptions of Beccaria 's classical model suggest a much wider canvas . |
| 4 | In addition to ITV1 , Channel 4 and BSkyB , there are also cable TV services which can , in theory , provide a very wide range of continental channels , as well as the full range of UK-originated and UK satellite services . |
| 5 | It 's obviously more specialized than some of the education erm at comparable level in other countries , both in France and in Germany erm they take erm as their eighteen-plus exam erm an exam which covers a rather wider field , erm so in that sense , oddly , we specialize early , which is an interesting comparison . |
| 6 | This covers a remarkably wide field starting at the installation , calibration and purely functional end of flight recorders and leading on through their recovery from the wreckage and the techniques of repairing and reading damaged recordings to the ultimate interpretation of the spoken words and environmental noises in the cockpit and the determination of the aerodynamic implications of recorded data . |
| 7 | Definition of need covers a very wide range and applies , among others , to problems connected with : health , housing , care of an elderly or disabled relative , as well as widowhood and problems encountered by the frail elderly who for example may require extra heating during the winter . |
| 8 | But a decade later , French observers continued to lament the absence in most of the 12 other member-states of ESA of strong centralized and specialized space policy-making bodies such as the CNES : ‘ In Germany , the DFVLR covers a much wider sector than that of the CNES but does not exercise political responsibility ; in Britain , responsibility is dispersed among the end-users such as British Telecom . ’ |
| 9 | For example , the width of the five grades is not consistent , and grade 3 not only accounts for about half the land , but also covers a much wider range of possibilities than , say , grade 1 ( Gilg , 1975a ) , and even the subsequent sub-division of grade 3 in the 1970s can not be applied objectively ( Worthington , 1982 ) . |
| 10 | This is a very personal book which covers a much wider field than the title suggests . |
| 11 | The Council of Europe covers a much wider area with a much greater population than that covered by the European Economic Community . |
| 12 | But this state of affairs can be achieved not only by people working within the prison system , but by activating and empowering a much wider spectrum of practitioners . |
| 13 | This involved a very wide range of tasks associated with identifying individual needs , matching people to appropriate service developments , supporting volunteers and helping prepare people and their carers to make use of services ( for example , helping people to develop group living skills in a group home , helping parents plan to ‘ let go ’ and supporting residents in their new homes ) . |
| 14 | The XJ220 controversy illustrates a far wider collapse of the entire classic and supercar market . |
| 15 | Rather the Report sought to present English as the principal means whereby the universities might both engage in and direct a much wider mission of national cultural renewal . |
| 16 | Producing master catalogues requires specialist software ( for example , ALICE , ‘ Linnaeus ’ , pcTROPICOS ) and cooperative management to obtain a very wide range of taxonomic expertise . |
| 17 | If one comes to the are northeast of Flaxton , I believe that for the avoidance of coalescence , one ought in the case of a village which has a rather wide boundary conservation area , for historical reasons basically , one ought to take the coalescence distance from the edge of that conservation boundary . |
| 18 | The database for the project therefore has a very wide coverage , with the background work in class suggesting links with religion , slavery and the history an geography of India and the United States . |
| 19 | Walker has a very wide remit . |
| 20 | Once again , the tribunal has a very wide discretion . |
| 21 | The word " transfer " in s739 has a very wide meaning . |
| 22 | Disposition has a very wide meaning and would include a deliberate omission to do something ( s3(3) ) . |
| 23 | The firm has a whimsically wide range of businesses from paper milling and food retailing to oil refining and drugs . |
| 24 | Originally developed as a means to ensure compliance with regulations , environmental auditing now has a much wider remit for many companies . |
| 25 | A text frequently has a much wider variety of interpretations imposed upon it by analysts studying it at their leisure , than would ever have been possible for the participants in the communicative interaction which gives rise to the ‘ text ’ . |
| 26 | Their conclusion has a much wider use , though , than on the soccer field . |
| 27 | While the controller or finance director of a subsidiary will spend most of his or her time working on the financial accounts , and can excel at the job by being a good housekeeper , the group finance director , often number two to the chief executive , plays a large part in the running of the company and therefore needs a considerably wider range of skills . |
| 28 | Unlike previous education secretaries , he has built on recent changes and amassed a far wider range of powers before setting his plans in motion . |
| 29 | Yet while it seems conceivable that a group of critics , given an adequate degree of historical or philological knowledge , might agree as to which associations are possible in the case of a given word , there is considerable room for disagreement , since every word possesses a very wide range of associations , as to which of these are relevant for the purposes of interpretation . |
| 30 | The chestnut-mandibled toucan , Ramphastos swainsonii , the largest toucan species in Central America , eats a very wide range of fruits . |